Day wouldn’t have understood the concept of immortal cells or HLA markers coming from anyone, accent or not—he’d only gone to school for four years of his life, and he’d never studied science.
This, to me, is an example of how generational wealth has been taken from the black population. While my grandmother and grandfather were going to school, getting well paying jobs, and raising their kids, these folks were relying on the 3rd grade reading level of their father, getting beaten and raped by their cousins, and struggling to pay for the food to put in their kids mouth.