Demand for black linguistic justice

[Invisibleflash]

This Ain't Another Statement! This is a DEMAND for Black Linguistic Justice! - Conference on College Composition and Communication

Conference on College Composition and Communication July 2020 This Ain’t Another Statement! This is a DEMAND for Black Linguistic Justice! As with previous CCCC/NCTE resolutions and position statements, we situate this demand in our current historical and sociopolitical context. Our current call...

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We DEMAND that:

1. teachers stop using academic language and standard English as the accepted communicative norm, which reflects White Mainstream English!
2. teachers stop teaching Black students to code-switch! Instead, we must teach Black students about anti-Black linguistic racism and white linguistic supremacy!
3. political discussions and praxis center Black Language as teacher-researcher activism for classrooms and communities!
4. teachers develop and teach Black Linguistic Consciousness that works to decolonize the mind (and/or) language, unlearn white supremacy, and unravel anti-Black linguistic racism!
5. Black dispositions are centered in the research and teaching of Black Language!

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What do blacks want? English is no good for them?

 

[Unkotare]

Already another thread on this.

 

[bluzman61]

This Ain't Another Statement! This is a DEMAND for Black Linguistic Justice! - Conference on College Composition and Communication

Conference on College Composition and Communication July 2020 This Ain’t Another Statement! This is a DEMAND for Black Linguistic Justice! As with previous CCCC/NCTE resolutions and position statements, we situate this demand in our current historical and sociopolitical context. Our current call...

cccc.ncte.org

We DEMAND that:

1. teachers stop using academic language and standard English as the accepted communicative norm, which reflects White Mainstream English!
2. teachers stop teaching Black students to code-switch! Instead, we must teach Black students about anti-Black linguistic racism and white linguistic supremacy!
3. political discussions and praxis center Black Language as teacher-researcher activism for classrooms and communities!
4. teachers develop and teach Black Linguistic Consciousness that works to decolonize the mind (and/or) language, unlearn white supremacy, and unravel anti-Black linguistic racism!
5. Black dispositions are centered in the research and teaching of Black Language!

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What do blacks want? English is no good for them?

What a bunch of low I.Q. morons. Dreadful.

 

[bluzman61]

Already another thread on this.

And?

 

[Moonglow]

Already another thread on this.

And?

There is already a thread...

 

[irosie91]

Has a black scholar of linguistics developed a lexicon and a grammar for the "black language" ? Is it available? Will those of us who do not know the black language be able to get instruction? It is a written
language? Does it have an alphabet? a literature?

 

[Unkotare]

Already another thread on this.

And?

Just FYI.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

It takes a very special sort of dedication to be in this country for several generations and still be incapable of learning the language.

Heck, just about every other group gets it down in a single generation.

 

[Unkotare]

It takes a very special sort of dedication to be in this country for several generations and still be incapable of learning the language.

Heck, just about every other group gets it down in a single generation.

No, they don't.

 

[justinacolmena]

Street slang versus proper grammar is by no means exclusive to blacks. Blacks may tend to populate certain sections of inner cities more, but people talk dirty on the farm, too, black, Hispanic, white, etc.

 

[Unkotare]

...Heck, just about every other group gets it down in a single generation.

Acquiring a new language is a process that involves more factors than just the vocabulary and grammar of that language. Newly arrived immigrant families tend to fully assimilate to primary use of English over at least two generations. However, by the time they get to that 2nd (or sometimes 3rd) generation, as many as 95% of immigrants from non-English speaking countries speak English primarily or exclusively in the home.

 

[justinacolmena]

as many as 95% of immigrants from non-English speaking countries speak English primarily or exclusively in the home

And why is the government so interested in what we say or speak in our own homes?

I say it's time for these government statisticians to butt out of my home and off my private property, no matter how they have to be forced or compelled.

 

[Desperado]

Fine let the black learn Swahili and then move back to Africa

 

[Unkotare]

Fine let the black learn Swahili and then move back to Africa

??????????????

Trying to fill your quota of pointless, irrational anger for the day?

 

[Unkotare]

as many as 95% of immigrants from non-English speaking countries speak English primarily or exclusively in the home

And why is the government so interested in what we say or speak in our own homes?

I say it's time for these government statisticians to butt out of my home and off my private property, no matter how they have to be forced or compelled.

Relax. This information isn't compiled from government-installed listening devices placed around your home while you were sleeping. Data of this sort is compiled by linguists and anthropologists in the course of studying trends and influences in language use. You can put the shotgun back in the closet now.

 

[DGS49]

...and on a related point, why have "we" not named English as the official language of the United States?

Seriously.

 

[Unkotare]

...and on a related point, why have "we" not named English as the official language of the United States?

Seriously.

Because we don't need an official language, and because we have the Bill of Rights. Seriously.

 

[DGS49]

Apparently, we DO need an official language. In order to be NATURALIZED in this country, you have to be conversant in English, but the Federal [fucking] government is compelled to provide all of its advice and services in SPANISH. Who pays for this? Why?

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Shhheeeeeit da mo bidda te dat tum muhfugen bix nood

 

[Unkotare]

Apparently, we DO need an official language. In order to be NATURALIZED in this country, you have to be conversant in English...

Not to a very high degree, and there is NO requirement to speak English at all to be a natural born citizen, nor is there any requirement to maintain any degree or incremental improvement in English. Otherwise, we would have thrown Jitler out long ago. There IS however, a requirement on the part of the government to provide due process and equal protection under the law, as well as to ensure equal voting rights. Then there's the First Amendment and all that stuff about freedom of speech and all. Well, you get the idea.