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Post by Blaque on Jan 6, 2007 7:30:30 GMT -5
I started going with this white co-worker on smoke breaks. We've become kinda cool. We've even made a date to go to the firing range together. But yesterday somehow the subject of interracial dating came up and I was quite honest about my views. So I said something like "As an African American woman..." but then the bytch cut me off and said "You are not African American...You weren't born in Africa. And I know you've never been there, have you? So you are NOT an African Amrerican." To my credit, the bytch still has all of her teeth. But I explained to her that I am whatever I say I am. My people are from Africa and that's how I identify myself. So she said that she is 1/4 Puerto Rican but she doesn't identify herself as such. I told her that she just did. But what SHE chooses to call herself has nothing to do with what I call myself. I guess she thought because I sat with her while she smoked those cancer sticks, she could say whatever the fuck she wanted to say to me. She got a little too familiar. I won't be going on any more breaks with her.
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Post by ifayomi on Jan 6, 2007 9:33:21 GMT -5
Once an oyinbo always an oyinbo
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Post by sweetpie on Jan 6, 2007 11:10:05 GMT -5
What a silly azz... You understand that most of the time they don't really have any etiquette especially towards other races, it is one of the things that I don't like about them. But I have been fortunate, the ones I hang with at work have said one thing in front of me that I didn't agree with and it was about Katrina. Many times they are really cluesless as to how others think.
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Post by darock on Jan 6, 2007 22:44:05 GMT -5
Who would argue with someone about their heritage? Hell, Tiger called himself a "cablinasian," and nobody said jack....
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Post by sudan on Jan 7, 2007 2:35:01 GMT -5
The Nation of Islam followers try to tell ME ~ I'm asiatic.....I don't think so!!!
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Post by Blaque on Jan 7, 2007 12:07:21 GMT -5
Who would argue with someone about their heritage? Hell, Tiger called himself a "cablinasian," and nobody said jack.... I' never heard that word before, but damn if it wasn't on dictionary.com: A Cablinasian is a person of Caucasian, Black, American Indian and Asian racial background. For example, Tiger Woods, who coined the term, is one-quarter black, one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Thai, one-eighth American Indian, and one-eighth Dutch.
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Post by Blaque on Jan 7, 2007 12:08:58 GMT -5
The Nation of Islam followers try to tell ME ~ I'm asiatic.....I don't think so!!! Are you part Asian or are they trying to say that you look Asian?
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