Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:35:20 +0100 (MET)
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: Re: M-I: Hooked on Ebonics


Rakesh!

Ever since this debate started on Ebonics you have been trying to find a way 
to not take a principled position on the language question. I find it 
particully despicable!
And waste a letter to M-I in order to state this. Your latest below about 
the school board antics does not in the least change the central manner of 
this question. Do children have the right to language which they feel 
comfortable with or not?

Do Communists defend this right or not. Despite anything the schoolboard 
says or does?

You are doing a flim-flam on this stuff Rakesh.Just answer the fucking 
questions. Please.

Bob Malecki

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>This was sent to me by a veteran Oakland educator who mentions that since
>the City of Oakland guaranteed the Raiders football team profits upon
>return from Los Angeles to Oakland, the City will now have to make
>substantial budget cuts on top of those being forced by Governor Pete
>Wilson. Hundreds and soon thousands of people will soon be cut off general
>assistance and AFDC; times limits are being shortened, and cities are no
>longer required to use funds for general assistance. It also seems that, lo
>and behold, the return of the Silver and Black has not provided many jobs
>at all, though the construction firms which were awarded contracts to fix
>the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum for the Raiders have made a killing and seem
>to have bought off enough people on the Board of Supervisors and City
>Council. This would be one of those construction projects guaranteed by the
>state which no one needed and will now be paid for by gutting public
>education and throwing people on the street.
>________________
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>Hi.....I think your critique is well put.  I saw the issue immediately as a
>"smoke screen" to divert attention from the real problems, which you
>correctly underscore. (I wonder also whether it meant to divert from the
>powder keg the city is sitting on vis-a-vis forthcoming budget cuts the
>power strucure is making to pay for the return of the Raiders?)  I also saw
>it as afrocentric politics behind the scene.  It would be important to find
>out who it was that pushed for it in terms of local black leadership.  On
>the other side of the coin, I see it as simply a means to legitimize the
>working class black child's street "language" and thereby hopefully
>contribute to his/her self esteem and thus self confidence which can
>nurture their academic success.
>
>Finally, the issue has highlighted yet another aspect of black class
>divisions and has showcased the political opportunism of Jesse Jackson.
>Interesting stuff.
>
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