Common & Serena say fugg a stereotype.
Your favourite power couple that aren’t really a “couple”, were out having a damn good time enjoying life in Hawaii doing what more folks need to.
Just enjoy themselves.
As I was peeping these folks living it up and enjoying a few waves, I thought to myself… I bet there is someone out there right now saying: Black People Surf?
Yes, bytch. Yes we do.
I know we like to have a great time joking about what we happily refer to as Black Folk Shit and Wife folk Shit, but when it comes down to it we are all pretty damn similar in the things we enjoy.
You might THINK that black people don’t para sail, surf, watch hockey, play dungeon n dragons, sky dive, save money, be father’s, or investigate spookey noises, but we do. Just as when you sit next to that nerdy Asian guy in class for months only to see that same kid free-styling some ill lyrics at the local hip-hop spot, and it makes your jaw drop.
As much as we are all Black, Asian, Latino, Beige, White, etc, there are plenty of things we might do that is viewed as straight up stereotypical. But when you break it down to the invidivual level? I bet many of us would be suprised to discover the things each of your fellow OHNfam enjoy that might be seen as going against the norm.
So let’s find out… name 5 activities you enjoy that other’s might find to be completely against the stereotype.
p.s. Serena got ASS!!
Posted in Open Thread, Real Talk
October 14th, 2008 at 11:50 am
1). I love learning shyt. I have to learn one new thing everyday.
2). I prefer rock over all other genre’s
3). If you dropped me in the middle of tokyo, I know enough japanese to survive.
4). < role playing game junkie.
5). : cough: I like goign to hockey games
October 14th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Fugg that, I don’t get into water that I can’t see the bottom of.
October 14th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Jet Ski
READ for fun!
Swim
October 14th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Here’s a list of what I WANT to do but none of my black closed minded compadres are willing to explore:
1. Laser Tag
2. White Water Rafting
3. Camping (Haven’t been since I was a kid)
4. scuba diving
5. Hiking
October 14th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
I loooove the water
I actually would like to do a Renesaince faire (I know I can’t spell to good)
I’m a Highland Games Athelete
I love big ol trucks and will be lifting mine up once I finsh paying for my car.
I love taking big ol trucks off into the woods.
October 14th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I’ve jumped out of a speed boat into the Atlantic Ocean …. drunk … with a bunch of folks that were also drunk and jumping out of the boat … once or twice before. Okay, maybe three times, but that was it.
But hey, I guess that’s what happens when you have non-black friends - you do some um, strange stuff.
I’ve also done some camping up some mountains in Connecticut for 2 days (with the same set of folks in the speed boat, also drunk again for the entire 2 days). It was fun but I’m not dying to go to the bathroom in the woods again anytime soon.
1) Jet Ski
2) Write Paranormal Romance
3) Read Novels (and not just ethnic fiction)
4) Play roleplaying/fighting/action/adventure video games
5) Computer programming - even just for fun (against stereotype of my race AND gender)
6) Tarot Reading
7) Registered as an organ donor
Some things I WANT to do that go against stereotypes:
1) Skydiving
2) Parasailing
3) Participate in cosplay and Renaissance faires
3) Ghost hunt
October 14th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Told yall I was married to a white woman
October 14th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Damn… I can’t think of anything.
‘Cept maybe the fact that I’m a (recorded) former hiphop artist.
October 14th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I Love Common I Love that they tried surfing… I’m still not riding Team Serena… but I applaud her improvement and I won’t even be sad that she sees Common naked all the time
October 14th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
ah and I think you all know how QQ rolls
October 14th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
1. I like to ski
2. I’ve been camping
3. I run long distance just to do it, and its best in the rain
4. I wear clothes that fit
5. Finding typos and bad grammar on professional documents.
Thats about it folk
October 14th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Learning is my main thing. I’ve always said that if I could make a living out of learning that would be it. That means lots of books, documentaries and weird tv shows. I am fascinated by UFOs, the Bermuda triangle and all those other “not so normal” mysteries. If it goes against the grain, I like it.
If I were athletic I’d be a runner. Running just cause and not cause the po po is behind me. I’m working on that.
