1st Impressions on Black Dudes

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:51 pm

Was in the Louisville airport this morning at the gate waiting on a flight. Black dude sits next to me at the gate wearing a basketball jersey, basketball shorts, new pair of Jordan shoes and a Corona visor off to the side. Looked to me no older than 30 years old, prolly 25. Yeah, I stereotyped the dude. Thought hip-hop thug right off the bat.

His seat was next to mine on the plane as it turned out. Some old dude had window, he had center and I had aisle. Old dude strikes up a converstion with him. I'm reading my book but can't help but listen in. Black dude has worked for Humana for 20 years and is going down to Tampa for an audit. He's a CPA.

So, questions started to form in my mind. Why is a 40+ successful CPA wearing this outfit? Did not make sense to me why a successful educated 40+ black man was wearing this attire unless it was a sociological experiment. If so, I failed it. Old dude deboarded in Birmingham and it was just the black dude and I. We chatted a little but I got back to my book. I wish I asked him why he dressed like that but did not want to offend. Dude was smart and high class. Rack him...except for the clothes.

Just goes to show you can't judge the book by its cover. I still wonder on that guy. Hope he is on the return flight.

Pikkle and mv can weigh in with their slur blasts, but [South Park]I learned something today. Just because someone appears a thug don't make them one.[/South Park]

Still amazed why he dressed that way...

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:08 pm

Well, for what it's worth, I was wearing shorts, tshirt, Astros cap and crocs. I wasn't expecting a dude of his education and status to be wearing a suit on a Sunday morning at 8 AM. Just surprised me he was wearing Streetball gear.

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:12 pm

Interesting post. I can't answer the question. A shout out to any T1B members who are of Black African descent who might want to offer an opinion.
I know one thing. I'm not dressing up like "old Florida retired dude" with white shoes, socks, and belt with plaid pants and an International Orange Izod polo shirt just because others think it is what all old retired Florida dudes should wear.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:36 pm

Wolfman,I think you should wear pink overalls and a puka shell necklace, and scream out SCOREBOARD when the flight attendant gives you the smile her job makes her give.

Bobby42 · Post by **Bobby42** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:36 pm

Indy, you did judge a book by its cover. Apparently, it was too much for you accept that the guy wanted to travel casual, which is the standard mode nowadays. By way of comparison, take a look at some of the Harley Davidson MC groups where its members don the leather biker gear. A substantial number of them are professional folks.

Well, for what it's worth, you were wearing shorts, tshirt, Astros cap and crocs. And, no one judged you.

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:44 pm

Boring42,

If you could read between the lines in my post, I regretted judging the dude and have made a personal decision which was not to judge the book by its cover. He is a solid dude and I discounted that based upon first impression. Call it an epiphany if you will.

Still wondering why he chose that attire, but if that's his thing, so be it. My perceptions have changed nonetheless. Why is that a bad thing?

.m2 · Post by **.m2** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:51 pm

IndyFrisco wrote: I wasn't expecting a dude of his education and status to be wearing a suit on a Sunday morning at 8 AM. Just surprised me he was wearing Streetball gear.

When you make enough money.... you wear what you want.

Honestly, I think the guy does it just to get a reaction out of people like you, and your kinda folkways.

What's more fun than playing with simpleton's mind ?

Bobby42 · Post by **Bobby42** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:53 pm

Indy..it's Bobby.

Pardon me for not completely reading your position. Interesting how defensive one can be.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:09 pm

IndyFrisco wrote:Boring42,

If you could read between the lines in my post, I regretted judging the dude and have made a personal decision which was not to judge the book by its cover. He is a solid dude and I discounted that based upon first impression. Call it an epiphany if you will.

Still wondering why he chose that attire, but if that's his thing, so be it. My perceptions have changed nonetheless. Why is that a bad thing?

Black dude was probably sitting there thinking "great. I get stuck next to some white trash cracka reading a recipe book. probably a faggot"

well,, You just never know... :)

Fwiw Those sounded like damn comfortable clothes he was wearing. The angled cap? I gotta go with him trying to be "down" even if he's too old to be, but what the hell. There ain't no rules when it comes to dress casual. Especially on an airborne sardine can these days.

