re: Opelousas native Keon Coleman tells reporters how to get the best Macy’s deals on coats

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I'm not ready to admit that butchering the English language is "cool".

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Some of you probably don't bat an eye when an ole Cajun "butchers" the English language. In fact, in all of the videos that were posted here over the past month from Peter Santenello, I can't recall a single person getting upset about the way any of the Cajuns in the video spoke. You could easily make an argument that several of them "butchered" the English language. What factors make that OK and this not? For SPT it appears to be race since he keeps bringing it up.

I and not defending Ebonics and I think Ebonics are ridiculous but the OP isn't that bad compared to a lot of what I have heard. It doesn't come of as thuggish and comes off as just how people in parts of South LA sound.