Jed..
I didn't use the word black.. you did. I have a neighbor, a friend for 35
years. He happens to have dark skin than mine. He has a landscape business
and he is also a pastor. Working together , the community helped him build a
church in one of the most negative, crime ridden area towns because two bad
guys from that town kidnapped a woman and her child off the parking lot
after Sunday church and left the two to die of heat locked in the trunk. My
neighbor ,the pastor, was rewarded by that community by their burning the
church down 3 times over the 20 year period. My neighbor said all needed to
be said...They dont want a church there.
Why?
Jed..I'll give you the last word...
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jed Rothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: Way-OT: Mo' de king's English
RC Macaulay writes:
Gave me a chuckle and if the problem were not so serious I may even
smile.
Back when our children were in grade school, the local schools integrated
in
the 1960's, I caught flack from commenting " you people believe
integration will lift them up , I have news for you, they will drag you
down
to their level". They are their own worse enemy.
I could not agree more! That is exactly what happened here in Atlanta,
where my daughters went to public school. Most of her black classmates
ended up in hellholes such as Georgia Tech, Stanford, or the UGA honors
course on full scholarship. The class valedictorian was a black kid and
the most disreputable threat you could imagine. State chess champion,
national math tournament winner, and he ended up in Harvard Business
School, that den of iniquity! I hear he has become an investment banker.
What would you expect? These people always end up in the gutter! I told
him he should get serious about math and go to MIT or Georgia Tech, but
did he listen? No, they never do. Imagine wasting that kind of talent
putting together international mergers. It is no better than selling dope
on the street corner.
These people may be *your* worst threat, but they are no threat to me.
<chuckle, chuckle>
Oh, and by the way, people who make fun regional accents and dialects are
a disgrace. People who denigrate a person because he speaks the way his
mother taught him, and preserves the heritage of generations, are unkind
brutes. If you had any appreciation of the English language, cultural
history, or linguistics, you would know that U.S. black dialects are among
the oldest, most complex, subtle and beautiful forms of the language. The
Gullah and Appalachian dialects in particular are living history, being
relics of Elizabethan English. During the recent disaster in Mississippi,
some of the victims being interviewed used language and grammar you will
not find this side of Shakespeare. (And the dialects of New Orleans are a
national treasure.) It is most unfortunate that people who speak these
dialects, and other Southern forms, are often ridiculed and subjected to
prejudice. As a result, many of them go to training classes where they are
taught to lose these dialects, which ar!
e now endangered and will probably be lost. I understand why these people
do this, for their own benefit, but for the nationâ?Ts culture heritage it
is tragic. It is like cutting down rare species of trees and planting
common pine trees.
Many regional dialects in Japan are also in sharp decline, which is
heartbreaking. Worldwide, many minority languages are being wiped out.
Even languages such as Gallic are endangered. You cannot blame the
individuals who shed these languages, but you sure can blame ignorant,
intolerant boobs who poke fun at them. Why don't you to go a museum and
laugh at the pictures of naked women? Or go to a university and ridicule
the the archeologists.
- Jed
