Sign In
Close
For other black people that have been called an Oreo. by top_hat_riot
http://logandanderson.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/i-am-not-your-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--
For other black people that have been called an Oreo.
Journal Information
- Views:
- 101
- Comments:
- 2
- Favorites:
- 1
- Rating:
- General
Comments
-
-
I'm glad I found this article, too. It's like the person writing this is me a decade ago. What REALLY gets me is that the "you don't act black" comments always come off as "black people aren't supposed to like science or literature or video games and aren't supposed to be articulate." God, that burns me up.
-
Link
Cynicalspirit
Thank you so much for this article! I am going to make the next person that says "You sound white!" or "You don't act like a black person..." read this article because there are ALOT of ignorant, closeminded or just presumptuous people out there that make generalizations about how a race, gender or even fandom (ie: furries) should act without realizing that not everyone is the same