Those
who are racist will poke fun of the minority who does not speak “proper
English.” It gives them a feeling of
superiority over the minority. The
minority may be gifted genetically, the minority may be a hard worker, the
minority may be a gifted athlete, the minority may be a great scholar, the
minority may be great in cooking, the minority may have many great
talents. But the racist gives no
attention to any of these talents; the racist is primarily focused on
criticizing the minority’s expression of the English language.
Because
the racist has no other talents that outshine the minority, he needs to hold
onto something in order to give himself reason to feel superior. He knows that if he uses his skin color as
reason to feel superior, it will not be allowed by society, so he will latch
onto using the English language. Now he considers
himself superior over the minority because he speaks proper English and the
minority does not.
In
hardcore hip-hop music, there is a lot of profanity that is not allowed in the
society and is considered bad and improper.
The use of profanity and slang is a way of rebelling against the
racists. Minorities are indicating
through the use of profanity and slang that there is no such thing as improper
English, there is only communication, the racist is not better than anyone just
because he speaks more “properly” than the minority. The Americans are not better than the Chinese
because they speak English and the Chinese speak Cantonese. No one language is better than another; there
are only different ways of expressing the nature of reality.
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