To Protect and Serve:African American Female Literacies

 In Elaine Richardson's To Protect and Serve:African American Female Literacies, she speaks on how African American children are brought up and raised to speak with a "mother tongue". This language is important to African Americans, especially women because it helps to mold and shape us. Consequently, it can be a setback because society stereotypes us through this language, and some women become intimidated and hurt by this instead of going against it and speaking out. We have to speak out and help people to understand that this is an important part of who we are.
 This language is also important because it is a true representation of how we are raised and taught. African American women in Literacy have and advantage because they have an understanding of how we view the world as well as the rest of society's views, so they are able to effectively depict and portray both viewpoints in their writings.

The "mother tongue" should not be ruled out as irrelevant and incorrect  according to the rest of the world because it is very important to the African American society and ruling it out rules out an important portion or piece of the black community. If the rest of society can learn to accept and understand our "other language", they will have a better understanding of who we are.