Summary of "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?"

   This article talk about Black English is a language or not. The present skirmish is rooted in American history. The writer wants to explain what the definition of language is. As the writer says “It goes without saying, that language is also a political instrument, means, and proof of power.”A language comes into existence by means of brutal necessity, and the rules of the language are dictated by what the language must convey. The brutal truth is that the bulk of white people in American never had any interest in educating black people.