Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Not White Just Right Response Essay

After reading not White, Just Right, an article by Rachel Jones, I could not help provided relate to her. In the article, Jones elaborates more on her popular essay, Whats Wrong with discolor English while also mentioning others who lot in her opinion. I, too, was ridiculed in rail for talk too white. In customary schools African American students are mocked and shunned by their brothers and sisters for speaking or even behaving in an scintillating manner, as if intelligence is insufferable in our community. I view as been the castaway for that single reason. However those who spoke the likes of third regulaters in the tenth grade were praised and welcomed in the Black community. To that I have to admit that we have fallen from the measure of Dr. King and Fredrick Douglas, when we knew as African Americans that we are just as intelligent as Caucasian men.This is not the future our leading have fought so hard for. It is pestering to witness young African Americans not on ly in public school but in college speaking as if they have no intelligence. I am only a freshman and I cannot count the number of times Ive heard other freshmen and upperclassmen use grammatically incorrect phrases like, what that is and I aint goin nowhere. Speech like this amongst my African American peers only angered me in juicy school, now it depresses me. It is depressing to fancy so many educated African Americans speak as if they had dropped out of high school, just because it is cool and they do not want to talk white. A mentality like that will eternally keep us as African Americans at the bottom of society. How do we endure to be seen as equally intelligent as Caucasian people if we do not even speak as if we are educated on a higher level? Therefore, in conclusion, I would like to thank Rachel Jones for writing those both texts about young African American lingual. It is about time that someone do it public to the Black community that this talk is NOT conserving our culture it is keeping us from reaching our goals and becoming successful.

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