With some people you just can’t win; and it’s usually the people who feel entitled to know intimate details about you from the jump.

The most aggravating part of it for me is that if I say I am mixed but identify as black, people will tell me flat out that I’m not, as if I don’t know my parents. If I were to say that I am mixed but identify as white, people would throw ‘one-drop’ at me such that if those drops were literal, I could drown in them.…

I will. Thank you! :)

“Faux-latto” was coined by the author Mat Johnson, author of “Loving Day” and the graphic novel “Incognegro”; I absolutely lay no claim to inventing this. His Twitter feed is really fun, but his books are awesome and you should buy them.

As if people don’t already feel entitled to know allll about the family tree/your haircare routine. Jeebus. It’s about to be ON.

All of this. I’m also nervous. Some idiots are already starting joking about black test questions on twitter. Newsflash: not every black person eats collard greens or is even from North America!

Oh godddd you’re right. I am black but look a lot like this chick: blonde hair, not brown eyes, freckles, what have you. People black and white alike are already skeptical (at worst and curious at best) when I explain that yes I am black and YES on both parents sides.

Faux-latto.

As a “real-latto”, I find that HILARIOUS. I’m placing it in the same boat with my personal favorite, “zebra-dar”. :D

Right? White-passing NDN over here and even this bitch’s white Wonder Bread parents are like “Oh and just a TOUCH of Native blood.” Fuck the fuck off.

Lol at Faux-lotto. Reminded me of when Dairy Queen started selling an iced coffee drink called the Moolatte. Nope. Just no. I don’t care, you can’t call it that.

Perfect. I had Afaux-American

RIGHT???

omg, faux-latto. i spit out coffee.

absurdism is funny.

Yeah, considering that humans like to blame everyone when one person in a group does something, I can imagine that mixed race men and women will be verbal targets for the next few days. I’m already seeing these jokes:

You can’t say fauxlatto

FAUX-LATTO

It was already annoying being mixed and looking white without this “tragic faux-latto” bullshit in the news.