These #GrowingUpBlack Tweets Are Everything
Twitter exploded this week when #GrowingUpBlack took the Internet back in the day to a time of drinking red Kool-Aid and running home before the streetlights came on. Hilarity ensued. Here are some of our favorite posts—we can’t even rank them because they are all so. Darn. True.
#GrowingUpBlack I hated going to my grandma house pic.twitter.com/vLapYp2C85
— G-Day Bihhhhhhhh (@TazGang400) July 16, 2015 #GrowingUpBlack sparks Black Twitter nostalgia: http://t.co/DGtUDk92fZ pic.twitter.com/yxmye6pkKP
— RollingOut (@RollingOut) July 16, 2015 #GrowingUpBlack meant taking off your good clothes before you could go out and play.
— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) July 15, 2015 #GrowingUpBlack This was the correct sweetening process for all Kool-Aid preparation. pic.twitter.com/6Tlr3CoGe7
— Son of Baldwin (@SonofBaldwin) July 15, 2015 #GrowingUpBlack Me: I'm hungry Moms: Go make a sandwich Me: I don't want a sandwich Moms: Then you ain't hungry pic.twitter.com/1371yGEx8S
— Common Black Girl (@CommonBlackGirI) July 15, 2015 #GrowingUpBlack you had to watch one of these shows with your grandparents while your parents at work pic.twitter.com/wsq3E0xvk0
— RollingRay!!!!!!!!!! (@DMVMOSTFAMOUS) July 15, 2015 #GrowingUpBlack when Vaseline was used for lotion, hair grease and Chapstick. Multi-functional pic.twitter.com/1mVSY7FgU5
— Alexandra Coppadge (@Alex_Coppadge) July 15, 2015 #GrowingUpBlack I heard, "Go wash up; You smell like outside."
— Jackée Harry (@JackeeHarry) July 15, 2015 #GrowingUpBlack almost every grandmother had these magnets on their refrigerator pic.twitter.com/MSaBrQINvN
— Common Black Girl (@CommonBlackGirI) July 14, 2015 #GrowingUpBlack Everybody have that one Plastic Bag full of Plastic Bags pic.twitter.com/QEdnYInN4U
— Regg (@Rejee_) July 15, 2015