[I. Moses.]

If you study firsthand what experts on the subject are saying, you fill find that none are suggesting teaching Ebonics in ths schools. What they are saying is that there are features of Ebonics which must be taken into account when teaching standard Egnlish to Ebonics speakers or you WILL NOT be successful. Period. That aside, the vitriolic and condescending nature of the criticisms you and many whites level against Ebonics and its users is an almost perfect match to criticisms whites were registering over a half century ago against superior black athletes ( Jack Johnson, Jackie Robinson), black dance and black music (jungle bunnies, jungle music). The profound racism of such whites simply would not permit them to see or accept talent or creativity if it did not have a white face on it, and they would put a white face on anything they could, if it were irresistible enough. Their animus was directly proportionate to the talents of the blacks involved or the level of artistry, beauty or creativity in the black dance or black music under attack. What was also true then was those who criticized the most had the least talent in the ring or on the dance floor or before a microphone. Yet, their rabid, hate-filled behavior was pathologically persistent and would not subside until ‘great white hopes’ could be found who could either defeat blacks in the arena, put an acceptably white twist to black dance styles or simply appropriate black music as being of their own white creation. Such whites would then be lionized as ‘saviors of the white race’ and , in some instances, simply immortalized. ( For them Elvis just can’t be dead. Why would he up and do that?!) Could it be that today’s whites are no less envious of or feel no less threatened by black ability and creativity than their ancestors? After all Ebonics is rich, expressive ( five present tenses!!) and distinctly non-white, though whites are borrowing from it left and right. What meaneth this?

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Name : I. Moses., Gender : M, Race : Black/African American, City : Columbia, State : MD, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,