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**wooclosmercob** · 03-19-2012, 02:13 AM

For example:

Two (ambigous looking) Colored sisters, to determine their "race", they had to go through a "pencil test" (pushing the pencil through hair). Most of the time, the one with curly hair gets labeled Colored and the one with wavy/straight gets White.

03-19-2012, 02:13 AM	#27
wooclosmercob Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 457 Senior Member	For example: Two (ambigous looking) Colored sisters, to determine their "race", they had to go through a "pencil test" (pushing the pencil through hair). Most of the time, the one with curly hair gets labeled Colored and the one with wavy/straight gets White.
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