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What does Elijah Mohammed have that funny accent?


It sounds like a foreign accent yet he was born in Georgia and spent his entire life in the US so what up with that? Was it simply bad casting and that is the actor's natural accent?








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He did not want to speak the accent of a commoner also he did not want to rely on the racist North American accent of his slaver oppressers. So he invented his own. Any other questions?

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He did not want to speak the accent of a commoner also he did not want to rely on the racist North American accent of his slaver oppressers. So he invented his own. Any other questions?
What do you mean by "rely" ? An accent is simply an accent. It doesn't provide anything substantial. Seems like a long con act to me.










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He was his own man. He did not need the dialect of the white man or the institutionalized racism of NORTH AMERICA. He spoke the way he wanted to speak because he was a free man, not to mention dynamic.

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He was his own man. He did not need the dialect of the white man or the institutionalized racism of NORTH AMERICA. He spoke the way he wanted to speak because he was a free man, not to mention dynamic.
First of all, an accent is not a dialect. Say what you want but any person who puts on an accent is either delusional or playing a part. You take your pick. Me? I like the people that I look up to be genuine, not phony. Not playing a part.




NOI was a con created by a WHITE man in case you don't know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Fard_Muhammad


Elijah Mohammad was a scam artist who bilked poor working black folks out of their hard-earned money and was a dirty old man banging teenage chicks and didn't have the decency to take care of them even though he was loaded. He became what he despised. Just like the white man, fkn you, running off, and making you guilty for allowing yourself to be fked. An exact metaphor that matches what he did to those poor girls.













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It wasn't the actor's accent. He doesn't talk like that in other movies that he has been in.

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