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...intention to connect our artistic work—one that seeks to break down traditional conceptions of race, ethnicity, religion, diversity and community—to a highly debated language that can only be safely discussed with required sensitivity and detail in linguistic circles. As much as students in Vaux??s class may be party to that academic arena, the performers who sang at the beginning of class did so outside of that context...
Whether the offended members of Kuumba themselves have this misconception about Ebonics—and that is why they were upset by Vaux??s segue—I do not know. What I do know is that this whole unfortunate and unnecessary incident is ignominious to the complainers and their organization, and not to Bert Vaux...
...this point, be thinking: OK, OK—so some Kuumba members had a little gaffe with Bert Vaux??everyone is allowed a mistake every now and then, even if that mistake is reckless, misinformed and potentially damaging to the reputation of an innocent party...
...academic rigor. One Kuumba member’s belief is that the comment was, “really detrimental to the work a lot of members of Kuumba are trying to do in erasing misperceptions about what black culture and diversity are.” On the contrary, Vaux??s lecture supports their stated goal. The quotation from his final Ebonics slide speaks for itself: “Characterizations of Ebonics as ‘slang’...are nothing more than superficial observation, and are wildly inaccurate...
...Vaux??s segue comment, though perhaps both poorly phrased and poorly understood, is not the cause for concern that the Kuumba singers believe it is. I do not believe that this is a case of irresponsibly crying wolf, but rather a misunderstanding and false alarm. The Social Analysis 34 classroom is a forum for the science of language, not the politics of race...