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:44 pm

airborne sardine can
Spot on analogy.
When I fly the "airborne sardine can" it's long pants, (normal color) polo shirt, sox (gotta take shoes off and I'm not walking barefoot for TSA), and my usual LL Bean camp mocs.
Thanks for your perspective Bobby42 -- I was thinking you might opine on this. To paraphrase Dr.King--we should judge people by the content of their character and not what they are wearing ! First impressions might be spot off-- even pink polos and puka shells.

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:05 pm

Mister Bushice wrote:Black dude was probably sitting there thinking "great. I get stuck next to some white trash cracka reading a recipe book. probably a faggot"

Actually, I was flipping through a Cooking Enthusiast catalog at the gate.

Rack YOUR first impression though...'cept the white trash part. Far from it.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:08 pm

IndyFrisco wrote: dude has worked for Humana for 20 years and is going down to Tampa for an audit. He's a CPA...

No fucking wonder they're losing money faster than they could burn it.

bbqjones · Post by **bbqjones** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:57 pm

my first impression of black dudes:

cant keep grits out of beard
need a translator for white peeps (took me about 3 years)
are lazy when andy griffith is on
smoke alot of pot
watch alot of boxing on hbo
dig white women (hi mom)
have early health problems that whites and asians normally dont
piss and fart and shit with the bathroom door open
like paper pornography just like any 13 year old white boy would
keeps a gun under pillow
prefers beatings to be with a belt or switch. never the fist.
will eat anything. pigs feet, cow balls, spicey cheetoes
does not get along with mexicans. especially those in the local mafia

poptart · Post by **poptart** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:55 am

bbq wrote:are lazy when andy griffith is on

I don't know what that meant, but it was funny. haha

RAqUE q!

.m2 · Post by **.m2** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:06 am

IndyFrisco wrote:
Rack YOUR first impression though...'cept the white trash part. Far from it.

I laughed

but bbq made me laugh harder.

Smackie Chan · Post by **Smackie Chan** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:32 am

bbqjones wrote:my first impression of black dudes:

dig white women (hi mom)

bwaa

Jerkovich · Post by **Jerkovich** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:41 pm

Interesting, I left Louisville on Saturday morning. The Humana folks were holding their meeting at the Seebach Hilton and what a crew of hotties they have working for them! We were there for four days and every time I walked into the hotel during the afternoon, their meeting room was rocking loud with music and singing. I know they weren't half asleep like I was in our meetings.

Jerkovich · Post by **Jerkovich** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:42 pm

Jerkovich wrote:Interesting, I left Louisville on Saturday morning. The Humana folks were holding their meeting at the Seebach Hilton and what a crew of hotties they have working for them! We were there for four days and every time I walked into the hotel during the afternoon, their meeting room was rocking loud with music and singing. I know they weren't half asleep like I was in our meetings.

No, never peeked in, but you could hear those fookers all the way into the lobby.

RumpleForeskin · Post by **RumpleForeskin** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:03 pm

I'd have to say dude wearing the streetball gear and turned out being a CPA for Humana is not the norm.

Now, this is not really a first impression, but more like a "of course they are black" impression:

I was at school last week in the computer lab studying for an exam. There are signs posted everywhere saying that cell phones are to be turned to silent or off when in the computer lab and if someone needs to make a call, then they must leave the computer lab. I'm cramming for a test...I'm in a zone. All of the sudden, I hear a ring tone go off that was making the sound of a woman having an orgasm. The ring tone was funny at first but it broke my concentration no doubt. I turn around and it was a nog who's cell phone went off. The computer lab police walked over and told him to turn it off or he was going to have to leave.

He was like, "Aight...aight, dawg."

I start to concentrate again and then another ring tone goes off, but now it was some thuggish hip-hop music playing. I turn around and it's another nog sitting next to the first nog. The computer lab police did not act on the other ring tone. A few more minutes go by and now the ring tone with orgasmo woman starts going off again. And now the nogs are laffing it up. The computer lab police come over and ask him to shut off his phone or leave. Next, it was the thuggish hip-hop ring tone a couple minutes after. I'm pissed at this point and can see that the lab police are pussies. I turn around and tell this mother fucker:

"I can help you with that."

