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To: WKUHilltopper

Remember the 1990s when the Clinton Administration attempted to make “Ebonics” an officially recognized dialect?

That decision would have forever hamstrung a segment of the black populace and required employers to ignore grammar skills when interviewing candidates.


17 posted on 02/20/2017 11:56:38 AM PST by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: a fool in paradise

I remember way back before that, when I was a child, that they were trying to get “Ebonics” taught in public schools to legitimize this bastardization of the English language. That was back in the early-to-mid 1970’s, after the word “Ebonics” was created in 1973. Fortunately, that died a rapid death among sane people.


48 posted on 02/20/2017 12:49:50 PM PST by lbtbell
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