Date: 	Thu, 2 Jan 1997 10:34:05 -1000
From: Stephen E Philion <philion-AT-hawaii.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: Ebonics



On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, rakesh bhandari wrote:

> I did not refer to Black English as incorrect English; my students who
> spoke "Ebonics" referred to it as such. I brought in an essay documenting
> the Black English rules for the conjugation for the verb "to be" and so on,
> and my students were uncomfortable with this--I did not expect this. As
> should have been obvious to me, they rejected it simply because it is such
> conjugations that mark Black English as a sign of inferiority; they were
> showing up to class to learn a new set of rules, and were eager to do so.

Rakesh,

There seems to be a contradiction above (seems to be). First you write
that your students were rejecting  Black English, but then in the next
sentence they "were eager to (learn a new set of rules)....

Steve



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