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What I'm saying is that you heard your black child say something grammatically incorrect and assumed he got it from his black peers. Even though you have a two year old who is learning how language works and even though there are plenty of white people out there who use poor grammar.
I have heard about ebonics and have heard it be the butt of many jokes against AA's. My daughter is black and I am white. She goes to a school with mostly white children. She is two and just learning how to talk. I see no difference in her speech than the rest of the kids learning how to talk. I am a teacher of white students and was a teacher to black inner city students and have seen that some children are able to use slang and proper english and there are some students who have difficulty because of learning disabilities and or environment.
So if this language is attributed to AA's, than I would like to know where the studies are for all of the white or Hispanic people out there who speak the same way?
Why have I not heard about that?
What I don't like is the fact that you attribute your son's mistake as an ebonics thing. I would be quite upset if the mother of a child in my son's class attributed his poor speech to my child being black. If you are aware that all black people speak differently, why do you think the kids at your child's school speak ebonics? Are you sure your son got that phrase from a black child? What if it was a white child he got it from? What if it was simply a grammar error?
Education is the key and unfortunatly many people in inner cities or poverty stricken areas don't have education. Their errors are past down to their children. There just happen to be lots of inequalities out there that has put black people on the bottom of bucket. But there are plenty of uneducated whites out there who speak poorly as well.
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