Originally posted by Pelic
I have to be honest with you - I felt like the exact opposite was going on, that you were making it personal and insulting both me and my work becase of your distaste for some of my stances. I'm happy to be wrong about that. And I really don't have anything against you personally, other than my apparently mistaken opinion that you were doing to me exactly what you said I was doing to you.
I can't quite tell if that is an apology, but if it is - accepted. If you go back and look at all my posts, you'll notice I never disparaged you or your knowledge whatsoever.

I don't like the PC aspects of the AAVE/Ebonics, and I firmly believe the movement towards creating acceptability is politically motivated (I won't repeat those arguments). The study of any language variation is interesting, and it is not that part of the academic side that I think is "junk." I read a good bit about AAVE/Ebonics in the last few days, and I found it very interesting. But the way some of that research is being applied in social and political policy disturbs me greatly. No good can come from people thinking it is ok to speak in AAVE/Ebonics in their general interactions with others.