-=> Quoting Frank Topping to Matt Smith <=-
 FT> ...one of your earlier postings quoted an individual -- school
 FT> principal, I believe -- as saying to the effect that maybe ones
 FT> grandmother would be  able to understand them at home speaking Ebonics
 FT> but it wouldn't cut it  in the real world.  ...I quite agree that
 FT> Ebonics isn't the medium of  commerce in America but I question deeply
 FT> whether a person  making such a statement has values that Americans
 FT> should  respect at all.
Let's see if I've got it right.  You think they won't be able to get
a job, but only an insensitive cad would say so.
I've just been watching the video tape of My Fair Lady, a Christmas
present.  Professor Henry Higgins make the same point about people
being trapped in poverty because of their speech, but he sees
this as a tragedy, not a cause of celebration.
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