Ebonics in Language

I acutally wrote a research paper on this for another class and found that Ebonics was actually declared a language. In some areas, standard english just isn't as common and the teachers in a school disctict in California had to adjust to the fact that they're students were doing so poorly because they're first language was Ebonics. As far as translators, that seems a little sketchy to me. I mean most people think of it as slang and I do also. I don't think that Ebonics is so complex that we need translators for it though. I'm not black but my husband is and I grew up in a black community. Learning standard english was never an issue for myself or any of my friends. They chose to speak in Ebonics depending on their environment. I think what I don't like most about the idea of "Black English" is that one assumes Ebonics is a lower standard of english, when really it's more of a community thing. People from the south say "ya'll" all the time, I know I do and we don't have our own language for terms like that. It's just something that's common in our area and doesn't mean that southerners are any less intelligent. The same goes for Ebonics and its use by African Americans.