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Re:A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still get... by javanscala on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @04:57PM (#5482032)
Wow, I believe that was an overtly bigoted comment. So there is no legal commerce conducted in 'ebonics'? I had no idea when I was a kid that all those people making grocery purchases at the corner store were engaging in illegal activities.
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Re:A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still get... by smallegan on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @10:00PM (#5483707)
It was an observation and clearly not a rule, same could be said for other dialects like Cockney in England.
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Re:A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still get... by derleth on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @11:30PM (#5484061)
A correct observation, one supported by evidence, is that using the dialect correlates with being poor. Making the jump from that to "illegal commerce" was all you, and that was bigoted, especially since AAVE is strongly associated with African-Americans.
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Re:A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still get... by smallegan on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @11:50PM (#5484111)
Other than the DEA or someone studying the dialect who hires based on your ability to speak AAVE?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/24/dea.ebonics/index.html

So I disagree it wasn't "all me" and it wasn't bigoted.

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