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Originally posted by fintstone
The are just competing with the illegal Hispanics to determine who will be the "true" minority culture. The Illegals have their own language....so the blacks need one too. The question I have is how they can wear trousers that come to the lower part of the buttocks...and have them stay up. Sort of defies the laws of physics (in addition to the laws of fashion and good taste).
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Invention of language to solidify one's social standing? Well, possibly that could be the argument for ebonics. But so many intellectual blacks firmly entrenched in education, business and politics squelched that idea, that it never saw the light of day.
I can't see eubonics as a response to Spanish, which is the language spoken by the stereotype of what we believe illegals to be. Spanish stems from Latin, which is one of the oldest languages known to man. Ebonics has no credibility in a social situation to that of Spanish or Latin.
From my point of view, ebonics is a response to laziness and/or an inability to learn proper Americanized English.