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If you don't speak a standard dialect, you can't get employed in a lot of places. That's true.
Ebonics is just nonstandard, not substandard. It is just as rich and varied of a dialect as any other dialect of any other language of the world. Linguistic studies have been done to show its complexity runs as deep and as wide as any other dialect found within any language across the world.
It is not recognized as a foreign language anywhere.
That's because it's not a foreign language. It's a dialect of English. Just like American English and British English and Indian English are not separate languages but dialects of English. Dialects can be broken up even further into regions and social circles within each country as well.
If you're going to speak Ebonics, at least get the grammar right.
Contrary to popular belief, Ebonics is not just an accidental medley of words and phrases put together randomly. There are consistent grammatical rules to Ebonics that change the meaning of a sentence accordingly. They are just different from those of standard American English.
"You tired", "You be tired", and "You done been tired" all have distinct meanings. They're not just three ways of saying you're tired.
Not to mention, other languages like standard Russian use copulation deletion and consider it to be proper grammar. For example, Russian for "you're tired" is: ты уставший ty ustavshy -- literally "you tired". However in Russian it is not mocked as being ungrammatical or "not speaking" or "unintelligent" because it's an accepted standard form in Russian.
Is it just an attempt to validate Ebonics and boost someone's ego?
What's the purpose of this?
It's also old news.... article is from 2005?
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