June Jordan was the teacher of Willie and she was teaching her class how to write standard English instead of black English. It seem that she was in between of both language because she new that it is very important that her students learn how to write standard English, but she did not want her students to forget how to write black English. But after the tragedy that one of her students Willie Jordan when throw she along with her students came to realize that black English in this country does not matter. That no body would pay you any attention if you write black English.
The story of Willie jordan's brother is very sad and I am sure that it has happen to many families. Reginald Jordan was a young black African American who live in Brooklyn. One afternoon he was walking in the streets and two white new York policemen shot him. Willie tells us in his story that the new York Police department never give them a good reason on why Reginald was shot, they said that it was because he had taken the gun from the police officer, but the autopsy read that he was shot multiple times. June Jordan wrote to many different types of newspapers and but none of them taught that they story was good enough to write about it.
Monday, January 30, 2006
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