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...leaders of the Brothers and Sisters of Kuumba singing group expressed dismay yesterday at comments made by Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux after the group performed at the beginning of his lecture Wednesday...
According to a video of the class, Social Analysis 34, “Knowledge of Language,” Vaux began his lecture by saying, “Thank you for that, that was very nice. Now, appropriately enough after that, I have [a student] to comment on our Ebonics vocabulary...
...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...
According to Paretzky, she and two other members of the group—Shelby J. Braxton-Brooks ’03 and Robert P. Young ’06—stayed after the lecture to express their concerns to Vaux and to ask that he apologize at the beginning of the next lecture on Monday...