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« on: July 23, 2013, 12:55:19 AM »

It's mainly a class thing, middle and upper-class blacks will usually speak in "normal" accents, poorer or less-educated blacks speak a somewhat dialectical form of English ("Ebonics") with slightly different grammar and vocabulary and spoken with a somewhat singsongy accent.
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