White readers – read this

(Photo by Kat Love)

Article by Arriel Vinson

“ I was hurt, and then, as I thought more about it, I was outraged. I realized that even though my classmates probably didn’t realize it, they were being racist. They believed if a person spoke in any other way than what they were taught was correct, that person must be uneducated. My classmates didn’t believe AAVE was a “remarkable twist to the English language.” They thought, instead, that it wasn’t a twist at all, but a nuisance. AAVE isn’t a marker of low intelligence; if anything, it’s the opposite. To navigate both AAVE and “proper” English is an intellectual act in itself. “

Me: Before the white people get in my face: See Haitian Creole, French Creole, British English, French Canadian, Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal Portuguese before you argue.