[Alberta's Child]

Ebonics somewhat parallels southern slang . . .

A relative of mine who was stationed in Alabama with the U.S. Army in the early 1960s was amazed at the dialects he heard down there. He said the black people spoke perfect English and the white people spoke some kind of "ebonics" like northern blacks.

. . . a vocabulary derived from encounters between African slaves and Irish immigrants.

LOL! I don't even want to go near that one -- "Top 'o da mornin' to ya, yo!"

[RipSawyer]

I am sure many of the whites spoke something that sounded like Ebonics but I believe that he only imagined that the Blacks spoke perfect English. By the way, I speak as one who grew up in the south of the 1950s and "I ain't never heeerd none o' them blackuns back'n 'em days talk like no college perfessor.