| 41. | Black English is a very precise language.
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| 42. | Oakland school district officials continue to argue that they never intended to teach black English in schools.
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| 43. | "Black English isn't bad; it's just different.
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| 44. | If you are black and speak only black English, you are likely to be patronized or stigmatized.
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| 45. | They insist they are not trying to teach Black English, nor are they conducting classes in it.
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| 46. | Painter Jean Michel Basquiat gave visual form to the carefully coded, rhythmically complex language known as black English.
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| 47. | And they examine the country's social construct that likely has contributed to the continued existence of black English.
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| 48. | Some black leaders fear that the teaching of black English will lower academic standards and demean African Americans.
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| 49. | If there is a Black English, why not something more eloquent _ say, the poetry of Maya Angelou?
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| 50. | Some of the essays are in standard English; some are in black English; some bounce back and forth.
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