By Allan Lengel
For AOL News
If you speak Ebonics, the federal government may have a job for you.
The Drug Enforcement Administration wants to hire people fluent in
Ebonics to help monitor, transcribe and translate secretly recorded
conversations in narcotics investigations, according to the website The
Smoking Gun and DEA documents.
The Smoking Gun reports that up to nine Ebonics experts will work
with the DEA Atlanta Division after obtaining “DEA Sensitive” security
clearance.
Ebonics, or “Black English,” generally is defined as a nonstandard
form of English spoken by African-Americans.
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