I like that black teacher. He/she is very smart. I am from a “country speakin” part of Georgia. My grandmother made sure we spoke properly and all her grand kids had to go to college. We never knew any other options and all 4 of us have degrees. I have a masters in Health Physics from Georgia Tech. People don’t know where I am from when I talk.
It might be a little sad, but it provided a better life for me and my family.
Morgan Freedom is from the Mississippi Delta, but he went to school and mastered diction. So we have an actor was a “black” voice that is nonetheless perfectly clear to everyone. Jesse Jackson, with his Carolina voice, is a great orator. IMHO, better than King, very fertile in expression, but always clear, and less Southern than Haley Barbour. Barbour really truncated his political career by hanging onto his “native” tongue. Scottish actors and politicians “tone” down their brogues. Julie Andrews, they say, mastered real cockney for her role as Eliza, only to be told she should go more toward her own accent. An actor —a player in any field—must always know what his audience will be.