Have you ever tried to learn another language as an adult? If you do, you're going to speak it in an accent that is going to be extremely hard/impossible to get rid of.
That is the type of thing the article is talking about. Once your speech patterns are set (by age 10 or so), barring a concerted effort, that's the way you're going to talk for the rest of your life.
Note: I'm not talking about the (legitimate) lexical and grammatical differences between Standard American and AAVE, I mean the way speech sounds. The accent. The way that you can tell someone born and raised in Texas from someone from New Jersey just by listening to them.
The point of the article is that if you happen to have grown up in an environment that leads you to sound identifiably Black, then all else equal, you will have lower wages.
You can say that you don't care; that's fine. You're allowed to be callous. But you can't imply that the person who sounds Black has only to change their (ingrained) accent to solve their problem. That takes the blame from society and places it on the victim, thus perpetuating the evil. You're not allowed to be evil.
That is the type of thing the article is talking about. Once your speech patterns are set (by age 10 or so), barring a concerted effort, that's the way you're going to talk for the rest of your life.
Note: I'm not talking about the (legitimate) lexical and grammatical differences between Standard American and AAVE, I mean the way speech sounds. The accent. The way that you can tell someone born and raised in Texas from someone from New Jersey just by listening to them.
The point of the article is that if you happen to have grown up in an environment that leads you to sound identifiably Black, then all else equal, you will have lower wages.
You can say that you don't care; that's fine. You're allowed to be callous. But you can't imply that the person who sounds Black has only to change their (ingrained) accent to solve their problem. That takes the blame from society and places it on the victim, thus perpetuating the evil. You're not allowed to be evil.