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...couldn't make up my mind about the Oakland, California, school board's decision last month to certify Ebonics as an official language for black folks, so I decided to consult the experts. I put in a call to the Home for Retired Racial Stereotypes in a black section of Hollywood. The Kingfish answered. "Holy mack'rul dere, Andy, somebody wants to talk 'bout dis 'ere Ebonics. Could you or Tonto tell Buckwheat come to da phone? He de resident expert...
Trying to conceal my amazement, I asked what Buckwheat thought of Ebonics. "In my opinion," he replied, "the entire controversy could have been avoided easily if the Oakland school board knew how to speak better English. They had the right idea, after all. It makes perfect sense to help teachers understand that youngsters from underclass neighborhoods speak differently from other Americans and that their distinctive speech patterns don't mean the kids are stupid." He continued, "In fact, school systems in California and other states have been using this idea since the 1970s, when some scholars concluded that Black English...
...Oakland, Md., in the Allegheny Mountains, celebrates the season with the Autumn Glory Festival (Oct. 12 to 16). Traditional Appalachian music is featured with banjo, fiddle and mandolin competitions, along with arts and crafts, parades, a 5-km race and an appearance by Cooter's Garage Band, led by Ben Jones of Dukes of Hazzard fame...
...more middle-class Chatham. The middle-class community, less desperate for the jobs, voted against the Wal-Mart store. The outcome in some ways duplicated Wal-Mart's split decision in California, where it lost a bid to open in Inglewood in Los Angeles County but succeeded in Oakland. Wal-Mart is also pushing for a store on Staten Island in New York City. While not exactly the "inner" city, a Staten Island location would give Wal-Mart a foothold in New York. In the long run, Scott believes, the company will win more often than...
...emphasis on weaknesses and gaps in evolution--is at the heart of the intelligent-design movement, which has as its motto "Teach the controversy." "You have to hand it to the creationists. They have evolved," jokes Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, Calif., which monitors attacks on the teaching of evolution...