{"id":7362,"date":"2026-06-18T09:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/david-oyelowo-says-black-southern-accent-is-just-slavery-nigerian-subservience\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:40:23","slug":"david-oyelowo-says-black-southern-accent-is-just-slavery-nigerian-subservience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/david-oyelowo-says-black-southern-accent-is-just-slavery-nigerian-subservience\/","title":{"rendered":"David Oyelowo Says Black Southern Accent Is Just Slavery + Nigerian + Subservience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XWbZKDYNblw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Selma star David Oyelowo is facing major backlash after<br \/>\ncomparing the Black Southern accent to a &quot;slowed down&quot;<br \/>\nNigerian accent with &quot;slavery&quot; and &quot;subservience&quot; added<br \/>\nin. The comments sparked outrage across Black social media<br \/>\nbefore Oyelowo issued an apology calling his words<br \/>\n&quot;careless and wrong.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In this video we break down exactly what he said, why it<br \/>\nstruck such a nerve, the real linguistic history of Black<br \/>\nSouthern English, and whether his apology actually<br \/>\naddresses the harm.<\/p>\n<p>#DavidOyelowo #BlackSouthernAccent #BlackTwitter<br \/>\n#BlackCulture #BlackHistory #AAVE #Selma #BlackLinguistics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selma star David Oyelowo is facing major backlash after comparing the Black Southern accent to a &quot;slowed down&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lisa-cabrera"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hqdefault-179.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}