We must live the reality that white standards prevail in most of the world we live today. The standard English that is used is a characterization of the English that is upheld by the powerful white elite in commerce, government, and education. Where as, in order to succeed we must unfortunately assimilate into the dominance of these standards. This is a very hard message to accept. But to dismay, if you are to be taken seriously you are forced to be pulled away from the identity of your language, even if you are a native English speaker. Anne Harper Charity, author of African American English, explains that African American children, pay a “cultural price by speaking the standard dialect so that they will be in sense, protected from other’s
