June Jordan finds fault in the quote ,” One of the most unselfish missions ever undertaken by one nation in defense of another” because she describes it to be a monstrous lie. She believes white people in power is never direct within their faults and tend to down play situations. She says after his quote,” You let any black child lead you to the truth: let him tell you about the twelve days of Christmas” carpet bombing”, My lai, day by day incineration of human lives, the mining of rivers .” She is basically saying for each genocide it was played out as if it was something else. She also believes that white English is the language of the powerful and black English is the language of the powerless.
I think she means the main issue isn’t about black or white English but it has to do with which race has the most power in America. She continuously state that all of them white folks ruling the country all talk that standard white English. The ”standard” white English is considered normal where as black English is looked as broken down or not proper English. I am confused as to why there is a comparison between white vs. black English when white people wouldn’t be considered speaking proper English when talking to a British person. In America black people are looked as the less important when the white is the most important. I believe this all comes back to money talks. You only have a say if your pockets are wealthy.
Agreed with the part that you only have a say if you have money.