re: 564 genders but just one descriptor of race for AAs?

There was a great clip floating around in the pre-Youtube days with the black comic who used to work Venice Beach sort of "in the round" - it was 2 parts stand up and 1 part performance art.

He had an entire bit about how "white" folks:

Stay out in the sun and get a little brown, too long in the sun, turn red, etc. Conversely, he (and he was relatively carmel macchiato, Tbird, or a little darker) was brown if he stayed out in the sun, got embarrassed, etc., and white folks had the nerve to call him "colored" -

Best part of the bit - he borrowed a white girl's black purse (which was a whole funny negotiation on its own) he was not, in fact, black, but brown. So, after running through all the colors white people turned and black people didn't - he reiterated that black folks were in fact brown, not black - using the purse as sort of a color gauge next to his face.

There was a very dark skinned brother in the front row - so he runs up to him with the purse and said, "But this motherfricker is getting pretty close."

Some of the funniest shite ever.

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Start with mocha almond



I'll also take a caramel macchiato.

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FU guys I want to go to Starbucks now