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Vaux said in an interview yesterday he was not “equating Kuumba with Ebonics,” but said he wished the singers had made their guest performance at Monday’s lecture on Ebonics. A question had arisen in the prior class about grammar in the dialect and when Vaux asked if any of the students in the class were “native speakers of Ebonics,” no one volunteered...
Vaux said he thought there might be a native Ebonics speaker in Kuumba who could answer the grammar question...
...segue was still really detrimental to the work a lot of members of Kuumba are trying to do in erasing misperceptions about what black culture and diversity...
Vaux said he is “happy to say something” and that he asked the Kuumba members to e-mail him what they would like him to say during the next class. He added the Kuumba members agreed, but that he had not received any correspondence from the group and could not contact them because he did not know who they were...
Vaux’s teaching fellow, Claire L. Bowern, said it was purely coincidental that the Kuumba performance took place before the Ebonics lecture...