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Oreo U.S. slang.|ˈɔəriːəʊ|
Also oreo.
[See quot. 1973.]
A derogatory term for an American Black who is seen (esp. by other Blacks) as part of the white establishment.
1968–70Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) III–IV. 89 Oreo, n., a black who thinks like a white or tries to join white society. (Blacks on the outside but whites on the inside). 1969Harper's Mag. Mar. 61 Trouble is Negroes been programmed by white folks to believe their products are inferior. We've developed into a generation of Oreos—black on the outside, white on the inside. 1970H. E. Roberts Third Ear 11/1 Oreo, a black person with white-oriented attitudes. 1971Black World June 31/1 Every Black man or woman who refers to his Black brother or sister by a derogatory label such as Tom, nigger, or oreo..is deliberately walking into the enemy's trap. 1973A. Dundes Mother Wit 596 One term of derision is ‘oreo’ for such an individual [sc. a Negro with ‘white’ mentality]. The term comes from a standard commercially prepared cookie which has two disc-shaped chocolate wafers separated by sugar cream filling. An ‘oreo’ is thus brown outside but white inside, hence, a Negro who has internalized white values. 1975Amer. Speech 1972 XLVII. 151 Black educators are sometimes included in this hostile cosmos, for they are labeled Oreos. |