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February 1, 2012 Baratunde Thurston

He made an example. He pointed to a kid across the way and said, ‘That kid’s an Oreo.’ And I didn’t know the kid’s name at the time — I saw this nerdy black kid with glasses hanging out with white friends … And that was the first introduction of this concept, inauthentic blackness because you’re comfortable around whiteness.

Baratunde Thurston <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/02/01/146198412/baratunde-thurston-explains-how-to-be-black">on the term ‘oreo’</a> (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://nprfreshair.tumblr.com/">nprfreshair</a>). So exciting!!!

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