I like cars. Not just looking at them but I want to be able to take them apart and put them back together…engines and all.
*cough* i wanna go camping and sky diving.
Im sure there is more but thats all i can think of right now.
October 14th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
1. I’m a black woman Math major from Detroit. (That usually gets the biggest shock from all races on my campus)
2. I like rock climbing on the plastic walls.
3. I like some country music. (White people don’t understand that one, cuz they don’t like it either.)
4. I speak German and I like European history ( I really like most history though)
5. I LOVE swimming. And sometimes in the Summer I’ll go swimming the same day I get my hair done.
5.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Jaila, the Bermuda Triangle, UFO encounters, The Philadelphia Experiment, etc all of those type of mysteries absolutely mesmerize me, too!
Les - rock wall climbing IS fun, but it is NO joke! I climbed 4 walls back-to-back, and couldn’t feel my arms or legs for 8 days.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Lets see here… I pay taxes …I over tip…I raise my son right….I dont bone hood rats…I front a heavy metal band…I eat sushi…and Im not a big fan of rap (hip hop i love).
October 14th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Guess who’s his stepfather is.Bobby Short from the old Charlie commercials.Yea, the black guy.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
1. I’ve performed and can still sing Opera (yes, an Aria is a beautiful thing)
2. I’ve been camping on multiple occasions which includes canoeing and riding in a dune buggy.
3. I love computer games which are about strategy like Civ I, II, III, IV.
4. I’ve gone on a zip line several times and plan to skydive for my 40th birthday (I set it in the future to get over my fear of actually doing it since I’m scared of heights)
5. I’ve riden horses and would like to get much better at it one day.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
I meant to leave my comment in the Anderson Cooper article.It will make sense to you.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Les,
I love swimming too, but girl, getting your hair done and then swimming is just wrong… that’s wasting good money!!! LOL
October 14th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
I’ve read most of the P.G. Wodehouse’s novels with Jeeves and Wooster. Funny as hell.
I’m fascinated by really dirty, skanky NY Punk from the ’70s. That’s specific.
I can’t really dance Salsa even though I was raised in the South Bronx, home of Fania Records. But that’s because I freeze up in public.
Oh yeah. I’m really shy.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
LOL @ divalake. I was about to say the same thing!! Good shyt tho les.
- I listen to NPR, all day.
_ i build and rebuild computers just because, and wanna trouble shoots software after i build. which explains why there are about 6 computers in our house.. with enough spare parts to probably build another one.
- I hate rap.
- I wont watch BET no matter what is on.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
I enjoy some country music and in some cases, have been to several concerts, yes, I’m the only spot of ink on the page when I get there, but the shock of seeing people’s faces when I can sing along is priceless.
I read voraciously because I can complete a 300 page novel in about 3.5 hours if I’m left alone and the book is good.
I’m a consultant and travel 4 days out of the week for work. So, when I commute, it involves an airplane and a hotel.
October 14th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I’ve gone to festivals that require you to sleep outside.
I’ve slept outside waiting for concert tickets.
I read for fun…on the bus always with a book.
I shop at the farmers market
I try to avoid foods that have high fructose corn syrup in them.
I ride my bike to work when weather permits.
I’m a black woman named Sara.
October 14th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
::: SING ::::And You! And meeeeeee foreverrrrrrrrraaaaaaahhhh SARA!!! SMiiiiiilllle! Wont you smile for me!! Sara!
October 14th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Oh, and I’ve been to the Renaissance Festival on more than one occasion and I sewed an elaborate costume to go in one year. I had people in the “parade of royalty” bow to me. My costume was the bomb!
October 14th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
:: diva :: you a dork.
just like moi.
I wanna go to the ren fair here but im gonan wanna spend way too much gat damn money
October 14th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Gat damn I want me some giant ass super fit woman like that damn Serena.
Honestly….I would punch all of my boys in the eye for some of that giant choclatey goodness.
October 14th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Slaus… my first time at the fair, I spent $200 of a cloak… yeah, I’m a dork. But I still rock that purple wool cloak in the fall and Spring. I’m just saying…
October 14th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
1) I read for kicks.
