Undertones of racism does exist in this case...

…en like him staring back from the screen, their soft, clipped RP tones wafting out of the speakers. To see a young, black, working-class woman on the BBC clearly did not sit well with Lord Jones, who chose to pick on Scott’s pronunciation as a veiled attack on what he views as the downfall of broadcasting i.e. allowing the lower classes and ethnic minorities on air.
A Spot of G-dropping, My Lord? British Attitudes to Accent and Class
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Nicholas H. Simpson
Adebayo Adeniran
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Aug 15, 2021
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Undertones of racism does exist in this case...
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