Obama has a “Negro dialect” when he wants to (according to Harry Reid). If you notice, when he gets a crowd fired up, he’s always slips into that dialect.
That seems to be a big part of this myth that he’s a great orator.
Obama has a “Negro dialect” when he wants to (according to Harry Reid). If you notice, when he gets a crowd fired up, he’s always slips into that dialect.
I call that his shuck and jive mode. If I were in his audience, I would be offended if spoke down to me like that.