Don’t Call Me Mulatto

And I Won’t Call You Honkey

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Okay, okay, calm down, I’m not calling anyone “Honkey”. I said that for effect. Anyone that’s my age remembers George Jefferson and gets the reference.

But what they may or may not get is the term “Mulatto”. I remember, to this day, the first time I heard the word. I was 17. My then-boyfriend had introduced me to some of his friends and one of them, a…