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I was with you until your second paragraph. This isn't bad because it's associated with black people. It's bad because it's incorrect grammar. If you travel anywhere in the world and meet someone who speaks English, it won't matter what the color of your skin is; you'll make a bad impression as an American speaking in a grammatically incorrect manner. I don't want to undo have to undo mistakes learned at school, especially those that shouldn't be taught in the first place. I will do it, of course, but it's not too much to ask someone with a college degree to speak grammatically correct English while teaching.[/quote]

But there isn't really such a thing as one single universal form of English that is grammatically correct. American English is different from UK English is different from Indian English is different from Nigerian English is different from Jamaican English is different from Singaporean English.

What's more, grammar changes over time. In Shakespeare's time, it was perfectly correct to say, "He is come to see you.", and it's in Jane Austen too. We wouldn't say that now. 100 years ago, it would have been incorrect to say, "I graduated from high school" (you were supposed to say, "I was graduated from high school").

So when you're asking someone with a college degree to speak grammatically-correct English while teaching, which grammar, and which English, do you mean? You mean modern Standard American English.[/quote]

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