#andispentthattendollarsonextrafrenchfriesin1999

[jillisblack]

If you're someone who has ever used the hashtags #melaninonfleek or #blackgirlstraveltoo or #carefreeblackgirl or #blackgirlgradschool while drinking #mimosas then you know that middle school-age white girls are always involved in some dangerous, codependent friendship trio. Yeah, there are always three of them and you know it because you've seen it. The names are mostly regional, but there's at least one Amanda and she's probably taller than the other two. There's also one who draws/likes horses a lot. And rounding out the group is the one who will inevitably vacate the "trio of normalized shame" to become popular or change schools in the 10th grade, never to be heard from again. One of them is obsessed with a band/a show on Comedy Central. It's almost definitely Amanda but it also doesn't matter which one of them it is either, so let's just go ahead and move on from that, okay? Anyway, they basically spend all of 7th grade scaring each other into practiced friendship submission. They challenge each other's theoretical individuality by threatening social isolation and abandonment on a weekly basis. Their love is a complicated love, I guess. That's not really the point of this post, though. I'm actually trying to tell you that I once stole $10 from a girl in middle school and I still feel like I deserved that money and so I wanted to manipulate you out of your empathy for the person I stole from--who definitely cried--by reminding you of some things that could explain why. But basically I'm not sorry like, at all, and I just felt like it was time for an update on the status of my feelings around it in case she's watching. Get a life already if you are. #selfie #hillaryclinton #istheonewholikedhorses #sorememberthatandtakeitintoconsiderationatthepolls #peanutbutterandjellysandwichesgalore #reparations #statewidebandcompetitions #saysomethingamanda #saysomethingandseewhathappens #youwereinasmallcult #someonecriedeveryfriday #blackgirlswereconfused #andispentthattendollarsonextrafrenchfriesin1999 #soidontevenhaveittogivebacktoyourightnow

[jillisblack]

If you're someone who has ever used the hashtags #melaninonfleek or #blackgirlstraveltoo or #carefreeblackgirl or #blackgirlgradschool while drinking #mimosas then you know that middle school-age white girls are always involved in some dangerous, codependent friendship trio. Yeah, there are always three of them and you know it because you've seen it. The names are mostly regional, but there's at least one Amanda and she's probably taller than the other two. There's also one who draws/likes horses a lot. And rounding out the group is the one who will inevitably vacate the "trio of normalized shame" to become popular or change schools in the 10th grade, never to be heard from again. One of them is obsessed with a band/a show on Comedy Central. It's almost definitely Amanda but it also doesn't matter which one of them it is either, so let's just go ahead and move on from that, okay? Anyway, they basically spend all of 7th grade scaring each other into practiced friendship submission. They challenge each other's theoretical individuality by threatening social isolation and abandonment on a weekly basis. Their love is a complicated love, I guess. That's not really the point of this post, though. I'm actually trying to tell you that I once stole $10 from a girl in middle school and I still feel like I deserved that money and so I wanted to manipulate you out of your empathy for the person I stole from--who definitely cried--by reminding you of some things that could explain why. But basically I'm not sorry like, at all, and I just felt like it was time for an update on the status of my feelings around it in case she's watching. Get a life already if you are. #selfie #hillaryclinton #istheonewholikedhorses #sorememberthatandtakeitintoconsiderationatthepolls #peanutbutterandjellysandwichesgalore #reparations #statewidebandcompetitions #saysomethingamanda #saysomethingandseewhathappens #youwereinasmallcult #someonecriedeveryfriday #blackgirlswereconfused #andispentthattendollarsonextrafrenchfriesin1999 #soidontevenhaveittogivebacktoyourightnow