From: "Mark Rosen" <mrosen@peganet.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 14:14:50 -0800 (PST)
To: "Dale Thorn" <markm@voicenet.com>
Subject: Re: Ebonics
Message-ID: <199612222158.QAA10206@mercury.peganet.com>
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> Just saying someone has a Southern "accent" is prejudicial and ignorant.
> It's true that anyone, Southern or otherwise, can slur words so they're
> not clear, but on averages, Southerners who speak clearly with their
> native inflections and pronunciations are easier to understand than your
> typical Yankees, whose speech is generally thin, nasal and rather
pinched-
> sounding.
	Yeah. But I can't understand people with Southern Accents therefore I
won't hire them.

> People talked about hate in the South in the 1960's.  What a crock.
> Apartheid, sure, no doubt about that.  But hate, well, I grew up in
> the North and I lived for a few years in the deep South, and the people
> in the South don't hate like the Yankees do, on average.
	Wow. You must read completely different history books than the rest of the
world.

> If you want to see how hate works, look how the big-media organizations
> have descended on Southern radio and TV and have been telling them that
> they speak wrongly, and that Southern "accents" are something to be
> ashamed of.
	Damn the liberal media! (That was a sarcastic statement - do you know how
right-wing that sounds).