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Perhaps no issue better illustrates the poverty of our political and intellectual culture than the so-called debate over Black English, or as it has now been christened, Ebonics.
Someone posted an e-mail response to your morning essay asking whether it's true that ebonics speakers can't do math because their language isn't capable of rendering the subtleties of math.
First, the word "ebonics," which dates back to the early 1970s and has been used even in some public-school settings without controversy for years, may seem to be putting on airs, but what many linguists prefer to call "Black English Vernacular" or "African-American Vernacular English" is a major linguistic stream that has been flowing within recognizable channels for centuries.
It is a distinct language--not a dialect, not nonstandard speech--called "ebonics" (a combination of "ebony," meaning "black," and "phonics").
The Oakland School Board proclaimed that Ebonics was a language, and that teaching English to speakers of Ebonics was an exercise in bilingualism, comparable, in principle, to teaching English to speakers of Spanish or Vietnamese.