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So, Gingers Are Ostracized By White People..?!. Has Anyone Ever Thrived In Whiteness?

A full week of ‘Gingers’ becoming officially Black has been unhinged!

Lucy M.
5 min readMay 18, 2025

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The notable absence of the ‘don’t mix’ content on my social media FYP page this past week was a tad confusing to me. I couldn’t figure out why Social media had become a little less hostile until yesterday, when I learned that out of nowhere, black people on the internet had caused the biggest wave of love and positivity that was healing to millions of people around the world: White Ginger people, where the subject of that love.

Gingers are having a field day all over social media right now, exposing non-ginger white people for the literal torment they’ve subjected them to over these years: The booger picking in the context of who deserves to be comfortably white.

The stories they’re telling are literally heartbreaking. I didn’t realize how close to the sun they’d been flying. Gingers have been targeted by certain groups of white people simply because of the color of their hair.

The following is what they’ve been told and called by their literal parents, siblings, schoolmates, and members of their own community:

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Lucy M.
Lucy M.

Written by Lucy M.

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