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Whether the offended members of Kuumba themselves have this misconception about Ebonics??and that is why they were upset by Vaux’s segue—I do not know. What I do know is that this whole unfortunate and unnecessary incident is ignominious to the complainers and their organization, and not to Bert Vaux...

Author: By Zachary S. Podolsky, | Title: Quit the Race-Baiting, Kuumba | 1/6/2003 | See Source »

Though “Ebonics?? has had a contentious history in the popular media from the mid 1990’s onward, concepts like Black English Vernacular and African-American Vernacular English have been studied systematically by sociolinguists since the early 1970’s. Though connotations of Ebonics in popular culture are negative, in linguistics, those connotations are emphatically positive, citing these speech varieties’ internal logic and rich history...

Author: By Scott A. Golder, | Title: Ebonics Remark by Vaux No Cause for Offense | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

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