I just experienced one this morning. Rajiv, my Indian co-worker, was talking about his weekend trip to Atlanta. Peppered amongst his speech about the Coca-Cola plant and CNN Tower were mentions of "The Blacks". Apparently, "The Blacks" are shady characters. But not because of color...even though he kept calling them "The Blacks".
Here is a fun one. I was sitting in a OBGYN lobby full of people. There are two african american moms with their children in this same room. The kids kept messing around and being loud, the way most kids do when they have to sit and wait somewhere with nothing to do. After twenty minutes of not being able to calm them down by telling them to do so, one mom takes off her shoe, throws it at her child and tells him that he "be acin' like a white boy!" Now, I had heard of the "black-mom-shoe-throwing", but I kind of believed it to be a legend up until that point.
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I just experienced one this morning. Rajiv, my Indian co-worker, was talking about his weekend trip to Atlanta. Peppered amongst his speech about the Coca-Cola plant and CNN Tower were mentions of "The Blacks". Apparently, "The Blacks" are shady characters. But not because of color...even though he kept calling them "The Blacks".
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