[Joe30610]

Okay let me address your ebonics question. White people invented Ebonics! Sounds silly I know, but let me explain. Slaves were thought to be less intelligent than white slave owners. Also, we were slaves and we needed to be controlled. What is the best way to control a person, an animal, anything. You take it/them away from familiar surroundings and make it/them dependent on you (the owner) for everything. As a result, it was imperative that we (1) did not learn English (2) did not become education (3) remain submissive (4) remain stifled. Slave owners spoke to blacks in broken english for two main reasons (1) they believed blacks to not intelligent enough to learn english and (2) learning English was one step closer to attaining the knowledge that was denied to 'keep them in their place'. Therefore, the first English blacks learned was the broken English spoken by the slave masters. It evolved into a language that the slave masters could not understand. That is a brief history. It has nothing to do with Africa!

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