Northern Illinois University hosts seminar on ending ‘White Linguistic Hegemony – The College Fix

Black students should not be penalized for using “Black Language” and college courses should critically interrogate “white linguistic hegemony and anti-Black linguistic racism,” said a scholar who gave a presentation recently at Northern Illinois University.
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susan
5 months ago

Once there is defined textbook rules of linguistic interpretation of alternative language, that is valid argument. Absent that, it just prevents students from participation on legal system.

State Statutes can be written in ambiguous language?
Please give example of vernacular Statutory language which can be codified as law.

Daskoterzar
5 months ago

Doesn’t matter what your background is, where you came from, etc. This country speaks English. Everyone should learn to speak the language of this country, it helps with assimilating into the society and becoming an American. To allow improper language to be acceptable at schools diminishes the value of the education even more than it already is, there are just somethings you should learn to do and one of those is speak and write English properly.

debtsor
5 months ago
Reply to  Daskoterzar

They don’t want you to be an American. That means nothing. They just want you to vote Democrat.

Bud Dark
5 months ago

All “hyphenated Americans” should return to the the regions of their ancestral origins.

pstas
5 months ago

Just another race hustler builing his “brand”.

Leaving Soon, just not soon enough
5 months ago

When you get out in the business world you had better talk the language of that world or go nowhere in your job.

debtsor
5 months ago

Like one commenter here always says (sorry I can’t remember which one, Riverbender maybe?) NIU had such promise being so close to major city and could have attracted many of IL and WI’s best 2nd tier candidates, like Virginia Tech to UV, but instead, NIU squandered it all, allowed the campus to look like a blighted third world county, and accepted students with sub-20 ACT scores. And now we get afro-national professors like this, desperately trying to push ebonics into mainstream academia. Imagine how ridic it would, you know, be, if like, yeah, she instead said that Valley Girl was,… Read more »

debtsor
5 months ago
Reply to  debtsor

It was Willowglen, not Riverbender

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