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user-inactivated  ·  3616 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, I want to know: Were you ever one of the "popular" kids?

    like a drop of coffee in a bathtub full of cream

My favorite pastime is coming up with more and more ridiculous similes for "like a dark person surrounded by white people."

I still like my snowstorm one, though.





nowaypablo  ·  3616 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I live in a demographic Antarctica.

A Ghanaian friend of mine comes from a wealthy family of doctors, gets solid grades and wears wool sweaters. He gets called "the whitest black kid ever" and people constantly tell him he's "not really black." In 8th grade I heard someone say that in art class, so I took a small plastic baggie and filled it to the top in black paint, nestling it between the books in that asshole's designer leather backpack. Bell rings and he throws his stuff into his bag, looks down, yells, cries, and never says a word to me or my friend ever again.