“The Drug Enforcement Administration Is Seeking Ebonics Translators to Interpret Wire-Tapped Conversations” By Eugene Volokh on September 8, 2010 12:04 am John McWhorter has thoughts about this in an NPR interview. I generally like McWhorter’s work, and his comments on this in particular struck me as quite apt. Plus he and I agree on what an awful name “Ebonics” is.