This is a big old, but I also have been told I sound like a white woman. But I don't get offended at the ignorance of other people. I just smile.

My situation of always being the only black girl in an office of white people, I couldn't help but sound like them. Also, my grandmother took me on her arm when I was 13 and I did domestic work, and later stayed a whole day and night babysitting white children until I was almost 18. I was treated nicely, ate with them, took the children to the playground and movies, etc. But I thank God for the experience, because I learned not to be intimidated later in life.

The persona spread amongst poor, and poorly educated blacks, whose only experience is negative, police, etc, is that they are the enemy. But there are good and bad in every culture.