I think it's possible for a non-accented character to play an accented character respectfully and well. I think it's harder than ppl think https://twitter.com/nototally/status/875106087472513024 …
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It's similar to but not identical to Black comedians code-switching between "standard English" and AAVE dialects, cf Key and Peele
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The main way it's not identical is that there's a much stronger sense of Othering accented folks when you call it "your parents' accent"
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Instead of the line from Keanu "Hey I talk like this sometimes" it's "I don't ever talk like this this is what I escaped"
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Which was at one point a major feature of respectability politics for Black entertainers
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Richard Pryor et al fought a pitched battle for Black celebs to reclaim AAVE -- a battle Bill Cosby was still on the other side of
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