It Happened Again

I don't know what I can do anymore. It seems anytime it comes out I have an interest in something remotely black, my roommate's cousin is going to find it odd. I told the Biggie story maybe last week. Fine.

Just earlier today they were both in the room. My roommate says to his cousin, "Oh man, I've got to show you this thing thing Lincoln showed me last night. It's crazy. LeBron dunked it from basically the free throw line, in a game!"

It's true. LeBron did do that. I also did tell him and show him about it, since our conversations pretty much revolve around how much work we have to do on a given night or basketball. I thought he'd enjoy seeing it. He did. It was a nice moment in our relationship, I thought.

So he tells his cousin about it. The cousin doesn't want to see LeBron do something quite spectacular. No. He says, "Wait, what? Lincoln showed that to you? Lincoln?" He then looks over at me with a really confused face.

I mean, white people like basketball. In fact, we even like the black players! Mostly because there aren't really any good white ones. The best white ones are European for the most part, and fuck those guys.

The cousin has walked in on me watching basketball. He's talked to me about basketball, somewhat. He's seen me at school basketball games. There's just no winning him over apparently. Although I guess I'm not so sure why I want to. I find him to be very stupid.

I just want inquisitive looks from him everytime he learns something about me. I'm an extremely white person. There's no way around it. I listened to a song by Spoon earlier today, and enjoyed it. I'm not going to deny my whiteness, which also gives me the right to like basketball and certain rap music. He just doesn't get that, yet. I'll work on him, though.

I don't know if he just hasn't been around enough white people in his life, or just doesn't pay attention to us, but he seems to have a pretty awful view of things we can like. Give me one more semester, though, and he'll realize white people can like entire genres of music and sports while actively hating the race of most of those sports and genres participants. This now extends to presidents, as well. It's a natural born talent for us.

So hopefully he stops by a bit more. We can teach each other a few things. I just need to make sure he doesn't touch any of my stuff, and keep close tabs on my wallet.