Wow, that's really crappy. That would be akin to our government saying that Navajo was a dead language. (So dead that it got us through a World War... Ever heard of "The Windtalkers?) Sadly enough, there ARE people willing to turn funding towards things like Ebonics.

For those who are unaware, Navajo is a language that takes a lifetime to learn, and therefore, completely baffled the code-breakers of the Axis forces. The only drawback was that only the Navajo spoke it, and therefore, they had to be called into service alongside our soldiers.

Sadly enough, however, such facts are slowly being erased from our history textbooks here in the US. As our fellow poster Figheadair stated:

"He who forgets his history forgets who he is!"