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I saw an Oprah After the Show a while ago where she was dumbfounded that the white folks in her audience didn't know about hot combs. I'd never thought about any other ethnicity's knowledge of them, but at that moment I thought "Oh I can see why they don't know." Of course I also see why Oprah was dumbfounded because they are so ingrained in our culture. But I had a similar moment.
I was assigned to read a passage for my sociolinguistics class and the word "saddity" (pronounced suh did ee) was in it. I had never seen the word on paper so I had to read it a couple times to realize what it was. Then when we had class and spoke about that passage someone asked what saddity meant I was dumbfounded! That was one of the few courses I took where there were only a handful of black folks. The older black gentleman in the front turned around astonished with a look on his face similar to mine and said "y'all don't know about saddity?" Him, myself and the other 2 or 3 black folk "united" over the word and none of us seemed to be aware that it was a "black term."
And I was more recently surprised by the knowledge that ashy is a black term! I actually tried to look it up in an online dictionary. lol Who knew?
Y'all ever been surprised in a similar way?
I was assigned to read a passage for my sociolinguistics class and the word "saddity" (pronounced suh did ee) was in it. I had never seen the word on paper so I had to read it a couple times to realize what it was. Then when we had class and spoke about that passage someone asked what saddity meant I was dumbfounded! That was one of the few courses I took where there were only a handful of black folks. The older black gentleman in the front turned around astonished with a look on his face similar to mine and said "y'all don't know about saddity?" Him, myself and the other 2 or 3 black folk "united" over the word and none of us seemed to be aware that it was a "black term."
And I was more recently surprised by the knowledge that ashy is a black term! I actually tried to look it up in an online dictionary. lol Who knew?
Y'all ever been surprised in a similar way?