African American English

AAE interpretation
Duh oder daey, ah wuz walkin’ down duh stree(uh) an tinking about mah owd fwiend Jackson. We used to be such good fwiends, and den one day, outta nowhere, he said he didn’t wanna be mah friend anymore. I(h) was sad. Ah felt really bad about it for a long tahme. Den, as Ah turned duh corner, Ah saw him. He asked me, “How are you doin’?” Ah said, “Ah’m okay. How are you doin’?” He said, “Oakay.” Ah told ‘im dat Ah am duh new manager of mah store. He said, “congratulations.” ‘e said ‘e had been workin’ real hard at ‘is job an ‘e was sorry dat ‘e hadn’t talked ta me in a whaile. ‘E said ah looked good, and ‘oped dat we could get tagether sooner rader den lader. We shook ‘ands an said goodbye.

The history of people coming to America and Africans learning English in a different way than most of the other people, I think has an effect on the way that African Americans are viewed just because a lot of people view them as uneducated because of their use of slang. It is a little bit different than the average English that a white person speaks. It’s not really their fault; it’s just the way they were brought up.
In schools African American children should be treated the same as whites, although, if they need a little more attention to help them get their grammar and vocabulary correct, they should receive as much as they need, just like every one else.