Ebonic speech

I’m also torn between the issues about Ebonic speech. I know it is suppose to be a form of English, and it is a part of many black groups culture. I can see how people are for it in the sense that it could be a way to bring them together. Also a lot of different languages have different forms or are slang from the original. I know when I was in Germany, I was talking to a women who said south to where they live, there was a town that spoke a different form of German. She said how a person could barely understand them. The language though was what was spoken in that town, so that is what kept them together. So I can see that the African American groups wanting to have a part of culture of their own. But the problem I have is that, I think this will separate them even more. This example shows that it was a town, a small community that was a part from the rest. In all honesty I do not see the white dominant group ever learning Ebonics. If it was offered in school as a language, unless it was forced, most would probably take something else. This means that if it becomes taught to minority students, it would be driving a wedge between them. That if an African American went to an important job interview and only spoke Ebonics, most employers may not want to hire them. This could mean that instead of differences between groups becoming more equal, it would have the opposite effect.

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