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I made a thread very similar to this a few months back
http://niketalk.com/t/573566/why-is-aave-ebonics-not-respected-as-a-legitimate-dialect
Double negatives, no copula's etc. are commonly found in AAVE and Southern English, some of which has very complex systematic rules for it's usage, yet people consistently brush it off as if it's poor version of Standard English.
isn't american english a bastardization of proper english anyways?