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A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still gets no respect

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Re: A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still gets no respect

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Such racist comments have a twisted relation to the truth: the US virtually criminalizes its Black population. It's public knowledge that no other country incarcerates its people as much. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rat... ) Any honest person can see that those of us with more "respectable" US accents form the real criminal culture. We took the land from people we exterminated, took sla…

"We took the land from people we exterminated, took slaves " I speak standard english, but am part of a minority group that has been tortured and killed for thousands of years. You don't speak for me. Or for my friends, who aren't all part of my minority group, but some of whom also speak standard english (and sometimes are or are not part of their own minority groups, while also some majority ones). I'd say you don'…

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Re: A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still gets no respect

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I could pretty readily read (Latin-transliterated) Yiddish with just a couple years of German language classes. > "Eine Sprache ist ein Dialekt mit einer Armee und einer Flotte"

You might enjoy this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qQSAEMq5ko

I did! Thank you very much for linking me to it.
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