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These people really need to be taken to task for linguistically appropriating my fucking language.
Ebonics is culturally enforced anti-intellectualism
Time to reap me some downvotes.
No, sorry, Ebonics is just a dialect of English, no more or less valid than any other dialect. It has rules, just like any other dialect. The problem is not that it's invalid, but that speaking it doesn't get you anywhere - there's no literature in Ebonics, nor can people understand you if you do speak it.
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"?