(October 10, 2017 at 8:14 am)Tazzycorn Wrote:(October 7, 2017 at 1:10 pm)FFaith Wrote: Going by the grammar, there's a good chance it could have been a black activist, or maybe it's just a white person with extremely poor grammar. Maybe it's a white person trying to make it look like a black person is faking a hate crime, so that's why the grammar is so poor? Who knows?
Let me guess, you're of the opinion that ebonics is a thing.
(October 7, 2017 at 5:14 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Well, the Twitter link doesn't work for me, but I found it on Snopes:
And, seriously, a serious business letter typed in fucking Jokerman? That font that shouldn't be used for anything more formal than announcements for Taco Tuesdays. That font makes it a bit hard to take the author seriously.
And here's the best way to take such demands:
I see crime reports written in effing Comic Sans every day. Crime reports seious enough to be sent to the DPP.
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Why would ebonics not be a thing? I'm not quite following what you're trying to get at here. Now, there is no super obvious ebonics in the letter because they may have been trying to cover up their true identity if it were a fake hate crime, but if it read "I'm feelin some type a way and finna take my kids out the daycare so you best quit trippin", you wouldn't call that ebonics? Ebonics is not a "thing"?How do you figure that?
