It Bees Dat Way Some Times

IAR for : "It Bees That Way Sometimes"

A Whole New Outlook

The text was very insightful. It taught me a lot about Black Language and broke the preconceived notion I had about. What really stuck with me and resonated in my mind was the fact that Black English is not a random way to write or speak, like many people think. It has just as much structure and guidelines as White English. It is constantly evolving and changing with the mainstream twenty-first century. Having so many grammar rules, just like White English, I found it confusing to understand and learn all the Black English guidelines discussed in the text. The reading was pretty simple to understand, I think the only question I would have is how the Black English Grammar rules came about.

What is being invented in the text is the difference in the Black English grammar and White English grammar and how they are so similar all balled into one. The text shows how Black English is misunderstood, and how blacks have intense pressure to conform to White English. It shows that Black English usually is characterized as a pseudo language and has always had a bias. It then shows how Black English is an actual way to speak and has just as many rules and similar grammatical structure as White English. The author gives plenty of examples of Black English sentences and what it means in White English. Also how certain things are spoken in Black English and how a Black English Speaker would say them. A practice that could be done to compare and contrast and learn from Black English is to write a sentence in White English then translate it to Black English, or speak Black English. The arrangement in the text consists of dialects to grammar. It shows how in Black English, one speaks and how that would grammatically be written and the rules and regulations that must be followed. Basically, how something is spoken and how it is written in Black English. Also I believe biases in relation to the actual dialect. I believe that in certain cases people have a bias about personality or content of character by the way one speaks. In the text there is that underlying message that many feel Black English is not really a language , which is a bias, but on the contrary, it has just as many grammatical rules as White English. Thus, proving it is its own language, just different. The problem is that people have that preconceived notion about Black English. What the author does is set up a variety of different examples to prove the credibility of Black English. In doing so, a revision is made. The authors’ primary goal is to show that Black English is a grammatically correct way to speak and through various usages of different examples the author was very successful.

I admit that I had a preconceive notion about Black English, yet through my reading, found it is very credible and a grammatically correct way to speak, it depends on how you look at it. The author ends with a poem by Langston Hughes. What I took from the poem sums up the context of the entire text and my feelings about it as a whole. Grammar is not everything, if what your saying has meaning that’s all that matter, which is very, very true.

Cited Text: Smitherman: " It Bees That Way Sometimes"