our multi-lingual population, and despite the deepening Black and white cleavage within that conglomerate, white standard control our official and popular judgements of verbal proficiency". (274) This comment sounds almost hateful to the white population. Granted, there is a tad bit of resentment toward whites due to the slavery issue, but has not slavery been outlawed for many years? How many traditions and customs must whites break in order to make black people more welcome here?
It is protocol that Standard English be used in every formal occasion in the United States. A job interview, a thesis, a newspaper article, and public announcements are all done in Standard English. This is not because whites see it as a way to feel powerful or supreme to blac
...