Teaching Ebonics

I've been thinking about the discussion we had about teaching Ebonics in the classroom and if it should be taught to just African American students or if it should be open to all.  I feel like if it is being taught in certain classrooms then every student should be able to have an opportunity to learn it.  Students take Spanish, German, and French but don't have to be considered Spanish in order to take the class. In these type of classes students not only learn a language, but they also learn about culture.  I feel that this is an important piece to bring up. If students are also learning about the culture of the language they are learning to speak. they may be more accepting of hearing the language as an everyday thing.  When you open up the door to allow others into a culture that is not their own, the students can then understand and be less critical to those that are submerged in this culture.
In my high school we had a large number of Native Americans and they had a class that taught them the language of their tribe as well as the culture behind it.  I remember the classroom that this was taught in was a complete mystery to all the other students.  If you weren't Native American, then you were never even an opportunity to take this class, even though the roots of the culture are in our own backyards.  I felt very frustrated that this class wasn't offered to students who weren't Native American.  I was very interested and always wanted to learn more about the tribes that sit just a few miles down the road from me, but unless I read it in a book I would never know.  I feel that if you are offering a class on a certain language or culture, it should be open to all students, not just those of the ethnicity or race that belong to that specific culture.