Is "Is ebonics English?" racist?

[omega minimo]

Is that redundant?

Is opening a huge thread to find out like "hugging the tar baby"?

Do we run after every single bone that Turdblossom drops in the punchbowl?

Is it Fascism yet?

:hi:

[Name removed]

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[MuseRider]

2. God Ben I hope

you are right about this.

[emulatorloo]

3. ME TOO! DU Noise Level this week has been fairly incredible

I have seen so many incendiary nonsense threads this week. I can find it rather easy to imagine that Rove's Rangers are here fueling the flames over NON-ISSUES and posting endless threads about 08.

[omega minimo]

8. ...and there are 17+ threads on TO/WP/JL/Rove because..........

:shrug:




FOLLOW THE SLIME

[benburch]

9. Would it be evil to follow that picture with this one?

http://www.bkmarcus.com.nyud.net:8090/blog/images/salt_shaker.jpg

[omega minimo]

12. Absolutely

:rofl: :evilgrin:

[emulatorloo]

17. Wouldn't that be a sight to see! LOL n/t

[omega minimo]

4. ...there's not a big enough punchbowl...............

[Redstone]

5. Oh, Christ, Ebonics. Hasn't that silliness gone away?

Redstone

[joemurphy]

6. Hell no it isn't! The official American dialect is now Okie!

Either they learn to talk like Senator Inhofe or the Ebonics must go back to Ebonia!

[omega minimo]

11. LOL or mebbe like Stdnrom Thoymunnnn................

(only thing i love about franken, his Strom Thurmann is spot on)

"Back to Ebonia"

Thanks for defusing the bigot tint.......

[Ripley]

7. Ironic.

So many DUers pat themselves on the back. We're ahead of the Curve! We knew this would happen! Etc. Yet, look at the largest threads. Inane, petty in-fighting about Repuke issues. Their agenda controls the emotions here. Divide and conquer. Obfuscation. Same as it ever was.

[omega minimo]

10. Ripley, I hate to bring this up but......

......after all the fights and fierceness about :bounce: :bounce: and "pink tutus" -- it seems that it's up to US to have some backbone and at times like these (as with Katrina, as with Elite-o) stay focused and DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY AND/OR ACTION from our representatives. It's now about time to admit that that just ain't happnin at ALL (except for a few maverick heroes/heroines) and as fer FOCUS-- maybe we could look at what is REALLY important on any given day......................................................

Sometimes it's like the Seagulls in "Finding Nemo" scrabbling after every shiny thing that floats by:

"MINE- MINE- MINE- MINE- MINE- MINE- MINE- MINE- MINE- MINE...................."

[RebelOne]

13. That's a really dumb question.

Why would ebonics be racist?

[Swamp Rat]

14. It depends on what 'is' is

:D

[omega minimo]

16. "heheheh--Another George- -heheh-- Washington was the First Decider heheh"

[emulatorloo]

18. OT - Swamp Rat, have you had a chance to work on this one?

[OffWithTheirHeads]

15. They held an "ebonics spelling bee" in Oakland last week

The winner was Quan Duc Ngwin.

I think that's funny! If you don't, you are too anal cause everyone on my jobsite, Black, white, mexican, chinese, vietnamese, etc. thought it was funny.

Folks, we need to get over this being offended thing and realize that we have differences, the differences lend themselves to humor, they can be funny, we need to stop taking ourselves so seriously, and the real issue is class warfare, not race! Get over your race issues! They are just another way to devide us! The real problem is distributation of wealth! Not what color you are or what language you speak.

As my beloved stepdaughter says, "Table manners improve, proportianite to the amount of food on the table." In other words, If there is enough to go around, People will not kill other people for the scraps. Unfortunatly, we have a ruling class that wants everything. No scraps for the hungry.

Is this the world you want your children to grow up in? God help us.