So This Makes Me Less Black?

  I had a eyebrow ring when everybody thought only lesbians and famous rock stars wore them. I listen to NickelBack, Coldplay, Lady Gaga, and Madonna in addition to rap and hip-hop. I hang out in Barnes & Nobles, Boarders, and Starbucks, and are addicted to the cafe's many variety of frappucinos. I speak proper english, and use big words, and I speak proper. What I do not understand is why am I always being told I dont act black?

How does one act a particular color? How does one act a particular race or nationality? Why does race define a person's style of clothing, speaking, hobbies, or musical genre. When I was younger my mother always scolded me to "stop acting white" or "stop talking like a white girl". I didn't understand it then, just like I don't understand it now. Colors do not talk a certain way, just like there is no particular language for black and white. I'm an American, and African-American so I speak the english that I was taught the right way.

   I have lost friends because they thought I was stuck up, and that I thought I was better than them because according to them "I don't act black".  I have heard people say that "I think I am white" because I hang out with white people, I am a twilight fan, I shop in hot topic, and I listen to GooGoo Dolls. I have friends of every nationality, hell, if I met a purple person and he or she was good person, treated people with respect as well as themselves I would have a purple friend. Race has nothing to do with a person's style or demeanor.