re: I don't think the racial tension in America is as bad as the media portrays...

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Also, no, she didn’t tone it down. I’m sure there are some black people who spoke dramatically differently around white people but most of them as a whole didn’t tone down their accents nor should they have. I don’t buy that bullshite excuse. This isn’t a Ros

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I’m in my 50s, lived my first 14 years in New Orleans and then moved to Shreveport. Always went to public school. Black people even in the 80s talked absolutely nothing like they talk now on average, at least HS kids. Have one graduated and one in HS now and it’s astonishing how much more ghetto they speak and how much more disrespectful they’ve become. Black culture has received all the help in the world and still taken a massive step back even since the 80s.