Using and teaching what has long been considered proper English language and grammar is actually “racist,” according to at least two professors attending a virtual seminar at Towson University in Maryland said recently.
“The way Black language is devalued in schools reflects how Black lives are devalued in the world . . . [and] the anti-Black linguistic racism that is used to diminish Black language and Black students in classrooms is not separate from the rampant and deliberate anti-Black racism and violence inflicted upon Black people in society,” language professor and author April Baker-Bell said during the virtual webinar on ant-racist teaching June 17.
Baker-Bell is an associate professor of language, literacy, and English education at Michigan State University and the author of “Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy.”
According to the school’s website, the book describes how Black students “navigate and negotiate their linguistic and racial identities across multiple contexts,” and discusses what Black language teaching is like within the Black community.
“Teacher attitudes include assumptions that Black students are somehow linguistically, morally, and intellectually inferior because they communicate in Black language,” Bell said in a Campus Reform article on the webinar.
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G-d help us if this type of twaddle is taken seriously.
While you gullible sheep were busy arguing over masks and davening inside a Shul, and calling those that were normal a rodef & rotziach, liberalism was hard at work destroying the very fabric of our nation. Keep being maaser on your fellow brothers and sisters. That will make sure you’re stuffed into the reeducation camps that are ready to open.
If a person, black or white, cannot communicate with simple verb conjugation and sentence structure, then it is indicative of a lack of verbal intelligence. The same assumption is said of trailer park “white trash” people.
It’s the same reason people will assume that you’re a criminal or at least criminally inclined if you dress like, and imitate the culture of gangs and thugs.
Change of behavior to enter into polite society is not racism.
Of course, עינינו הראות….
That is why we have to drive it by our yiddishkeit. Milk of being. Mention of a name.
Hashem will take it further. The unruly age is mania. Greatly I confess the strive has hit the blind. We know cold hands are everywhere. And the priest begs the stop.
Who could not keep kosher? Help the being.
I work in a very liberal workplace. It is very unpleasant to find out that words I’ve seen used all my life in a totally non racist context are no longer acceptable.
For example I once made a reference to American Indians calling them “Indians”. The people around me were horrified and furious that I didn’t say “Native Americans” And many other such examples.
The secular culture around us has surpassed sedom in evil and “chelm” in stupidity.
The national language of this country is American English. All are welcome to speak that language. Therefore, it is not racist to speak American English.
2+2 before. Dem nutty professors don’t even know how peoples talks.