Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Linguists
By teamrose
@teamrose (1492)
United States
August 23, 2010 6:23pm CST
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.
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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/justice-department-seeks-ebonics-experts
1 response
@goldeneagle (6743)
• United States
25 Aug 10
So it has come to the point that some Americans are so ignorant and poorly educated that other AMERICANS need a translator to communicate with them??? Yet another example of our failing educational system, and of the decreasing intelligence of our people...
@goldeneagle (6743)
• United States
26 Aug 10
Again, it goes back to their intelligence and education (or lack there of). I work in a restaurant in an urban area, and I deal with this all the time. I see how truly stupid some of these people really are. I can understand what most of them are saying to a point because I am around it all the time. The people I work with listen to rap music most of the time before we open and after we close. Some of the people we work with talk this way too, so I am accustomed to hearing it. It isn't necessarily because they are criminals...most of them are just under-educated, and they don't really have a reason to try to improve themselves...
