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You're Black, but you're more likely to have Fishbone in your CD collection than PDiddy. You LOVED Duran Duran in high school. You're in your late 20s-30s, but you can't help liking *Nsync. You wish you had more Black friends. Your 8th grade best friend worshipped Robert Smith. You're a woman (but guys welcome, too!) and a total feminist. That, combined with your unfortunate affinity for "vanilla", has probably left you pretty lonely. You know that OREO is not just a cookie. Most of your life you've been the lone raisin in a huge bowl of rice pudding. You probably grew up in a predominately white neighborhood, school, college, and now workplace. NOT on purpose, it just happened that way. You've wondered if you have an identity crisis. You long to connect with others like yourself, and get more in touch with your "Blackness"--whatever that is. You feel like a quadruple minority, and more than once someone has said to you "You speak so well." (Which of course made you mad!) Most likely, someone else called you a wannabe or accused you of being standoffish in those awkward middle school years when you tried to feather your hair. Unless you had a Jheri curl, of course!

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2009 Update: "Bounced" members have been removed. If you were once a member, reapply!

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