it was viola davis. i am hearing what any american can hear. i have a chapter about that in the book. the third thing in the book is a trajection levelled that it isn't okay. they can't talk that way in a job interview. talking about the complexity of not mocking the language because you mock the speakers. people say yes, that is true. but they can't talk that way at a job interview. nobody needs to be told that. and i think that why you get that response is because of a sense that we often have that the way somebody speaks cas i l i'll -- casually. with black english, that is worse and people think it is a mistake. that is an american misimpressions because our dialect diversity here is relatively then. english hasn't been here for 2000 years where it has been in england. so there kinds of english there that barely sound like english to us. america is 15 minutes old. we don't have that depth of that. some, gulla creole, and louisiana french. but they are-spoken on the march. and louisiana french is mostly extinct. there are dialect differences

it is viola davis. it wasn't accident. i don't have any special powers. i was hearing what every american can hear. it's a black sound. i have a chapter about that in the book. third thing, in the book, is the answer to an objection that is traditionally leveled against arguments that black english is okay. well they can't talk that way in a job interview. somebody always says that. somebody is talking about what some of the complexity might be how you shouldn't mock the language because you're mocking the speakers and somebody will say, yes, that's true, but they can't talk that way at a job interview but, okay, nobody said they were going to. nobody needs to be that and i think that why you get that response is because after sense we often have that the way somebody speaks casually is going to interfere with their ability to speak the formal variety where they are. now with black english that is even worse because everybody thinks it is a mistake. it is assume if you talk that way you won't be able to speak standard. even if we understand there is not m

there's very subtle factors of cameras that give you all subconsciously that this person is viola davis and not melissa mccarthy. and you know instantly and it could be analyzed scientifically, it's interesting. that got out there and an interesting thing is, what are your kids? your kids are going to ask, i asked my mother 1973, i'm sure people asked it all over the place and imagine your wife and your kid says how come you can always tell somebody's black even if you can't see them mommy to mark the impulses to say that's not true, black people sound like southerners. and you know that's not true. or the impulse to say no, everybody talks in different ways. you shouldn't stereotype. your kid has an iq over 40, they're going to think i'm not stereotyping, i'm hearing the truth so what do you tell a kid? and i think that we need to get comfortable saying black people have a slightly different sound because they often spend more time with one another just like white people sound more like one another because they tend is for them more time together and that's true of all human groups. it