ATTENTION!!! TYPING PHONETIC EBONICS IS NOT COOL

Oh my goodness. I am so tired of telling the people that I love so much to dust all of this ignorance off of their shoulders. ITS NOT CUTE! Basically, I am saying, it feels good to not have to say it for once. Nice job.

Yes, it's quite ridiculous, even though you mispelled it at the end of your 6th paragraph, however, slang and Ebonics have become just as common as the English language amongst ourselves and households as much as American-English (mostly slang words themselves) are a variation deriving from the original English language itself. Of course, slang or Ebonics will never make it to the corporate level, but it's as American as racism... I mean Apple Pie.

Ebonics isn't necessarily "ignorant" because Oprah herself has thrown a couple of sistah's and ya' nah'd I'm sayin's out there. Spike Lee has dished a few out there, as well as Tom Joyner, and they're all highly influential to society as well as white a.k.a. mainstream America. And they are HBCU grads as well- (like how I used the HBCU thing on an HBCU site, huh).

Ebonics is just that way our people can say we have something of our own (even though white folks want a piece of that too- remember the debate over Ebonics in the classroom? White folks wanted it). We can sit back and go with the flow, letting our mouths run as the mind freestyles, lettin' go of whateva' comes to mind.

And Ebonics over the internet is more expressive. People use it amongst peers just as it is used in the streets or in the home. And of course, no one in the right mind would use Ebonics in front of their bosses. No one wants their boss to think of them as a boob... HOWEVER most bosses aren't anyone's friends anyway, so they don't don't hold much conversation with anyone anyway. LOL.

I'm not totally disagreeing with u Chad, because it's just dead wrong and embarrassing whenever we hear someone (black) cursing their kid out in public and beating him or her with a shoe saying, "Na', I don' tol' yo' muth***kin' ass to ta' sit yo' ass down an' not as' me fa' s**t!" or a group of little nappy-head ragga-muffins running around talking about, "Guuuhl" and "Shoal' Is". As long as there's ignorance the black community will play poster child and lead the way in such exploit. Not all of us. Only select individuals, who have brought it on themselves. But that's how society percieves us. And it's all on us as BROTHAS and SISTAS to join hands and leave smaller issues such as who speaks what way and what he or she says in his or her rap music alone and address the ignorance in these classrooms, these violence in these streets, and this racism in this FREE country, brotha.

AMEN!!!! I hate when people type like that. I thought it was just me.