Re: Ebonics is valid, linguistically, while rejection of it is merely racist clap-trap

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Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 12:33

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There are many forms of expression which frighten
the mentally-inadequate into rejection of them.

"Jazz developed in the latter part of the 19th cent. from black work songs, field shouts,
sorrow songs, hymns, and spirituals whose harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic elements were
predominantly African. Because of its spontaneous, emotional, and improvisational
character, and because it is basically of black origin and association, jazz has to some
extent not been accorded the degree of recognition it deserves. European audiences have
often been more receptive to jazz, and thus many American jazz musicians have become
expatriates."

http://www.answers.com/jazz&r=67

No one who's educated would refer to the above
genre as 'inferior' due to being 'nonstandard'.

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