Intellectually Aggressive Statement of The Week

Wesley Gibson said...

To anonymous: Grammar is the structure and form of language, pronunciation is the way that it sounds when spoken out loud. I'm sure you feel in your heart of hearts that a person that speaks in such a manner is a fool, but realistically pronunciation (and really even spelling) is and can be as fluid as the vagaries of dialect allow. Who is to say that american's don't sound ignorant for speaking sans an english accent? What gives legitimacy to one evolution of pronunciation, but not another. Essentially, your point is a truism without real meaning, and thats essentially my point: as black people, we are focused on truisms rather than actual meaning. For us, everything is related intimately to dignity and morality. "A person should not speak like that", we think to ourselves, but what about the quality of the thoughts that the speech is attempting to convey? The problem, in my opinion, is that blacks (through circumstance and no real fault of our own) have been taught to preach, not to debate. Stop shucking and jiving. Homie.