The thing is, she is putting on an act here. There are tapes of her back in the day and she sounded like a perfectly educated lady with clear enunciation, pronunciation, and a decent vocabulary.

I think they call it "mode switching" or something. For me, it should be as insulting to other black people as blackface. As if the black population wouldn't support her unless she started saying things like "I need to axe a question." Instead of using "ask." It's play-acting, and yes white leftists eat it up.

It is horribly racist and plays to a stereotype feeding into the black fatigue (a phrase that is all the rage in black podcasting.