You got to be kidding, when a child grows up in a home they aren’t studying a foreign language it is the words they hear mom and dad speak then repeat them back. No studying to it, blacks have no EXCUSE, they have been two hundred years and still don’t know English, GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK. Blacks need to grownup, but people like SOME HERE are not their friends, because they make liberal minded excuses for stupidity thus holding them back. My mother would have beat me to death if I had spoke Ebonics. I’m not a smart person by any means and grew-up around ignorant talk like ebonics but my mother would NOT allow it in our HOME, God bless HER memory.

Wrong Ebonics would be “Why doze you did dat”, or Example, Standard English for “I made love to her all night”, Ebonics “I bee slapin widt my ho all las nite”.

They’re trying to make stupid people look less stupid by saying they are speaking a language. When I was a kid in KY ignorant people would say “how fer is it to the store?” My mother would say “if i ever hear you use “fer” I’ll wear you out, do you get that?” So what you have is stupid parents letting their children be just a stupid, NOW GO LOOK FOR A JOB WITH YOUR EBONICS. It’s not a language it’s stupidity on display with the approval of other blacks to make it seem less stupid.

In other words, such people advocate a double standard, which is just another way of saying that they advocate a form of racial discrimination. Ironically, when they insist on speaking “da’ way dey do in da’ hood” (as if the “th” sound is just too hard to make for black folks) and when they suffer the predictable consequences because speaking that way makes them sound stupid and uneducated to many potential employers, they then claim that they have suffered from racial discrimination, when the reality is that it is racially discriminatory to hold black folks to a different behavioral standard on account of their skin pigmentation. A similar phenomenon can be seen with regard to the constant use of certain types of profanity, such as the socially offensive word which refers to a person who commits maternal incest, and also to the “n word”, which one is apparently allowed to say if one is black, judging by the behavior of a lot of inner city black folks.

Thanks to the “one drop rule,” mixed race people such as Lena Horne and Halle Berry have often identified themselves as “black,” even though they sometimes have such light skin that they can easily pass as white. How are such people supposed to decide whether or not they’re allowed to use “ebonics”? What’s the rule of thumb? If you take an opinion poll and the majority says that one subjectively looks black or at least “black enough,” then ebonics is O.K. or even expected? Talk about arbitrary!

I grew up in the Ozarks. Some of the people there spoke in a grammatically proper manner (as did I, thanks in part to the good influence of my maternal grandmother, who was an English teacher). Others (some of whom might have been described as “hillbillies”) did not. But we didn’t call it “hillbonics” or anything of the sort. We called it improper grammar, because that’s what it was. It is a disservice to children to teach them that ebonics is acceptable, because whether one likes it or not, the decision makers in this country do judge by first impressions. Speaking ebonics suggests that a person never paid close attention in the classroom, if he or she even went to class at all.

I guarantee you that Barack Obama never would have been elected President if he’d spoken the way that a lot of the blacks in Chicago speak. Perhaps if he’d just wanted to be elected alderman in a predominantly black ward, folks there wouldn’t have cared (unless he’d been a Republican, in which case he could just about kiss his chances of election goodbye, since there’s only one Republican alderman in the entire city of Chicago, according to a recent article in the Reader). But why kill one’s chances of further political advancement in the larger world? How exactly is that a form of empowerment?