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What is brown paper bag?
An actual test, along with the so-called ruler test in common use in the the early 1900s among upper class Black American societies and families to determine if a Black person was sufficiently white to gain admittance or acceptance. If your skin was darker than a brown paper bag, you did not merit inclusion. Thousands of Black institutions including the nation's most eminent Black fraternity -- Phi Alpha Phi, Howard Univiersity, and numerous church and civic groups all practiced this discriminiation. The practice has 19th Century antecedants with the Blue Blood Society and has not totally died out.
Zora Neal Hurston was the first well known writer to air this strange practice in a public. The practice is now nearly universally condemned (at least in public) as being an example of "colorism". Particularly cogent modern day critiques can be found in Kathy Russell's "The Color Complex", Tony Morrion's "The Bluest Eye" (an Ophrey Book Club choice) and Marita Golden's "Don't Play in the Sun." The best known send-up of the pactice, however, is Spike Lee's scathing and hilarious 1988 movie, "School Daze."
"Though the brown paper bag test is antiquated and frowned upon as a shameful moment in African-American history, the ideals behind the practice still lingers in the African-American community" -- Rivea Ruff, BlackCollegeView.Com
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Brown paper bag - what is it?
money earned from selling dope
I don't know how I'd make it without that brown paper bag money.
What does "brown paper bag" mean?
That brown paper bag money push my mattress through the roof.
Brown paper bag - what does it mean?
A device that may be used to smoke if you are incredibly stupid.
Hey look Luisito is smoking a brown paper bag. What a dumbfuck
Brown paper bag - meaning
This occurs when you slip on a banana peel cock first into your best buds anus whilst immodestly pulling out and flinging the leftover dingleberry off your penis right in the flow of traffic.
I totaled my car when a brown paper bag hit my windshield.
Brown paper bag - definition
an object that has ruined my life
Ever since i smoked it im always coughning
Brown paper bag - slang
Brown Paper Bag is a trucker's term for an unmarked police cruiser commonly heard over the CB Radio. If there's a brown paper bag and he's drinking it, that means said cop has got somebody.
"Breaker, breaker 1-9, got a brown paper bag at mile marker 1-2-3."
Brown paper bag
when a girl has a great body and an ok face so you just want to put a bag over her head and f**k her. only players do this, or even think about this.
wow! look at maddy...mmmm. brown paper bag her
Brown paper bag
A 32oz or a 40oz bottle of beer wrapped in a brown paper bag because you like the look of it usually bought at quik stops, gas stations,7-11's... Ect.
Also the title of a slaming DJ Khaled song
Let's hit up the quik stop and get us some brown paper bags... Son!
That brown paper bag.... That brown paper bag!!
Brown paper bag
a big brown bag full of cash money, or a bag used to conceal a 40 oz bottle of liquor.
Man I can fit like 50 thousand ones in that brown paper bag.