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In the sixties and seventies the phrase was "oreo". It meant Black on the outside, but white on the inside.
In an era of intense, even militant Black consciousness this concept of the oreo (named after the cookie) was used to depict Black people who thought and acted like white people, or Black people who behaved in such a way as to promote white interests to the detriment of Black people. This idea of duel identity or internal conflict over identity and direction is not a new phenomenon in the history of our people here in America.
W.E.B. DuBois spoke of a kind of "twoness", a double sided consciousness, one Black, the other white tugging inside the minds of all of us, struggling for our allegiance.
Fanon, author of the "Wretched of the Earth" also published a book entitled "Black Skins, White Masks"
Another author in the sixties wrote a work entitled "Black Anglo-Saxons". More than any...