Ghetto Vernacular……aka Ebonics

Ghetto Vernacular……aka Ebonics

Al Ritter

For those of you that don’t understand the word: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vernacular

To be honest I’m damned well tired of this crap on click bait articles. They try to tell my generation that they invented recycling that they we are the “waste” generation. Now they are blaming the “Boomer generation” for all their shortcomings.

“Boomers” need to stop doing this, is the title of their article. They comment on clothing styles to political stances to even train of thought.

The same generation that accepts ear gauges, full tattoos and the ghetto vernacular criticizes New Balance sneakers and Jean shorts for Boomer males?

Really Millenials?

Maybe you should revaluate your acceptance.

What exactly do ear gauges, tattoos, and man buns contribute to society?

But let’s get back to the issue at hand.

Let’s view our language from the view of someone learning English as a second language.

Can you even begin to imagine the confusion of trying to understand the English Language if they hear Gangster Rap or any of the other Ebonic language?

Sadly it teaches the rest of the civilized world that the USA is dumbing down.

The Ebonic/Ghetto talk doesn’t advance the English language it only sets it back 50 to 100 years.

If the Millenials accept this vernacular it only cements the idea that they accept it because they # 1 see it as a cultural acceptance or #2 as they are afraid to not accept it because of being afraid of being labeled as a racist!

I’m not sure what the world sees this as but I see it as the dumbing down of America.

Ebonics isn’t a dialect, this isn’t pigeon English or even a variant of English it’s an abortion of the English language. It doesn’t make you sound cool or “woke” it makes you sound uneducated.

Listen to Thomas Sowell’s comments on the this issue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtyoNSmOYzo&t=10s