I’ve gotta think that about now Barack Obama is seriously regretting the day he became involved with the goofy buffoon known as the “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright. If anything stops Obama’s nomination it will surely be, in large part, due the antics of this fool.
His circumlocutios histrionics are amusing to watch, in a bizarre way, but I am so amazed at the liberal pundits who keep talking about how “eloquent” Wright is.
Eloquent? I suppose if you don’t count syntax and content you might find him “eloquent,” in much the same way that Al Sharpton is “eloquent,” in that they both like to “speechify” and rant and make spectacles of themselves.
But when I think of eloquent I think of people like Robert Kennedy, Winston Churchill, or Barack Obama. I certainly don’t think of hatemongers and rabble-rousers.
To add insult to injury Wright is now demeaning the accents of former presidents*, and is once again resurrecting the ridiculous concept that “Ebonics” are real. Anyone who has traveled to Europe knows that American Black speech patterns have nothing to do with so-called Ebonics or anything else known in the real world. When speaking English, Blacks in Germany do not have any noticeable similarities in speech comparable to American Blacks, ditto France and England. I can attest to that by first hand knowledge.
Of course the problem of Ebonics is much more than a problem with accent*. It has to do with the “big picture of basic enunciation/pronunciation/composition/grammar/syntax.
(Ebonics is little more than an embarrassing concept conceived by liberal educators meant as yet another excuse as to why it is acceptable to demonstrate to generations of kids that it is not necessary to learn serviceable English.) (more…)