[Constitution Day]

Linguistics professors Walt Wolfram and Erik Thomas defend ebonics as the legitimate dialect of a dynamic minority in their new book, The Development of African-American English.

Sad to say, but both Wolfram and Thomas are professors at N.C. State.
I recognized the name because I read Wolfram's book on the Ocracoke Island "Hoi Toider" accent and where in England it originated.

[billbears]

If I remember correctly, wasn't he the one that said that dialect would be dead in a few decades?