Stereotyping Argument Analysis

F or this written task, it is an editorial for the New York Times magazine associating stereotyping individuals through their accents. Stereotyping people’s accents has created a big controversy, if it should be considered as a racist remark or for entertainment. In this editorial, I will be explaining why stereotyping accents can and isn’t racist.
In class, we investigated about this matter of why it is okay to make humorous remarks about certain accents over others. My written task comes from experience because of the various nationalities there are in the class. During class, we can reflect on stereotyping accents because we never thought about why we make fun of certain accents. As an example, we, as a class, make fun the Indian accent

Rickford explains how Ebonics is used to express African Americans in a community, in a way that would relate with themselves, “Most African Americans – including millions who like Brown and Baldwin, are fluent speakers of Standard English- still invoke Spoken Soul as we have for hundreds of years, to laugh or cry, to preach and praise, to shuck and jive, to sing, to rap, to shout, to style, to express our individual personas and our ethnic identities.” This proves that there is a purpose for accents for example, back when slavery was still existence, slaves used different editions from the language their masters were using. The Slaves were able to communicate to each other without their masters knowing what the slaves were saying.
This leads back to the issue if Stereotyping should be considered a racist remark. There are different reasons why it shouldn`t be racist remark because there is a history behind it. For example, in India, they have a Hinglish accent because they were colonized by the British and that lead them to mixing Hindi and English. Ebonics was created because it was used as a “coded language” so that their head masters could not understand what they were saying. So no it shouldn’t be racist remark because it only reflects on who they were, and from where they came