So, almost without a doubt, this is an exchange between white people about people of color.  In fact, it’s disturbingly obvious what they’re talking about and the prejudice they’re exhibiting. Sometimes people talk differently.  Sometimes the way people talk is tied to their race or tied to their class.  Sometimes the way people talk is tied to the fact that they didn’t go to a nice school in the nearly all-white suburbs. The history of massive white flight as a response to integration is what CREATED richer, whiter suburbs (with nicer schools) and poorer, darker inner-cities (with shittier schools). “What has happened to intelligence in this country?”  Well, for one thing, schools today are actually more segregated than they were in the 1960’s.  Think about that the next time you want to feel like you’re better than someone else. In my experience, people who make racist-ass comments like the above never seem to think of themselves as racist.  So, let me ask, do you think it’s possible to truly mask this sort of contemptuous, greater-than-thou attitude when actually interacting with a person of color? My answer is that it can’t be possible, that people can see and can feel when you think you’re better than they are.  So, for white people to claim that racism doesn’t exist anymore, and then instead ridicule poor people of color’s speech… That’s some racist shit.