Black people stop talking white around white people or when speaking to white people

Brandi NoBarExam West
2 min readApr 16, 2020

White people don’t talk black when talking to black people then switch back to talking white when speaking to white people, so why do black people feel they have to adjust their voice when talking to white people?

The problem isn’t sounding white

The problem is changing your voice to sound white when blacks speak to a white person. There’s a difference between a black who sounds white because of where they may have grew up and a black persons who adjust their voice to sound white when speaking to white people.

What’s wrong with sounding black?

Black people changing their voice to sound white when speaking to white people is not cool because that’s not being authentic. Why should you have to adjust your voice to fit in? What have you gained by adjusting your voice to sound white? Please tell me you have gained something.

Whoever don’t like you for how you naturally are that’s too bad.

When will people learn that it’s best to be themselves? Imagine a white person switching their voice to mimic a black person when speaking with black people. That would be the end of time. They’d be labeled as…

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