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Dept. of Justice now hiring Ebonics "linguists" for the DEA. Really.
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| The17sss |
There's no reason that guys like Ice T, Tone Loc, and Grandmaster Flash can't put their skills to use later in life baby... chiggity-check it out!
| quote: | AUGUST 23–The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records.
A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a “DEA Sensitive” security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of “telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media.
The DEA’s need for full-time linguists specializing in Ebonics is detailed in bid documents related to the agency’s mid-May issuance of a request for proposal (RFP) covering the provision of as many as 2100 linguists for the drug agency’s various field offices. Answers to the proposal were due from contractors on July 29. |
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/docume...ebonics-experts
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| Sushipunk |
To be fair, ebonics is pretty ing hard to understand a lot of the time. It might as well be another language.
Is there any particular reason that this isn't a smart move for the DoJ? :conf: |
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| couch-potato |
| The ads at the top of the page are now asking if I want a career in law enforcement as opposed to being a trance DJ :stongue: |
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| The17sss |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
To be fair, ebonics is pretty ing hard to understand a lot of the time. It might as well be another language.
Is there any particular reason that this isn't a smart move for the DoJ? :conf: |
no... but one must wonder how this would go over if our president were a white republican and the head of the DoJ wasn't black. :p |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
no... but one must wonder how this would go over if our president were a white republican and the head of the DoJ wasn't black. :p |
Do you really think it would make a difference? |
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| The17sss |
watch for the wig! |
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| The17sss |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Do you really think it would make a difference? |
there'd be shrieking man... the Justice Brothers Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would be yelling from the rooftops about exploitation. That's how they stay in business man! :p |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
no... but one must wonder how this would go over if our president were a white republican and the head of the DoJ wasn't black. :p |
Actually, the fact that this problem can be sensibly tackled right now is a progress.
If there was a need to hire experts on this dialect, it's so judgements can become fair to those whose daily speech is a bit more different than that of the majority. You need someone who knows Black English well enough to analyse the conversations with no "guesses".
I find it stunning that there is something as "ebonics" in the US. There's nothing similar here in Brazil, and we do have a considerable population of African origin around here. However, we're probably more eager to bang one another :gsmile: |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
there'd be shrieking man... the Justice Brothers Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would be yelling from the rooftops about exploitation. That's how they stay in business man! :p |
I don't know who those people are :p
But seriously, wouldn't this just be looked at objectively? Is your country really that ed?
The DoJ needs people who can understand ebonics, because some crimes are committed by black people and wiggers that speak like that. It should just be that simple :conf: |
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| The17sss |
| No doubt man... I agree. And Lira makes an excellent point. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
No doubt man... I agree. And Lira makes an excellent point. |
Well, to be fair, I'm biased :D |
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