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Posted on 09/26/2014 5:17:40 PM PDT by Dallas59
That woman is spot on. The sad thing is, there are going to be people out there who are going to despise her because she said honest and sensible things.
Education is looked down on by the stupid.
NOT GILTEE!
One Nigerian student when I was in college had a bit of an accent from the old country, but it was still British English, with Britishisms (a flashlight was a torch). When he ran into an urban black in the neighborhood who talked jive, he switched to perfect BBC English, and you could hear the contempt. He was an engineering student, and did quite well.
Cool!
I hope the target audience can understand it.
I work with a lot of black folks in the navy. Many of the blacks in the military enlisted to escape the 'hood and make something with their lives.
The other day in my shop I was privy to a conversation between two black navy chiefs debating the merits of giving their kids "normal" (i.e. "white") names. One of the chiefs made the comment, "I don't want to give my kid a name where when he fills out a job application it's going to go straight into the trash."
They then proceeded to make fun of all their relatives and the crazy black names they've given their kids.
LOL
She gets it, should be a role model. Unfortunately for many blacks she will not.
There are always exceptions to the rule.
She is clearly out of touch with what Massa Lib’ral tells her to think.
Black lady, we’ll just skip the interview, because you are HIRED.
There is a distinctly black style of diction of American English, most anyone over the age of 40 will have had a teacher or two who spoke in this manner. Very precise with a large vocabulary but somehow, well, what’s the right word? Voluptuous? Spoken with relish. This has sadly fallen to the wayside. Revive it. That’s the way out of apparent ignorance without being attacked by racial separatists for those who wish to do so. I’d fully support such an effort.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgZYCj39M38
A video of a REALLY funny comedian named Trevor Noah. Black guy from South Africa. The entire thing is really funny, but he goes into his bit about learning to be an American Black at about 2:15.
LOL, I have a very unusual first name, and had the maiden name of Jones. I worked in a majority white industry and lived in Atlanta, so I always wonder how many of my earliest job interviews were granted due to Affirmative Action requirements. Like, “Oh, here’s one and she has a good resume, we’d better bring her in!” I did have one coworker tell me they were all surprised when I arrived for the first day of work and was...pale and blonde. D’oh!
Where I live now there are very few blacks. The ones that are here mostly are mostly here because of Ellsworth AFB. I am looking forward to people getting back to naming their kids Christian names and not using last names as first names. That can be so confusing.
Exactly. I was hoping the camera would drop a few inches too. ;-D
I was thinking the the same when she used words like ‘annunciation’ and ‘diction’-
Jamaican English is a blend of influences from the British Isles and North America, as well as West Africa, so it's not surprising that it's difficult for North American ears to understand.
Several years ago I shared a cubicle wall with a recent immigrant from Jamaica, whose accent was so thick he was very hard to understand. Fortunately, both he and the rest of us were quite patient, so we got along fine. But on those occasions when he would speak his native dialect, it was clear just how much effort he was making to be understood.
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