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March 19th, 2009 04:33 PM
#19
Originally posted by Jyn
Is no one else completely shocked and disgusted that this crap is being taught in a university? And that kids are getting college credit (semester hours) for it?
This "vernacular" is a self-inflicted barrier to black advancement.
I think (and hope) you misunderstand what I mean by teaching AAVE. No one is teaching people to talk like this. What is being taught is the linguistic analysis of a nonstandard dialect. The same thing is taught with other dialects and languages.
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