That's Just Me

If I had to describe my language I would most likely have to say that it is more northern then southern, but when I did travel further up north to New York from DC on a college tour, our class was told that we had Southern accents. Now with that said it is an insult to say that someone from DC sounds southern because that is not what we categorized ourselves with. I think that comes from us defining the south with these thick country accents that we know for a fact that we not have.

In my opinion, North Carolina it is a mix of different accents. Some with thick country accents, others with slim to medium accents, and lastly a few with none. I feel that the way that you talk comes from how your parents talked to you as a child.

I know personally I was outcast from others at school simply because of the way that I talked. I know pretty dumb right. In school, by my fellow classmates I was told that I talked proper or white or like a valley girl or a 10 year old kid. Hey you can disagree with me, but that is what I was told. I was soft spoken and didn’t yell at the top of my lungs like many of the other people at my school. I think I was out casted because I didn’t talk like most of my peers.

The thing with me was that I did not want to talk like many of the other people living in the same neighborhoods as me. I wanted to be understood by the world not put into a category as she’s ghetto or hood because let’s be honest that’s how we categorize black people (uneducated, poor, and ignorant). My classmates did not understand that I didn’t want to be stuck in a bubble my whole unable to get a job and provide for myself. My speech was away for me to escape all of that.

Well for my light young voice there isn’t much I can do about that. I guess I will just have to live with it. It’s just the way I talk.