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I live in a southern state. We have a dialect. If our dialect was taught in schools as proper or valid, that would be retarded. And Mark Twain wrote stories using that dialect - in character speech, not the narrative. No one is teaching sentences like "y'all ain't gonna learn me how to talk proper" as proper grammar. Get that shit out of here.
Like I said, Ebonics should not be taught in schools, but that has nothing to do with validity. It, or a Southern dialect, or standard English, are no more or less 'valid' than the other ones.
You say that saying "y'all ain't" is absurd. Is it more absurd than saying "me am", which is what you're doing when you say "you are"?
The whole original point of calling it "ebonics" is that people started trying to teach it to school children in the 90s.
I think the advocates call it "African-American Vernacular English". Ebonics is the term used by opponents of teaching it.
Ebonics was the original term. It obviously took on a bad connotation, so a new term had to be invented. Acknowledge that AAVE exists is just as ok as acknowledging other regional English dialects. But there was a genuine attempt to "teach" it to elementary children. Which is just as dumb as teaching my regional dialect as "proper".
Here's a quick Google search result, but I restricted the search to 1995-1999, which is super fun to do for any topic from the birth of the www onward. https://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/AAVE/hooked/