Not White Just Right Response Essay

afterwards reading Not White, Just Right, an article by Rachel Jones, I could not help but relate to her. In the article, Jones elaborates more on her popular essay, Whats Wrong with down in the mouth English while a corresponding mentioning others who share in her opinion. I, too, was ridiculed in school for talking too unobjectionable. In public schools African American students are mocked and shunned by their brothers and sisters for mouth or even behaving in an knowing manner, as if intelligence is insufferable in our community. I take a crap been the outcast for that single reason. However those who spoke like third graders in the tenth grade were praised and welcomed in the Black community. To that I have to admit that we have fallen from the times of Dr. top executive and Fredrick Douglas, when we knew as African Americans that we are just as intelligent as Caucasian men.This is not the future our leaders have fought so intemperate for. It is infuriating to witness y oung African Americans not only in public school but in college spill the beansing as if they have no intelligence. I am only a freshman and I cannot count the number of times Ive heard other freshmen and upperclassmen enjoyment grammatically incorrect phrases like, what that is and I aint goin nowhere. savoir-faire like this amongst my African American peers only angered me in high school school, now it depresses me. It is depressing to see so many educated African Americans speak as if they had dropped out of high school, just because it is cool and they do not want to talk white. A mentality like that will always keep us as African Americans at the bottom of society. How do we expect to be seen as equally intelligent as Caucasian people if we do not even speak as if we are educated on a higher take? Therefore, in conclusion, I would like to thank Rachel Jones for writing those two texts round young African American lingual. It is about time that someone make it public to th e Black community that this speech is NOT conserving our culture it is guardianship us from reaching our goals and becoming successful.