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Sunday, December 10, 2023

Making Pidgin An Official Language In The United States

College Fix reports that "the University of Michigan’s April Baker-Bell told an online audience during a November workshop for faculty and graduate students at Northern Illinois University" that universities need to start using Pidgin for their black students. She didn't use the term Pidgin, but chose more erudite phrasing such as "Black students should not be penalized for using 'Black Language' and college courses should critically interrogate 'white linguistic hegemony and anti-Black linguistic racism'." The article goes on to relate (translated to Pidgin using an online translator):

    “people’s language experiences are not separate from their racial experiences,” the university of michigan’s narapela (more);" baker-bell told wanpela online audience trench - baret wanpela november workshop for faculty karamapim tok graduate students ami northern illinois university. 

     the way daka language is “devalued in classrooms reflects how daka lives are devalued in the world,” she told attendees.  “similarly, the way we think "nabaut (a place) this notion of standard mainstream Ista is directly connected to the invisible way that white culture is often deemed normal, neutral, karamapim tok superior in the world. ”

    Rum slip known for her winim bugol “linguistic justice: daka language, literacy, identity, karamapim tok pedagogy,” baker-bell is wanpela associate professor of language, culture, karamapim tok justice in education, karamapim tok was one of six professors who co-authored wanpela 2020 document calling to abolish “white mainstream Ista. ”

    according to baker-bell, when educators require daka students to compose their written assignments using what is generally considered standard or mainstream Ista, they are committing acts of “anti-black linguistic racism,” defined by baker-bell in wanpela linguistic justice workbook she distributed to workshop attendees as “the linguistic violence, persecution, dehumanization, karamapim tok marginalization that daka language-speakers experience in schools karamapim tok in everyday life. ”  

2 comments:

  1. Graduate students? Pretty soon they'll let them hand in assignments on crayon.

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    1. She is not helping. Black students--even graduate students--are not going to be taken seriously if they cannot use correct English.

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