Your Favorite Stereotype About Your Own Race . . .

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by christiangirl

Okay, now I'm stereotyping, but I just know I'm right. My friend just called and said that the news just reported people selling MJ commemorative t-shirts outside the UCLA hospital. Something down in my SOUL tells me they're black. We are stereotyped as late for everything, can't turn in things on time, but whenever there's ANY sort of event (good or bad), t-shirts get printed up at the speed of light. The man ain't been dead but HOW MANY HOURS and you're already making $20 a pop? If it turns out they aren't black, I'll eat my words, but I can just FEEL it.

This is funny but not funny at the same time.

[pshsx1]

Originally Posted by christiangirl

Something down in my SOUL tells me they're black. We are stereotyped as late for everything, can't turn in things on time, but whenever there's ANY sort of event (good or bad), t-shirts get printed up at the speed of light. The man ain't been dead but HOW MANY HOURS and you're already making $20 a pop? If it turns out they aren't black, I'll eat my words, but I can just FEEL it.

lmao that is so true! And I heard someone say this on TV: "Michael Jackson was like the Barack Obama of music."

What?!

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by pshsx1

lmao that is so true! And I heard someone say this on TV: "Michael Jackson was like the Barack Obama of music."

What?!

Jesus Christ LOL

Because black people only have Barack and MJ? I'm gonna need that person to do better.

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by pshsx1

I thought about this today..

Anyone ever heard the stereotype that black people can't swim? ("because" there were piranhas in the waters around Africa, which is also why we didn't flee from slavery. hm.)

Anyway.. since, according to some of my friends, that's a stereotype, well.. I sure fit it. I swim as well as a the Titanic.

Piranhas are fresh water South American fish, so that's out. There are sharks in the salt water, as well as crocodiles in the river. Hippos are also mean and dangerous. If those critters were in my vicinity I probably wouldn't know how to swim either.

[tld221]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Jesus Christ LOL

Because black people only have Barack and MJ? I'm gonna need that person to do better.

Lord. That is so disrespectful.

And to christiangirl: there are bootleg concert/event shirts, and then there are "RIP my n**** Pookie from 145th and Amsterdam" shirts. I hate the hood tshirts!

My mother has this oversized shirt of some dude named D-shawn that she wears to bed. Who is that ma? You don't know him!

[DSTRen13]

White people, though, make tee shirts for every single event - major or minor - that may even potentially occur. And we will buy and wear them whether we attended the thing or not (or even know what it was).

[G-Kue 1911]

Originally Posted by tld221

Lord. That is so disrespectful.

And to christiangirl: there are bootleg concert/event shirts, and then there are "RIP my n**** Pookie from 145th and Amsterdam" shirts. I hate the hood tshirts!

My mother has this oversized shirt of some dude named D-shawn that she wears to bed. Who is that ma? You don't know him!

You mean the ones with the "Fruit of the loom" tags still attached....125th and Lennox has them too.

[pshsx1]

My old roommate always wore his FREE LOS and FREE someone else shirts and they were always in his Facebook statuses..

Well maybe if the dumbasses weren't stealing stuff and dealing drugs, they wouldn't be in jail now, would they?

I will be pissed if I'm ever on a RIP shirt.

[JohnnyCash]

I hate that people think all Hispanics are fluent spanish speakers. Or that we all enjoy latin food.

And when I order my food in English at the drive-thru, I expect you to answer back in the same fucking language.

[RU OX Alum]

My girlfriend has no ass.

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

I guess you found this to be necessary.

What if I did? You got a problem with that? It was said to me, I'll say here, you stuck up bitch.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

That serious? Oh well, your mother's a stuck up bitch.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by honeychile

That would make two of us, MC.


When I was a senior in college, I was continually asked, "what year are you in?" to which I responded, "Senior." Then, invariably, came, "Oh, where are you going to college?" Granted, I was younger than your average graduate, but it drove me crazy anyhow.

But yes, you do appreciate it as you get older. I've been carded three times in the last two years, and I am very, very grateful! Last week, I went to my ob-gyn, and the receptionist was shocked at my age. Look at it as good genes - my mother didn't age a bit until my daddy died.

Another somewhat racial stereotype is having red hair. I am lucky, but rubbing my hair is not going to help you! I don't have a bad temper, but if accused of it too much, I could be tempted to make an exception. Just because my eyes are hazel, not blue, does NOT mean I bleach my hair!

I could go on forever about redheaded rumors, but you all get the idea.

This makes me laugh because I can somewhat relate. I am 50% Irish and 50% Scottish and I get asked all the time, "Why don't you have red hair?" Some people also ask me why I don't have green eyes. Really, people, do you think everyone in Ireland and Scotland have red hair and/or green eyes?! You've seen Far and Away with Nicole Kidman (who is AUSTRALIAN, btw), way too many times!

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

LOL

I swear, that's clip art of a SLB...

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

LOL

I swear, that's clip art of a SLB...

OMG! LMAOOOOOO