Five college instructors demanded to stop requiring blacks to use standard English "rooted in white supremacy, whiteness and anti-Blackness and contributes to anti-Black policies that are codified and enacted to privilege white linguistic and cultural norms while deeming Black Language inferior."

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[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Black Language? I wonder how many of the white dialects get that status.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In English we only have accents, no separate dialects or languages allowed. If you can't understand someone you just have to be more tolerant.