Analyizing Gee's article a second time opens up my eyes a little bit more to the struggles of writing. Gee comments on Primary and Secondary discourses, Pimary taking place at home, and secondary with your social life. Delpit explains how these discourses can create a "literacy gap" between races, cultures, and genders. So we must adhere to this and create a way so these people do not have to overcome obsticles to the aquisition of higher-level writing.
I understand the frustration behind african americans. I understand that hundereds of years of enslavement and lack of education help mold the "black english". And after all that time with developing their own slang and form of english, society will not accept this academically. Which I do agree with in a way. Because we are able to say as a majority that this is not acceptable, doesn't make it right. Approaching from a different angle perhaps in order to ensue that all students are able to build off of their own induvidual abilities, and progress be graded. Not a grade based on a standardized understanding.
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