(*******WARNING: HAZARDOUS TO NEOCON DELUSION*******)
As a voracious reader, researcher, scholar, author, producer, talk show host, musicologist DJ, and tri-lingual revolutionary intellectual, I am always amazed by the bold fools who do not possess a library card, and never visit a book store, who dare to challenge my claims. I am always repulsed by the racist whites who will NEVER heal from the WOUND that the ebonics issue has inflicted upon their white supremacist delusions of intellectual grandeur. I am always amused by the eurocentric Blacks who mimic such bigoted bravado.
Those who object to ebonics are afraid to admit that anything African can be legitimate and equivalent in any fashion. They are tricked by racist news editors who have blatantly lied about the Oakland School Board’s plans. They have absolutely no interest in the academic failures or futures of African students. They are singularly obsessed with the fact that uppity rebel niggers acted to save nigger children without neocon white permission or uncle tom apology.
Like the Oakland School Board, I will continue to ignore all who are arrogant about their ignorance of languages and cultures. But for those who are afrocentric and aware, I submit the following book list as my column this week. I do so for those who are aware that “language” extends far beyond vocabulary/slang to include verbal conjugation, syntax, phonetics, articulation, cadence, enunciation, and much more. “Ebonics” is a new term for an ancient issue. Research “Black english” for droves of other resources.
In 1977, (Martin Luther King Junior School Children v. Ann Arbor School Board), 30 African parents won a lawsuit that charged their children were poorly educated, due to the lack of recognition of Black english as a barrier to standard english instruction. Is this news to you? All REAL news is NEVER on TV! So, read on:
The Study of Nonstandard English- William Labov
Language in the Inner City- William Labov
Lexicon of Black English- J. Dillard
Perspectives on Black English- J. Dillard
Rappin’ & Stylin’ Out- Thomas Kochman
The African Element in American English- David Dalby
Issues in Black English- Bernice Cullinan
Talkin’ & Testifyin’: The Language of Black America- Geneva Smitherman
Twice as Less: Black English and the Performance of Black Students in Mathematics & Science- Eleanor Orr
Runnin’ Down Some Lines: The Language and Culture of Black Teenagers- Edith Folb
Ebonics-The Language of The African American- Olufola Sababu
ETC....
Seek the truth. It will free your mind and soul. Knowledge
is power. Education is
salvation. For decades, racist educators have used Black
english as a tool for
academic isolation and annihilation. In Oakland, we have
reclaimed that weapon. It is being fashioned into a tool for intellectual
revolution in academia. The New
World Order is in progress. The Revolution is in the
streets...