Analysis Of James Baldwin's Essay 'If Black English...

In James Baldwin essay “If Black English Isn’t a Language, then Tell Me, What is” he explains that language is not only used for communication. I believe that language is political and reveals power and identity. When speaking you can expose so many things for example at a job just by listening you can hear who the boss is. Mothers usually have a tone and a way of saying things with authority. Being a certain race, you can tell where there from just by their accent. Basically language can reveal who you are, and where you are from. Should it be this way? Furthermore a person with authority usually takes advantage of their position and talks down on people. Four years ago I quit my job because I did not like how my boss would talk to everybody. Everyone that would go in that pharmacy knew who the boss was just by the way she talked to her employees. She would demand everyone in such a way that when I quit I told her she should change her ways because she is not going to have any employees. No one should talk down to anyone. …show more content…
With my son since he was a little boy all I ever had to do was call him by his name in a certain kind of tone and just look at him and he knew he had to stop whatever he was doing. Just the other day I was at the park with my son playing basketball, I took a break while I was drinking water I saw my son push another child so I ran over there and ask him what was going on. After all that a man came over and ask me are you his mom and I said yes I am he said you look like his sister but the way you reprimanded him I knew you had to be his mother. This is one way language reveals power and

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Analysis Of James Baldwin's Essay 'If Black English Isn' T A Language