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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
I'm extra white.
Like for real. According to my mother's recollection, I was so white that when I was born the nurse thought I needed oxygen.* Apparently, my mother recalls her being the "blackest woman she has ever seen" wrt skin tone. I suppose the nurse would be considered extra black.
So extra white means lack of oxygen and extra black just means blackest you've ever seen.
Thanks.
Btw - I'm mixed race and while I never heard the "extra" qualifier before, I have heard many times the terms "so black" and "so white". The former almost always said by blacks to describe another who is either lazy, dishonest and/or inclined to criminality and the latter (also almost always by blacks) to describe not only a person with pale skin but also a white person who has very little experience with blacks.