Posted by shon I just wanted to say good job with you explanation in response to the lady who had just finished read the book. I have to read this book and do a report in my literaure II class over the summer 05 and that is I am on this site here. Again good job and thank you for your so well put explanation. : )
on 7/6/2005, 5:52 pm, in reply to "race and plausiblility"
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Thank You, I think that you put this in a very matter of fact way. This is simply the facts and sad yet grim. I could not have meticulously put this any better than you have. This is what I was thinking when someone had asked and I thinking like you are. It is very hardening and sad when white people usually get very angry or upset because they can not understand this type of genre of speaking. Yet, this is what is going with the ACT/SAT and other standarized testing in America used to get higher education for individuals. I don't think that white/Anglo-americans understand that the test is much eaiser for them or racial bias for others, and it is in a lot of ways. I know because I have been fortunate to be apart of both worlds. The grim reality of how Hurston describe the Dirty South, Ghetto, or Lower genre individials. Also going to some of the best predominately white, yet multicultural rich school with great opportunities offer or the comes along with bigger shcool, higher paid thus more educated teachers, and more money into school thus being able to offer more overall learning opportunity that a student will need to start off in the real world and gurantee successful actions. I can defiantely see where white people who have never been around or more importantly been put directly and interactively in this environment how they would not know, recognize, nor understand the dialect or the actions behind the dialect. The very same reason they are so upset that they can not hardly understand Hurston and her writings are the same reason African American students are so overwhelmed by the so called Scholastic Achievement Testing used by all higher education institutions. When I as a Afro-American read Hurston, and it is even sometimes hard for me to understand her, but if I slow it down I usually can, I feel very empowered as if she is speaking to me. That is so important having these type of special connection with the author and it make me feel as if I want to keep reading. It is simply so good to feel a woman, than an African American woman, then a African American woman from the South. Being able to read, write and interpret her surrounding or fictionalize characters in such a manner that I can totally relate and feel. Astounding and Astonshing are the only things that comes to mind.
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