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Black Professors Demand Abolition Of ‘White Mainstream English’ For ‘Black Linguistic Justice’

Hank Berrien
Black Professors Demand Abolition Of ‘White Mainstream English’ For ‘Black Linguistic Justice’
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In July, a subcommittee of an organization called the Conference on College Composition and Communication that named itself the “Why We Cain’t Breathe!” subcommittee published a list of demands calling for the abolition of “White Mainstream English” to make way for “Black Linguistic Justice.”

Five English professors and a writing scholar created the list of demands, claiming students needed to “decolonize” their minds as well as the English language, as The College Fix reported.

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