Aarons Air
Well-Known Member
It seems to me, you hear " creek " in the south. And " crick " in the north, generallg speaking. But, "aks " is everywhere.
Is this really what you think about?
Why is a question I have been asking for decades.............and never got an answer.Why do a certain RACE in America, and yes, America only, pronounce the word ASK as AKS?
That would probably be construed as racist......................especially today.And yet, no one corrects them?
Whut ya'll askin us fer? Why not ask someone who's actually Black if you wanna know about Black accents...No Black B-Body owners here you can ask?
My Fathers side of the Family is from a small Island in Maryland...People talk really different there...My Mothers side are from the South and have harder accents than "They" do...I have an accent and use certain phrases because my parents spoke that way...As did my Grandparents...And all my Friends and Family.....Is there any other reason for an accent?
How my Grandparents spoke...
Sooooo...I pretty much only lurk here...But this little snippet of Racism triggered me a bit into leaving my first comment...
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See I have a Black trainee...A young man who shows up every day for work and wants to be more than he is now...Who constantly thanks our boss for hiring him and who truly appreciates the training he's receiving...He's got long dreaded hair (which does worry me, as we work with some heavy equipment) and has "that" accent...We do Ironworking and heavy construction in case you're wondering...It's not an office job...He's helping build the world that We/You live in...As fast as he's learning he'll be running a crew himself within a year...He didn't know how to use a drill when he started...Six months later he knows how to use every power tool I own, weld, cut with a torch, follow assembly instructions and diagnose basic problems with high voltage motors and low voltage control wiring...I can send him out with a truck and parts and have him do certain jobs on his own...He was raised by a single mother without a solid father figure to show him anything...He's the same age as my oldest son and he tells me regularly he looks up to me like a Father and tells me how much he appreciates everything I've taught him...We've had honest discussions about Race and what it's like growing up without a Father...What it's like growing up as a little Black boy...
He and my son had the same toys...Liked the same Superheros...Played the same video games, read the same books.......
Anyway...Long story...He's a good man and when I see someone else stacking yet one more card in the deck against him over something so petty as an accent it disgusts me...I'd love to be able to sit a few of the sneaky racists I encounter down with him and let them talk to him for an hour...I bet at the end of that hour they'd regret a lot of the Racist crap they say and think..............If not then I wouldn't feel bad busting their lip...
Here's me and my 1st Charger BTW...
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And here's my second...
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Also...I know no one likes a New guy showing up spouting off about morality...Sorry...Kinda...
My info is that "Cracker" was a reference to slave owners that would "crack" the whip as a warning to their slaves to obey....or else.And in the right spots in the midwest dudes maybe something else. And are crackers really crackers?
I worked with a black guy that was a really great Carpenter Framer. He has 2 sons, both went to college and got degrees. (In what....I don't know) One son decided to work in construction but was not very well skilled. He talked like a hoodrat. I asked him one day...."Hey Eric, I'm curious about the way you speak. I would think that after $50,000 in college tuition, you'd speak different." He responded....."I likes to tokk street".
(I like to talk street)
I'm sure it could also just be that particular individual.
We've been celebrating dumb white kids for years.