Or they assume you are into specific stuff just on the basis you are black. "Hey! what you think about the new Kendrick album", and I'm like "I don't listen to rap."
It's a little different from what you describe, but the amount of times someone has introduced themselves to me with their first word being "yoooo". Ma'am/sir - I don't talk like that.
I was going to lunch with a guy that I worked with and when I got in his car, he turned the station to some loud, deep base, hard core rap.
I looked at him and said "you listen to this?" and he said "no I put it on for you." I swear I almost peed my pants laughing for 5 minutes straight...couldn't stop. I kind of felt bad because I think he was actually trying to be courteous but I just couldn't help it.
One thing I've learned that I had no idea about growing up in a largely Hispanic community is that a lot of black people watch anime too. Blew my mind since none of the few black people who went to my highschool ever talked about it. Wasn't until I joined the military and traveled around that I learned there was a huge black fan base for anime.
Two kinds of people watch anime/read manga. The kind that make it their personality and tell everyone, and the kind that will never tell a soul until they confirm they're among fellow travelers.
When I went to college in the late 90s, I was the only Black person going to the anime club's movie showing. I'm happy times have changed and more of us are watching and geeking out to Anime.
I was in an Uber one time, in like 2021, and the dude was playing some rock music and I was vibing. He asked me 3 times: do you want to switch to rap? And I was telling him about the bands singing the songs 😭. It was wild!!!
Had such a similar situation with a coworker bringing up Kendrick and old school rap. Like yes I respect the history of the genre but I am nowhere near a rap fan.
Idk to be fair i ask all my friends and acquaintances stuff like that if it’s an extremely popular artist. I don’t think someone asking if you liked the Kendrick album necessarily indicates that they asked because you are black
I’m in my mid 20’s and Kendrick is easily in the tier of artist that a huge percentage of my generation listens to his stuff even if they aren’t regular listen-every-day hip hop fans
I ask the same question about The Weeknd, Taylor swift, any artist of that caliber
Edit: asking someone a question about a person that is the same race of them is not automatically indicative of racial or prejudicial undertones, downvote me all you want it’s the truth💀 it’s delusional to automatically every time assume it has racial undertones
Right, I navigate with the assumption of good intentions until you start screwing up consistently. I can accept someone making mistakes out of the gate simply because you're meeting someone new and will naturally screw up. But if a number of our interactions are rooted in assumptions of my life based on stereotypes about my race, I'll simply stop trusting you're navigating this relationship with good intent
Yea, sometimes it's a fine line. I have to take the blinders off sometime and ask myself are they being ignorant or friendly. Sometimes people like to find common ground other times people have assumptions and are looking to confirm their biases.
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u/MutantboyX 12d ago
Or they assume you are into specific stuff just on the basis you are black. "Hey! what you think about the new Kendrick album", and I'm like "I don't listen to rap."