564 genders but just one descriptor of race for AAs?

Headed to dunkin to see my favorite desert tan barista.

I'll grab you one.

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

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I'll also take a caramel macchiato.

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Add high yella

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

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Sounds like he might have lifted that from a fairly famous French language poem by a Senegalese poet, but that doesn't make the sketch any less funny

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Dear white brother,


When I was born, I was black,
When I grew up, I was black,
When I am in the sun, I am black,
When I am sick, I am black,
When I die, I will be black.

While you, white man,
When you were born, you were pink,
When you grew up, you were white,
When you go in the sun, you are red,
When you are cold, you are blue,
When you are scared, you are green,
When you are sick, you are yellow,
When you die, you will be grey.

So, between you and me,
Who is the colored man?

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African American

Typo to be fixed

I'm not white either.

I'm darker than Halle berry

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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" -

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I had a black coworker that would call white people "hypercolored". I thought it was an accurate description.