"If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" Is a short essay by James Baldwin describing Black English and the importance of the language and the power of it and it shouldn't even be asked if it is a language. It is a language like any other that defines you and reveals you as a speaker.

    He goes on to describe other languages and that they dismiss each others as dialects instead of a powerful form of communication. From the French language Paris to Quebec would be unable to effectively communicate. It reveals them to each other and separates out of necessity. England dialects reveal who where and what you will become just by speaking. 

    Black English is no different and was made out of necessity for when the blacks came to the Americas They were form different tribes and thus needed a form of communication that the whites couldn't understand so that they could have a power behind them.

    If black English was not around James Baldwin insists that America would not be as it is. Jazz could not possibly exist, but from the whites interpretations they "purified" it and gave root to the Jazz age and then took other phrases and then termed them into "getting down" with or relating the black language. These purified phrases are the refusal to accept the dehumanization of the black people.

    It is from this that whites never taught blacks and that it is this that cause so many black children to be lost and not from the language in what they speak. It is the refusal of America to learn from its mistakes and instead celebrate "criminal mediocrities".