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blerd  ·  3461 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is the meaning behind your user name?

black + nerd = blerd

It's seems simple, but I'm not a nerd. At most i'd qualify my self as a bit of a geek. A "blerd" is a black person that doesn't act in a stereotypical ghetto manner, an "Oreo". Supposedly I "act white". Race should not have expected behaviors. That's just racist. But if this is the label I am given because I speak properly and like to do well in school, because I don't gangbang or sag my pants, and because I look up to Donald Glover, then I will own up to it, and I will wear it with pride.