Have you ever heard Democrat politicians speak like they were from the hood when speaking in front of a black audience? It is really a trip to behold. Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden were some of the worst offenders. To watch their cadence switch, like in some Mark Twin books highlights the vacuous nature of fake Democrats. These people pander for a living, but it is shameful when they try to talk Jive. Language, words, and cadence mean everything in the American lexicon. Let us examine how much.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Senator Tim Scott, and so many other Black Republicans are still called Uncle Tom. I’ve even heard the word Negro resurfaced on some podcasts lately. The “Negro” word is an appellation that will always spark madness among politically correct Whites. Negro talk or Negro dialect is not as old of a concept as PC liberals would like you to believe.

It wasn’t that long ago that schools and libraries were banning Mark Twain books over this language. Former Senator Harry Reid (R.I.P.) said that these lexiconical words come from some 1950s mentality and are succinctly racist. Harry was purposefully wrong, and we don’t have to go so far back in time to see where this subject touched our public mindset.

It was just a hop, skip, and a jump in time when the School Board of Oakland pushed to classify so-called “EBONICS” as a second language. They pushed for Negro Talk or Ebonics to be considered bilingual and called for funds to be available for teaching a second language and passed it on December 18th, 1996. It was called, “Original Oakland Resolution on Ebonics.”

Any attempt to sweep this subject under the carpet using the argument that this is some dated subject matter that has no place in the public arena in 2024 doesn’t hold water. These words keep recycling around American ethos. The truth is right in front of your eyes every day. America has not risen above this subject matter to some enlightened plain of conscientiousness but rather struggles with these issues even today.

Ebonical speech is as real as the Queen’s English any attempt to make believe it does not exist is disingenuous at the very least. It is intellectual cowardliness to say there is no Negro dialect and a case could be made for that “liberal elite Jive Talk” to be shucking and jiving itself. There is no hope for America to rise above these issues [which is my desire] when we walk around making believe they don’t exist.

The Linguistic Society of America put out this statement: “The systematic and expressive nature of the grammar and pronunciation patterns of the African American vernacular has been established by numerous scientific studies over the past thirty years. Characterizations of Ebonics as “slang,” “mutant,” “lazy,” “defective,” “ungrammatical,” or “broken English” are incorrect and demeaning.”

“There is evidence from Sweden, the US, and other countries that speakers of other varieties can be aided in their learning of the standard variety by pedagogical approaches which recognize the legitimacy of the other varieties of a language. From this perspective, the Oakland School Board’s decision to recognize the vernacular of African American students in teaching them Standard English is linguistically and pedagogically sound.”

Kind of odd putting out a statement about something that doesn’t exist according to some leftists. So, can we at least not be shallow when we approach the subject of race in America and all the subject lines that circle this vast introspective debate? The Progressive Word Police is like nails on a chalkboard for many of us. The so-called hall-monitors of language come from a base ignorance and are not worth recognition. They are lazy liberal so-called intellectuals who make it arduous for you to apperceive the axiomatic reality of their brainlessness.

American Black men and women today use this speech in certain circles amongst themselves. If you’re not aware of these things, you must be one of those politically correct liberals who truly do not know Black folk in America. You too can learn the cryptic and linguistic vernacular that exists in the American Black community today. Just go out and talk to some Black people and step down from that progressive ivory white tower you live in. You might be surprised by what you learn.

Artificial intelligence tells us, “Ebonics is as real as Hillbilly Language spoken in Appalachia. Hillbilly language is a combination of English and Scottish terms and dialects and is characterized by several unique features. For example, “far” becomes “fire”, “tared” becomes “tired”, “hard” becomes “hired”, or “war” becomes “worn”. Once mostly referred to as Southern Mountain English or Smokey Mountain English, linguists now recognize the more inclusive term Appalachian English in reference to the unmistakable family of dialect(s) spoken throughout the entire Appalachian region covering 205,000 square miles, 420 counties in 13 states.”

The study of language and dialects of all types is incredibly complicated, involving a crapload of different fields of study and perspectives. These studies cover everything from anthropology to computational linguistics. According to the Social Voice Project, “Once mostly referred to as Southern Mountain English or Smokey Mountain English, linguists now recognize the more inclusive term Appalachian English in reference to the unmistakable family of dialect(s) spoken throughout the entire Appalachian region covering 205,000 square miles, 420 counties in 13 states, and stretching more than 1,000 miles from Mississippi to New York including more than 25 million people.”

According to Wikipedia, “Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The character was seen in the Victorian era as a ground-breaking literary attack against the dehumanization of slaves. Tom is a deeply religious Christian preacher to his fellow slaves who uses nonresistance, but who is willingly flogged to death rather than violate the plantation’s code of silence by informing against the route being used by two women who have just escaped from slavery.

However, the character also came to be criticized for allegedly being inexplicably kind to white slaveowners, especially based on his portrayal in pro-compassion dramatizations. This led to the use of Uncle Tom – sometimes shortened to just a Tom – as a derogatory epithet for an exceedingly subservient person or house negro, particularly one accepting and uncritical of his or her own lower-class status.”

So, when Democrats call Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Senator Tim Scott, and so many other Black Republicans Uncle Tom, ask them what they think that means. Being flogged to death rather than violating the plantation’s code of silence by informing against the route being used by two women who have just escaped sounds heroic to me. Are they calling these Black Republicans heroes?

The Black vote was very influential in the 2020 election. A succinct argument can be made that without that vote, we would have never had the last four years of American carnage under Joe Biden. For reasons that would require an entire semester of study to explain, Black Americans are trapped in the Democrat Party cage, and they cannot, or will not get themselves out of it. Regardless of how the Black voters are ignored between elections, they still give their votes to the Democrat Party.

When Joe Biden went off in his fake Negro cadence telling blacks that Republicans were “Going to put you back in chains” he failed to acknowledge the political cage they were already living in. When Kamala Harris with her Howard University education starts to address black voters like she is speaking in a Southern fish fry, well, someone hand her a copy of Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn.” Ask her to read the book to you and watch how long it takes for her ghetto superstar cadence to fall apart. The Queen’s English she speaks around her white husband and other whites will eventually appear; the woman is a phony.

C. Rich

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