Monday, January 05, 2004
DEAN'S EBONICS EPIPHANY
Via National Review Online:
Howard Dean offered his views on Ebonics during an interview with Boston Globe columnist Derrick Jackson:
Dean said his own education about unconscious racism began at Yale, where he graduated in 1971. He was trying to get a child from the inner city of New Haven that he was tutoring to talk "proper" English. One of his African-American roommates told him, "Why don't you leave him alone?"
To speak proper English is to have a leg up on success in America. Howard Dean knows this. That's why he gives his angry campaign speeches in proper English, not Ebonics. Black children deserve better than Dean's condescension.
|posted by Jim on 4:31 PM|
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