southern accent monologue

The speaker discusses the difficulty of imitating the language and accent of their ancestors' slave masters. They mention being skilled at it when necessary but not interested in doing it for free. They clarify that their accent is neutral and not a Southern accent. They attribute certain characteristics, like "long eyes," to the slave masters, not their own people. The speaker emphasizes their disassociation from those who enslaved their ancestors and expresses a desire to distance themselves from them. 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 is not. It actually came from them. Our accent is neutral, if you want to 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. Now when for them, we 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. Just 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?