yall out here still mad hahaha
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Stop telling black people that they “talk like a white person” when they use proper enunciation and good speech. Intelligence does not strictly belong to white people.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Someone told me Ebonics is cultural NOT REMEDIAL. The “white” way does not equate to intelligence pls stop.
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You can’t speak a color.
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So people who would rather use slang words aren’t “intelligent” is what you’re saying?
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hmm wonder why a decision was made to “out of nowhere” to advertise a clothing brand or whatever it was... it’s almost as if the purpose of the tweet was to draw impressions to gain publicity
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Yes duh
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I get this, even went thru it, but the use of “proper,” “good,” & “intelligence,” here delegitimizes dialects that aren’t standard American English, and ignores that the establishment of a standard dialect was entirely elitist in nature.
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EXACTLYYY she just doesn’t understand for some odd reason
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We call it talking professional in my family...
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Is Ebonics unprofessional?
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