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...majority of participants were Harvard students and part of the 18-25 age division. Scott F. Kocher '97 finished with the best male time in his age group, with a run of 17 minutes. Rachel L. Barenbaum '98 clinched the best female time with 19 minutes and 23 seconds...
...replying to register my disappointment with the inaccuracy of Rachel Barenbaum's op-ed on Ebonics. I do not pretend to speak for supporters of Ebonics, I am only writing as one supporter of Ebonics. With few exceptions, Ms. Barenbaum's entire analysis is completely incorrect. First, her worry that Ebonics will remove social fluidity and drive races and classes further apart is groundless. She seems to think that proponents of Ebonics want it to be taught to African-American students in classrooms across the country. On the contrary, Ebonics, as it currently stands, is going to be taught...
...further confounded by Ms. Barenbaum's fears that Ebonics is going to create "a basic communication problem" between poor African-Americans and the rest of the country. She amazingly overlooks the reality that America is already divided by race, as evidenced by the unanimous support of the O.J. verdict among poor blacks, and the similarly unanimous disappointment among whites. Even if Ebonics operates as a divisive agent, as Ms. Barenbaum suspects, it will be reinforcing a division which already exists, not creating one. Perhaps the most ridiculous contention in the article is that our nation's print media automatically creates...
...final point is a bit of an ironic one. Ms. Barenbaum spends too much of her entire piece talking about obscure theories, and forgets some fundamental rules about standard English grammar. She begins the last paragraph of her piece by arguing that Ebonics is going to create a division between those who speak it and "those who speaks, reads," and write standard English. Earlier she argues that, because of all this debate, "what is being established is binary opposition, is difference." These grammatically incorrect sentences, in an edited op-ed piece, should remind some of us that the basic question...
...there's a catch. When I push further about the nature of the Bee's involvement, Barenbaum clarifies: the Bee is an "honorary member," she says, not terribly eager to explain what such status entails...