<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">> Ebonics is a racist term, fwiw...<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>I don't know if Ebonics was a racist word when it was invented in Oakland, but the way texx uses it perjoratitively, it certainly is.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">English, and American English in particular, has a proud tradition of adopting foreign words, is what makes it so good at shades of meaning, such a writerly language.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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