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http://ww n James Baldwin’s article, “If Black English isn’t a language, Then tell me, What is?”, he acknowledges the aspect of language and how people can relate to each other. He establishes this by informing the readers of language and his knowledge on the subject. His main purpose is to educate people about black english. His intended audience is white women and men.     James Baldwin felt that countries do not have near enough respect for cultural language than they should. I agree. Baldwin made examples about how England and Ireland have disputes over whose cultural language is the best even though both countries technically speak the same language. When reading this, I thought about how people react to Arabic languages at the airport. People automatically make a cultural connection with terrorists to the Arabic speaking people. This social issue brings great dispute among how society views cultural languages.     In Baldwin’s article he talks a...