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12 years ago
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http://logandanderson.wordpress.com.....-goddamn-oreo/
Read it. Read it read it read it.
This was my reality in elementary, middle school, high school, college, and beyond. Always "why do you act white?" or "you don't sound black" or "you're not a REAL black person" or "you have hair like a white person kinda, let me touch it!" or everyone's favorite "you're the whitest black girl I know."
Because, you know, all black people sound the same, walk the same, talk the same, listen to the same music, eat the same things, watch the same shows--that old chestnut.
I might have laughed at it when I was younger, but as I got older, I realized how fucked up that was to just...let people do it.
Anyways...
...yeah.
--WIDE RAINBOW OF BLACK PEOPLE, YOU KNOW THAT RIGHT--
Read it. Read it read it read it.
This was my reality in elementary, middle school, high school, college, and beyond. Always "why do you act white?" or "you don't sound black" or "you're not a REAL black person" or "you have hair like a white person kinda, let me touch it!" or everyone's favorite "you're the whitest black girl I know."
Because, you know, all black people sound the same, walk the same, talk the same, listen to the same music, eat the same things, watch the same shows--that old chestnut.
I might have laughed at it when I was younger, but as I got older, I realized how fucked up that was to just...let people do it.
Anyways...
...yeah.
--WIDE RAINBOW OF BLACK PEOPLE, YOU KNOW THAT RIGHT--
..... i mean.. BARACK OBAMA!
I really do long for a day when being articulate, varied and black doesn't warrant "hey look, a black person acting white!" Because, you know, we're not allowed to be a jack-of-all-trades and be black at the same time.
To be honest, once I meet someone who speaks "Ebonics" I usually disassociate, not because I'm racist. I'm not, but because I literally don't understand what they're saying. In fact the first person who spoke like that mocked me constantly for not understanding what we was saying.