African Linguistic Roots of Ebonics and Louisiana Creole

Given the extensive brainwashing of ourselves and denigration of our culture it is of the utmost importance that we realize these mannerisms we’ve been documented as engaging in for generations are not diminutive marks of oppression, subjugation and poverty, but rather an ancestral imprint of our past; glorious, painful, beautiful and ugly.

Proverbs to Bone and Silence

In America, the Negro’s “riddles” are infamous and although commonly referenced in a way that derogatorily infantilizes the speaker and race as a whole, they are in fact words bustling with wisdom.