The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plain Posted on October 17, 2022 at 09:15:30 PM by Professor Henry Higgins
I think one of the most racist things a teacher can do is NOT correct their black students to pronounce English words like regular English. The black accent is called Eubonics. It can be coached out of someone and many blacks learn to speak both. One, when they're on television reading the news, and the other when they're out with their black friends.
Eddie Murphy is a master actor at accents. Remember when he starred as several characters in "Coming to America?" He played one or two of the barbers and an old Jewish man from Europe. Arsenio Hall also did voices, like The Reverend Brown.
There's not just one black speech pattern, but many. You've probably noticed that many blacks speak perfect Educated American English like James Earl Jones. And blacks from Europe as well as Africans who grew up in Europe speak perfect British English.
So why don't American schoolteachers teach black children perfect English. How can get graduate from high school without perfect diction?
Do they think they're insulting their students by teaching them 'white' English? Some foreign languages just don't have all of our letters, like R and W. If they were coached in school to use dialect-free English, imagine how many more jobs would be available to blacks, Latinos, Asians, even Germans taught to use W instead of V.
Many of us in broadcasting have learned or taught dialect free English to help Southerners, for example, get rid of their drawl. CBS anchor Dan Rather once wrote about his work to remove the Texan from his delivery. Replies: There have been no replies.
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