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Race & Ethnicity

thucythucy

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2. The comments about assumptions about people with Southern accents

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Sat Nov 25, 2023, 11:59 AM

Nov 2023

reminds me of an old Lenny Bruce routine, when he says that if Albert Einstein had had a Southern accent we never would have developed the bomb.

He even talks about Southern lawyers, and then launches into what a Northern lawyer sounds like to a Southern jury, and what a Southern lawyer sounds like to a Northern jury.

There is indeed nothing new under the sun....

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