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2. Rachel has, like alot of white people, fetishized blackness
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 07:04 PM
Apr 2017

You see it all the time. The white girls/women that only date brothers; the white/Asian whatever dudes that swear that they are black. It's endless.

The difference is that this woman has actually adopted the culture that she's fetishized, and it's clear that she doesn't know hardly anything about the culture itself. She's a modern day Amos (or Andy).

The pic of the interviewer's face as she talks to Ms. Rachel says it all:



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