this reminds me of a few weeks in High school, i had said to a white teacher that “white kids will copy us no matter what we do” and he didnt believe us, so after class , me the teacher and another friend of mine who was black, made up a word right then and there, and the two of us started saying it ALL THE TIME, in the halls , at lunch, etc.
the word was “funkadoink”. it was a replacement for “fucked”.
by the end of the week, white kids in our school were misusing it , and overusing it so much that our english teacher spilled the beans on a loudspeaker proclaiming “ i wish we never even came up with this!”.
it was incredibly terrible because the white kids, an NBPOC just USED it. they didnt ask us what it meant, why we said it. they would just hear us say it, talk shit about how stupid black people sounded and then OVER use it on the next school day.other black people would always point out that they never heard it before, it sounded weird, and ask us what it really meant.
but WE got in trouble when white kids started scratching it into glass of course.
and then at the end of it all, the white kids all claimed “funkadoink” was actually theirs, actually california “beach slang” and they had been saying it all along. it wasnt until a white middle aged man stood in front of them red faces and said “WE MADE IT UP, OMG we really ARE LEMMINGS!” that they felt stupid.
but it was literally like watching appropriation incubate!
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