US Language Policy, part three - some vids

Possibly no language issue in the US generates as many heated emotions as the continued existence, marginalized status and growing influence of AAVE (aka Black English, Ebonics)

to start here are some videos

Here is the first of several (videos from an acclaimed documentary series on various kinds of English) the whole series (and this whole episode) are highly reccomened.

Here is a short piece on what typically happens to AAVE speaking children in school.

Here is a sample of Gullah (or more likely Gullah influenced English)

Here is a racist sample of 'humor' (there are tons of this in the US)

Here's a guy trying to promote the idea of 'code switching' (a kind of bilingualism) for Black citizens. His heart is mostly in the right place but trying to make good linguistic points in the US media is very, very hard.