Nog: "Help wiff what?"
Me: "Learning how to read."
Nog: (blank look) "Read?"
Me: "Yeah, cus obviously you don't know how to read the rules."
Nog: "Yo man...you need to mind yo binness."
Me: "Well, you made it my business when you interrupted me..."

By this time, the computer lab police come over and finally kick the two nogs out, but of course, they did not go peacefully. They start jawing at the lab police with some sort of illiterate dialect. I couldn't quite make it out. Then the nogs start jawing at me and I just said, "Well....bye."

I'm sorry, but 9 times out of 10 they fit the stereotype.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:05 pm

rack bbqjones, btw

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:38 pm

Jerkovich wrote:Interesting, I left Louisville on Saturday morning. The Humana folks were holding their meeting at the Seebach Hilton and what a crew of hotties they have working for them! We were there for four days and every time I walked into the hotel during the afternoon, their meeting room was rocking loud with music and singing. I know they weren't half asleep like I was in our meetings.

Nice to see our health care dollars in action.

If the meeting room is a rockin, don't bother knockin.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:44 pm

Impressions on Black dudes? Does a mushroom stamp count?

--Stanley Fukken Pickle

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:38 pm

mvscal wrote:
IndyFrisco wrote:Why is a 40+ successful CPA wearing this outfit? Did not make sense to me why a successful educated 40+ black man was wearing this attire...
Because he is ashamed of his own success and would rather be thought of as a n...igger than an Uncle Tom. This is a perfect example of the thought processes that make n...iggers such pathetic fuck ups. You see the same things in public schools where making good grades is seen as being "white."

Or maybe the first thing said 40+ successful CPA was planning on doing when he touched down was to hit the hotel gym for a workout.

Shine · Post by **Shine** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:38 am

So let me see if I have this straight Indy.

Jersey + shorts + basketball shoes + visor = thuggish streetball gear

While...

t-shirt + shorts + crocs* + baseball hat = fine, normal and proper attire

Yep, nothing inherently racist about that.

* anyone over the age of 10 wearing crocs should be beaten for wearing gardening/kids shoes out in public

RadioFan · Post by **RadioFan** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:37 am

Bwah! Rack Shine.

I was gonna start a mimic thread ...

Was in the Louisville airport this morning at the gate waiting on a flight. White dude sits next to me at the gate wearing sweatpants, a backward baseball cap and a fuckin pair of crocs on his feet. Looked to me no older than 30 years old, prolly 25. Yeah, I stereotyped the dude. Thought message-board posting dork right off the bat.

Seriously though, I think most people tend to stereotype strangers, be it good or bad, myself included. Hell, it's a part-time hobby of mine when I'm bored, especially at a place where one is stuck like the airport.

The fun part is when your stereotype is blown out of the water, which happened to me a few weeks ago.

There's this summer intern at work, who can't be more than 18. She's got dreadlocks, wears boots with a skirt nearly every day and uses patchouli as perfume. I've also overheard her say she's a vegetarian. So naturally, I'm thinking, "Yep, Sarah McLachlan-loving, man-hating hippie-chick."

One night working late, I'm outside the building, having a smoke, and she comes out and lights up a cig as well. We get to talking and it turns out she's got a scholarship to the New York Film Academy and will be starting there in the fall. Turns out she wants to be a movie director. She tells me, "I'll be staying near Greenwich Village ..."

Me: "That's cool. You should be able to fit right in. You seem like a free spirit."

Her: "No, there are too many freaks there. I'm probably too conservative for it. I know I don't look it, but I'm really pretty conservative."

Me:

I made amends by telling her I'd talk with my cousin who has a film degree from UCSB about any advice he may have for her.

Nothing like ASSuming. I'm sure we've all been there, at one time or another.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:18 am

Shine wrote:

* anyone over the age of 10 wearing crocs should be beaten for wearing gardening/kids shoes out in public

Rack it!

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:00 pm

There are crocs:

And there are Crocs:

You don't have to surrender your gender when you wear fucking crocs. You can choose to purchase and wear the ones that don't make you look like a 7 year old girl.

Freedom of Choice...is what you've got.
Freedom from Choice...is what you want.

Jay in Phoenix · Post by **Jay in Phoenix** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:22 pm

In ancient rome
There was a poem
About a dog
Who found two bones
He picked at one
He licked the other
He went in circles
He dropped dead

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:29 pm

Turn Freddimac & fannimae over to MgoBlueLightSpecial & the Deciders; They'll fix it!

