African-American Language Differences

Some of the world’s strongest speakers came from the African-American community such as Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jessie Jackson. Although their oral tradition is “widely recognized” in educational literature, people describe African-American youth as verbally deprived or linguistically retarded. Some African-Americans do not sound the same as to Anglo-Americans when they speak. When people from different cultures come together, the cultures mix and adapt. However, when certain groups become isolated afterward, the languages will develop in a couple of ways; which would eventually create language differences. The myths about the language of African-Americans come from the linguistic inferiority principle. The principle