The whole world going to see you, boo.ĪLISON ETTEL: Yeah. Charlie - so a white man and a white woman - and using those to refer to these people without directly referring to them, kind of engaging in that signifying process that we think about when Black folks are talking about one thing but saying another.īATES: But whether she's wearing hoop skirts or athleisure wear, Clark says, there's been a certain consistency from Miss Ann to Becky, to Karen.ĬLARK: The thing that makes Miss Ann Miss Ann is that she recognizes her privilege and she uses it almost as a cudgel or weapon to keep certain folks in their place, to keep Black people in particular in their, quote-unquote, "place."īATES: As in this 2018 viral video from San Francisco.ĮRIN AUSTIN: She calling the police on an 8-year-old little girl. I'm an assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia.īATES: Meredith Clark says Miss Ann is an intra-group reference that's lasted for generations.ĬLARK: I remember my mother, whose mother was a domestic, talking about Miss Ann and Mr.
MEREDITH CLARK: My name's Meredith Clark. But before there was Karen or Becky, there was Miss Ann who might go back as far as the antebellum South and who for sure was around in the Jim Crow era. She looks like one of those rap guys' girlfriends.īATES: For the hip-hop impaired, those are the opening lines of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back," the '90s hit that immortalized Becky and made her popular shorthand for a certain kind of culturally oblivious white girl. Remember this?ĪMYLIA RIVAS: (As character) Oh, my god. And before there was all this focus on Karen, there was Becky. It is a name for a choice.īATES: These Karens, Attiah says, make the choice to police people of color, especially Black people - everything from their legitimate right for their bodies to be in public spaces to their bodies period. But she says, nope.ĪTTIAH: Someone isn't calling someone a Karen because, you know, they were born white. Attiah has heard all the objections, that calling women Karen is classist, misogynistic, maybe even racist. KAREN ATTIAH: Usually when the name Karen is trending, I'm bracing myself, to be honest with you.īATES: Because they're usually not nice depictions. And at first, this explosion of Karens amused her.
The point is to rent to someone who can enjoy it.īATES: Karen Attiah the global opinions editor at The Washington Post. And it's really not about the money for us. REESE WITHERSPOON: (As Elena) So rent is 300 a month. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE") On screen, Reese Witherspoon often plays her, as she did here in "Little Fires Everywhere." She's usually white, entitled and very sure that what she's doing is right. KAREN GRIGSBY BATES, BYLINE: Karen has become shorthand for a certain kind of woman.
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So what's in a name, and that name in particular? We asked another Karen, Karen Grigsby Bates, from our Code Switch team to explain. The Internet then dubbed her the Central Park Karen. MARTIN: That was Amy Cooper, whose false charge eventually ended up getting her charged in New York last month.
He is recording me and threatening myself and my dog. But it really caught on after this incident in New York.ĪMY COOPER: There is an African American man.
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