Black English

June Jordan, who is she? Well i am going to tell you, Jordan and done many different things in her lifetime. She was poet, playwright, essayist, and professor of English at the University of California, Berkley.

Throughout this essay she said many of things but we think that the overall topic she was trying to convey to her readers was about Racism. She gave many different issues through out her story, like how "Black English was like a linguistic buffalo", to trying to teach her students how to write the form Black English. But that's not all, she also gave a story on about how one of her students went missing for some time, and came to find out that there had been a death in his family. Throughout all things that she mentioned we believe that it all ties together on the general topic about racism.

She tries to prove her point through every issue that we had listed in the preceding paragraph. When she started this essay out she gave a metaphor of " Black English is like the linguistic buffalo" this here is very strong statement. If you just think about how the buffalo almost became extinct which was because people wanted to force the Indians out of there land, and by killing of their big food supply, which was the buffalo, would drive them from that area. Well here she is saying that by completely forgetting about Black English might push the African Americans out this country, which in anyway you look at is being racist. So what she tries to do about it is to teach here students that they should not be afraid to be who they are, if you talk or want to talk in Black English then do so don't be afraid of who you are. So in order to show her students that she develops and teaches a class that is learning how to talk and write in the Black English, which is so uncommon because in what school anywhere offers this type of course. That just goes to show how our country does not want to support or even accept the different use of language of a different culture. To even more reinforce the topic of racism at the end of the essay she goes into talking about how one of her student's, an African American, brother was killing by the police. According to the story he was not armed but the police shot him 8 times, why would you need shoot anyone 8 times it's like they were being cruel for some reason. So in response they wrote a letter to the police department, which was in Black English, but they paid no attention to it for some reason and just discarded of it. If you would just think about this for a second you can see how racist they were being. They shot a black male 8 times when they really only needed one shot and then they didn't even consider anything about the letter, probably because it was written in Black English. I guess the real question here is, how much more racist can they be?