This is not just as simple as having politicians learn to reach the African American communities, as Dennis Baron stated “For one thing, not all African Americans speak Ebonics, and not all Ebonics speakers are African American. A significant number of whites, Hispanics, and Asian Americans who live and work closely together speak dialects that can be characterized as black English.”(Baron, 1997, 19) What politicians need to realize is that there is not just one path to reaching your constituents. If a politician is speaking to a group of urban whites, they may have to use the African American English slightly modified depending on the crowd, but, they must be prepared to understand and embrace all of the people whom they represent, no matter how different they
This is not just as simple as having politicians learn to reach the African American communities, as Dennis Baron stated “For one thing, not all African Americans speak Ebonics, and not all Ebonics speakers are African American. A significant number of whites, Hispanics, and Asian Americans who live and work closely together speak dialects that can be characterized as black English.”(Baron, 1997, 19) What politicians need to realize is that there is not just one path to reaching your constituents. If a politician is speaking to a group of urban whites, they may have to use the African American English slightly modified depending on the crowd, but, they must be prepared to understand and embrace all of the people whom they represent, no matter how different they