The Woke Generation - Fighting Back

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I think it's fair for people to be less than receptive to people who fake an AAVE associated accent because it's the image they want to present.

It's really not that different from if I got negative push-back for rapping in a poorly faked NYC accent; it's not authentic and it's taking something that isn't mine in hopes of making a career out of playing a caricature of someone else reality. People are entitled to think less of someone they perceive as fake.

Faking an accent in a mockery way is like when kids would mimic my speech impediment and my stutter. I always felt like I was being made fun of and bullied.

Now in some cultures, when you move there or are visiting, they actually want you to say words in how they pronounce them. I as an American felt disrespected in London when I was told how to say "arts and crafts." I am an American, not a Brit so to me to try and talk to like them with a fake British accent would be disrespectful unless I am an actress playing a British character. It's nuance.

Some people cannot help this thing of imitating accents , it is a part of and a version of Echocolia .
Especially if a autistic likes the way it sounds when they move their mouth, or sounds more smoothly to their ears,
And can be completely unconscious . But in case of just mimicking speech difficulties to make sport of someone is a different matter.

Those who fake accents for their own convenience SHOULD be canceled.

I was watching one of hezakaya's videos on school integration in Atalanta Georgia in 1970. I was absolutely shocked to see that white families organised busses to take their primary school aged kids out of their local schools which the federal government had forcibly integrated.

I wasn't aware the white families were pro-active in fighting integration as late as the 1970s by sending their children to all-white schools hours away. What was even more shocking was that 6 of the children in one bus were east Asian,

Then it dawned on me, One of my mother's friends who grew up in California in the 1950/60s said that east Asian parents had the option to send their children to any school but 100% avoided any schools with blacks and deliberately and actively sided with racist white parents in fighting integration for exactly the same reason as white parents.

Any wonder I see Asian faces fighting affirmative action and CRT in their schools in 2022. Same mentality.

I've had that really bad a few times, I did an Outward Bound trip in my teens where I lived on a boat with 13 other people for three weeks and one had a thick Alabama drawl, and I *could not* stop picking up his accent, I spent half the trip apologizing (the Alabaman just laughed it off).

I have mixed feelings about blaccents, as some people do acquire them honestly or affect them for legitimate reasons, I only start to have an issue when they're part of some sort of deception, like a wealthy suburbanite actually trying to pass themself off as from the inner city or something. Nobody bats an eye if a comic affects a backwoods accent or Long Island Lockjaw for comedic effect, I don't think the blaccent needs to be treated any differently.

You mean like how Awkwafina mysteriously sounds "black" on stage and like a "Valley girl" when talking to white or Asian people?

She seems to be another east Asian who doesn't practice what she preaches
https://www.papermag.com/awkwafina-blac ... elltitem10

The deception aspect is the main one that bothers me, more than if it's an accent associated with a particular ethnic group. That's why I went with the example I picked earlier or why I'd defend someone like R.A. the Rugged Man or Necro but not Awkwafina.

But Awkwafina does hip hop music though, so doesn't it make sense to take on such an accent when trying to be off that style of singing? For example Huey Lewis is white, but he makes his voice soundblack since he did soul music, wanted to do sound how black soul singers sing, in order to do the genre style he wanted.

Awkwafina and Australian rapper Iggy Azalea deliberately apply a blackccent, Iggy is worse because people who grew up with her know she is faking her accent.

Elvis, Huey Lewis, ZZ Top and Eric Clapton all sang black music but their accent is their own. They don't try and exaggerate the accent.

Oh but what I meant was Huey Lewis is still trying to make his voice sound black in terms of how a black person sounds, and not the accent so much. But also, he is still also, trying to do black music, so isn't that the same thing in terms of adapting the style of music from another race?

Nearly 99% of pop, metal and jazz music today copies black music to some level.

European classical music which makes up music theory relies on three composers from the 17th century

Orchestra instruments and dance is copied from jewish, gypsy, arabic and Indian (the guitar, accordion, harp, piano and violin is gypsy and was bought over by the gypsies from India where it was based on other stringed instruments such as the Sitar)

My point is, why are you picking on Huey Lewis, he's one of thousands.

Then how come people don't want to cancel musicians like Huey Lewis for taking on a black musical style, but people want to cancel Awkwafina for doing so?

As I said, the evolution of music has gone to a stage where pop music/indie/rock/metal is now white music. Huey Lewis is just pop. How people sing can't really be called appropriation anymore.

Awkwafina is deliberately doing a blackcent when she talks to the media. It's fake and cringey.

Oh okay I see. But what about when black Americans themselves talk in 'white accents'. Is it just as bad, but a double standard since they are never called out for it?