I feel that. My bottom line is just be what and how you wanna be. Don't be who and how other people think you should be. Why should my ideals of how I think you should be affect you?
99% percent of the time. I speak with proper english and full enunciated words because I like how it sounds. When I talk I want people to KNOW what I'm saying. I want it to be loud and clear. I made a personal effort to train myself to be that way based on how I want me to be. I'm not gonna live my life according to anyone else's expectations. Indeed I might do a lot of ghetto s***, but that don't mean I have to present myself that way. I do what the hell I want to do and be how I want to be.
When people talk to me over the phone, even though I gotta deep voice some have said straight up said, they didn't "think" I was black. My only question is how do you think a black person "should be"?
Based on the rhythm of how I talk many people have told me a talk like a Mexican (the Cali I guess). In business, sometimes when I meet people in person, they pause first like "Oh" but then just keep it moving.
I don't know. I guess I just don't care what the next man does and have no personal investment enough to if it's not directly affecting me though. If someone is white-washed based on your perception of yourself, than that's their issue. It don't affect my bottom line and if you don't think that mode of thinking is "black" enough for you life then so what.