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What does it mean according to mcwhorter to sound black

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Linguist John McWhorter, who also happens to be Black, says that the Black sound has subtle ways of pronouncing certain vowels that we interpret as a Black sound. And those who do not pronounce their vowels in those ways, we will hear them as not sounding Black.

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