I don& #39;t want to give this racist the time of day, but I will use this opportunity to say a couple of things. People& #39;s regional dialects often get "stronger" when they are in the region of their native dialect. AAVE speakers also often code-switch between *multiple* dimensions 1/ https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1386865990475018243">https://twitter.com/Acyn/stat...

So, a white New Yorker might sound way more "New York" in NYC than they do in their new home of CA. Speakers of AAVE doesn& #39;t just switch regionally, though. They often switch between broad AAE/AAVE, regionally-specific AAVE, as well as varieties of "Standard American." 2/

AAE/AAVE originated in the South & has then developed different regional varieties after diaspora. However, the rich oratorical tradition of AAE/AAVE carries a lot of the Southern tradition, such that an orator from Illinois might sound more "Southern" when giving a speech. 3/

Ingarham is clearly just a racist. 1st, Mr. Sellers is *from the South*. 2nd, even non-Southern AAE/AAVE speakers might sound more Southern when giving a speech to a Black audience. Given some of our best American orators have been AAE/AAVE speakers, people should know this. 4/

People pulled this same garbage w/ Barack Obama. They accused him of being a fake when he code-switched from "Standard American" to AAE/AAVE. They also accused him of faking a regional dialect both in broad speeches & when he was in the South. It& #39;s all linguistic racism 5/

Tucker Carlson most recently went on a rant about Obama& #39;s "accent" during John Lewis& #39;s funeral, calling the "accent" fake and Obama "Mr. Hawaii Guy." If Fox News were generally interested in AAE/AAVE code-switching they would have figured it out by now. But they& #39;re just racist.