Yes, yes, I know that feeling! LOL Heck yes.. It is a frustrating thing. But think God when one finds friends that look past the exterior and into the interior of a person.
There is such thing as acting white and acting black for real. Just because you talk properly it does not mean you're acting white .I can change my grammer from hood to educated but I still sound black. Actually acting white or black is true , im too tired to write that down
I'll punch a whole in your theory right now. Do you think that a man born and raised in Uganda acts just like a brotha born and raised in Decatur Atlanta? Or someone from the Ukrain acts like someone from Memphis Tennessee?
LOL uganda ? Im talking bout USA shawty. Acting black = Acting black american. Acting white =Acting white american .I cant speak for africa but I kow for a fact there are certain ways black americans and white americans act/sound/words they use which are different .
Well I was born in Westchester County, NY and raised by two Jamaican immigrants and spent most of my life in private catholic schools. Do you think id be the same as someone who grew up in the Bronx and went to pub,ic schools?
I'll say I can generally identify if someone is black on the phone. We don't overcome ignorance by pleading ignorance.
I think there is too much sensitivity these days and when people say anything that is not politically correct they are immediately labeled a racist. Some people have incredibly racist views and yet they say and believe in their hearts they are not racist...its just ignorance! From the few posts I read I think that she is just ignorant on the subject and probably doesnt even realize you felt offended. Just let her know how you feel in a polite way. Get to know her better and see what happens. Its like that movie gran torino...that character was not really a racist, he was just ignorant and the kids actually made him see how ignorant he was.
You won't be the same as the bronx kid because the bronx kid will be around more black people put it like this . If a black guy grows up somewhere in maine , the chances are he will act like the people around him (whites) If a white guy grows up somewhere in brooklyn , the chances are he will act like the people around him (blacks)
Not to toot my own horn but I am very good in pin pointing accent, diction, and speech pattern of d/t races and regions...... but these days it is harder and harder. I know blk folks who sound "white on the phone and has white names" and when you meet them, you're like wow. Even my own voice and speech pattern... ppl from our office get shocked when we play in BB league or volleyball tournament... I will switch it up real quick... I aint going to act "all valley educated" up in that park, hell nah... with bunch of street leagues and so on...... I will be like yo, pass me da ball, foshizle.....
I'm still trying to understand. Ok what about a kid who grows up in the cornfields of Kansas who is white and around mostly whites and a kid who is from Greenwich Connecticut who grew up around mostly white. Its like they almost speak different languages
Just as Andrea pointed out; I think it has more to do with the enviroment/culture that person grew up in. Now me, you could guess very quickly I am a white girl from the south. I have that thick southern drawl. I was raised with a very country family. But my friend, who is white, and also from around here, sounds completly different than I. Her enviroment was beign raised in the suburbs by a very 'posh' family. Mine, is obviously the very opposite. Just because were both white does not mean that we sound the same. Enviroment/Culture has alot to do with the way someone talks and the slang that they use.
