I hate the term āwomen of colorā Since fucking when is my peach skin not a color? Why must I be excluded from a group of women?
your ~peach skin~ wasnāt a color when this was happening
but now you want to be included
no
Okay. You can be a woman of color. Here's your honorary WOC badge and your gift bag full of the judgement and depreciation that our American culture distributes.
You also will want to sign up for light skin because they'll want you ethnic but not too much.
You will have to chemically treat your hair because professionals will tell you that the way it grows out of your head isn't good enough.
Also be prepared to originate styles and dances only to be told you look ghetto or ratchet doing it. Until Michael kors "invents " it.
If you're going to be a woman of color we are going to set you up with some African features. Some white people will make fun of your big ass or hips or lips. Then they will go home and fantasize about Kim Kardashian.
If you have a kid you'll have to explain to them why they can't play with toy guns, why they have to be overly nice to cops even when they're being cruel. You'll have to explain to them that it's not their fault. That its just because of their colored skin.
All the while you'll have to smile, be friendly, and pretend not to cringe when someone just walks up and touches all over your hair like you're a damn sheep at the petting zoo.
And most of all, you'll have to learn to ignore women when they whine about solidarity among your people just because they think if something isn't centered around them that it's racist and offensive. You'll run into a lot of those.
