With it being labeled, an “African-American” heart monitor, it only displays two people with different voices, which can lead an audience into seeing that there is a “comedic" side and “serious and slang” side when it comes to African Americans. It seemingly narrows it down to being only two types of African-Americans as it implies. A way to avoid being labeled as a stereotype, the heart monitor could be labeled as using the voices of the people described but this is what the default setting is. Because of the supposed Ebonics used in one of the settings, that projection will somehow (automatically) qualify an African-American as their total language use.
Here we will see the controversional use of Ebonics in the English language.
Dr. Robert Williams, an African-American social psychologist, states:
"We need to define what we speak. We need to give a clear definition to our language. We know that ebony means black and that phonics refers to speech sounds or the science of sounds. Thus, we are really talking about the science of black speech sounds or language."
When someone is targeted with speaking Ebonics , they are going to be presumed as an African American. The stereotypical projection of Ebonics is often referred as an ignorant language, thus can envelop African-Americans in an ignorant atmosphere. Speaking a language that is stereotypically supposed to deal with ignorance does not mean that a speaker is truly ignorant.
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