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Oreo cookie

A black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person

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  • By analogy with the proprietary "Oreo Cookie" that is black on the outside and white on the inside, implying that certain black people are white at heart.
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Submitted on July 07, 2010

Additional definitions for 'Oreo cookie':

Oreo cookieA threeway involving two black participants and one white participant between them
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