I so despise the word urban. I've been in DC for 2 months, and people use the word urban as code for black.
My associates accuse me of being "too urban." Hmmm. If they accused me of being too black, everyone would be in an uproar.
Signed The Mexican-Chinese Urban Queen of DC
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In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud,
Under the bludgeonings of chance. My head is bloody, but unbowed.
~William Ernest Henley~
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