I have decided to take a shot at answering the questions at the
end the article. I have noticed in my travels to the south that BE has it’s own
regional dialects. Some of the samples of BE in the article seems a little
foreign to me. Growing up in southern California I have heard some slight
variations to that of the students in the article. But the way Jordan do it is
real good. She be bringin together people and the stuff they be learnin in
books. What she doing is more than just putting together people she studyin.
She givin the way black people be talkin a life and a face. And if she told the
stories different it aint gonna come out the same. It gotta be the same place
and time for it to mean somethin to people. Don’t nobody care about who this
cat Wiilie is or his brother. They just two black boys from the hood and don’t
nobody care if one got killed. But if you put it all together with what’s bein
learned in the class and how what they learnin can be used it make a
difference. Her sudents need to know they gotta voice even if it’s in BE. That
is my ultimate goal in the class as I write my teaching philosophy.
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