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Jeff,
I'd have to say the only time I have heard Cornell is on C-span where I believed the setting to be a seminar type one. Might not be the best word for the setting. Nevertheless, I never found his speech patterns or tones to be afrocentric. I considered them as standard as the next guy who was speaking. Limited viewings.
I have never heard you speak but if you speak the way you write, I characterize that as standard English used in the academic and professional world. Your thoughts, at times, have an 'afrocentric' viewpoint but the syntax and semantics, and your written register are standard English as far as I can see. Plus your rhetorical style is associated with the western european-greco world.
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