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[โ€“] IHawkMike@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

While I can't speak from experience, I would imagine this isn't terribly uncommon for black people in America at least (and other people of color).

There's still a lot of systemic racism over here, so unfortunately sometimes you have to mask who you are just to approach being treated the same as white people.

[โ€“] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I've heard plenty of reports from African Americans that in their Black friend group/school group that they can be critized for not sounding Black enough. One famous example is Neil deGrasse Tyson, who felt like might be disappointing people by pursuing academia over wrestling.