Tales of An Oreo: Do you need a face towel?
By Urban Thought on January 25, 2008 @ 12:00 am
What makes you black? Is it the way you walk? The way you talk? How you wear your clothes? How about your shower habits?
I’ve been called an Oreo many times in my life. I’m used to it although I don’t identify with it. This past weekend, I found my Blackness being questioned by another black person. She happened to watch me wash. My ritual: Lather my hands with the acne soap and massage it into my skin. Rinse by placing my hands under the water and then splashing my face. This is when she walks in 
and offers me a towel. I tell her I don’t need one. She then says, “What are you? White?” With a puzzled look on my face I say, “No, why would you say that?” Cause white people don’t use towels? No point in drying out my skin, when I’m going to put moisturizer it anyway. That may not sound to kosher for a man to talk about but men like clean skin too.
Do white people not use towels? Every time I’m in Bed, Bath and Beyond, I see white people buying towels. Is this not the case?
And when did the method in which you wash your face define the color of your skin?
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I am a white female and I use a towel – if that helps any…
What an odd comment to make with respect to towels. I could see offering you a towel to dry up and then saying “that makes sense” when you tell me why you don’t need one but connecting it to racial differences?
Scratching my head at that one.
It makes as much sense as someone saying, “Why do you use un-waxed dental floss – are you Black?”
Apparently black people are supposed to lather with Jergens and dry our faces with rags -
close minded . . I will say that I got a good laugh from this story.
Okaaaay….did I not get that memo? Sometimes I use a towel to dry my face and sometimes I don’t. Does that make me a mulatto? haha
Well i have to agree with the process…i mean even I “splash” rinse. I was taught to do that for years. Wow….towels..”the racial cornerstone”