Mock Ebonics (1800s- ) is vernacular Black American English (Ebonics) produced by non-native speakers – from Internet trolls to Hollywood screenwriters to the old blackface performers of the minstrel shows.
In most cases it is verbal blackface, making blacks look like they lack intelligence, excusing the racism against them.
On this blog it is almost always the most racist whites who use it.
Warning signs:
- Overuse of the word “be”. Ebonics uses “be” to show that an action is regularly repeated or a matter of habit. Mock Ebonics likes to use it in place of “is”, “am”, “are”, etc – as pictured above.
- The speaker is white: extremely few whites speak Black English natively or have a non-racist motive for using it.
- Use of racial slurs for whites:whitey, honky, cracka. Since the 1970s this has become almost a requirement.
- Overuse of slang and offensive words. Like
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