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[–] KillerTofu 2 points 5 months ago

Coconut is sometimes used as a pejorative that she may look brown but is white inside.

I think it’s more likely a racial pejorative inferring that she’s a monkey, a common racist characterization of black people.

But also, she shared the story from someone in her family who used the metaphor about dropping out of a tree.