milliefink, et al., The Complete Edition of “Nappy-Headed Negro Syndrome” will be released April 1, 2018. Jason put the hyperlink to pre-order the book at the bottom of the post. Here it is:
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I will try to stick around for the next few hours until the forum closes if anyone has questions. It has been a pleasure.
In the meantime, EXTRA, EXTRA! Here is “Letters from Mrs. Grundy,” my DAVE EGGERS-endorsed book about bad customer service. It is also endorsed by James Beard Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Tracie McMillan.
Like the Preview Edition, it is no longer available.
Enjoy, and thank you.
Oneita Jackson
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Let the church say, “Amen” right here. Thank you for this, astazangasta. I appreciate your intellect.
You remind me of my favorite professor, Dr. Jon Woodson. He is a Brown Ph.D. and Fulbright lecturer. (Did you read the book, yet? I uploaded a link below.)
I think l mentioned elsewhere in this thread that white people are not the only offenders in this book. African Americans are the penultimate, before educated white women. I think l break it down that way in the Complete Edition. Uppity Black People and Very Important Black People have an interesting way of trying to communicate their idea of your inferiority. Hilarious.
Someone said NHNS is a clue to white people about how to behave. It isn’t. It’s a manners book for stupid people. A handbook to etiquette in the racially charged 21st Century, because l think everyone is stupid.
Including me.
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With four hours left to go before this forum locks up, I feel a little bit like a desert frog, watching the pond evaporate. I know there are forums (fora?) on BB that aren’t attached to specific posts, that don’t seem to shut down this way… But maybe I don’t know that, maybe I only suspect that. Browsing this site on a cell phone means I miss much of the nuance.
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I tried to comment on a post/thread, but it was closed.
It was one about how a Canadian broadcaster pronounces the name of his city. He dragged the syllable out over the years.
It reminds me of how NPR reporter/ Berlin bureau chief Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson pronounces her name. “Soraya Sarhaddi NeLLL-siNNNNNNN.” I am going to start pronouncing my name that way.
o-KNEE-tuh jack-SINNNNNNNNNNNN.
Oh, well.
Meaning what have historically been considered racial minorities (African Americans, Latinos, Asians, etc) make up the majority - in this case of a school. The county where I live is now minority majority, and the US will eventually be minority majority.
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I seem to recall that if you reply to an old post in a closed thread, it gives you the option of opening a new topic where your reply will appear.
Alternatively, you should be able to start a new thread of your own to carry on the discussion…
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Hi Oneita,
Thanks for the PDFs, I enjoy reading your stories. I am looking forward to reading your new book.
As an educated, tall, white, cis, male, I feel that is good for me to be reminded of what not being that means. I have been a foreign resident in Germany and I am now a heavily-accented non-native English speaker in the United States, so I have a few interesting anecdotes of my own, but surely not at the level that a POC has to put up with.
My most recent “German moment” was trying to check-in into a Lufthansa flight to Germany. The lady at the counter declared that my carry-on suitcase, that I have pulled around the world for the last twenty years, was too big, and that I needed to demonstrate that I could fit it into their carry-on checking contraption. After a successful demonstration, she allowed me to take it to the plane with me, “but just this time”.
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L0ki, thank you. I am new to all of this. I am on the Facebook and other social media, and l have given my phone number on this thread, so it’s not the end.
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Thank you, Barradeno. That is hilarious. The customer service book is funny, isn’t it? You could write the German Syndrome. What is “cis?”
Speaking of Germany, l spent 10 days in Hamburg in 2016. It was the first time l lived a black-free life. Not one time did anyone point out that l was different or that l didn’t belong. I was never questioned about why l was there or made to feel uncomfortable or inferior because of my appearance.
The irony.
Depending on who is saying it, “Cis” is to gender, what “white” is to race. Being cisgender means a person was “correctly” identified at birth as either female or male, and that labeling has never been seriously questioned. It’s sometimes used as a gender slur by transexual people to designate normies who don’t have a clue.
(Europe is amazing, isn’t it? Americans often forget that it’s unusual for a single language to dominate an entire continent)
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It means that, as a male, I am attracted to the adult females of my species. In my case, with very few exceptions, at a platonic level only. 
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OK. I am hip now. I will have to research the etymology of this word; first time l have ever heard it. Thank you.
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“It creates, then perfectly fills a niche in the national conversation taking place on race relations.”
My friend Ron Bernas wrote on his blog two years ago. Read it here:
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As long as comedy clips are being passed around, The Bird Revelation is relevant…
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Amanda Uhle featured me on the Living Writers podcast. Best interview l’ve had. She asked provocative, thoughtful, and engaging questions that gave the conversation depth. She was curious and attentive, too. I appreciate a thorough interviewer. She did her research.
It wasn’t a simple yes-or-no surface interview. (Amanda used to be the executive director of 826Michigan, by the way, for you Californians who know 826Valencia.) I listened to it only once because l hate the sound of my voice. If you want to suffer through it–l think l will, again–check it out:
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The Church of the Subgenius has added two more words to call obnoxiously white people: pinks (when white just isn’t white enough) and glorps (even worse)
Your interpretation seems much more hostile than the author’s.
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