“It Doesn’t Matter if You are Black or White”

“Black on White”(The Story of English).

Okay, let’s see. So far we have seen how Britain and Scotland influenced American language. As we continue watching The Story of English we can see that even African Americans who didn’t even have rights until very recently greatly affected English language. “White American language and culture owed much to the blacks”(The Story of English).

African Americans did not only express themselves by talking. They also communicated themselves through the art, they sang, played music, and danced. In the Great Rivers of Africa they used their instruments, they used sound to communicate.

Blacks had their own “grammar, syntax and pronunciation”(The Story of English). Whites didn’t think of it as proper so they didn’t adopt it, until it was recently studied that it was only a “separate variety of English”(The Story of English). Today, still in some places you can continue to hear the roots of Black English.

You would never think that Slave trade would be connected to the spread of the English language. It has everything to do with it. 300 years ago, one of the most horrible events of history, the worst trafficking of human lives “brought English to human tribes of West Africa”(The Story of English).

For Black English it’s like the evolution of Darwin really, but very different from that, so no. It was the Europeans that came to Africa and spoke with African middlemen, then to human cargos, who then transformed that English into “Pidgin”(The Story of English). Which was a more simpler English to communicate easier, a word which came from China.

Art influenced greatly the language. It helped for the development and growth of the English language. Music that we listen to today has been influenced from Black English and African American musicians,  “normally people in the north show great influence of Irish Jewish people in their talk, the other great influence would be of successful southern musicians”(The Story of English).