southern accent

The speaker discusses the difficulty of imitating the accent of their enslaved ancestors and expresses their dislike for those who enslaved them. They clarify that the accent associated with black people actually originated from the slave masters, and that their true accent is neutral. The speaker emphasizes their disinterest in imitating this accent for free and their desire to distance themselves from those who enslaved their ancestors. It's difficult trying to sound like those that enslaved me many many years ago, but I'll do it for a price. I'm pretty damn good at it, if I gotta be. Actually that's not true, I'm pretty good at it, when I gotta be. But I'm not really interested in it, just for free. Because we paid a lot, a whole lot, for what we went through. And I can't stand those who did it to us. But we'll do what we gotta do, alright? I tell you, you think that's really our way of talking, our accent? It's not. It actually came from them. Our accent is neutral, if you wanna know the truth about things. We really don't have a southern, what they call southern accent. Neither do they. But we have long eyes, they come from them slave masters, they don't come from us. If it wasn't for them, we'd be talking totally different from what you think we're supposed to sound like. But we don't really sound like that. And truthfully, we really sound like this, that's what we really sound like. But, we're just gonna go right back to sound like this, alright? So next time you try to come up with what you consider a black scent, as opposed to an accent, remember where it really came from. It didn't come from us, it came from them. And I really don't want anything to do with those who enslaved my ancestors. Alright?