The speaker is a Black woman who experiences a vivid dream where she occupies a white body. She uses informal vernacular language to address herself and process her surroundings. Throughout the dream, she scrutinizes physical features and interrogates the relationship between her bodily form and her core spirit.

White Me is the literal manifestation of the speaker's identity translated into a white body. She possesses hair resembling fall leaves and a nose the speaker sarcastically deems perfect. She is defined primarily by what she lacks, specifically missing the lips and behind of the waking speaker. She functions as a wearable set of clothes representing white history.