I am a 29 yr old black male from NC,.....earn about 45k annually, and my job puts me in contact with people sometimes hours at time. It never fails, I always get asked by white people , "so where are you from, because you don't have an accent?" and what I feel they are really saying is "you speak so properly, you don't sound like a black person", I swear , it never fails.....,so if i say , "oh , im from NC"..... my answer still does not go unpunished, so then the questions ensue to the point where I cannot even complete my job. I know race is a sensitive issue here on the boards, but dont take it personally, this falls along the lines of white people complimenting a black person by saying they are articulate. so tell me , what's your biggest misconception?
2007-06-14
16:41:05
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