Ebonics
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Ebonics is a pseudo-academic term coined in the 1970's by African-American college students to give legitimacy to the colloquial dialect spoken by uneducated underclasses, also known as niggers. This dialect is more appropiately called African-American Vernacular English by linguists.
The term became more widespred in 1996 with the Oakland School Board controversy, where the teaching of American English was replaced with the teaching of this new "dialect."