African-Americans have been speaking in almost exclusively English for quite some time now, so there's a dialect associated with how they speak English. Even if a black guy grew up in Bumblefukk, Wyoming, the way he speaks is still influenced by his African-American family members. If a Chinese or Salvadoran family were to move to the same bumblefukk town, their kids would most likely sound "white" because they use most of their English among white people.
As for your other point, that is interesting, I think the same thing applies to many black Brits. Maybe it's because I'm not British, but I don't think Idris Elba's British Accent sounds any different from that of white Brits.
most african-americans i've met got that thick southern drawl to their accents and this makes sense because african-americans originated in the american south....white southeners sometimes got those thick accents too and they remind me a lot of african-americans when they speak
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