I believe that June Jordan finds fault to the quote “one of the most unselfish missions ever undertaken by one nation in defense of another.” because she considers it as a huge lie and an understatement. She thinks that white people will always have power and never take fault in the problems and consider problems to make them less then they seem. In the reading “White English/ Black English: The Politics of Translation” President Richard Nixon describes the Vietnam War in a white english way. The president uses words like “unselfish” and doesnt use a bigger meaning in his statements.
What June Jordan is trying to say when she said “The problem is that we are saying language, but really dealing with power” is that white people have more power because of the white english. White english is spoken better and more standard compared to black english which is kind of broken and different. People with White English is considered more powerful because of the way they are able to speak to others. Language is really important with societies and its the way people comunicate with others. There is a lot of languages that people speak but White people look up to more people that speak in their way so people with White English. White people would look down at someone who speaks in a broken and different type of english. These black people would be usually speaking Black english and the white people would look down at them. White English made white people more powerful since they felt like they were above everyone since other people in America like Black People didnt speak it and only spoke Black Engish. This made the white people feel right about their language compare to the black english that the other people spoke.