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Opinion: DEA Just Being Practical With Ebonics Job Posting
Aug 25th 2010 – 1:00PM
(Aug. 25) -- It's a new week and thus, people need something fresh to get angry over. Enter the latest flap over news that the Drug Enforcement Agency is looking for experts in Ebonics -- a controversial term used to describe slang referred to as "black English" -- to help with its investigations. Cue the jeers and...
DEA Seeking Ebonics Experts for Narcotics Investigations
Aug 23rd 2010 – 7:31PM
(Aug. 23) -- If you speak Ebonics, the federal government may have a job for you. The Drug Enforcement Administration wants to hire people fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, transcribe and translate secretly recorded conversations in narcotics investigations, according to the website The Smoking Gun and DEA...
Background on ebonics
Ebonics (a blend of the words ebony and phonics) is a term that was originally intended to refer to the language of all people descended from enslaved Black Africans, particularly in West Africa, the Caribbean, and North America.
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