as a term that refers to what is normally regarded as a variety of English: either"
(iv) as a term that "is the antonym of black English and is considered to be a language other than English" (and thus a rejection of the notion of "African American Vernacular English" but nevertheless a term for what others term AAVE, viewed as an independent language and not a mere ethnolect”.

Now I should make  it clear here that, whereas the first sentence of view number (ii) that Baugh attributes to Blackshire Belay is indeed an Afrocentric view on Ebonics, i.e., it “refer(s) to the languages of the African diaspora as a whole”,