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Thursday, March 11, 2004

Not so funny comedy of the day…

I was just walking from the grill downstairs, in broad daylight mind you, when this…young _____ lady who was walking towards me decided to stop dead in her tracks and make a giant circle around me as to not provoke “the dangerous black guy”. For a minute, after the sheer absurdity of it all registered completely, I was tempted to run up behind her simple ass and yell. “Booga- booga- booga!” just to see her freak out. Of course, then I would have been harassing her, and who knows what would have happened if/when DCPD showed up. (sigh) You know, it’d be nice if I didn’t have to put up with this shit, man. Seeing _____women look directly at me on a crowded train and clutch their purses like I’m going to rob them at any moment. I’m sure that…lady was thinking, “…two point for me, he didn’t even notice my subtle deviation…”.
Maybe I wouldn’t have thought too much about it this time around…maybe I would have been able to keep my thoughts on how nice the weather was…how it’s so sunny…I really don’t want to go back to work…if she didn’t look directly at me, stop dead in her tracks, and the walk around me like I had the plague. Even without my glasses on, I can see that a mile away. Y’know, for any person who does ignorant shit similar to this, said actions can actually provoke somebody to flip out on you. Not that I think anybody who reads this does this, but then again, I’m the only one here, right.
Hey, you could always do the famous “Shift my valuables to the opposite side and disarm him with a smile and optional hello” tactic. Not that I don’t see that either, but it’s more tolerable than all but running when you see a tall black guy walking in the same vicinity as you. The irony is, I’m not even intimidating looking in my opinion…I mean I was wearing glasses, khakis and a button up for crying out loud. (sigh) Racism is sooo old, ya’ll mufuckas really need to let that shit go.
But then again, she could very well have been a fellow OCD sufferer, and I may have been unwittingly “walking on her line”, which is definitely a faux pas. I mean, probably not, but I like to try to look for the silver lining in clouds, even if the clouds look like little turds…

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