Hon, all I can say to that is that you haven't lived long enough for your mama to teach you good manners. Call me names. Deny my experience. I feel sorry for you and your inability to acknowledge that other people know more and have fought harder.

So, you don't like what I said about black culture and how it inhibits children's speech? So, don't like it! The truth doesn't care what you think of it, and, frankly, neither do I. Did you bother to check out any of my references, include Dr. Ron Ferguson, M.I.T. grad, Harvard professor, and groundbreaker in family/children's development? I doubt it, 'cause if you did, you would definitely show some more respect--not for old people, but for knowledge, good and pure. Get your language developmenet bona fides, then get back to me. Now, bless you, and you get along with yo' bad self. Shalom and Salaam.

P.S. Thanks for the laugh. My tea almost came out over the keyboard, and I promise you it wasn't indigation. You are a hoot.