Bad Jokes & Ebonics

[Kyburz at asu.edu]

Is there any need to spread this crap any further.  Doesn't anyone 
understand that ebonices "jokes" are hate speech?  I mean, yeah, if you 
feel a great unbridled net-mediated freedom to be a public racist, then 
that's one thing.  But I think that some folks just don't know that this 
kind of stuff offends--really.



On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Gary Elshaw wrote:

> The recent discussion of Ebonics delivered this to my in-box today
> 
> 
>  EBONICS                                 ENGLISH
> 
>  Big Daddy's Rap                         The Lord's Prayer
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  Yo, Bid Daddy upstairs,                 Our Father, who art in  Heaven
> 
>  You be chillin'                         Hallowed be thy name
> 
>  So be yo hood                           Thy Kingdom come
> 
>  You be sayin' it, I be doin' it         Thy will be done
> 
>  In this here hood and yo's              On earth as it is in heaven
> 
>  Gimme some eats                         Give us this day our daily bread
> 
> 
>  And cut me some slack, Blood            And forgive us our trespasses
> 
>  Sos I be doin' it to dem dat diss me    As we forgive those who trespass
>                                              against us
> 
> 
> 
>  Don't be pushing me into no jive        And lead us not into temptation
> 
>  And keep dem Crips away                 But deliver us from evil
> 
>  'Cause you always be da Man             For thine is the Kingdom, the
>  				power and the glory, forever.
> 
>  Aaa-men                                 Amen
> 
> 
> Take care,
> Gary
> 
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