OUTRAGE: Houston police hand out "Guide to Ebonics" handbook

[Bluebear]

Hopefully we won't have comments such as "lighten up" and "it was only a joke". Thank you. :)


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HOUSTON -- A school district suspended a police officer as it investigates his distribution of a "Ghetto Handbook" and the three-month lapse before top district officials were informed of it.

The eight-page booklet, subtitled "Wucha dun did now?", was handed out to about 15 Houston Independent School District police officers at a May meeting, district spokesman Terry Abbott said. Officials declined to identify the officer who handed them out, but said he had been ordered to attend diversity training.

A supervisor immediately collected the booklets, Abbott said, but district officials said they didn't learn about the incident until someone complained to the district's Equal Employment Opportunity Office in mid-August...

District Police Chief Charles Wiley had no comment, Abbott said.

The booklet billed itself as a guide to Ebonics, teaching the reader to speak "as if you just came out of the hood." It included definitions such as "foty: a 40-ounce bottle of beer"; "aks: to ask a question"; and "hoodrat: scummy girl." The booklet names six district officers "and the entire day shift patrol" as contributors.

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/09/01/wtf/doc46d82755edf90970706376.txt

[AspenRose]

1. Considering we have a white president who mangles the English language

on a consistent basis....who claims to be from their state (but really isn't).....they've got a lot of nerve

[pennylane100]

2. I remember a school board in Oakland wanted to make ebonics

a course of study. That idea lasted about a week before the community expressed their displeasure.

[Solly Mack]

3. Damn

[hlthe2b]

4. From the state that (proudly?) gave us Bush*

Why haven't they produced a booklet on Bush*speak? :eyes:

[BlooInBloo]

5. Sorry - I think you're looking for Care About People Underground - 2 websites to the left...

... of COURSE you'll hear such comments HERE.