Growing up in a Carribbean household and black neighborhood i have heard people speak improper English and because i was raised around them i thought that the English that they were speaking was okay coming to realize that’s its not the standard american English. When i was younger my grandmother would have me answer her phone calls if she knew that the person was going to speak “proper English”because she knew that if she answered the phone the person wouldn’t understand her. However there was a time where i went out with my aunt and out of comfort i started speaking to her the way i speak with my friends and one thing i said was “Yo tell me why sis said she ain’t coming with us “ and my aunt looked at me and told me that the way i was speaking was ghetto and very unprofessional and if i go to an interview i wouldn’t get the job because of the way i spoke and people wouldn’t take me seriously either. And i remembered this when Amy Tan said “ I think my mother’s English almost had an effect on limiting my possibilities in life as well”. Because if i didn’t take what my aunt said to heart then i would’ve missed out on a lot of opportunities. But one thing that i realized is that the way that my family/friends and other people speak doesn’t stop them from being successful . And i also realized that the way that we speak is a part of who we are and if someone outside of the culture or race would speak that way it wouldn’t really sit right not that im saying this in a negative way. And One thing that i love is how we black people know how to speak in public and when we are in the midst of one another.