Reddit reviews He Talk Like a White Boy

Joseph Phillips, a black actor, wrote a memoir touching on his experiences with this phenomenon. The title is He Talk Like A White Boy. https://www.amazon.com/He-Talk-Like-White-Boy/dp/0762423994

In college I had a few classes with a black immigrant from Congo (don't recall if it was Democratic Republic of the Congo, or the much smaller Republic of the Congo). He was very soft-spoken and articulate, and spoke fourteen languages. English with near-fluency, IIRC he also French, Portuguese and a number of native African languages. He mentioned once in a discussion that white Americans never once gave him any grief about his accent or when he occasionally made a grammar or vocabulary mistake. But black people routinely teased him about "talking funny" or when he misspoke and mimicked him jokingly.

he also told me about a SJW incident with a white female professor. he described himself as "black African" or "black Congolese" once, and the prof interrupted him to say that "African American" was the preferred term. he said he had no objection to being described as black, and was not yet a US citizen so didn't feel right calling himself American. case closed, right? nope. the teacher lorded her privilege all over him and said that whatever he preferred, African-American was the proper description.

edit: the (black) economist Thomas Sowell also write an interesting book called Black Rednecks and White Liberals. He examines how 'ghetto' culture can actually be traced back to rowdy white rednecks who immigrated to the US from Scotland IIRC. ghetto is not authentic black or African in any way.

>when she says to me, "You don't act like a black person..." just because I happen to be articulate and a touch nerdy.

Joseph Phillips? Is that you?

http://www.amazon.com/He-Talk-Like-White-Boy/dp/0762423994