June Jordan: Sympathetic Post

When June Jordan first introduced that she was using Black English in her class to teach, I thought that it allowed her students to go at learning from a different angle. For some students, it may have made it easier to understand, for others harder. I say this because most of her class felt that the way the language was made it improper and they did not belong. The purpose of the text was to show how the use of black english was used in her class. Willie Jordan had a brother who was said to be murdered by the Brooklyn police. They assumed it to be a police brutality case based on the race of his brother. Jordan and her students wrote a statement to the Brooklyn police because they felt what happened was unethical. They wrote these letters using black English because they felt that the message might get across more clearly and the way they wanted it to throughout the black communities. The use of black english in the reading was a great way to get across how the actions that occured lean towards racism by a white cop on a black male. I also think that with the students use of the black english it opened themselves up more to the community and it helped them get their point across.