Why are black and white accents so different in america?
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BY COINCIDENCE, two big new films feature race, voice and the telephone in America. In Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman”, based on a true story, a black policeman, successfully putting on his whitest-sounding voice, convinces a Ku Klux Klansman he is a supporter. (When the time comes to meet the group in person, he enlists a white partner.) And in Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You”, the down-on-his-luck young black protagonist, Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield), takes a job in telemarketing. A wise old black colleague (played by Danny Glover) tells him: “You wanna make some money here? Use your white voice.” And as if flipping a switch, Mr Glover’s character demonstrates it. Cassius learns his own white voice (played by David Cross, a white comedian), and soon he is on a rocket-ride to success.
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