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by javanscala 4828 days ago
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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smallegan 4828 days ago
It was an observation and clearly not a rule, same could be said for other dialects like Cockney in England.
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derleth 4828 days ago
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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smallegan 4828 days ago
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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