People keep telling me I have a white sounding voice. I’m not white ?

I articulate my words and I have a kind voice except I’m a ethnic woman and I really frigggn hate it here. Girls that even try to be my friend always remind me I have a white voice. I just feel like am I suppose to sound dumb or talk ghetto to get respect. When ever I tell them things that happen in my life they say oh it’s cause your sweet and your voice is so sweet and I sound white. Idk what to do because even as a adult I still have to feel like a outsider just because I articulate also I watch plenty of movies and shows and women of color that are successful sound just like me or similar. It makes me want to just be quiet turn my phone off and quit talking to people who think I talk weird or compare my voice to a whole race.

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th3r0n · 41-45, M

Frankly sounding intelligent and friendly is good, the fact that racism exists is bad, and the fact that sounding intelligent and friendly as a colored person makes them think you “sound white” is racist against black people, even black people have been shown to have negative racist attitudes and ideas toward black people in general, it’s something that’s been ingrained in a lot of people and it’s messed up in general

https://youtu.be/UEzCQBwQkdA

Lexiitexii · 31-35, F

@th3r0n Bingo because it’s other black girls who tell me this they make fun of me and tell me
I sound white when I have met plenty of white people who don’t sound like me especially in the south they sound more country

th3r0n · 41-45, M

@Lexiitexii exactly, most southern white people sound like a country song (I'm white and from the south but I'm weird, I probably sound a lot like you)

It's just negative connotations to race that they've accepted and even decided to find favorable, which is an extreme level of deception