He wrote an essay in the 1990’s explaining why black students needed to learn “standard written English” (aka standard white English) and leave Ebonics at home to succeed in the world. Had he not hung himself in 2008 it would have been used to cancel and burn him at the stake in 2018. He was probably smart to off himself when he did.
Here’s a depressing fact. I decided to look up the essay to link it, but now colleges teach
EXCERPTS from fucking essays. But here is the
entire essay for the two ppl who might be curious, it’s 1000% worth reading. Search result for this essay tell me that even though he was dead there were still little academic campaigns to cancel him anyway for being white male that was possibly problematic, this essay being used as example 1.
This essay details how language usage is an important weapon in politics and power. It’s really a fantastic essay