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- kingjulien0
If you think about it Carty, it's not making fun of black people per say, because that would imply that all black people talk in retarded, broken, incoherent slang--which isn't the case. However, a certain demographic does talk problematically (along with every other race that imitates it)-to the absurd point that the city I lived in for 5 years, Oakland, CA, tried to pass a resolution to teach ebonics in the schools. And because this does our culture a disservice, let alone these same kids who one day have to go out and get jobs and support their families but who can't speaknor write a grammatically correct sentence, I don't think it's wrong to mock it. In fact, it does have some merits as a social commentary on where we're at as a culture.