Summary Of How Using Ebonics Affects Black People

1. In the podcast episode “How using Ebonics affects Black people”, linguistic John Rickford introduces the argument that where Black Americans live affects how they speak. When black Americans move to more prosperous neighborhoods, they tend to talk less in Ebonics. Instead of talking in their native dialect, black Americans adopt more of mainstream speech to help navigate them in larger society. Rickford even contends that they are bidualectal and are fluent in both standard English and Ebonics.
2. John Rickford claims that the difference he has found when black americans move to a nicer neighborhood, is that Black children are more likely to switch between talking in ebonics and proper English in different circumstances. Rickford notes