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Teachers Should Allow Ebonics Because English Grammar Is Too Hard For Minorities To Learn
2017-04-09
[Daily Caller] An undergraduate researcher at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison has gained national acclaim for her research showing, she says, that members of minority groups feel oppressed by standard, grammatical English.

The researcher is Erika Gallagher, reports The Daily Cardinal, the student newspaper on the taxpayer-funded campus.

Gallagher’s research was chosen to be presented at the Collegiate Conference on Composition and Communication in Portland, Oregon earlier this semester.

The focus of the junior’s research is a theory called "code switching." Basically, adherents of "code switching" say that individuals will seek to alter their speech patterns to fit the group of people with which they are communicating. (RELATED: ’Ma Lips Ah Sealed!’ Hillary Uses Black Accent In Chat With Sharpton)

Members of minority groups feel especially marginalized because of "code switching," Gallagher’s research found.

To avoid any hurt feelings some people may feel by attempting to speak standard, correct English, Gallagher wants to eradicate the stigma associated with Ebonics -- or African‐American Vernacular English, a nonstandard dialect of English spoken by some black people.
Posted by:Besoeker

#21  I was looking for the Rosetta Stone course in Eubonics, but couldn't find it.
Posted by: KBK   2017-04-09 22:15  

#20  Rob, whatcha talking about? PL/1 can do anything. You need it, it's in there. Probably twice.
Posted by: KBK   2017-04-09 22:13  

#19  
PL/1 forever!


*shudder*

I'd go back to Perl before I went back to that.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2017-04-09 21:24  

#18  COBOL was created by a woman.

That explains the need to watch your periods....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-04-09 21:09  

#17  "members of minority groups feel oppressed by standard, grammatical English"

Wotta crocka bullshit.
Posted by: Barbara   2017-04-09 20:17  

#16  COBOL was created by a woman.
Posted by: Herman Clager2485   2017-04-09 20:06  

#15  The entire research is pandering for a grant. I have been in South Africa and was shocked to hear 10 year old blacks speak perfect "Kings English".

Yes, in addition to English, many speak their native dialect (Zulu, Zhosa, etc), and Afrikaans. Kaap (Cape) blacks and mixed folks speak a local tribal variant of English and Afrikaans.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-04-09 19:02  

#14  I feel the same way SteveS. PL/1 forever!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-04-09 18:30  

#13  The entire research is pandering for a grant. I have been in South Africa and was shocked to hear 10 year old blacks speak perfect "Kings English". Everyone of them paid attention in school and it really set me back and made me think. When I was in high school most of the blacks would never bring a book or a pen or a pencil. They sat in the back, never turned in homework or took tests. They were given a complimentary D- or a 1.0. In 1963 Johnson signed Kennedy's civil rights bill which gave blacks priority over all other races in college admissions. The professions were flooded with blacks and were allowed to go to medical school under the 1.0 program. All they had to do was attend 80% of the classes to get passed on every year. They did their pre-med with a 1.0 and went to medical school with a 1,0 and white students with an A- to A+ average were unable to attend the schools because the 1.0 blacks had a large number of seats in the classes. They didn't have to take state boards, they were given licenses. It wasn't until about ten years later a white student named Bakke who had been discriminated against finally got to the Supreme Court of the United States who ruled in his favor in that he had been discriminated against (reverse discrimination). Since the blacks had no knowledge to heal, fix teeth, argue law, take care of pets or any other thing based upon the courses they attended most became Dr. Feel Goods and had their licenses pulled with a few years.
Posted by: Ho Chi Ulolutch7127   2017-04-09 17:05  

#12  SteveS do't forget that COBOL is sexist because in COBOL as in life one must keep track of one's periods.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-04-09 15:14  

#11  The Bigotyr of low expectations.
Posted by: Newc   2017-04-09 15:11  

#10  Teachers should set high standards and not listen to ignorant researcher from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Posted by: Glirt Glick3831   2017-04-09 13:40  

#9  I'm always amazed when people, in the name of equality, insist that certain races should be held to a lower standard.
Posted by: AuburnTom   2017-04-09 13:15  

#8  Show a little sympathy, you bastages. I felt totally oppressed having to learn the white man's COBOL.
Posted by: SteveS   2017-04-09 12:21  

#7  So the researcher is saying n*ggers are to stupid to speak English

Too stupid to be bilingual, unlike Hispanics -- the other special group.

When presented as two different languages/dialects instead of correct and incorrect -- the proper linguistic approach -- and giving the advantage of being able to move between social groups while fitting in with each, the skill becomes a matter of pride rather than an insult -- a thought that clearly has not occurred to our ignorant, bigotted researcher. I've successfully sold the idea of mastering two different ways of speaking, dressing, and table manners in this way -- and my young friends have successfully applied the skills they acquired, while quietly pitying me for having only one set.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-04-09 12:21  

#6  Grammer be Hard.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2017-04-09 11:37  

#5  Dims cain't let 'em of DA plantation. Pardon mi spellins.
Posted by: Nero White 3083   2017-04-09 10:22  

#4  So the researcher is saying n*ggers are to stupid to speak English.

That is about the most racists argument I have ever heard and belongs back in the 1920s where it should have died with a stake through its heart.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-04-09 09:28  

#3  Take it up with the NEA and the teachers unions.

Amazing isn't it how Vietnamese who spoke no English so quickly assimilated into America after the boat lift resettlement?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-04-09 08:01  

#2  To avoid any hurt feelings..

and there we have the canonical excuse of progressives for any failures.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-04-09 07:52  

#1  I am told in our local prison systems corrections officers must learn to communicate or understand Ebonics. Inmates many of whom cannot read or write most likely speak the language of their home world (yea, like a restroom :)). Repeat offenders going back to their world only to return later. Locals fear families will move to this area to be close but I suspect most do not have conventional family units. Prisons are located in rural areas because locals need jobs. Real reason is land development. You wouldn't build a $600,000 dollar home next to prison systems (yes, escapes do occur even Alcatraz had three escapes who lived).
Posted by: Dale   2017-04-09 06:26  

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