Bad Jokes & Ebonics

[Craig Clark]

Bonnie Kyburz asks:

> Doesn't anyone understand that ebonics "jokes" are hate speech? 

No, quite frankly I *don't* understand how Ebonics jokes constitute hate 
speech. Ebonics jokes merely indicate that those who have proposed 
that Ebonics be recognised as a language have made an unwise proposition.  
If Ebonics jokes are an example of hate speech, then to use non-Ebonic 
English in any context is also hate speech, because it is equally disrespectful 
towards those who recognise the validity of Ebonics.

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"