to the ladies of Sigma Gamma Rho i hope you don't mind me posting on your board
just thought this topic was interesting. i think speech and diction are a part of one's educational upbringing. i think all of our kids should speak proper english, its just the way of the business world. but outside of the interview setting etc. i think people should talk in the manner that is most comfortable to them, whether its ebonics, slang, southern, northern, valley etc. and folks should not hate on them for it. i think when we associate "proper english" as a european virtue then we set back years of trying to help folks to see that race and intellectual capacity are too separate things. we are all products of our environment in some way and that's not always a bad thing.