I really like Thomas Sowell's description of black culture as "Black Hillbilly Culture."
Rural whites figured out quickly that their way forward was to not sound like an uneducated idiot, whereas mainstream black America, the media, and academia have seized on these mannerisms of speech and decided they, in part, define what it means to be Black.
As someone from what you would call "Appalachia Country", I've heard stories of people learning how to speak without an accent to sound less dumb to outsiders.
That is pretty sad, because there is nothing inherently about Appalachian English (or Ebonics) that is more dumb or less dumb than 'Standard' English. It just happens not to be the prestige dialect.
Which is not to say that they should not learn the prestige dialect, only that people should not be prejudiced about people who speak a different dialect. And I'll admit that my own opinion of someone sinks to Ocean-level depths when I see him say "dey doesn't want us to loot dey store".
In linguistic terms however, that is just as valid of a dialect as Standard English.
Black Redneck Culture is what he said. Though, I prefer calling it Cracker Culture because that's more in tune with the etymology, and is likely to annoy them more.
And yeah, being a Cracker is Black Culture. Well done BLM.
Black Redneck Culture -- you're correct, I couldn't find the term in my brain.
I also like Black Cracker Culture. Not that you'll ever have a leftist interested enough in what you're saying to take it seriously -- you could really activate some almonds with that.
I really like Thomas Sowell's description of black culture as "Black Hillbilly Culture."
Rural whites figured out quickly that their way forward was to not sound like an uneducated idiot, whereas mainstream black America, the media, and academia have seized on these mannerisms of speech and decided they, in part, define what it means to be Black.
Clown world.
As someone from what you would call "Appalachia Country", I've heard stories of people learning how to speak without an accent to sound less dumb to outsiders.
That is pretty sad, because there is nothing inherently about Appalachian English (or Ebonics) that is more dumb or less dumb than 'Standard' English. It just happens not to be the prestige dialect.
Which is not to say that they should not learn the prestige dialect, only that people should not be prejudiced about people who speak a different dialect. And I'll admit that my own opinion of someone sinks to Ocean-level depths when I see him say "dey doesn't want us to loot dey store".
In linguistic terms however, that is just as valid of a dialect as Standard English.
Black Redneck Culture is what he said. Though, I prefer calling it Cracker Culture because that's more in tune with the etymology, and is likely to annoy them more.
And yeah, being a Cracker is Black Culture. Well done BLM.
Black Redneck Culture -- you're correct, I couldn't find the term in my brain.
I also like Black Cracker Culture. Not that you'll ever have a leftist interested enough in what you're saying to take it seriously -- you could really activate some almonds with that.