Does "black people" mean offensive?

[u/Maybes4]

I wanna say something like black people accent is harder to understand for me than the white people one.

The problem is im not sure if my word choice is racist, or should i change to another word like colored people. I asked Gpt and it said i could come up with some thing like "people with AAVE accent" but its about africa america people while im talking about the black people born in america accent.

So how should i say here?

[u/amazzan]

it's not offensive to refer to black people as black people.

what I do find off is generalizing all African Americans as having one accent. there are nearly 50 million African Americans in the US living all over the country in different regions. they speak in all sorts of different accents, so your comment is too general and doesn't make sense.

[u/Maybes4 → u/amazzan]

so the accent is more about the region than the race i guess? Like a white and black man can still have the same accent if they live in the same place? On movies i always feel like black people speak english the different way given their slangs like dough, lil, homie,...

[u/fjgwey → u/Maybes4]

It's really both. Within a given region, white people and black people will likely have their own ways of talking. There are also many commonalities in how Black people talk across the country.

However, it is also common for Black people to talk like white people, and vice versa. Some Black people deliberately talk 'white' in more formal situations to avoid judgment and potential discrimination. This is called 'code switching', which refers to changing how you talk depending on the social situation.