Valuetainment - July 13, 2026


“You Want This Taught？”- California Activists Demand Black English in Schools


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12 minutes

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2,310

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129

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20

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Activists in California want to push Black English as a fifth language in preschools. Is this a good idea or a bad one? And why is this a bad idea? What is Black English and why should it be pushed in schools?

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00:00:00.000 Tell me how dumb of an idea this is, or maybe you may say this is a great idea. 0.99
00:00:05.360 So in California, activists are proposing for California to have a class. 0.97
00:00:13.820 Which page is that on, by the way?
00:00:15.140 The activist story in California?
00:00:17.740 Is it addendum?
00:00:18.820 This is going to be one of the weirdest stories you're going to hear.
00:00:21.300 Addendum 15, I think?
00:00:22.200 Where you're going to say there's no way this is true.
00:00:23.920 But it is true.
00:00:24.740 Let me read it to you. 0.94
00:00:25.400 activists demand black english be pushed on kids in california preschools preschools what learning
00:00:32.260 to talk what is black english what is black english to be pushed by the way how racist is
00:00:39.260 this it's kind of i mean i'm really trying to see like what what angle do you want to take with this
00:00:44.020 let me read it to you activists are pushing black english to be legitimized in preschools as a way
00:00:48.860 to build children's literacy skills in california black californians united for early care and
00:00:54.340 education is part of a movement challenging harmful language hierarchies and affirm black
00:01:00.160 language as a legitimate rule governed language rooted in black history culture and community
00:01:04.440 movement also seeks to address how language bias shows up in early learning spaces and how it can
00:01:09.680 be dismantled i don't want my son to walk around in any room and feel like his voice is not valued
00:01:14.480 or his perspective cannot be heard because he is not saying it one way or the other
00:01:19.120 Black East co-founder Ashley Williams told PBS,
00:01:22.820 she also remembered how speaking black English is full of slangs
00:01:25.760 and grammatical errors, so it came with a lot of embarrassment.
00:01:31.500 So learn to speak like I used to speak English.
00:01:34.960 I'm still learning English until today.
00:01:37.080 English is my fifth language.
00:01:38.860 But can you imagine it's like, no, it's your fault, listeners,
00:01:41.860 for my bad English.
00:01:43.480 It's not my fault.
00:01:45.240 Allow me to speak Assyrian, Armenian, Farsi, German, English as a fifth language.
00:01:50.520 You know, wait, you need to adjust to me, not me adjust to you.
00:01:53.320 It's a little weird. 0.94
00:01:54.100 Tom, how ridiculous of a story is this? 0.98
00:01:57.860 Well, I think this is beyond ridiculous. 0.98
00:02:01.160 This is setting kids back. 0.97
00:02:02.840 And we can make all the jokes about it, about, you know, okay, now I understand why preschoolers in California walk up to me and say honky cracker, redneck.
00:02:10.960 But that's, people make the jokes about it.
00:02:13.500 But this is setting kids back. You're setting kids back who are just learning regular English.
00:02:19.760 Every kid that comes to America. And by the way, we can talk about this for a while. 1.00
00:02:26.080 Have you met kids from India that went to IIT and then they come over here?
00:02:32.080 Some of them speak English with a British accent and speak better English than we do.
00:02:38.380 More enunciated, appropriate with a wider vocabulary.
00:02:42.260 and now you're telling me you want to take a preschooler and basically allow them to speak
00:02:46.940 in slangs and colloquials and then run them through the system and now they're going to say
00:02:52.600 wow you know going to get a job and it's at age 16 you know and you need to communicate with
00:02:59.080 everybody that comes through there including you know the people from mexico and california that
