Rhetorical Analysis on “Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and The Future Life of Willie Jordan” by June Jordan

This essay was written by June Jordan who was a college professor and taught a class on Black English, later on in the semester one of her students’ brothers had gotten murdered and she helped bring him justice. I feel like this essay was written with 2 audiences in mind, people of color (mostly black people), and to educate white people on the fact that black English is real and it isn’t made up. I think this essay is important to mostly people of color and Black Americans because their way of speaking sometimes or simply just AAVE is deemed as unprofessional or not correct English. This essay shows that the way black people or people of color speak is correct and historically correct. In one part of the essay, she shows the class the book The Color Purple, and the people in the book are talking in Black English, and the book is placed in the 1900’s, so that proves that historically Black English has always been around. Another part of the essay is that she made the class write in Black English for a writing piece and it shows that her point is proven that Black English is easy to learn and it’s easy to comprehend and it proves people wrong when they think that Black English is hard to understand or learn.