continue to inspire and be inspired.

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 on the term ‘oreo’ (via nprfreshair: howtobeblack) Via teaching literacy.
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