Well, I don’t use that word to describe anyone .. but I don’t see it as bad .. if the person is a really good speaker ..?? That’s all I’m saying.
I know how the LEFT uses it to denigrate people of color .. but it’s not effective if the person really is “articulate” .. as Rice and Thomas surely are.
Are you under 30 or 40?
If you are old enough to remember the 50’s, you should remember when it was often said by well-meaning white people, until it came to be seen as gauche, precisely because it implied that most black people are inarticulate.
It’s not about whether most black people ARE inarticulate, or whether Condi Rice and Clarence Thomas ARE articulate.