Even supporters of multiculturalism despised Ebonics when it meant treating it as legitimate

Evidence

When Jesse Jackson learned that Oakland planned to use Ebonics to teach, as he called it, “standard English,” he backed off from his initial opposition. But Jackson’s initial opposition—let alone the opposition of people of all races who continued to oppose the embrace of Ebonics—demonstrated that despite the lip service they gave it, many Americans despised multiculturalism. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1170

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates the reader’s key discomfort: assimilationists accept Ebonics only as a tool toward ‘Standard English,’ not as a legitimate language in its own right — textbook assimilationist racism per Kendi’s scheme.
• SEED: Angle: how ‘teaching down to our children’ — even from Black leaders — encodes the assimilationist hierarchy that Kendi says is racist.