Ernie Smith writes I have a point of information Is the In an exclusively US context section a part of the article being discussed For in this section I find the following very misleading statement In 1996 the term became widely known in the U S owing to a controversy over a decision by the Oakland School Board to denote and recognize the primary language or sociolect or ethnolect of African American children attending school and thereby to facilitate the teaching of standard English 12 Thereafter Ebonics seems to have become little more than an alternative term for African American Vernacular English although one emphasizing its claimed African roots and independence from English a term linked with the nationally discussed controversy over the decision by the Oakland School Board and one avoided by most linguists 13 I pose this question because I have just received a translation from the Romulus and Remus Linguistic Institute It appears there is an effort being made to cover up some very very inept and ersatz scholarship at Wikipedia encyclopedia by simply declaring my analysis of the Oakland Ebonics Controversy as something that pertains only to that article when in fact the words For more details on this topic see Oakland Ebonics controversy the words Oakland School Board twice and sociolect ethnolect and African American Vernacular English appear under the heading In an exclusively US context My analysis of the Oakland Ebonics controversy was about Ebonics the langauage of limited English proficient LEP English language learners ELL of African ancestry in the OSUD African diaspora I maintain that when a counterfeiter puts the name Rolex on a one jewel gold plated Hong Kong watch this does not make a one jewel gold plated Hong Kong watch a genuine Rolex I likewise maintain that when ignorant white trash and dumb Negro Sheepdogs that nurse at the udder of white supremacits trash use the word Ebonics as a synonynm for and African American Vernacular English this does not make Ebonics an African American Vernacular of English Ernie Smith 71 246 35 80