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SEBPL - Stuff Educated Black People Like

Wednesday, 6th August 2008

Taking its inspiration from the popular white bread site, an African-American blog pokes gentle fun at materially-minded types. More, please, says one unabashedly middle-class admirer:

Some wear it with a badge of honour, using it to describe themselves as educated, well-read, worldly and so-cool-that-they-don't-even-have-to-try. A number of entities have popped up to cater specifically to the UBBP (Unapologetically Bourgie Black Person—I made that acronym up myself.) Jam Donaldson (the brain behind HotGhettoMess.com) is now selling a line of T-shirts encouraging proper speech and grammar, with phrases like "Conversate is not a word" and "No Questions 'Axed.'"
In case you're wondering, EBPs like gated communities, aspirational children's names and... the idea of golf (ha!). Not to mention jazz:
It is also the preferred date, as it shows true sophistication and understanding, while always impressing the ladies.
Why, only the other night I introduced beige brother PooterGeek to the joys of Ronnie Scott's. In a purely platonic sense, naturally. (Not that there's anything wrong with that, as they say in "Seinfeld".)

PS: I just noticed that Ta-Nehisi Coates is a fan too.

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