“Why does everything have to be about race?”

Two best responses to “I don’t see color” I’ve heard-

“I don’t see color”

(Please note, I am whiter than white. These are only ones I have heard during my adventures in the wild.)

I never heard anybody besides a black person say “call me out my name”.

Everybody wants to denigrate Black Americans when it’s easy and convenient to follow that narrative that a large part of the world believes, but then at the same time, want to emulate and BE like us. There are no people (especially people of color) on this planet who don’t take a lot of their cues from Black…

My “arthur” is acting up

No, this trick didn’t

This is perfection.

I’m a bougie woman from Newark, NJ now in upstate NY. Humph to the African statement. 

That’s a black phrase for sure

ROFLMBO

My small town I grew up in, didn’t even have a “ghetto”, but go ahead—keep those hot generalizations coming.

Those folks like using 20 year-old Black slang for comedic effect among themselves. Keep in mind that the 90s was the era where white (the older the better) characters in sitcoms/movies using “hip-hop lingo” was the funniest thing ever. Many are still stuck there.

See what you NOT going to do is call ALL us black Americans Ghetto! I hope and pray you meant to say there is a difference from growing up Black American and growing up in AFRICA. I know a lot of Ghetto ass Africans (my husband is Nigerian). i myself am a Bougie Bitch from Boston who can switch on and off.

“Growing up black for $1000, Alex.”

I don’t think I’ve ever heard a white person say “You ain’t never lied/lyin’”

Please take me out of purgatory.

I think there is both—a true persona and also a changeling who becomes whoever is necessary depending on the surroundings. Our behavior is informed by our past, so when we are standing in our literal past, like at at a family gathering or high school reunion, we’re at sort of the nexus of our personal universe and…