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The recent "code-switching" episodes made me remember an episode of #NYPDBlue when Andy and Lt. Fancy were on a stakeout with another Black detective who Andy both despised but helped as a fellow alcoholic. 1/
Doing this from memory so may be fuzzy on some of the details but basically, Fancy, who challenged all of Andy's racism and biases, started "talking Black" to the other detective and Andy was confused. "Where'd you learn to talk like that? I thought you grew up middle class". 2/
"At my daddy's knee" said Fancy. Andy was aghast and thought because of Fancy's upbringing he always spoke how he spoke at work. Fancy made the point (and this is where I can't remember his exact words) that we do it for people like him. Which is the point. 3/
