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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Is your battle with the stereotype why you got mad at me years ago for singing Buffalo soldier, dredloc Rasta to you? LOL. That was funny as hell.
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It's the assumption that IMO is offensive.
I get/got it.
What really irks me, and understand where I am coming from, in some places, the islands (Jamaica and the Bahamas) the natives there automatically assume that I fit that stereotype.
Ok check this: JUST by looking at me
In the states, I am assumed that I can play basketball
In the islands, I am a weed smoker
In Europe, I am an artist or in a band.
In Africa, my hair is fake ( so many people wanted to touch my hair!!!!)
All of this is assumed before one talks to me to get to know me.
When me and my wife went to Israel, we were the last ones of our tour group to disembark from the boat and the first and only ones detained and patted down.
The only place where I traveled that we got no attention has been Canada. Go figure.