00:03:04.780 are trying to learn english so that they can go do things you know it just it's just it's just
00:03:10.760 really frustrates me pat it's like these are activists looking for something to do what is
00:03:16.120 black english though tom what is black english like okay so i just asked can you ask chad gbt
00:03:21.220 what is black english and what the activists are also called ebonics here's what it says black
00:03:25.780 english is a variety of english that developed with african-american communities over hundreds
00:03:29.220 of years linguists generally describe it as rule govern dialect with its own grammatical
00:03:34.520 vocabulary pronunciation patterns and history so for example examples of features often
00:03:40.360 associated with a a e you know what a a e is a a is african-american vernacular english okay
00:03:46.720 here we go he be working now that's what it says this is chad gbt saying it don't get upset on me
00:03:54.200 double negative an a e b can indicate a repeated or habitual action like he regularly works number
00:04:00.360 two she been finished i love finna that's what chad gbt is telling me she been finished
00:04:06.960 can mean she finished something a long time ago
00:04:10.640 and results still matters.
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00:04:45.880 They my friends.
00:04:47.200 So save time by eliminating prepositions. 0.73
00:04:49.040 This JGBT is very racist today. 1.00
00:04:51.180 Or it's like they my friends. 1.00
00:04:52.560 AAE may omit the verb are in some context.
00:04:56.240 Standard English is they are my friends.
00:04:58.100 But they my friends.
00:04:59.900 She been finished.
00:05:01.080 He be working.
00:05:02.580 Vocabulary and expressions are entered mainstream culture like lit.
00:05:06.040 woke finna finna spent f-i-n-n-a i'm finna bounce yeah bae i don't even know what bae is hey bae
00:05:13.360 i'll tell you bae that's like your lady okay my bae shade shade okay if you want me if the audience
00:05:20.540 wants to keep learning i can keep teaching because i got a lot of stuff here that i can go through
00:05:23.760 but i pause because at one point this could be an online course that that somebody can put up
00:05:29.240 and grief who knows maybe the right audience uh you know he'd be working you know somebody
00:05:34.520 You better work, Pat.
00:05:36.720 This is serious stuff.
00:05:37.740 Is this a joke or is this real?
00:05:39.840 I remember when I first came to the States, I had a hard time saying government. 1.00
00:05:44.760 They put a freaking N in there. 1.00
00:05:46.400 For no reason. 0.98
00:05:47.200 I had a hard time saying Gilligan's Island.
00:05:49.440 Because that's the show we would watch.
00:05:51.040 Gilligan's Island.
00:05:51.760 It was Zagnon.
00:05:52.780 You know?
00:05:53.200 And then what was it?
00:05:54.360 Wednesday.
00:05:54.940 It was Wednesday.
00:05:56.000 Wednesday. 1.00
00:05:56.920 Take the freaking N out. 1.00
00:05:58.560 Yeah, for no reason. 1.00
00:05:59.880 You used to watch Gilligan's Island?
00:06:01.760 Yeah, Gilligan's Island.
00:06:02.840 Did you ever have a little buddy?
00:06:04.520 What do you mean?
00:06:05.060 The skipper?
00:06:05.880 He always called Gilligan the little buddy?
00:06:07.780 30 years ago.
00:06:08.460 So, I don't know.
00:06:10.060 Do you take the story seriously, or is this just like a,
00:06:12.560 this is a real story, New York Poets, apparently.
00:06:14.240 Can I be real, P.B. Dizzle?
00:06:15.980 I hope not, Pat.
00:06:16.900 I ain't tripping about this story, fam.
00:06:19.540 Everybody want to be arguing. 1.00
00:06:21.580 California got 99 problems, and black English ain't one. 1.00
00:06:25.160 It's a homeless regime. 1.00
00:06:25.620 We can joke about it, but I don't think it's a joke.
00:06:27.840 Tom, hold on.
00:06:28.640 We're talking about preschoolers.
00:06:30.180 We're talking about preschoolers. 0.82
00:06:31.580 A preschooler let him be like, hey, I'm going to take a nap, biatchi. 0.98
00:06:34.520 you don't want a preschool kid talking like that and like like here's the thing it's a little 0.88
00:06:38.800 offensive what you're saying right now well it's guess what then stop trying to change the english
