Your "Blackness" Questioned?????

[Ms K]

tickledpink
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Registered: Apr 2000
Location: The "Queen City"
Posts: 966
What the heck is "keepin' it real....?"
Sometimes I hate that term. Sometimes it fits the bill, but other times it's an excuse for ignorance.

I've had this happen before. Someone kept "joking" that I talked like a white person & that I ate like a white person. How did I handle it? I put them on the spot. I asked them to explain how it was I was "talking" and "eating". When they tried to immitate me, I cut them off with, "So, you're saying that all black people can't enunciate their words and that all black people eat like savages, like we have no home training? Do you realize that's the same thing racists say?"

Shut 'em right up.

Like someone previously said, there's a time and a place for everything, or.... err thang!


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LOL, I did not know that 'err thang' could actually be spelt.
I thinks that is the best response I have ever come across. My personal experience has been that b/c my dad is mixed, I'm 'light skinned' and I wasnt born here (I'm Jamaican) , people say I act like a spoiled white girl- 'oh you think you white because your parents can buy you whatever you want?'. My mom always taught me to 'ignore the ignorant' and that 'a soft tongue turneth away wrath' (thats straight from the Bible) so I usually just ignored them, but i think i'll use your response from now on.

Thanks.