>>115539423It comes from the fact that people think you’re pretending to be white, i.e. you’re pretending you’re better than anyone else. Which is a side-effect of things like white beauty standards being pushed on black people, i.e. curly hair ugly, straight hair beautiful. Education being a rate privilege due to poverty, etc. It’s built an unfortunate culture of resentment where standing apart from everyone else in the community makes people lash out.
I mean, you see this even in white communities, say if you return to the south after being away and now you’ve got nicer clothes and sound like an east coast guy. People automatically look you a bit funny, like, suddenly you better than us? It just hasn’t got the same level of spread because of economic climbing and moving around has been considerably easier if you’re white so it doesn’t build up and find roots to the same degree.
I have a cousin who literally speaks in perfect text book english, without any normal slang, and has spoken like that basically as long as I can remember, and it’s kinda annoying as fuck even though I know it’s got nothing to do with being pretentious twat on purpose.
