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Kyuubi4269 posted...

It's pretty racist to call proper pronounciation white, it implies speaking like an idiot is typical of black people. To get a job as a professional it helps to sound educated, this applies to all people equally.

First sounding educated =/= sounding white though. Plenty of black people are plenty educated and are articulate but still sound black. I know you are referring to ebonics, but "sounding black", at least in America, is much closer to an accent than simply mispronouncing words.

And second, by that logic, if you are judging it based on a General American accent. Pretty much everyone in Great Britain doesn't speak professionally as London, Yorkshire, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, Geordie etc. accents pronounce most vowel sounds differently than American, and thus by your logic must sound uneducated and speaking like an idiot. Not to mention southern accents or New York accents or Boston accents or Cajun accents etc. etc.
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