....fam I fucking feel this. This is a whole goddamn mood for me. It’s tiring having to defend how I speak, especially to other black folks. I get called out for not sounding southern enough, not speaking like a black person among other things. Hell when I met my best friends in real life after gaming for a year, they were shocked that I was a black guy. Said they never would’ve imagined. The most painful thing to me is that it even mattered to begin with.Imagine how tiresome it is to go through it often enough to notice it being a thing and then hearing that you're not alone and that a lot of POC go through similar things.Hell we can even reduce it down to gaming specifically. Imagine how many quarters I would have if I received one every single time I received a "wait, you're black" in response to that knowledge in an MP game due to "being well spoken" and "well you don't sound black."
but yeah...
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