Shanti
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- Nov 29, 2015
What's wrong with having an accent, anyway? Mary Poppins had an accent...There are in Texas too. I see it as a way of talking rather than anything bad about the person.
Southern accents, both black and white, are part of American culture and nothing bad. If a person thinks a Southern accent equals stupidity, it says more about the listener than about the speaker. William Faulkner, the greatest American novelist of all time, had a heavy Southern accent. So did MLK, Jr., one of world history's most important political activists, and Louis Armstrong, one of the world's best jazz musicians.
I'm a Texan, and an old pastor I know once said, "I liked Lyndon Johnson. He was the only President I ever heard who didn't have an accent."
It's all in the ear of the beholder...
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