2) I hate 50 Cent.
3) I love rock/punk/alternative.
4) I only kinda like watermelon.
5) Tupac is overrated.
October 14th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Tupac is overrated!!!!???!!?!?!?!
You wanan take this outside!!??
October 14th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I love to listen to any type of latin music, eat latin food, and try to learn some spanish
I speak proper english (or speak english properly.. you pick)
I wear a belt
I can cook my azz off
I hold the door open for women
October 14th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
*winks* @ Slaus
That’s the only ‘Sara’ song I like…besides the one from Ween…
I know who Ween is.
I would buy a ticket to a Ween, Weezer, or Ozomatli concert over. Weezy, Young Jeezy or Omarion.
I still refuse to go to RenFest even though K would look mighty nice with in a bodice and all beer wenchy.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
I don’t spend time on street corners making catcalls at underage girls, although I do like to play dominoes.
I’m not driven by machismo, but I do have a bit of a temper. Now having said that, I love Billie Holiday.
I was never a welfare recipient, although I can understand how that happens to other folks.
I don’t have children.
I have an ok collection of classical music.
Oh, and depending on the detective, I used to watch Mystery on PBS.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
dont start on the food stereotypes…
I dont like watermelon or any melons for that matter and rarely eat friend chicken, I never ate pigs feet, ears, chitlins and all the other nasty shit and just gave up pork all together (pepperoni and sausage) six months ago.
I am looked at weird here in the south because I dont do a lot of traditional southern foods.
fvck coontv (BET), hell wit rap I just can’t do it. But i’ll bet somebody’s ass ova some tupac. My children speak proper english, they don’t know how to dance and they couldnt name any namebrand clothes/shoes if u paid them. Hell my 8 year old didn’t know she was black until she went to school. To her we were all the same just some had more sun then others lol
October 14th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
SmitnPdx: you don’t like the Fleetwood Mac song?
October 14th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
If you wanna laugh your ass off, check out this old blog entry from a former coworker of mine. He photoblogged a Medieval Faire.
Linky
October 14th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
1. Classical music
2. Classic Rock
3. Snorkeling
4. Sculling
5. Swimming
October 14th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Man yall better than me the only thing i can focus on is that fat ass!
But lets see what I have done or like.
1- Rock Music, classical, punk.
2- white drugs, like acid.
3- Japanese anime
4- Skate boards.
5- D&D
But I pretty much like everything stereotype thing that black people like i just got a bigger tastes.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
What I like and what i have done.
Acid
Rock
Punk
Classical
Skate boards
Reading fiction
Wrestling
Dungeon and Dragons
Japanese anime
Other wise I am doing everything else that is stereo typically black.
I was pretty good about hiding this stuff as a kid though.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
@ Jazzy, what’s sculling?
@ Leslie, link didn’t come through…
October 14th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
1. I love classical, big band, and rock music. Country is cool too, but I think they’re really black on the inside.
2. I don’t like raegee or house music.
2. I know how to properly set a dinner table.
3. I hate niggas.
4. I love to read and I hate black fiction novels.
4. I believe in aliens and I want to meet one.
5. I love martial arts.
6. I watch Nascar.
7. I don’t celebrate Kwanzaa.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
8. I’m fascinated with history, but not particularly in black history.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
1. I read for fun…(not ALL Floridians are hood or do “hood rat stuff” for fun…i still hate that im from the state tho.)
2. I double majored in both Engineering and Mathematics.
3. I cant stand fiddy cents
4. I HATE watermelon
5. I LOVE SUSHI!!!
October 14th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Yall traitor ass coons gonna quit badmouthing watermelon!!!
the hell did watermelon ever do to you!!
bunch of ungrateful fuckas!!
hmph.
I still wanan fight N. Stevens for bad mouthing Tupac though.
shoulda called this thread: “all the reasons my monkey ass monkey ass should lose my black card”
@ mzexclusive :: sights you in your face :: Say something bad about eric jerome dickey!! Milk in My COffee is a classic!! That ish needs to be taught right alongside George Orwell n shyt
October 14th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
I thought I posted up here but here we go again.
