Response to Mellix article

I think that what Barbara Mellix is trying to aruge in her article about the assimilation process is that there are certain times and places where we need to be aware of how we use our language in certain situations in life. What she is basically trying to describe in her article is the times in her life where she had to use "standard English" instead of "black English". How we use our language in our personal homes is not going to be the same language we use when we are at our jobs or professional places. I know that this is her argument because she gives examples of when she is at home she used her "black English" but when she was at work she had to concentrate and remember to use "standard English" when writing back customers. I think that what Mellix is trying to get across is that mastering the "proper English" language occurs over a lifetime and not just in a few years. How we speak at different events or with differnt people is not going to be the same at all times but yet we progress with our language over a period of time.