Shatov slaps Stavrogin

McWhorter’s expertise as a linguist has fallen into a wrestling match with Kendi’s experiences as a human. The issue is over black English, or as Kendi calls it, Ebonics. McWhorter sees black English as legitimate, but as a subcategory of English as a greater whole, Kendi has construed this view to mean it is a “broken language.” There is an entire comp…