December 4, 1996
"Officials of a California public-school system think black pupils who speak 'black English' should qualify for federal bilingual-education funds because they speak an authentic language other than English."The Oakland Board of Education's Task Force on the Education of African-Americans already has agreed that the nonstandard English dialect dubbed 'Ebonics' is a bona-fide language.
"In Ebonics—an old little-used term that grew out of a 1973 conference of educators, researchers, and psychologists concerned about the language skills of black students—speakers says, for instance, 'I been done walk' instead 'I have walked.' "
—Carol Innerst, Washington Times, November 28, 1996
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