The Word "Blerd"…Approved by Me

I knew that I was a nerdy and awkward somewhere around middle school. I was never going to be cool by Pop Culture's standards for being Christian, Black, Female, Living in the inner city, and whatever I was and now am.  So, I slowly came to grips with that. I had to because trying to be cool was making me stupid & depressed, just ask OutSpoken_Diva in the 5th grade (I call her Milk (I won’t do a blog on that name. Too painful to do. If you know it, You know it) and we all know I hate being stupid. And of course I knew I was black all my life. So, I am a Black Nerd. Last year I saw the term “Blerd” show up. I didn’t accept it at first. Even though I personally know many, I didn’t want to. Now I have embrace it as another description of being me.

I am a Black person that does not think that everything (just some things) needs a representative of every culture in it. Like why is there a Black KKK. What is the purpose?  Matter of fact there many things that is one sided culturally, especially television shows. There are many shows that I watch that I am okay black people are not main characters. I love “The Big Bang Theory” but I don’t think and black person is needed on that show. Number 1, I can put names to all of the characters, including myself and they all are black. Number 2, all the show heads will do is mess up and put a pop cultural black nerd representative version of Steve Urkel or Carlton Banks and screw the storyline up.  So when I first saw the word “Blerd”, I didn’t want to call myself that. I first saw it on Twitter and tweeted my feeling for the word. Pretty much saying “Do Black folks have “Black” up everything”. Well I only saw the word because I started engaging with other Black people who were awkward and nerd on social media. I was watching “Black Nerd Comedy” & “Lamarr Wilson” on YouTube. They keep me in stitches. Then I found a blog called “Black Girl Nerds” and that lead to more black nerds discussing a variety of everything. Then it hit me “Blerd” is not “blacking up” anything. Black Nerds just made a term to identify that there “people of color” that are nerds.

Just like everything, Pop Culture (yes I am very hard on pop culture, so what) has being a nerd is limited in its meaning also. Just like it has limited the meaning or Christian, Black, Female, well Everything. So it is safe to say being Black and Nerdy is limited even more. I just said the “representatives” are probably Steve Urkel & Carlton Banks (yeah I know a couple of those guys too) and that is probably the only image mainstream has put out for a long time. Most people don’t recognize Aisha Tyler or Donald Faison as Black Nerds. Blerd do. Blerds know their own. (Yes I am laughing after that last statement) I am glad Nerds of Color came up with the term “Blerd” before Pop Culture gets its mitts on it and bastardize it. So yes, I am OutSpoken_Diva and I am a Blerd. My story is not Pop Culture’s story for me. I define my own “Blerdness”.

So that’s my story. I’ll admit I’m embarrassed it took me a few months to accept the term. But it is here for me to accept and I can’t be embarrassed about that. Still don’t want a Black Bachelor. They gave us a couple. Yes they did!!! The first one was name Flava Flav. And yes that makes Black Bachelorette, New York. LMBO Oh wait before I go, here are Some of the Blerd Blogs & Vlogs I read & watch

http://www.blackgirlnerds.com/

http://blerdmediagroup.com/

http://geeksoulbrother.blogspot.com/

https://www.facebook.com/BlerdChat

http://www.youtube.com/user/wilsontech1

http://www.youtube.com/user/BlackNerdComedy

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheNerdElement

 Hope you enjoy.

 

As Always, Talking to You in Adult Terms