"While the term [ebonics] is avoided by most linguists, it has gained a certain amount of salience outside of academia (such as on Internet message boards), often as the object of ridicule, particularly when it is inaccurately parodied as more different from Standard American English than it really is. Black American linguist John McWhorter argues that the use of Ebonics as a term does more to hinder black academic achievement than to help it, in that considering an ethnic group's slightly-different speech to be a completely different language from English serves only to widen the perceived divide between whites and blacks in America." - Ebonics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaYep... That's for sure...
The plot to nullify the 14th Amendment
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This is a useful piece outlining how Trump plans to try to get the Supreme
Court to repeal the first clause of the 14th Amendment: Trump was
unconvinced....
5 hours ago
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