He and my sister, Nicolette, went to the same high school. Kane moved back to Arizona in high school and lived with our relatives. And now it’s my career (as a voice actor), which is good, but it was all based off of being made fun of for sounding Black.” Over time, I started speaking very properly. “After that small brush with racism and just the frustration, I started reading a thesaurus I had and started practicing how I enunciated my words so I could change the way I spoke. I listen to this music and they speak this way and I just followed those ways of doing things,” he said. ![]() I watch all these movies and the characters are this. “I had a computer at home and some dial-up Internet and was able to figure out what that even meant, and was then able to look at the movies and TV and that is really what it was. “When I was younger, I spoke in a way that was referred to as ‘Black.’ I was made fun of by one of the white kids at school and I literally had to go home, cry it out and think about it, because I did not know what that meant, what ‘talking Black’ was,” he said. While he was around more Black peers for the first time in his life, it’s also where he had the first brush with direct racism. When Kane was in middle school, he moved to Temple, Texas, to live with his mother. “I think it was more as I got older and an early age of 8, 9 and I started to see the difference because I was pretty much the token Black kid at school.” I don’t really know if I recognized there was much of a difference when I was younger,” Kane said. “I am more prominently Black than white or anything else, but I was raised mostly by the white side of my family.
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