Wednesday, October 26, 2005

bougie

i will not deny my class bias or envy.

"It's all about six degrees of separation for black folks. Beautiful, smart, happening black folks."

for anyone who never knew the meaning of the word, this is bougie.

7 comments:

Sid said...

what i love about this, and it is beautiful (and bourgie) is that when I did my "How Siddity Are You" quiz months and months ago, one of my questions was--
1. Jack and Jill went up...

a) the hill to smoke some marijuana...haha! Prince Harry just loved that one when I told it to him at Met Bar last weekend, the naughty boy... (0)

b) the hill to fetch a pail of water. (+1)

c) the river to Sing-Sing, after robbing a couple of Russians in LeFrak City at gunpoint. (-1)

d) to the Cosmopolitan Suite of the Four Seasons, where the 200 person wedding reception for Reggie and Phyllis Johnson's son Kenny and Frank and Sheila Brewster's daughter Nicole was held, and wasn't she just gorgeous in that Vera Wang gown when they jumped the broom? (+2)

Insert Ms. Hill and Mr. Whatsisface's names in place of those in D and you have the same thing. ROFL

Delia Christina said...

i will even admit that when i first saw their photo i thought, At goddamn last! An interracial couple!

uh, then i saw all the bougieness.

heh. i was never a jack & jill-er. too poor, too shy, too not living in baldwin hills...

bitchphd said...

Heh, I had to explain "bourgie" and "colorism" to my students yesterday, vis a vis the character Fern in _The Known World_...

Delia Christina said...

it's hard to explain even when you've seen it up close.

Orange said...

I thought the groom was white, too...

bitchphd said...

Well, it's hard to explain the nuances of class, period, but they had never even *heard* the word...

Bougie Black Boy said...

I'm the real Bougie one