How come black ppl don't talk like this anymore?

[Counter Racist Male]

Regional accents are still alive man.

Yeah but not at the level they once were. There’s some places people have no accent at all. Especially in places that have a lot of people from all over.

 

[EBK String]

Black people don’t seem as sharp as we did back in the day in general.

All of america has been dumbed down. We have experienced decades of anti intellectualism.

 

[ISO]

Yeah but not at the level they once were. There’s some places people have no accent at all.

Like where? That shyt just ain’t human nature no matter how much TV you watch ya environment gonna influence speech

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

And how did jive turkey get pushed out of African American vernacular?

 

[kingofnyc]

ADOS / FBA / Black Americans



we da flyest people on da planet & all we got is us

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Black people don’t seem as sharp as we did back in the day in general.

We took education and speaking properly more seriously back in the 50s - 80s.

Notice how educated breh sounds. These days you get roasted for speaking proper and clear

 

[Majestyx]

Like where? That shyt just ain’t human nature no matter how much TV you watch ya environment gonna influence speech

i've noticed that suburban people from various parts in america all sound like the same mufukka. shyt is weird AF . especially early to mid 20's suburban people.

 

[CopiousX]

Black people don’t seem as sharp as we did back in the day in general.

True. I honestly think the 80s set black people back a few decades.

 

[Mike Nasty]

It'd be interesting to know where they were from. If I had to bet, I'd say West Coast, especially the dude towards the end.

 

[African Peasant]

Like where? That shyt just ain’t human nature no matter how much TV you watch ya environment gonna influence speech

I know a lot of cats who spend more time in front of a screen than talking to people in their area. Technology is destroying geographical barriers.
TV and the internet pushed a trend of uniformization in music, slang, fashion, etc.

 

[cole phelps]

True. I honestly think the 80s set black people back a few decades.

Yep that crack shyt set us back BIG time we still recovering from the aftershocks in 2020

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

wish people in general spoke like that, the definition of cool

Facts man, I hate the way bammas talk these days. The typical cadence to our voices as Black folks (or at least those of us who are 16 to 32) today sound like something straight out of a Trap music video

 

[mbewane]

Television man. Most young people don’t have much of an accent outside a few areas in the country if you ever noticed.

I know a lot of cats who spend more time in front of a screen than talking to people in their area. Technology is destroying geographical barriers.
TV and the internet pushed a trend of uniformization in music, slang, fashion, etc.

Facts. Television (and now the Internet) and more-so the standardized version of language that it uses is a known factor to the disappearance of regional accents and uniformization of culture (including language). Obviously I wouldn't know about the US but it's been studied in France. National TV has always pushed a standardized version of french (the "Parisian" french) meaning all kids in the country grew up hearing that accent, and at the same time other accents were relegated to the equivalent of the "backwards countryside". So people had a social incentive to lose the regional accent. (Ironically, one of the very few areas where this uniformization did not happen is in HH). That and increased mobility from one region to another leads to accents and regional languages/slangs slowly disappearing. Similar dynamics are probably to be found in the US, even though it's much less centralized.

It's the same thing, to an extent, that is now happening at an international level with english/globish, which leads to a severe uniformization of culture.

 

[AuntAnniesPretzels]

White people were the ones who were pillaging their country yet Asians want to hate on us? Fukk those people, straight up.

 

[Rawtid]

I watch this YouTube channel Hezakya Newz & Films, and it has a bunch of throwback videos and I always notice how people speak.