You are delusional. Reading and writing or lack there of has no effect on speech unless you are trying to read aloud. There are plenty of people of all color today that can't or have very limited reading and or writing ability, yet they do not speak any differently than those who can. With your premise, every child that learns to speak should have this dialect because they learn to speak before the can read or write. people learn vocalization from those around them not from any other abilities or education. Dis, dat, dem, and dey are easily heard to this day from blacks along with a plethora of other gross mispronunciations, maybe that is popular slang or hip hop..... Speaking Ebonics, hip hop, slang, etc, is only an excuse for ignorance and inability. Keep justifying Ebonics and hip hop as acceptable speech, look how far it has gotten the majority who use it and seem incapable of little else. The ghetto's and welfare must be getting nicer..
" blacks and whites speak with the same accent in the south. "
Try that on someone that hasn't traveled this country extensively for many years, it is almost undeniably false with sfew exceptions.
Try debating something you know something about and stop living and justifying ignorance with just more ignorance.
" SIMPLE DO NOT EXIST EXCEPT IN THE MINDS OF RACIST VILLAGE IDIOTS. " How un predictable, who wuda thunk...
Slang, hip hop and ebonics are not Negro Dialect. Sound like a Negro means an accent. dis dat dem dey is how blacks spoke when the did not know how and was not allowed to read and write. Blacks speak according to where they were raised as do whites. blacks and whites speak with the same accent in the south. FIrst place there is not such thing as a negro. It was a name given African during slavery. SIMPLE DO NOT EXIST EXCEPT IN THE MINDS OF RACIST VILLAGE IDIOTS.
What cave have you been living in? You can turn on the news, listen to joe's callers, replay footage of obama's campaign rallies with black supporters talking to cameras, go out just about anywhere you want where blacks are talking and hear ebonics alive and well! NEGRO dialect has just been renamed gangsta slang, etc. Joe himself will even slip up every now and again! There are many blacks that can speak proper english but it isn't hard to tell the difference between a black and anyone els by hearing them talk be it on the telephone, TV, or radio. Why do you think the " you don't sound black" expression is still commonly used when one speaks proper english?
No such thing exist now days. Reid must have been watching "Uncle Toms Cabin." When Blacks were legally able to learn to read and write English, "de" "dat" "dis" and "den"and "dem" disappeared. "Negro dialect" were the language of "Negroes" during slavery when they were not allowed to read and write.. You do not hear reference like this unless used by white people living in the past. Like Reid.
Afro-Americans are light or dark skin, with nappy hair or "good hair" raised in the hood or not in the hood, educated and not educated and they all speak proper English and maybe in the hood among themselves speak the "language of the hood" that they have created and they only use it among their friend in the hood. There is no evidence that Obama ever lived in the hood and a "Negro dialect" was spoken in his home. For Reid to say Obama could speak with a "Negro dialect" if he wanted to is pure racist.
I was raised by a black women who was a teacher and spoke proper English and I learned proper English when I went to school. I have never heard anyone speak with a "Negro dialect" in my home or in the hood. I never heard the word "nigger" until I started to school. It was not a common word in my home or neighborhood.
Reid need to be re-educated on the Afro-American today. He is quite different from the black in slavery. Reid mis-spoke when the said Obama could speak with a "Negro dialect" if he wanted too, because Obama may not even know what he is talking about. "Negro dialect" was the only phrase Reid use that was offensive to me. And "honest injun" by Steele. Stereo typing Afro-americans is what Reid was doing and many white people do today. "Language of the hood" is not a "Negro dialect" but a language black youth created themselves.
Afro-americans lost the "dis" and "dat" generations ago. And its time the white man loses it.