1-Rock, Punk, Classical.
2-Japanese anime
3-D&D
4-Skate Boards
5-wrestling
6- reading fiction (black men stereotype)
7- Wayne Brady
October 14th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
And since every one is so discipline to not mention this let me be the first ignorant one to say…. Damn Serena you packing!!!!
October 14th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Let me say MOST black fiction. I can get into stuff like Toni MOrrison or Gayl Jones…
but stuff like EJD or Carl Weber…naw. Can’t do it. I lose brain cells.
October 14th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
:: shoots Mz Exclusive in the knee cap ::
brain cells that.
Milk in My COffee was my book! That was the first Black fiction I ever read…
and prolly one of the last.
October 14th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
I LOVE this couple/not couple. Imagine if that had been Lil Wayne…she’d have snapped his ass in two between her booty cheeks. Whoo, homegirl got some ass….I’D hit it.
I’d have paid to see that, though.
1) Fantasy roleplay.
2) Go to Renaissance Faires(I wear the garb AND I’m a card carrying wench!)
3) I love jazz, but I especially love white-folk jazz-fave band is the Vince Guaraldi Trio…cartoon gurus should know who they are!
4) I read/listen to the Harry Potter books on CD.
5) I love Indian and Asian(I don’t mean the Chinese restaurant!) food, and absolutely LOATHE my beef well done.
@Wilfredo - have you read the Dorothy Sayers novels with Lord Peter Wimsey?
October 14th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
@Slausnificent
Problem with fiction is that if you can find one that is geared toward black men it is very poorly written.
Never mind that you have to have time to read it.
October 14th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
@ mike - I just wanted to be argumentative. I dont particularly enjoy reading any books that arent about Vampires, werewolves, withces, dark elves, Africam American studies, or behavioural psych
October 14th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
I think Zane is wack.
I don’t think Madea is funny.
I never considered a gold tooth.
I’m 6′4″-285..but I dont eat alot.
I watch sienfeld.
I don’t watch BET
I dont drink Malt Liquor.
I think straight poor is actually as gay as gay porn.
October 14th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Lol, last sci fi/ fantasy I read was Imaro by Charles Saunders, Steven Barnes and his wife do good work though.
October 14th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Damn why I gotta get shot??LMAO.
Harry Potter is THE BEST! And Eragon *the book, not the movie*
I believe in magic and used to want to be a witch. But like a real witch, like a charmed one and shit.
Vampires are hot.
October 14th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
wow at all of this…
I don’t do much of anything so there is nothing I can list to be honest….
October 14th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
1) I like snakes and spiders.
2) Monty Python was(and still is) my shyt.
3) I enjoy the hell out of goat cheese.
October 14th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
1. I used to watch Benny Hill and Kids in the Hall and die laughing
2. I play the trumpet
3. I have one several awards for singing classical music and playing in an orchestra.
4. I was in a bell choir
5. I read everything I see whether it is a sign (Black people don’t read signs), a pamphlet, instruction manual or book.
6. I watch FoodNetwork all day and can cook gourmet foods.
7. I know the lyrics to most Queen songs especially Bohemian Rhapsody.
8. Grease is my favorite movie.
9. I’ve studied at the University of Sydney in Australia.
October 14th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
@ Sammydean… you must be my long lost sister! Classical Music? Check. Reading? Check. FoodNetwork? Check. Queen? Check. And Grease is the Word!
October 14th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
FoodNetwork and the trumpet are not “white things”.
October 14th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Why in the world have to name out every single highway, left turn, right turn, and street in the state of california, in his stories?!?
(not that i read them)
October 14th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Can’t Take It: I do have about 5 Sayer books in my library that I’ve been meaning to read for about ten years now, but I always put it off for the more hard boiled variety of mysteries. I have seen Lord Wimsey on Mystery, though. But I’ve read all the Sherlock Holmes stories. Well, all except for one. The last one that Conan Doyle wrote. I’m saving that for my twilight years.
