Hooked on Ebonics?

Well, I'm not going to say much about whether ebonics in schools is a good thing or not, except that I think that this is the most retarded shit I've heard in ages. But as far as the language/dialect debate goes, ebonics/BEV (black English vernacular) has a standardizable grammar and vocabulary that is different from standard English, and so it is at least a dialect. Stephen Pinker in his "The Language Instinct" actually goes into this topic of BEV to some extent. Is it a language? Hard to say - linguists themselves have a hard time telling languages and dialects apart. The running joke about this is that a language is a dialect with an army. Just so you know.

Jam it back in, in the dark.