04-11-2019, 06:35 PM
(04-11-2019, 04:14 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: That didn't sound like a southern accent at all to me. That sounded like ebonic emphatic speech to me, if anything. And the Bronx are 43% black. I haven't seen anyone call it southern before your comment.
Also, assimilation is not racist. It's a means to conform and be accepted by a society that doesn't care to understand your natural culture.
And to be clear, my counterargument is not that she's assimilating to her crowd, as that's not a thing. I'm saying she has assimilated into white culture, which is what we hear from her day to day, and this video is more a natural cadence to her voice that she only lets out when she's in a comfortable environment, as I described in my example.
And Hillary was definitely called out for her accent.
I don't think I ever called Hills out for her accent but I did call her out as pandering when she went full blown Happy Kwanzaa and when she said the one thing she always kept in her purse was Hot Sauce.