It focuses on the same linguistic discrimination and prejudice of African American English and its speakers by talking about “marginalized dialects (like African American English) [which] do not have anything inherently ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’ about them, standardized dialects don’t have anything inherently ‘good’ or ‘right’ about them.” Shousterman’s beliefs align closely to those of Jamila Lyiscott by supporting the belief that the way someone speaks English does not make them uneducated or ignorant. Lyiscott is not the only one “simply fed up with the Eurocentric ideals of this
It focuses on the same linguistic discrimination and prejudice of African American English and its speakers by talking about “marginalized dialects (like African American English) [which] do not have anything inherently ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’ about them, standardized dialects don’t have anything inherently ‘good’ or ‘right’ about them.” Shousterman’s beliefs align closely to those of Jamila Lyiscott by supporting the belief that the way someone speaks English does not make them uneducated or ignorant. Lyiscott is not the only one “simply fed up with the Eurocentric ideals of this