If You Know Ebonics Then You're Bilingual.

[Poh SIti Dawn]

It's beautiful

Can we rejoice in this

Black history month every month

 

[Chichi Manietzsche]

If y'all don't get the fukk outta here
Its a regional dialect, not a separate language. You're still speaking English.

 

[Cadillac]

Don't call it Ebonics, that's what CACS call it. The correct term is either African American vernacular English, or as the poet Steven Willis says "American creole". I love this poem!

When I saw this I was like

 

[thatdude954]

Its a dialect

like a british guy with a cockney accent or a chick from N.O

 

[GoldTeef]

how does that make you bilangual when you're still speaking english?

Also I wish I could be there to watch people laugh in your face when you start using AAVE when they ask you to speak in your second language.

 

[SunZoo]

I'll make sure to end my resume with "it's lit".