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NullTuples

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16. He's a corrupt P.O.S. but that second one is racist & classist and should not be posted here.
Sat Apr 8, 2023, 08:02 PM
Apr 2023

It should be noted that his public speaking voice/dialect does not sound like that & therefore the meme text can be construed to be either racist, classist or both.

"Until he was 6, Thomas lived in deep poverty in the lowcountry in Pin Point, Georgia. Like nearly every black child who grows up in Gullah-Geechee homes in the lowcountry – which includes communities descended from plantation slaves primarily in Georgia and South Carolina, but with roots in northern Florida and southern North Carolina – he spoke Gullah at home.

For years, Gullah was considered to be "pidgin English" – corrupted or badly spoken English that whites generally dismissed as the language of the uneducated. But Gullah isn't that, scholars have proven.

Gullah is a beautiful language, with a rich heritage. Some of the stories from the Gullah tradition have made their way into popular culture in America, though most people don't realize the origin. Br'er Rabbit and his briar patch is a Gullah story. The next time you sing "Kumbayah" proudly, with emotion and feeling, you can thank Gullah at the end of the song."


Mock someone for their dialect & you are mocking every person with that dialect, or who shows signs of the same past.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-30/why-clarence-thomas-rarely-speaks-from-the-supreme-court-bench

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