Sorry, but that's some extremely dubious research. That's research done after the fact to justify a systematic failure in public education. It is also part of the culture of dependency. If you tell people its ok they talk like an idiot, they might not bother learning how to speak properly. That keeps them down so you can continue to buy their votes with a welfare check.

I can totally understand how people like Kailen would be totally offended by the patronizing bullshit that just oozes from the "they can't help it, that's how they talk" academia. This "African American Vernacular" is a bunch of white-guilt bullshit.

American English is one of the most homogeneous spoken languages on the planet. It wasn't until modern, bed wetting, apologist, self-hating, white guilt academics started inventing crap like "African American Vernacular" that garbage like this even existed.

That Congresswoman is a disgrace - not only to the education system, but to our country as a whole. She completely fails to pronounce BASIC WORDS. There is no excuse for that. Furthermore, the coach's name is Urban Meyer, not Urban MeyerS. The WR's name is Percy Harvin, not Percy Harvey. If you are going to give a speech in front of the US Congress, get the names right maybe? That lady is so full of stupid if you hit her with a pinata bat you'd lose 20 IQ points.

Excusing that type of laziness and incompetence is one of the main reasons we are slipping as a country. When we accept and make excuses for that level of ignorance, we guarantee it will increase and spread.