How does this happen? You grow up in a white family in a white neighbourhood (except for the period when you're in Indonesia surrounded by Indonesians) and you attend a white school. You're the only Black on your highschool basketball team.
Then, after college, you attend, for graduate school, Harvard University law school. Ebonics is NOT a part of the culture of ANY of the above. And keep in mind that one's speech patterns are developed -- engrained like a vriti on your brain -- by the time you're seven and pretty much written in stone by the time you're 15. Why then does Barack Obama resort to ebonics when he is in front of certain crowds? His wife doesn't talk like that and his kids certainly don't. Ebonics is NOT his culture! So why does he effect his speech in such a false way? Who is he trying to kid?
