Yesterday, I read Jamelle Bouie’s great article on Slate responding to arguments about the notion of “talking White” (or “acting White”), or the idea that African Americans are opposed to things like ‘standard’ English or even academic success because they are associated, in our collective imagination, with Whiteness.
In particular, he responds to the video below which features an African American woman who takes issue with people who characterize the use of ‘standard’ English as “talking White”.
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