December 19. This day, at a glance, appeared to suck. I couldn't find shit worth writing about. However, after countless hours of searching the wonderful world wide web, I found it. Something so monumental to America. A stepping stone so vital to the success of communication in our borders was accomplished. This accomplishment: "ebonics" being recognized as a language in Oakland, California. This happened in 1996 if any were still curious. The bill that legalized this claimed that people of African-decent are biologically predisposed toward a particular language through heredity. Hold on a second. Are they telling that because you are born black (excuse me, african-American) that you are automatically going to be speaking ebonics? Yeah, I guess Eminem is a great case for your argument. How about Kevin Federline? If it is, as previously mentioned, speakers of ebonics would qualify for federally-funded programs traditionally restricted to bilingual populations. Seriously? I'll start replacing all my -er suffixes with a's if it will get me a cut on my taxes or a cheapa education. Hell, I'll start calling me middle-class friends homies too.
America, we as a nation are better than these individuals in Oakland that are apparently trying really hard to discredit the American way. So, screw you people of Oakland.
Long live America.
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