Wasting Energy on an Illusion: Six Months Later

Abstract

English is often made with lists of Black English traits. However, while Black English is indeed systematic, it is not different enough from standard English the cause of the alarming reading scores among black children. 2. Black English is not an language with English words in any sense. Caribbean creoles like Jamaican patois are real African English; Black English is simply one of many kinds of American English. Most Black English sound and sentence patterns were inherited from regional dialects of Great Britain, and not a single one of them not even the behavior of to be is traceable Africa.

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