"From the mid-1930s through the late 1970s, Peola was an epithet used by Blacks against light-skinned Black women who identified with mainstream White society. A Peola looked White and wanted to be White. During the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement, the name Peola was an insult comparable to Uncle Tom, albeit a light-skinned female version."
-Dr. David Pilgrim, The Tragic Mulatto Myth
HOLY SHIT. SO MANY DARK-SKINNED PEOPLE HAVE INSULTED ME AND I HAD NO IDEA.
people called me that in middle-school and i just thought it was another word for light-skinned, like a slang word. well fuck you, dark-skinned kids who lived on central when i was in 6th and 7th grades.
