Rodriguez essay

Baldwin bases his arguments on Black English on being valid and legitimate but not seen as a justifiable language because to political superiorities it its not correct. He argues of how language is political, because depending on what society speaks or who is in power, that is what the rest of the community will have to speak. It is basically which dominant group has the power of authority. He argues that language reveals the speaker, meaning that language makes you a part of who you are, your identity. As like Baldwin, Rodriguez has certain aspects of his essay that agree and compare with each other. Baldwin for the most part agrees and extends Rodriguez notion that their private language is something that separates them from other people and unifies them with their own kind. Their language gives them an identity, but an identity that is controlled by a hierarchy that puts them in a minority group and not in a dominant group, all because of a political power.
Baldwin says that lang...