Ahh, linguistic profiling.
I am a newspaper reporter for a business journal. I mainly deal with white folx in my professional life.
So, good diction and proper grammar are important. When I was younger, however, I got the good ol' "You're so articulate, ST."
Irritating.
I grew up in a house where if I spoke in Ebonics, my mother would correct me and fast. Mama ST, who spent her first 12 years in segregated South Carolina schools (she's in her 70s), does not tolerate that.
Even now, she will put me on blast: "Your father and I didn't pay $XX,XXX for your college education to hear you talk like that."
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