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I'm tired of this

I’m so tired of hearing “you sound white” how do you sound like a race? “Sounding 
white” doesn’t mean you’re educated or sound educated, just like “sounding black” doesn’t mean you speak ignorance, or sound uneducated. One of my biggest pet peeves. I don’t sound black I don’t sound white I sound like me. 

“My father was a slave and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you. And no fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that clear?”

—Paul Robeson (1898-1976), from testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, June 12, 1956
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