– a racist tool or racial harmony?

Preacher Claims Oreo Cookies Are
Racist (March 2008)
• Civil rights leader Joe U. Oamee has announced that Oreo cookies are a racist tool invented by the white man to oppress blacks.
• He said the white cream in the middle signified the white man dividing the brothers, keeping them apart and keeping them down.
• When asked how a cookie caused division between blacks and whites, the Reverend said that it was a symbol that the white people pushed on black people to condition their minds subliminally.

What the production company said…
• A spokesman for Nabisco, the makers of
Oreo cookies, said that the notion of
Oreos signifying racism was absurd.
• If anything, they represented racial harmony ; blacks and whites working together to make a whole that was greater than the sum of its parts.

• An insulting term often used by blacks to derogate other blacks as "Black on the outside, white on the inside." White on the inside meaning anything from speaking proper English, getting good grades, liking music that isn't hip hop, rap or R&B and having a diverse group of friends.
• "That girl is such an Oreo. I can't believe she is listening to Metallica”.

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• The population of the United Kingdom now stands at just over 60 million, of whom about 4.6 million (8%) come from an ethnic minority background.
• That includes 2.3 million people who describe their background as Asian, 1.1 million who are Black Caribbean or Black
African, and nearly 700,000 of mixed race.

• Do you know any racist remarks?
• Do you use any?
• Why?
• Are there any you don’t like?
• Why?
• Why do you think racist remarks offend people?

• www.rsdb.org
• To date, it has 2’649 racial slurs
Including:
• African’t
• 8 Mile
• Honkie
• Burrito-head