Drop The "G's", Be Labeled A Racist

[ABM]

Please.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline...iption-obama-cbc-speech-racist-173438340.html

By most accounts, President Obama gave a fiery speech at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual awards dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, telling blacks to "quit crying and complaining" and support him in the fight for jobs, according to the Associated Press. But was the AP transcription of Obama's remarks racist?

That's the subject currently being debated after the issue was raised on Chris Hayes' MSNBC show on Sunday.

On MSNBC, the African-American author Karen Hunter complained the news service transcribed Obama's speech without cleaning it up as other outlets did--specifically including the "dropped g's."

Via the AP version:

"Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do."

Hunter called the AP's version "inherently racist," sparring with New Republic contributing editor and noted linguistics expert John McWhorter, who argued the g-less version "is actually the correct one," noting that the president's victory in the 2008 election was due, in part, to how effortlessly "he can switch into that [black] dialect."

Whatever the reason, Hunter found it offensive. "I teach a journalism class, and I tell my students to fix people's grammar, because you don't want them to sound ignorant," she said. "For them to do that, it's code, and I don't like it."...........................

 

[barfo]

Please.

You've just got to be consistent. If you always quote people exactly the way they say things, that's fine. If you always clean up their grammar, that's fine. If you sometimes do it and sometimes not, then you are being something other than an honest journalist.

barfo

 

[jlprk]

Feminism ruined the black movement as it ruined America. Oreo cookies like Karen Hunter want black people to speak and behave exactly like white people, destroying the separate black subculture.

Go Sheed!

 

[STOMP]

Please.

imagine what the phonetical spellin of a W speech would have read like...

link one example of the AP doin that and you might have a point

STOMP

 

[ABM]

You've just got to be consistent. If you always quote people exactly the way they say things, that's fine. If you always clean up their grammar, that's fine. If you sometimes do it and sometimes not, then you are being something other than an honest journalist.

barfo

For them to do that, it's code, and I don't like it.

Code? Really?

 

[jlprk]

imagine what the phonetical spellin of a W speech would have read like...

link one example of the AP doin that and you might have a point

You're right. None were ever put into articles, but a literal quotation from Bush would have made me laugh. What an idiot.

 

[Natebishop3]

It might just be that particular writer... I don't know. I usually cleaned up quotes from the Blazers, but it was just something I did. I don't know if it's something expected or not... I wasn't a "trained" journalist or anything

 

[barfo]

I wasn't a "trained" journalist or anything

That explains the yellow puddles. I didn't know that was what 'yellow journalism' meant.

barfo

 

[jlprk]

Yellow? You talkin about Obama growin up in China, boy?

 

[Natebishop3]

That explains the yellow puddles. I didn't know that was what 'yellow journalism' meant.

barfo

Are you callin' me yella? *terrible cowboy accent*

 

[huevonkiller]

Who cares if they did it to Bush or not? They should have, and this is nothing.

 

[speeds]

Oprah is the queen of talking black with blacks and white with whites.

 

[BrianFromWA]

I kind of have a problem with a professor telling students to change quotes to make them sound a different way. If you think someone's sounding ignorant, paraphrase them. If there's a direct quote, cleanup for grammatical correctness means it isn't a quote.

You know what's racist? Pointing out Ms. Hunter as "the African-American author Karen Hunter." As if her skin color makes her more or less of an idiot.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I'd never clean up the grammer.

 

[PapaG]

Wanna see a whole lot of awkward?

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