Word from the Mother: Geneva Smitherman

I don't want to read this book but I am going to read this book simply for the fact that the shit pisses me off! Now you're probably wondering why in the hell I would want to read something that would piss me off...well its because an educated person knows to be enlightened on all fronts not just on the things she agrees with. So basically, as it was explained to me she thinks the AAL (African-American Language) should be taught in the classroom. Then, I ask what the heck is African-American Language anyways?!?!? Well as she explains it, it's phrases and idioms such as "Im fixin to do tha do" or "Move tha hoe 'round". WOW...Really that's what you wanna teach in the classroom! It's not enough that the greater public already thinks that we are inferior and inept to higher learning but let's marginalize black culture more! I'll just say this, I may talk like this in more lax and comfortable settings but I refuse to speak like this in the greater public or in an educational environment! Just because black folks may not take the time to pronounce every syllable in a word when talking to OURSELVES, doesn't mean that this is somehow a language and doesn't mean that we have less education or didn't learn the fundamentals of the English language coming up! Oh Gosh...it doesn't matter how many bulshit degrees you have or how intellectual you are...you will never understand the black perspective unless you are in fact BLACK! So thanks for marginalizing us Geneva Smitherman and she black too! DAMN!

Tell me what you think!

-Loren