Mechanical Nerd

twitter post by @richeymusic: “my question is why is it that most black people can grow up around Asians and non black Latinx and Arabs and maintain the same black accent and vernacular we have but everyone else around us ends up sounding black cuz “I grew up around black people” bitch. lie again.“ second tweet by same user: “you talk like that because YOU WANT TO. you think it makes you sound cool. you think it makes you funnier. you think it makes you interesting. it’s not your real accent. it'a facade that you put on to amp up your dry ass personality.”

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via Ericka Hart, as discussed on the Hoodrat to Headwrap Podcast episode “Everybody wanna be black til it’s time to be white: Non-Black POC & AAVE in service of Antiblackness”

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