“You talk like a white person.”

Growing up in a biracial family, the concept of race has always been confusing to me. As I grew older and began to learn more about my own identity I decided to stop identifying as biracial and began to only call myself black. When people ask me what I am and I tell them that I’m black, they sometimes respond with, “Really? You don’t sound black. You talk like a white person.” It infuriates me that people often forget that there can be diversity of speech, language, and culture within one specific race.