Response to Delpit article

A few questions came up when I was reading Delpit’s article. One being, is the way that we speak varies from state to state, country to country, is this the correct way to speak, and who is to judge the way to speak? [a long sentence]. Is there really a right or wrong way to speak? Here in Washington it seems like we don’t have any accents. The way we speak sounds normal to us, but when we travel to different states they sound different to us. [Compound sentence + a fanboys] Delpit talks about how Oakland had an Ebonics debate about the African American language. Why is that race being targeted for the way they speak, because who is to say what the norm is for speaking? Another thing that Delpit brings up was when she was searching the Internet and read the comments about the African Americans during the Ebonics debate. The people that were making those comments, about how African Americans don’t know how to speak, are the people that are probably so ignorant to the fact that everyone in this country speaks differently than the next.  [A very long sentence] Reading this article will help me with my writing [a shorter sentence]. It really brings to life that you cannot judge a person for talking differently then you. To them, you also speak differently.