Rachel Dolezal’s trans-racial shtick didn’t play very well in South Africa

Hot Air ^ | April 22, 2017 | Jazz Shaw

[Boomer]

Are Navy Radiomen having to learn a new black dialect to communicate across the airwaves or something.

I once knew this big guy who was the brother of the girl I was dating at the time who would go off for 3-5 months (he always came back injured) to play Sports Arena football; one level below pro and the pro scouts would get players from those teams all the time. Anyway every time he came back he talked just like a black guy. I guess the culture is so ebonic in those ball clubs he just got caught up in it.

I asked him why he didn’t turn it off when he got home and I got the impression he didn’t even realize he was doing it. Maybe he was another one who wanted to be a black person deep down. Different for sure.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

No one accuses Bruce Jenner of living a lie, or calls him a fraud.

Bruce Gender is a fraud...he's living a lie.

[Daffynition]

I composed 3 replies to your post last night; don’t know what happened to them [key twilight music]. Sorry.

FWIW, if you listen to the accents [dialect] of WF Buckley, Jr, Julia Child, Eleanor Roosevelt, Katherine Hepburn you’ll see some speech *affect*.

After 33 years of teaching in the *hood*, I could *ebonic* with the best of them; If you are immersed in an accent, you may like your acquaintance, reflect that influence. Having been away from the black-speak for so long, I wouldn’t be able to do it if I tried. :)

If I’ve been on vacay in the South, when I come home, I’ll be saying *ma’am and sir* to everyone. ;)

George Carlin had an incredible monologue about regional accents. It was brilliant.

[Boomer]

I spent many years of my early childhood in Mississippi. I don’t have a Southern accent now but if I lived in the deep South again it would come back like it never left. Like any language I guess; learned early it stays with us for life.

I wish my parents had known that. If they had I’d be speaking up to four languages today. Italian, Sicilian, Spanish (because it’s close enough to Italian), and of course English.

I did understand my friend’s tendency to speak ebonics for a while after coming back from the mostly black football league but figured he needed a reminder he was no longer there and not black. It didn’t take long for him to start speaking normally again.