Epic Fail-”You Got A Little Bit Of Caucasion in You?”

14Jun10

So are we still associating being articulate with being white these days? This mess must end here!

That’s what I assumed when a guy I met this past weekend said to me “You got a little bit of Caucasian in you.” Now I just jumped to the meat without giving you the seasoning, so let me get down to it.

This past weekend I was at a get together with some friends. This guy was a friend of a friend and he kept pursuing me the whole night. After trying to “warm up” to me, eventually he got comfortable enough to ask for a dance. As we all know a dance leads to an opener for a conversation and a way to isolate the girl from her friends. Now we get to talking and everything is cool-like where is your family from?- what you like?- blah, blah, blah. After a few words were exchanged, laughs shared, and uh-huhs and oks, ya boy was actually getting somewhere with the conversation. I wasn’t sold but I was not bored either.

Then he dropped a bomb on me. He says, “So you got a little bit of Caucasian in you.” Immediately I did my fake chuckle and said, “Well what do you mean?” So he says it three or four more times and I asked three or four more times, “WHAT DO YOU MEAN?” lol. After I challenged him on his comment he tried to retract his statement by saying he was just playing. Wow! Sorry dude but the damage was done. Immediately any interest I had in him went down to zero.

The only reason why I still feel some type of way about the situation is because I can only assume what he was implying by the comment. He never gave me real reason so now there is just pondering.

Of course when a guy says something stupid like that, he will get roasted in the conversations I have with my friends immediately after.  On the way home in the cab I told two of my homegirls what he said. Both said he was “done” and he was probably trying to imply that since I didn’t sound exactly “hood” I was trying to be white. I did not expect that from a guy like him, only because he was college-educated himself and a few years in age ahead of me. So for him to say that just shows his ignorance.

For those who really know me, know that I am far from anything “Caucasian”. I grew up around black people (some good, some hood), go to a black university, and I also am an Afro-American studies minor. Never assume, it’s not good for health.

With that said, has anyone ever said some next ish to you, and in the moment you thought it was dumb, but as time went on you felt like that person was really trying to play you?

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