s with baggy pants. Ebonics is not a bizarre and strange lingo, in fact there is a variety of Ebonics that is spoken today in the United States and roots from the Black American Oral Tradition. It is a mixture of the West African and English linguistic-cultural tradition. Ebonics receives its distinctiveness from the peculiar way in which English words are pronounced, the meaning which it holds and the way they are joined to form sentences. It can also be said that Ebonics is the Africanization of the English Language. For example we take the sentence: "The Brotha be lookin good; that's what got the Sista nose open!" Brotha would be the Africanized way of saying "man" in English and Sista would be the Africanized way of saying "woman". "Nose open" would represent the love she has for the "brotha". A person with no clue about Ebonics would probably think the sentence is talking about a brother and a sister and the rest of the matter would go completely misunderstood. African Americans formulated Ebonics to stand out separate from the normal speaking English people. They did not want to speak their language and wanted to identify themselves as "different" and having a different identity. Hence Ebonics is their language and their identity. Many fail to understand this concept and declare Ebonics to be "a fancy political cover for abnormal, defective, or dysfunctional speech" (Leon W. Todd Jr., p.177). They state that Ebonics is not a language and thus the idea of one accepting it to be a language is far fetched. Their definition of Ebonics is that it "is the latest incarnation of what some academics call 'black English' -- a language, rooted in African culture that is a distinctively African American interpretation of traditional American English" (Earl G. Graves, p.11).
             Their denial that Ebonics is a language cannot and will not prove that Ebonics...