Don’t Try To Cut My Ass, I’ve Watched ‘In Living Color’

When Bullying Unravels A Loophole Growing up as a dark-skinned, black nerd honestly had plenty of difficulties. Outside of the racism from faculty and hearing how “white” I spoke; I often felt isolated from my peers when it came to fashion, core values and entertainment. With Christian, West-Indian American parents who often sheltered you from content that was perceived to be “ungodly,” you didn’t have a huge catalog to choose from. I can say that I have never seen one episode of Degrassi. The most scandalous show I’ve seen on MTV was Silent Library and my range in music was show tunes and Beyonce. So when it came to anything relating to pop culture that was not Pokemon, YugiOh! or the like, I honestly could not tell you. But, the interesting loophole in all of this is: I was always in the mood to watch whatever my dad was watching. And as an expert daddy’s girl I can tell you about the wondrous world of adult sitcoms. My father loves his comedy and up to this day you can hear him playing repeats of older comedies like All in The Family, Seinfeld (cringe) and of course a personal favorite In Living Color. Listen, I learned about so many things so from In Living Color. I felt sorry for anyone who tried to cut my ass, because chances are they didn’t survive. I felt empowered because I felt like I learned a few secrets that kids my age would not have known. I was a miss know-it-all honors student so anything that my father laughed at that I didn’t understand pushed me to researc…