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To: MrB

Ok, I’ll bite: What is a “paper bag test”?


11 posted on 07/15/2009 8:02:02 AM PDT by DCBryan1 ( Arm Pilots&Teachers. Build the Wall. Export Illegals. Profile Muslims. Execute child molesters RFN!)
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To: DCBryan1
...What is a “paper bag test”?

Lighter or darker than.

16 posted on 07/15/2009 8:04:37 AM PDT by nina0113
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To: DCBryan1

Southern DEMOCRATS used to test whether someone was white or “negro” by holding a brown paper bag up next to their face.

If you’re lighter than the bag, you’re white - darker, “negro”.


17 posted on 07/15/2009 8:04:45 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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Amongst (usually old-money) black “high society” the “paper bag test” is applied to women. Must be lighter than a brown paper bag, and your hair must be straight as a ruler.

Someone like Michelle Obama fails to qualify, and is considered “ghetto” by them.


80 posted on 07/15/2009 10:33:12 AM PDT by Boiling Pots (Barack Obama: The final turd George W. Bush laid on America)
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