In the article, “Nobody Mean More to Me than You,” by June Jordan, is informative and detailed because the author gives examples of Standard English and Black English and some of the rules for Black English. Jordan was a playwright, professor of English, essayist, and poet at the University of California, Berkley. Standard English and Black English are different and people are either taught one or the other, not both. Some people are so set in their ways that they do not want to learn anything other than Standard English or to be corrected when they are wrong. Are we afraid of the way society has let English become? According to Jordan, “As we learn our way around this environment, either we hide our original word habits, or we completely