There was many laws passed during the civil rights movement, at what point does racial issues end in your opinion, or does this topic simply go on forever and ever?
I always figured that the southern accent developed from all those white kids being raised by black nannies.
Well, it was just an article I read like twenty years ago, but I do remember it being well written and backing up the assortment, but I guess I wouldn’t swear it was an absolute truth lol.
You’re asking the same question he did.
Both theories could be at play. British Royalty + slave nannies = southern accent
That’'s a great question.
There were two major laws passed during the Civil Rights movement era, and the second one – the Voting Rights Act – has largely been gutted.
I don’t think there is one point at which the issue disappears… there will always be some jerk who sets off an incident.
But I’ll offer some markers:
- When income inequality by race drops substantially
- When people who supported “birtherism” understand how offensive that issue was on racial grounds
- When the Second Amendment rights of African-Americans are respected to the same extent that the rights of white people are
- When several states stop laws that minimize Martin Luther King Day – tiring it to Confederate commemorations, for instance
- When the conservative media agree that in some instances, the killing of unarmed African-Americans by police forces was wrong. (Not all instances, but a few, perhaps)
- When the Voting Rights Act is restored and enforced
I have lived long enough to see great progress in my lifetime. When Dylan Roof killed half a dozen African-American leaders in a church in Charleston, the entire criminal justice system moved to apprehend and punish the killer. I remember when such a killer would have been allowed to get away with the crime.
But we live in a country where an African-American driving a nice car in a nice neighborhood is substantially more likely to be stopped by local police for a “check” than white citizens. That sends a message to African-Americans that many white people don’t seem to get.
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Way too much generalization here.Just as most white people in the south never owned slaves (pre civil war era of course) , most white people in the south never had black, or white, nannies.
Only the influential ones who others would try to emulate. Kind of like the way Trump supporters emulate Trump.
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Funny enough there are two distinct southern accents used by modern southerners.
The older generations (50+) tend to have the “classic” accent you hear in movies and tv shows all the time. It’s the one we are all stereotyped as having.
The other is the one I and many other sub 40 year old southerners have. It has a bit of an Appalachian twang to it. It doesn’t sound quite as dignified as the classic accent but to non southerners it’s not as thick as the classic accent either. It’s still undeniably southern but some words aren’t used quite as much.
For example, I really don’t use “y’all” all that much in my everyday speech. I type it out on messages more than I say it. I typically say you all or simply you with implied plurality.
Not really.
Black southern lingo is distinctive. There’s some overlap in certain phrases and words (older whites and older blacks both use the word “y’all” all the time) but otherwise they don’t share all that much.
Double negative phrasing is a big part of black speech. Not quite as much with southern white speech. Like I said there are exceptions to that, though.
And decide what factors into determine who qualifies as being black.
I spent a little time in the south (mostly the Delta region of Mississippi) and noticed many similarities. Sometimes I couldn’t identify the color of a speaker without seeing them.
I agree with some of these but let’s start with #1 When income equality by race drops substantially.
Do you know who makes the most money by race? Asian men and women earn more than whites, if the system was truly rigged towards whites why do Asians earn the most? Why do people not complain about this? Where I work which is in a fortune 100 company at least 95% of our software developers are from India. I don’t hear the diversity police knocking down the doors to come in and make a change to the status quo.
I agree with you on the birtherism issue it was ridiculous.
I am not sure about number 3. as I don’t own a firearm and really don’t follow the 2nd amendement debate much.
I live in the pacific northwest and am not sure how they do it in the south on MLK day, but it seems in the past the majority of the race riots and protests didn’t take place in these states, especially the BLM protests.
I am not sure about number 5 because it is to weaponized and I see both sides doing it. I agree they are certain situations were it just needs to be called out, and then there are other situations like when the CNN panel was holding their hands up saying don’t shoot which didn’t even happen. Imho I would like to see this issue quit being weaponized by either side.
Is the main issue with the votings rights act the photo id?
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I tried a “ya’ll” in a bar in Mississippi (actually a ‘gentleman’s club’).
I had too much ‘you’ in my ''all and this waitress busted me and called her friends over cuz she’d found someone who “wasn’t from around here”.
I’m sixty and I know exactly what you mean. The younger folks definitely have their own dialect, but I never noticed that it was younger people per se’ until you pointed out just now. Thinking about people at work and such, I think you nailed it.
oh i dunno the election of a black man to the presidency indicates some progress was made right?
Not much if Obama set race relations back which is what I hear from ODS sufferers.
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No the main issue is pre-clearance… as soon as that happened voter suppression laws bloomed.
