>He argued helping children learn English sustains racial and class hierarchies This is what you call willful ignorance. Nothing helps a nigger more in life than good language skills. The same may also be said of whites. You can't handle subtle or complex concepts if you don't have the vocabulary and grammar to express them, and retain them in your memory. Poor language skills are a sign either of low intelligence or a very bad education -- often both. However, watch out for the nigger in a suit who appears to have good language skills, and who can talk a mile a minute with clear diction and correct grammar. As often as not, he has been programmed with sets of pre-memorized responses to various social and political issues. When one of these comes up in conversation, it's like pulling the string on a talking doll. The nigger will start babbling in his programmed way. This does not indicate high intelligence, because none of the concepts expressed by the nigger in a suit have been subjected by the nigger to rigorous scrutiny. The nigger probably cannot reason effectively, but gives the superficial illusion of intelligence.