As a non-white in Europe I get the comments like that I speak very good English too lol Indeed, you rightly call them microaggressions and have helped me articulate why I find these comments so offensive, even if they are intended different. I've been wondering how to respond better to these situations. On the flip side, coming from South African privileged middle class and non-black, I've also had it happen once, where I complimented a young black woman's speech, she then accused me of the same microaggression. Whether what I said was misconstrued or not, I am deeply embarrassed and sorry of how my compliment came across. Your blog speaks to a very important aspect of multi-cultural/class communication, there is a double-edged sword of systemic oppression and trust deficit in our society to contend with. After all in different ways non-whites are complicit in the system (I refer to Hasan Minaj for instance calling out Asian's on BLM). Although I was totally shaken to hear how the speaker received my compliment - I imagine in many more situations, someone wouldn't speak out their discomfort - which is also why your blog is so important. When South Africa became democratic, there were a lot of multicultural workshopping. In the race to profits and perhaps fatigue we stopped to our own detriment. Until government step up to deal with identity politics and systemic oppression, it is therefore unfortunately, the burden of those struggling with systemic oppression to educate the rest. Call it out when these moments occur if there is to be any positive changes in race/class relations