If we did not, if we didn't learn that, then we either didn't get a job. Some people were, of course, a lot. Majority of the people, way back in the day, it was what it was. They're stripped of being a human. So code switching has been taught from generation to generation. Even my name, my middle name is more ethnic, but my first and last name, straight up resume proof. And that's how it's had to be
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 1:03
It's. You're absolutely right. We've always had to code switch as well as to pass for white people. I had two aunties, two great great aunties that passed for white women back in the day because they needed proper jobs and they didn't want to be maids. And then they married two white men. And their whole entire life, they never even told them that they were black. Now, maybe they did
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 0:10
When I saw this video today, I thought about this post that you had made a little bit ago. I'm just going to put a link down in here so you can see it. I just thought it was cute, reminding me of your post
Stacey Kedeja
@iamkedeja · 0:38
Oh, my gosh. I saw this video. Yes. Yes. And I do this, and I have friends that, you know, are Latin and Hispanic, and I'll go into my, you know, my hola chica, you know, buenos dias. Start talking that. And then see my sister's like, hey, girl, hey. I don't know why I and then see my more European friends and say, hey, how's it going? I do switch