Code switching is part and parcel of being forced to be "whiter" to succeed. In that sense, it's different from MY code switching (if I talked to Americans the way I talk to my British family, nobody would understand me).

It's wrapped up in being forced to straighten your hair (with chemicals that increase the risk of uterine cancer), the pressure to lighten skin.

It's not quite the same thing. Yes, we all do it, and I do it to almost the same degree they do, switching from a dialect that is incomprehensible to outsiders (and which, I would note, I was under a lot of pressure as a child to lose in favor of speaking Received Pronunciation (BBC English) so nobody would know I came from a poor mill town in the Midlands. I am proud to come from a poor mill town in the Midlands).

But I still don't see it as quite the same thing because it is tied up in and amongst this other racist baggage. It's not isolated. It's part of the way we in America define Blackness as "unprofessional."