Yo, Consonants
June, 1990
Political satirist/comedian Aaron Freeman, a radio commentator and "MacNeill Lehrer NewsHour" essayist, addresses a pressing contemporary African-American problem.When I was growing up on the West Side of Chicago, fluency in the king's English and a decent vocabulary would get you praised in school and punched out on the streets. In school, I was "such a well-spoken young man." Back in the neighborhood, I was a "white-talking sucker."In theory, education and its acc...
