17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Asgaard wrote:
On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
By the way, both Jesse Jackson and famed poetess Maya Angelou have denounced the Oakland School Board's adoption of "Ebonics" as shameful and a travesty. Jackson said black children should not be encouraged to speak "garbage."
If I remember correctly, the head of the NAACP a few years ago said (in response to having to say 7 syllables instead of 1, i.e., African- American instead of Black), "we were better off when it was just plain Colored". (Quote approximate).