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    Being ‘The Black Snob’ Was a Joke, Until the Day I Actually Became One

    “I don’t know how you ended up so bougie when we came out of the same family,” said my baby sister, one day over the phone. I was taken aback. Me? Bougie? And yet, I was. Painfully so. And had been, at this point, for several years. But I was still offended. At the time…

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    Danielle C. Belton

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  • Shit Bougie Black People Love No. 34: The NABJ Convention

    Perhaps you noticed that your bottomless brunch spot was a bit less crowded than usual Sunday afternoon, and all of the bottles of room-temperature water placed on tables were left untouched. And then, when attending Trap Pumpkin Carving class last night, you looked around and saw you were the only one there! Disturbed and confused,…

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    Damon Young

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  • Shit Bougie Black People Love: 32. Adding "Trap" To Regular-Ass Things They Were Already Doing

    Although Black skin and student loans they’ll never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever pay off ensure that Bougie Black People are, in fact, authentically Black, sometimes BBP get self-conscious about how Black they’re seen by other people. While they don’t doubt their own Blackness, they’re aware that the perception of racial authenticity is arbitrary, and…

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    Damon Young

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  • The Definitive Ruling On The Single Best Way To Play Spades

    Last weekend, I attended a birthday party for a friend. Which, all things considered, may have been the bougiest birthday party I’ve ever been at. Consider the following: A)  It was marketed as a birthday party but it was actually just a day party that happened to occur during someone’s birthday. This is stealth bougie.…

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    Damon Young

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  • Shit Bougie Black People Love: 31. Unnecessary Hashtags

    Bougie Black People are always doing things. In college, while the rest of their classmates were doing things like “listening to Sisqo” and “fucking on twin beds,” Bougie Black People spent the bulk of their time “writing spoken word poetry they’d never perform” and “vacillating between ‘hating White people’ and ‘dating White people.” As they transitioned…

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    Damon Young

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  • Shit Bougie Black People Love: 30. Jesse Williams

    You probably know Jesse Williams as one of the guys on one of those Shonda Rhimes shows that airs before another Shonda Rhimes show. Or perhaps as the racially ambiguous guy who really, really, really, really digs Ciroc. This, however, would mean that you’re not a Bougie Black Person. Because, if you were a Bougie…

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    Damon Young

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  • A Bougie Black Love Story

    When I first saw these engagement photos of friend of VSB (and awesome writer) Brandelyn Castine and her fiancee — captured by J.A. Washington — two thoughts came to mind: 1. These are awesome! I need to reach out to her and see if she’s cool with me posting them on VSB. 2. Wait…why didn’t I…

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    Damon Young

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  • The Dos And Don'ts Of Coed Flag Football With Bougie Black People

    Last weekend, Pittsburgh tricked us into thinking winter was over by giving us consecutive 70 degree days. This included a spectacular 78 degree day on Saturday; the memory of which makes the 29 degree morning we’re currently experiencing particularly cruel. Fuck you, Pittsburgh. Fortunately, Saturday also happened to be the day a flag football game…

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    Damon Young

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  • 40 Signs You Just Might Be A Bougie Black Person

    1. You first met each of the last three people you’ve dated at game nights. 2. Dwayne and Whitley still matter a bit more to you than Barack and Michelle do. 3. You’ve been gainfully employed for some time, but no one — you included — actually knows or really understands what you do for…

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    Damon Young

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  • Shit Bougie Black People Love: 24. Bottomless Mimosas

    It’s well-established that Bougie Black People (BBP) are alcoholics who invented things like “the day party” and “the Scandal watch party” and “the Congressional Black Caucus” just so they’d have more opportunities to drink. But, to truly understand BBP, you need to understand their drink of choice, and why their drink of choice is their drink…

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    Damon Young

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