Black English came from low income African Americans around 400 years ago. Known as "the slave language" Black English became a way for African Americans to speak without getting interference from the white culture they were subjected to. According to Gloria Tolver -Weddinton who wrote the article The Scope of Black English: "Black English or Black dialect is a relatively new phenomena, that was not identified until 1964" (Gloriaparg.1). The reason was because until the 60s African Americans were not recognized as people, so there way of talking was viewed as sloppy, corrupt, ungrammatical, and not a true language. However Black English became so integrated into the community that teachers started …show more content…
Hoover says "Though common, Black English as a whole is not a language due to the insignificant amount of sentence structure I cannot legitimize Black English as a true language"(Hoover parg.1). Though entitled to her opinion, Hoover fails to see the similarities Black English has to American English, and if she took the time to research Black English hoover would find that Black English in fact has the same grammar structure American English does, and should be recognized as a true language because of the similarities and because of the logistics that are in black