I just don't understand this Ebonics bullshit. Slang is now a language? What the hell is this country coming too? I feel that if you can't speak English get the hell out of the country. If I go over to China (for example) I am going to be expected to speak the language. Their government is not going to make arrangements for my comfort. They are going to just kick my ass out unless I can find an interpreter. But not here. Anyone can come over and WE will make the changes to OUR system to accommodate them. I am sick of being told that I NEED to be fluent in another language to get a job.

    I have been seeing more and more things in local legislators that are pushing for Spanish and Ebonics (of all things) to be made official languages in the US (if they become "Official" that means a majority of the US population speaks them). If those bills pass Spanish and Ebonics will become required to be taught in school (and some are saying that Spanish and Ebonics will become the dominate language in the US in the near future). I will NOT allow my son to be taught Spanish or Ebonics. He will be taught English and thats it.

    Do you know the origin of Ebonics? Okay, the youths in the inner cities were not learning despit the best efforts of the schools. They found that the reason for the low scores was that the students could not understand what they were being taught. Okay not understanding is normal for a student (you are at school to learn things you don't know that's the point) but what knocks me over is WHY they could not understand. The teachers were teaching in an average manner and speaking in normal English, the kids had been so warped by the slang of the street and lack of real education that they literally didn't know enough of the words the teachers were using. They had grown up around so much slang and gang talk that that was all they knew. We know that "language" as Ebonics. Now this shit is threatening to become "official". I won't just sit back and allow the English language to be raped by the threat of Ebonics. I ask that all of you fight Ebonics as far as it goes. I am NOT a racist and I know this rant might make it sound like I am but I just won't let this shit happen. Ebonics is not necessarily a "black" thing either. It is literally using slang or street talk as a dominate way to express yourselves. White people use it, black people use it, asians use it etc....