DW 2b.

Question: Now that you have selected at least one website, you'll want to compare the work that you did in DW 2a to at least one of the readings/websites we've read in class. Do they represent AAVE similarly or differently in these spaces? In what ways?
For this DW 2b assignment, I chose to compare the website (www.bet.com) with Adam J. Banks’s “Talking Black Technology Use Seriously”. In Adam Banks’s work, he says, “The implication of this point is that the wide body of research in composition that fails to take into account the power of these traditions and continues to view Black student writers as less prepared than others, merely “writing like they talk”, needs to be questioned and ultimately repudiated as antithetical to both the field’s stated goals of fostering inclusion in writing instruction and the actual practice of writers”. In those long sentences, Adam Banks is saying that people generalize Black students to write less professional than students in other color. On the website that I used for DW 2a, which was BET’s website, I found that many users on the websites write as they talk. By using AAVE structured sentences to provide their opinions about the issues or news about hip-hop/pop musicians, I could see that why Adam Banks is saying that people generalize Black students’ writing ability less professional than other students. When I was in the BET website to listen how users talk through how they typed their opinions, it wasn’t necessarily English language that I would hear from professors or announcers in the news on TV. Some of examples of that was this one user talks about how he thinks about Diddy. “LOL!! “Last train to Paris” Stop on Block Ent today and it was BIG!!! I told ya that He do it BIG!! LOL!! Thanks BET networks for the Show today!”. By reading this comment made by the username (“south28”) on the BET website. I thought that this person would always write as he talks. After reading Adam Banks’s work and this specific comment on the BET websites, I couldn’t say to myself enough that it represents a great example of how these represent AAVE similarly and how this comment supports Adam Banks’s statement very efficiently.
Also, Adam Banks is saying something about how on African American’s websites, people usually have the right to their own language. The specific quote about that is stated as, “Common to almost all of these sites is the African American oral tradition-… Because these spaces exist outside of the official gaze of schools, workplaces, and governments, those who became part of them truly do have the right to their own language.” In these sentences, Adam Banks is saying that people who become part of those websites, such as BET or others like being known as mostly used by African Americans, have right to their own language. By commenting one’s opinion with one’s own language seems to be acceptable on BET websites. No one clearly said anything to user “south28”, whom I talked about earlier on this assignment.
So, I guess that this also supports Adam Banks’s statement about people have right to their own language on those common sites. So, I think that the BET websites represent AAVE somewhat similarly compared to how Adam Banks represents AAVE being used in online spaces on his work.

DW 2a.

Question: Select one of your three websites to analyze carefully. Here, you will want to identify a major argument as to how AAVE seems to be discussed and/or appropriated, and then refer to specific examples, quotes, and passages on the web site to support your claim. We'll also talk at length as to how websites should be cited in MLA.
I selected to look up a website called, www.bet.com, to find out how AAVE seems to be discussed and/or appropriated in an article. The reason why I chose www.bet.com out of all the possible websites that I could use is 1) bet channel on the TV is generally known as being watched mainly by Young African Americans. So I felt that I could find many articles that is written as AAVE (African American Vernacular English). One article that grabbed my attention imediately as I went on to the bet website was called, "50 Cent Targets DJ Khaled's Mother In New Video". Not every letters obviously is written as African American Vernacular English on the article itself.
However, the author of the article discussed AAVE as "One of cool languages that person can use while talking to the others". There are specific examples or quotes that support what I said in the last sentence. “I know where your mama [sic] house at, now look you can see, but I just wanna tell you what a psychic told me.” In this sentence, 50 Cent is saying directly to DJ Khaled that he (50 Cent) knows where DJ Khaled's mother is living at. Words, such as "mama", and "sic", mainly used by African Americans. Also, "“I just wanna tell you what a psychic told me, I’m not the kinda n***a you should f*** with,” 50 says. “I’m special.”". These two sentences is being described as 50 Cent's usage of AAVE is being cool, popular, and even special. I think that the reason, why the author used these quotes in this article, is that a person, who speak AAVE is definitely a special and cool person. 50 Cent even says that "I'm special". Also, in the first sentence of this quote, "..., I'm not the kinda n***a you should f*** with,", made me feel that 50 Cent is a special person that one shouldn't possibly mess with. This sentence contains so strong meaning for me while I was reading this article. Also, the author appropriates AAVE as the language that makes person to feel as a special one, popular one, and etc.
Therefore, after I read this article, "50 Cent Targets DJ Khaled's Mother In New Video" by Anthony Springer Jr. , this article affected my opinion or knowledge about AAVE and people who use that language prior to read this article. My opinion, before reading this article, was 'The AAVE is mainly used by African Americans in music or rap usually. And it describes a person, who sing in AAVE language, to be a rebellious or cocky person.' However, now I am being somewhat affected by this article and how Anthony Springer Jr., the author of this article, that AAVE maybe a language that makes a person more special or popular around others. Overall, the topic and article itself was interesting for me, Asian student, to read. Even though, I couldn't really relate myself to how 50 Cent, one of people who use mainly AAVE, is being described in this article by Anthony Springer Jr.