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Obama speaks in ebonics? :heh:

You are exposing your ignorance and bigoted perceptions of black people as usual. You associate any cultural expression or nuance present within black communities with ignorance, crime, ghetto trashy behavior, and other negative descriptors.
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I sure do. That type of language is not appropriate in the public domain, and it's not appropriate for Obama or H. Clinton to use it as some strategy.

Obama is not even from the hood.
 

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i'm tallking about non-asians who talk to me in this manner.

Okay that makes more sense

your second para there is still off-base though... if a style of speech works for a dude and his audience it's pretty absurd for third parties to get offended on audiences' behalf
 

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I sure do.

So you admittedly associate every cultural expression unique to black Americans with ghetto trashy behavior, ignorance, and criminality. How exactly are you any different than a KKK member or skinhead then?

That type of language is not appropriate in the public domain, and it's not appropriate for Obama or H. Clinton to use it as some strategy.

Nah you're just an ignorant racist who probably punches himself in the middle of his eye because it's black.

Obama is not even from the hood.
:snoop: There you go again equating black to ghetto.
 
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Okay that makes more sense

your second para there is still off-base though... if a style of speech works for a dude and his audience it's pretty absurd for third parties to get offended on audiences' behalf

It's absurd because it's not real. Obama has no connection to African American culture. His father was an African immigrant. He wasn't raised around a black family.

He raised in Indonesia and Hawaii, where he attended an elite highschool.

I have a huge African American Family. I have ancestors from the Antebellum south, and I would never speak that way to a Black audience or a Black person. I don't have the right to do so because I don't really have that type of connection to Black America. Neither does Obama.
 

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It's absurd because it's not real. Obama has no connection to African American culture. His father was an African immigrant. He wasn't raised around a black family.

He raised in Indonesia and Hawaii, where he attended an elite highschool.

I have a huge African American Family. I have ancestors from the Antebellum south, and I would never speak that way to a Black audience or a Black person. I don't have the right to do so because I don't really have that type of connection to Black America. Neither does Obama.

I think dialectic drift or mixing happens very quickly though... I mean how long are you counting? I'm looking on wikipedia and his Indonesian life was like 10 years, his Hawaiian life like 8... after that he moved to LA, Chicago etc..

And calling code-switching "ebonics" and "not english" is really not understanding what it's about

I remember people used to say this about Bill Clinton too--when he went to the south he'd start talking with more of a twang--really I think it's a regular human thing. I have multiple english accents too actually, when talking to native speakers I switch it into more of their style
 

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Obama >>>> Romney.....

Romney sounds so lifeless and unenthusiastic. Something tells me, that a biscuit with "chessy" grits isn't his normal cuisine. :ld:
 
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It was a joke. It's not like Obama who uses that Black-speak in order to sell himself as a commoner.

You don't listen B
Even when we suffer loses I account the victory
Sometimes it's far and between I'm sad to say
It got my brain crowded like sunset on a Saturday
I know my son wept 'cause his dad's away
Stop cryin' be strong for your momma is what I had to say




Once again, not one rational black person was offended by :obama:'s speech.
 
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all I have to say is this.

If someone speaks to me in some street slang just because of the color of my skin, I would be extremely offended.

If am I talked to in that way, then I am being seen as a lower person. Why talk to me in that way, and not some white person?
 

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all I have to say is this.

If someone speaks to me in some street slang just because of the color of my skin, I would be extremely offended.

If am I talked to in that way, then I am being seen as a lower person. Why talk to me in that way, and not some white person?

How many times does it have to be explained to your obtuse ass that he's not talking in "street slang"?
 

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It is street slang.

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ver·nac·u·lar
   [ver-nak-yuh-ler, vuh-nak-] Show IPA
adjective
1.
(of language) native or indigenous ( opposed to literary or learned).
(Vernacular | Define Vernacular at Dictionary.com)



African American English; less precisely Black English, Black Vernacular, Black English Vernacular (BEV), or Black Vernacular English (BVE)—is an African American variety (dialect, ethnolect and sociolect) of American English. Non-linguists sometimes call it Ebonics (a term that also has other meanings or strong connotations).

Its pronunciation is, in some respects, common to Southern American English, which is spoken by many African Americans and many non-African Americans in the United States. Several creolists, including William Stewart, John Dillard, and John Rickford, argue that AAVE shares so many characteristics with creole dialects spoken by black people in much of the world that AAVE itself is a creole,[1] while others maintain that there are no significant parallels.[2][3][4][5][6]

As with all linguistic forms, its usage is influenced by age, status, topic and setting. There are many literary uses of this variety of English, particularly in African-American literature.
(African American Vernacular English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

I really can't be more specific than that.
 
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