[stormingheaven] ebonics?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Curtiss wrote:
>     Wojtek Sokolowski writes:
>     > ok, suppose that we all agree - and use all our time and effort to
>     > convince our so-called elected representatives - that ebonics is
>     > morally equivalent or superior (or whatever) to the so-called
>     > standard english.
>
>     As I understand it, so-called Ebonics was only ever meant *TO BE A
>     TEACHING TOOL FOR STANDARD ENGLISH*.  Children were not going to be
>     taught a dialect that they already spoke, but rather *TAUGHT STANDARD
>     ENGLISH USING THAT DIALECT*.  There's a paper at:
>
>     http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/papers/VernacularToTeachStandard.html
>     (I just followed the link in Robert Chametzky's previous post)

Wojtek doesn't care about Ebonics one way or another, nor is he interested
in the facts of the case.  He's simply using this topic in order to indulge
himself in an illusion that the weakness of the American Left are caused by
'campus radicals,' 'identity politics,' 'symbolic politics,' 'white liberal
guilt,' or what have you.  It's a form of therapy or entertainment for him.

Yoshie