Etymology

Oreo cookie

Today it means: A black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person Full definition →

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The story

By analogy with the proprietary "Oreo Cookie" that is black on the outside and white on the inside, implying that certain black people are white at heart.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.