There is a "black" accent. When you listen to someone on the phone or radio and you don't know what their race is... most of the time you can tell whether they are black or white. Of course there are exceptions. Mike Turico is a sportscaster who has what to me sounds like a "Northern" accent.
This accent is different from a Southern accent, a Boston accent, a Northern accent (to me, Northern means Minnesotan). There's a South Dakotan accent!
Is it racist for me to say that there is a black accent? Surely not - because it can be demonstrated!
How does one mimic a "black accent"?
Well, when Barack Obama does it, he leaves the "g" off the end of his words.
He did this when speaking to the Black Caucus over the weekend. An AP reporter transcribed what he said...and transcribed it accurately, leaving off the "gs", etc. The AP has now been accused of racism because they dared to do this.
Is it not racist of Obama to mimic the black accent when talking to certain segments of his black base?
Here's what he had to say (and note that Rush's transcriber does it differently - they spell Obama's words phonetically and that is irritating.):
OBAMA: I don't have tiiiime to complain. I'm gonna press on! I expect all of you to march with me and press on. Take off your bedroom slippers; put on your marchin' shoes! Shake it off, stop complainin', stop grumblin', stop cryin'! We are gonna press on! We've got work to do, CBC!
RUSH: He is ticked off at these people! Folks, he is ticked off at these people. They're running around last week and the week before and they're saying if the president's skin color was anything other than what it is, we'd be marching. But we don't want to give the Obama haters any added info or any added ammunition. So they're holding back. Maxine Waters and others have made it plain they don't think he cares about African-American employment. So he goes out to the CBC meeting, and he is ticked off. Can you imagine any president telling a group of people, "Get out of your bedroom slippers and start marching?" This is community organizing, by the way. This is what it is. This is agitation, pure and simple. Maxine Waters was not happy about the scene at the Congressional Black Caucus on Saturday. This morning on the Early Show on CBS, Erica Hill talked to Maxine and said, "The president told the audience to 'stop complaining' and to 'put your marching shoes on.' What was your reaction when he said, 'Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying'?"
WATERS: He would never say that to the gay and lesbian community who really pushed him on "Don't ask, don't tell," or even in a speak to AIPAC. He would never say to the Jewish community, "Stop complaining about Israel." So I don't know who he was talking to because we're certainly not complaining. We're working!
RUSH: You are complaining, and he was talking to you, Maxine -- and you know it; and they all know it at the Congressional Black Caucus. On CNN newsroom this morning, Suzanne Malveaux talked to the Reverend Jackson of the Monochrome Coalition. She said, "Reverend, what do you think needs to happen to create more jobs for that group specifically and then also for the African-American community which is now at about 17% unemployed?"
JACKSON: People on welfare can't own a car. If they don't have public transportation to where the jobs are, than they are re-segregated and locked into poverty. And so public transportation is a piece of this. Some direct jobs, not just indirect jobs, I think, are from tax cuts. So for our policy tended to favor those from the deck of the ship, but not those from the hull of the ship where the water is coming in.
RUSH: What is he talking about?
JACKSON: Many people lost their will to work, their will to vote, they've been beaten down by poverty.
RUSH: Well, who did that to you? I don't know what all he said there. I tried to keep track of it, I tried to keep up with it but remember here I'm working on about two hours' sleep and -- (interruption) well, that's what I was afraid of, even if I had a full six hours I doubt that I coulda kept up. But anyway he's complaining. I heard him talk about people on welfare can't own a car. What is that? I think people on welfare have an average of 1.6 cars and a plasma TV. We went through that the other day. What does he mean, they can't own a car? Anyway, all of these complaints, Reverend Jackson, who did this to you? Who did this? Liberalism did this, Reverend Jackson. The Democrat Party wrote this script for you. The Democrat Party, that's who is the architect of the circumstances you're complaining about.
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