Bobby42 · Post by **Bobby42** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:29 pm

Toddowen wrote:Impressions on Black Dudes?

Well....I kind of admire the impression that a noose leaves around their neck after a good ol' down south lynching.

And then there's the impression of a crack pipe burn around their massive lips.

And wasn't there a band of Blacks called "The Impressions"?

Kick these around

Toddowen is still running around with a curling iron up is ass. The shit is cooking.

Ana Ng · Post by **Ana Ng** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:42 am

RumpleForeskin wrote:I turn around and tell this mother fucker:

"I can help you with that."

Nog: "Help wiff what?"
Me: "Learning how to read."
Nog: (blank look) "Read?"
Me: "Yeah, cus obviously you don't know how to read the rules."
Nog: "Yo man...you need to mind yo binness."
Me: "Well, you made it my business when you interrupted me..."

By this time, the computer lab police come over and finally kick the two nogs out, but of course, they did not go peacefully. They start jawing at the lab police with some sort of illiterate dialect. I couldn't quite make it out. Then the nogs start jawing at me and I just ~~said, "Well....bye."~~ woke up.

We've seen you.

There's no fucking WAY you're back sassing these guys.

Also, you lost me when you mentioned that the eggplants were in the "computer lab".

Bobby42 · Post by **Bobby42** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:43 am

Toddowen wrote:
Bobby42 wrote:
Toddowen wrote:Impressions on Black Dudes?

Well....I kind of admire the impression that a noose leaves around their neck after a good ol' down south lynching.

And then there's the impression of a crack pipe burn around their massive lips.

And wasn't there a band of Blacks called "The Impressions"?

Kick these around
Toddowen is still running around with a curling iron up is ass. The shit is cooking.
Man...I told you that I don't associate you with those people.

All your life....correction....all your ancestors lives, they've labored and slaved to place you upon the pedastal of which you now sit.

Why do you wish to fall off it?

And, I told you it's OK if you stand at the freeway ramp looking for hand outs. Just don't get in the way when the light turns green.

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:55 am

Bobby42 wrote:
Toddowen wrote:Man...I told you that I don't associate you with those people.
And, I told you it's OK if you stand at the freeway ramp looking for hand outs.

On the ramp would be better.

Louis Cyphre · Post by **Louis Cyphre** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:10 am

PSUFAN wrote:There are crocs:

And there are Crocs:

You don't have to surrender your gender when you wear fucking crocs.

Sorry PSU, but if you own a pair of these:

You had better surrender your gender. Because if those aren't for women, then they are the faggiest pair mens sandals I've ever seen.

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:51 am

Leave PSU alone. There's a difference between metrosexual and gay as fuck.

Okay, I don't know what it is, but I'm sure I read it somewhere...

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:08 am

I didn't actually care, but thanks for clarifying.

You still should cut PSU a little slack.

Living in Pennsylvania has got to be bad enough.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 3:37 pm

You did realize that when you found that pic right?

Mea culpa - I did not.

I do own crocs...here they are:

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 3:54 pm

Shine wrote:* anyone over the age of 10 wearing crocs should be beaten for wearing gardening/kids shoes out in public

They do make flip-flop style crocs.

These I have...

Are much different than these kids wear...

So...you just ASSumed I wore the kind that look like those old jelly shoes I guess. Hey, it's ok, anyone can make a bad assumption. You willing to come correct though? I doubt it.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:04 pm

IndyFrisco wrote:
Shine wrote:* anyone over the age of 10 wearing crocs should be beaten for wearing gardening/kids shoes out in public
They do make flip-flop style crocs.

These I have...

Are much different than these kids wear...

So...you just ASSumed I wore the kind that look like those old jelly shoes I guess. Hey, it's ok, anyone can make a bad assumption. You willing to come correct though? I doubt it.

How do we know you aren’t just back-pedaling to cover your ass? How do we know that you don’t actually own those rubber clogs? Time to take a photo of you wearing your crocs and your ~~beard~~ wife wearing her bikini if you want to confirm your manhood.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:07 pm

just admitting to owning the flip-flops is the same as admitting to taking it up the ass