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Today I was watching a Ted-talk by Jamila Lyiscott of how language (foreign language(s)) is used in our systems to uphold social injustices, erase our cultures and traditions while also oppressing us, incorporating racism and colonialism all at once.
I deduced a few points:%
I deduced a few points:%
"The way in which you use language everyday has the power to either uphold or disrupt social injustices"
-Jamila Lyiscott
-Jamila Lyiscott
Language is saturated with history, culture and memory, so we must understand that the way that the way language is policed in our classrooms and community, it is deeply connected to racism and colonialism!
This is also why we often subject ourselves to using language (foreign) as a scale to determine someone's "intellectual" capacity and people's "worth".
This is exactly what the colonial masters wanted all along and we are right at it
This is exactly what the colonial masters wanted all along and we are right at it
Whites author the "dominant narratives" and "dominant framings" in our societies (biased, of course).
So our engagements (as blacks) are often just perpetual invitations to engage in our cultural erasion
We have been limited or stripped off of our "Cultural Expression(s)"
So our engagements (as blacks) are often just perpetual invitations to engage in our cultural erasion
We have been limited or stripped off of our "Cultural Expression(s)"
"There was a time when the language of the language of the classroom and the language of the community were one but then came a colonial education.
Berlin of 1884 was effected through the sword and the bullet. But the night of the sword and the .bullet was followed by the....
Berlin of 1884 was effected through the sword and the bullet. But the night of the sword and the .bullet was followed by the....
....psychological violence of the' classroom. But where the former -was visibly brutal, the latter was visibly gentle"
-Ngúgí Wa Thiong'o
To say that the bullet was the means of "physical subjugation" and the language was the means of "spiritual subjugation".
-Ngúgí Wa Thiong'o
To say that the bullet was the means of "physical subjugation" and the language was the means of "spiritual subjugation".
It has been and always will be their (oppressors) aim to make sure that the language of the people being oppressed (class) is completely divorced from the language of the community.
Dear Blacks/Aboriginals:
Please be mindful of what and how you educate our dear black children
Dear Blacks/Aboriginals:
Please be mindful of what and how you educate our dear black children
