clap clap whoosh

http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/10/14/english_variation_not_related_to_intelligence_code_switching_and_other_ways.html

Most of the content of this piece isn't particularly groundbreaking for us at this point (it would serve as an awesome and fairly concise conversation starter with others outside of our class though I think), but it ends with this bomb.com, pause and sit with it a minute, clap clap whoosh (as my kids would say) type quote from Baldwin's "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?":

"It is not the black child's language that is in question, it is not his language that is despised: It is his experience. A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience, and all that gives him sustenance, and enter a limbo in which he will no longer be black, and in which he knows that he can never become white. Black people have lost too many black children that way."

See you all tomorrow!

p.s. As always, don't read the comments unless you want to bring down your spirit!