[ROCKLOBSTER]

a "Negro dialect."

So what's up with that weird speech pattern of Jesse Jackass? Is that an effected accent, his pathetic attempt to "talk black"?

I've never heard anyone else speak that way.

[csmusaret]

There are a lot of strange accents in SC where he grew up.

[Carolinamom]

If we axe questions, are we racists? (smile)

[Miss Marple]

I believe Jesse Jackson was a cleft palate and has a speech impediment. I look at his upper lip (disguised with moustache) and it appears that way to me.

My daughter was a cleft palate and had to have years of speech therapy after her surgery, so I am not making a random comment. I bet Jackson didn't get much speech therapy, and as he has gotten older his speech has become more garbled. He covers up for it by talking fast and using rhyme and other rhetorical tricks.

[shalom aleichem]

Reid was saying that Bambi does not speak with a “Negro dialect” except when he wants to. I have noticed that Bambi can talk like a field hand, sharecropper, gangster from the ‘hood, etc. He is a chamelian (sp?) and can spew whatever line you want. In fact he was never raised Black, was raised by white grandparents, in Hawaii, in prep school, then to Indonesia until he obtained a grant for foreign nationals to attend Occidental College, another elite white bastion. He is phony as a 3 dollar bill

[Jeff Chandler]

So what's up with that weird speech pattern of Jesse Jackass?

I always figured it was "Preacher Speak".