00:06:42.840 like then here's my thing are you going to test them on the black english part and then other 1.00
00:06:46.780 kids going to get in trouble because they don't understand what they're saying what it's so stupid 0.97
00:06:49.860 for california but this is california i'm not surprised pat i'm not surprised that this can i 0.98
00:06:54.360 tell you something i'm about to light up i i bet you 80 90 percent of african americans are offended
00:07:00.880 by the story i know what do you mean no i i can tell you 80 plus percent are offended by this
00:07:07.440 story adam you don't mean like offended that they're going to be teaching black english in
00:07:11.100 school yeah like what are you talking about insulting me like this is you know what they're 0.99
00:07:16.940 talking about adam any thoughts on this i mean this is just double am double dumb dumb i mean 0.97
00:07:22.120 anyone who if you're raising a child you want your child to speak english in america and be 0.94
00:07:28.000 accomplished and actually be taken seriously no wonder so many parents are putting their kids in
00:07:34.240 private school or homeschooling because if this is the story coming out of preschools public
00:07:39.620 preschools lord have mercy so i don't think it should be a uh an issue to say english is the law
00:07:47.040 of the land not black english not ebonics not anything like that uh the national anthem is the
00:07:52.640 anthem of the land not the black national anthem the constitution is the law of the land not sharia
00:07:57.220 the law sorry ma'am donnie you know respect the flag salute the flag don't disrespect the flag
00:08:02.420 these are basic things guys let's get it together all right let me tell you this story it's one of
00:08:07.400 the best stories parents this is very important for you and i to think about there's a reason why
00:08:12.380 i keep talking about the future looks bright in 2013 they did a study at emory university guy
00:08:17.780 named brian diaz and kerry wrestler did a study identifying to see if we pass our fears down to
00:08:25.100 our kids without us even knowing about it so they took a group of male mice and they gave it
00:08:31.500 acetophenone and every time this is cherry blossom you know smell every time they released this smell
00:08:38.320 they would zap them with this pain like whoa what was that five minutes later they released that
00:08:45.040 smell again zap them again the pain whoa five minutes and they kept doing this with only male
00:08:51.140 mice they were experimenting on eventually they did this for a few days maybe a week week and a
00:08:57.060 half then they took those same mice that now have tied fear to acetophenol and then the smell cherry
00:09:04.760 blossom then they put it in a room for them to mate with female mice okay so then they mate okay
00:09:11.940 so these guys now have kids then they take the mice the male mice the father away from the baby
00:09:17.900 Okay.
00:09:18.460 Then they take the babies, and they put other female mice, and they mate. 0.97
00:09:22.560 Okay.
00:09:22.920 Then they put the grandkids in a complete different thing.
00:09:25.780 So you're with me so far.
00:09:26.460 I got you.
00:09:26.880 The grandfather fears the smell of acetophenone.
00:09:30.200 And he got zapped.
00:09:31.580 He got zapped every time.
00:09:33.620 Then his kids, and then his grandkids.
00:09:36.260 The grandkids have never met grandfather before.
00:09:38.580 They put him in a place, and all of a sudden, they sprayed the cherry blossom.
00:09:44.400 These grandkids were frightened, frightened,
00:09:49.200 because that fear from the grandfather had passed down to the grandkids.
00:09:52.740 Who genetically adults.
00:09:53.780 And they've never been zapped.
00:09:54.860 And they've never been zapped.
00:09:56.500 Holy cow.
00:09:57.060 So what does this mean?
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00:10:12.740 She's happy playing in the sand.
00:10:14.700 She's happy running around.
00:10:16.000 Daddy, take me, take me, take me in the water.
00:10:17.600 It's cold.
00:10:17.980 No, no, don't put me in the water.
00:10:19.020 Daddy, daddy, take me, take me.
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