They have already been getting special favors for decades, and things are only getting worse for them.
They need to change their culture. That hood shit is cancer to any ethnicity.
Something like 5-10% of kids in each grade level and read and write at that grade level. The rest are behind by multiple grade levels because as they go along they aren't catching up.
This is happening in cities that are fully controlled by black politicians, a majority black police force (with all black leadership), a black mayor and an all black city council.
Yet still they blame white people for their problems. Give me a fucking break.
I really like Thomas Sowell's description of black culture as "Black Hillbilly Culture."
Rural whites figured out quickly that their way forward was to not sound like an uneducated idiot, whereas mainstream black America, the media, and academia have seized on these mannerisms of speech and decided they, in part, define what it means to be Black.
As someone from what you would call "Appalachia Country", I've heard stories of people learning how to speak without an accent to sound less dumb to outsiders.
That is pretty sad, because there is nothing inherently about Appalachian English (or Ebonics) that is more dumb or less dumb than 'Standard' English. It just happens not to be the prestige dialect.
Which is not to say that they should not learn the prestige dialect, only that people should not be prejudiced about people who speak a different dialect. And I'll admit that my own opinion of someone sinks to Ocean-level depths when I see him say "dey doesn't want us to loot dey store".
In linguistic terms however, that is just as valid of a dialect as Standard English.
They have already been getting special favors for decades, and things are only getting worse for them.
They need to change their culture. That hood shit is cancer to any ethnicity.
Something like 5-10% of kids in each grade level and read and write at that grade level. The rest are behind by multiple grade levels because as they go along they aren't catching up.
This is happening in cities that are fully controlled by black politicians, a majority black police force (with all black leadership), a black mayor and an all black city council.
Yet still they blame white people for their problems. Give me a fucking break.
I really like Thomas Sowell's description of black culture as "Black Hillbilly Culture."
Rural whites figured out quickly that their way forward was to not sound like an uneducated idiot, whereas mainstream black America, the media, and academia have seized on these mannerisms of speech and decided they, in part, define what it means to be Black.
Clown world.
As someone from what you would call "Appalachia Country", I've heard stories of people learning how to speak without an accent to sound less dumb to outsiders.
That is pretty sad, because there is nothing inherently about Appalachian English (or Ebonics) that is more dumb or less dumb than 'Standard' English. It just happens not to be the prestige dialect.
Which is not to say that they should not learn the prestige dialect, only that people should not be prejudiced about people who speak a different dialect. And I'll admit that my own opinion of someone sinks to Ocean-level depths when I see him say "dey doesn't want us to loot dey store".
In linguistic terms however, that is just as valid of a dialect as Standard English.