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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"DMV" is local African-American vernacular for the area. If you don't know this term, you clearly don't know any black people or listen to local black radio stations.

Look at the website for 93.9 FM:
https://kysdc.com/

They have an entire section called "DMV News" and subsections: "The DMV" "DMV Music" "DMV's Own" etc etc etc.

Donnie Simpson and Russ Parr - "The Real Sound Of The DMV"

My white in-laws in MoCo never use the term. I'm a transplant. I used the term once and they were so confused, they thought I needed to get a new license. LOL. [/quote]

So basically white people who use it are poseurs. 
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I'd be curious to hear from the Black PP above about this fairly insane comment.

For my part, I'll just say that it's always jarring to hear things this --- people who didn't even know "DMV" was a term try to immediately pivot to gatekeeping it.  It reminds me of the white parents who laughed when they heard what school my white kid attended and said "you don't LOOK like the parent of a kid at that school" or the parent who -- apparently in all seriousness -- asked my kid if his Black teammates "make fun it him" when he heard that my kid played for a sports club in PG county.

Many White people who are uncomfortable around Black people seem to assume that they would not be accepted by them.  When they hear that white people can interact comfortably with Black people, they assume that those whites are somehow posing or tying themselves in knots to fit in rather than the obvious explanation that most Black people interact with whites on average much more than the reverse, particularly at work, so they are used to it.  My experience of my family being the only white family in a situation has been that it's a complete, total non-event.  We had no need to try to fit in or act differently or pose.  It's just not a thing for white people in majority black situations.  I think there's actually a term for this....

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