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13 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This is always so condescending. Not only does it ignore the fact that I have had 198 jobs but also? I know what a job entails.
I didn’t even say I was talking about work. I wasn’t, by the way. I was responding to some conversations with young friends. But even if I was talking about work, shut up with this “I live in the real world!” You live in Iowa or whatever. Chill.
And as a general rule, scolding Black people about “the real world” will always make you look like a fool.
If you and you alone are living in the real world why don’t you get friends there and leave me alone?

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I know this much, I’m not buying crawfish in an airport. I don’t even buy the airport sushi unless said airport is on the water. And I eat gas station food!
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You could write a small book about the beauty accoutrements that white women claim not to understand and yet consume regularly. It’s one of that tribe’s odder performances.
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I’ve got to get some white friends to takeover my whole fossil fuel situation. I don’t have the time to figure it out.
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