Actor and comedian Charlie Murphy died at the age of 57. Murphy, the older
brother of comedic legend Eddie Murphy, was also very successful stand-up
comedian on his own. Murphy was battling leukemia and had been
undergoing Chemotherapy treatment.
When people ask you ‘where you‘re from?’ and you reply America because
that‘s where you and your parents were born, and then on que, they ask you
again ‘no, where are you really from?; as if being black makes you less
American.