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