--- title: "How to pronounce \"driving while black\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"driving while black\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/dkS_CgVZ8Ts/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/driving-while-black" --- # How to pronounce "driving while black" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/drɪvɪngwɪlɛblæk/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **dri·vin·gwhi·le·black** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (11 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "driving while black" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "Listen, this is not to be romantic, but to assert a plausible scenario for the existential moment. Driving while Black is its own genre of experience. Ask Marvin. It may not be the reason why you sing like an angel, but it surely has something to do with why heaven bends to your voice." - **Watch at 5:40**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkS_CgVZ8Ts&t=340s) ### Example 2 *Accent: US* > "Driving while black is an interesting phenomenon." - **Watch at 130:30**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQh7NfQTfQg&t=7830s) ### Example 3 *Accent: US* > "is far away, driving while black would not be an issue." - **Watch at 60:58**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UukFbfvmJE&t=3658s) ### Example 4 > "They've been killed when they were alone, and they've been killed when they were with others. They've been killed shopping while black, driving while black, having a mental disability while black, having a domestic disturbance while black." - **Watch at 13:02**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o&t=782s) ### Example 5 *Accent: US* > "major jurisdictions in the United States and looked at the risk of driving while black and in every single one of them black drivers were more likely to be" - **Watch at 3:26**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I6NVy4U00o&t=206s) ### Example 6 *Accent: US* > "I admire your optimism for technology but I think the problem with driving while black is actually a lot more embedded with just like cars" - **Watch at 84:58**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UukFbfvmJE&t=5098s) ### Example 7 > "So you may have heard people talk about being picked up and walking while black or driving while black, right?" - **Watch at 9:23**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAEzrEb0yuk&t=563s) ### Example 8 > "He said, "Granddad, did you hear what they said on TV?" I said, "Yes, I did." He said, "I'm just so confused. We do everything we do, but it seems that driving while black, walking while black, talking while black, it's just dangerous. What can we do? We do everything that you told us to do." - **Watch at 10:05**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6LxuFpDIYM&t=605s) ### Example 9 *Accent: US* > "person of color is more likely to be stopped by the police, the so-called driving while black or driving while brown. Uh we know that during that stop," - **Watch at 6:46**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL7s0TPy-UQ&t=406s) ### Example 10 > "Let me tell you how this works. I'm not supposed to care when black youth are harassed by police, because my white-looking Jewish kids probably won't ever get pulled over for the crime of driving while black. Well, not so, because this is also my problem." - **Watch at 14:45**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Nno6POrwE&t=885s) ## How to Pronounce "driving while black" - **Syllables**: dri · vin · gwhi · le · black - **IPA**: `/drɪvɪngwɪlɛblæk/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [driving](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/driving), [while](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/while), [black](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/black) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “driving while black”? “driving while black” is pronounced /drɪvɪngwɪlɛblæk/ (dri · vin · gwhi · le · black). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “driving while black”? “driving while black” has 5 syllables: dri · vin · gwhi · le · black. ### How can I hear “driving while black” used in real sentences? 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