Oh yeah. I also talk funny.
October 14th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
It’s got groove it’s got meaning Diva! *Obama fist bumps*
October 14th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Thank you for the validation check Mike…*slaps you with a swordfish*
October 14th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Ok, so how many black women from Detroit do you know that plays a trumpet?? *waits for it*
October 14th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
*farts in Mike’s purse* Why come you ain’t put nobody else on blast but poor lil ole me? fight yo face
October 14th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
I know one that played the Sax… LOL
October 14th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
I think that you and I share dna Diva
October 14th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
sammydeen
You knew damn well those are not white things, lol.
October 14th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
::snickers at evil twin as I remember that thanksgiving dinner sammich::
October 15th, 2008 at 3:24 am
LOL Shut up Mike, I own’t know anyone one else around me that does it so shut it. I’m scratchin you off my favorite’s list hmph
October 15th, 2008 at 7:38 am
EJD is the business. And I like when he names the hwys and stuff…makes me feel like I’m there as I’ve never been to L.A. in my life. Hope to go soon!
October 15th, 2008 at 8:28 am
@ sammy…i agree on grease. grease, footloose, and the sound of music…i watch them every time they are on TV.
the only thing i can think of to add is the history channel. they have some amazing things on that channel.
October 15th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Since my mama is white, I suppose I’ve learned to love many o’white things in my life. Like “A Prarie Home Companion.” What. Garrison Keillor is the man!
I also like Elvis Presley movies.
I hate nigglature.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE! a parade! My husband is in hell every 4th of July =) If there is a parade, I am there! ps. The best parade I’ve ever experienced (b/c it is a true experience) is the annual Christmas Parade down “The Avenue” in Baltimore - especially if you happen to stand with a bunch of queens.
I often tell my husband that he needs more white friends b/c he can never find anyone to do the things he likes to do - like mountain biking, skiing (actually hitting the slopes, not just showing up to the parties looking for ass in their now-n-later colored gators!), etc.
October 15th, 2008 at 11:08 am
steel magnolias all day ERRR day.
i cant think of shit else.
-KB
p.s. i hate serena
p.s.s. i’m a hatin ass hater
October 15th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
hahahaha. Sammy desperately wanted to participate. Trumpet and reading pamphlets? Come on girlie! You gotta get outta Detroit. LOL
I don’t fuck with white folk shit. I can’t swim and I’m not into engaging in any activities that have a high risk of fatality. I always wanted to go horseback riding until superman got fucked the fuck up.
October 15th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
@sammy - Benny Hill? Kids in the Hall? BELL CHOIR?!
*looks around* Damn, I thought it was just me…I sure as hell thought the twin and I were the only two black folk to ever be in a bell choir…*lol*
October 15th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
@ truth hurt- heffa you made me poot. I hate you.
I don’t fuck with white folk shit. I can’t swim and I’m not into engaging in any activities that have a high risk of fatality. I always wanted to go horseback riding until superman got fucked the fuck up.
October 15th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Bell choir? yall some fuckin dorks.
:: goes back to watching anime :: :: scribling amber’s name in the deathnote ::
October 15th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
*snickers* That “high risk of fatality” got me earlier. Horseback riding is fun though, Truth!
@Slaus - this coming from the dude that drops “book of shadows” casually in conversation in a different post. Shaddap, you…*plucks you in the back of your head* I notice you didn’t say you didn’t watch Benny Hill, either..
October 15th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Truth I done told yo ass bouts talkin about my citay, say something else
October 15th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Twin?? TWIN??? I know yo ole big dog collar cowrie shell necklace wearin ass ain’t talking about me being in the bell choir? *pushes you down two stairs* hmph…gottalottanerve
October 16th, 2008 at 11:04 am
@ Wilfredo
I’m allergic to Fleetwood Mac….
…helllo, look at the skirt! It’s like being at Ren Fests and they are the opening act! I know on one of their album covers one guy is wearing muklukks…or something.
October 16th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
@ SmithnPdx: Yeah, Stevie Nicks held on to that look with the skirts for about a good thirty years. I think maybe she still dresses like that.