7/7/2025

Black Don't Crack

I was reading an article called "Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan" and the author talks about how black people have their own language, the first words of the text is "Black English is not exactly a linguistic buffalo" (Jordan) of the bat he is saying that the way that black people talk is not grammatically correct. Further on into the article he starts comparing what he calls standard English and Black English, and makes a guideline for Black English saying that Black English has a “minimal number of words for every idea” (Jordan). I came up with these terms because the whole text is about how the way black people talk and text is not grammatically correct and the type of words they use in sentences have different meanings but mean something else with context. The intent behind the author writing this is to talk about the differences of Black English to other ways that people speak. This text was useful because it helped make me realize how incorrect the way black people talk is. If i wrote this article i would push the ideas of the article further by not only just talking about how black people talk grammatically incorrect but i would also talk about where it originated from and the history of why black people talk the way that they do. Something that i think about when reading this article is why does the way that black people talk not grammatically correct if we use words that exist and the way we talk came from slavery.