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    Black Is Over (Or, Special Black) by Tressie McMillan Cottom with Artwork by Merav Kamel

    June 3, 2020 /

    Above: from the Sketchbook of Merav Kamel

    I’m looking for a mixed girl Asian, Jamaican
    I’m looking for a mixed girl Puerto Rican, Haitian
    I’m looking for a mixed girl
    Cuban and White
    I’m trying to get mixed up tonight like
    Excuse me miss, what’s your name, where ya
        from, can I come

    —T-Pain, “Mix’d Girl”

     

    “Black people are over.” That is how it was said to me once.

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