Stereotypes and racism are different.
It’s like when your boss comes in and says “what’s up dawg?” Or “what up homie?” just because your the black dude in the room. He doesn’t walk up to other co-workers and say the same thing. So clearly it’s not something he just does. He only does it with you.
I know he ain’t being racist. He just stereotyping me figuring I won’t make a big deal out of it. (Which I won’t, I’m cool.)
I play pickup basketball all the time. When non-black players show up at the court. Most assume they are going to be shooters. And 99% of the time they are right. They not going up and banging that bitcch on nobody.
Is it racist to assume “he’s just a shooter?” Not when 90% of the time that’s what you see on the court.
We played against a team full of Asians one time downtown and their whole squad was shooters. We lost that game. We’re they stupid athletic? No.
But if they shot the ball they weren’t missing. Athleticism ain’t the only part of the game lol.
And it’s hella white athletic dudes.
Christian McCaffrey
Julian Edelman
Cole Beasley
Chris Hogan
Danny Amendola
Cooper Kupp
Adam Thielen
Braxton Berrios
Hunter Renfrow
Ryan Humphries
that’s off the top of my head. I’m sure there’s others.
Tom Brady would take that WR corps to the Super Bowl.
But there’s real racism and then there’s stereotypes. I think CIS is smart enough to know the difference between both.
I had a Mexican homie get mad when my boss (back in the day) bought him a Mexican national team soccer jersey when he did a great job on a project.
My homie said “do you think I’m automatically into soccer, rice and beans because I’m Hispanic? That’s racist!”
I felt more like my old boss would just try to relate with cultures that aren’t his own. Not that he was being racist.
i feel you, dog.
all kidding aside, you make good points.
prejudice is not racism, and not all racism is prejudice.
also, one of the reasons that people embrace language, culture, etc. of other ethnicities is not just because they are being bigoted or prejudiced or racist. many times, it's the opposite. it displays a sociological effort to connect. a white guy says to a black guy, (as in your example), "what's up dog," or "what's up homie" it is often due to the white person trying to relate using, language, mannerism, and tools of communication that are most familiar to the black guy. might it sometimes seem awkward? sure. but no different than a person just learning a foreign language would sound to a native speaker, when that person is trying to communicate in the listener's language. we're not talking about racial epithets or the "n-word." there's a difference, and as an advanced intelligent species (one would hope), it's often the communicator's effort to say, (in the most basic of terms): "hello, friend"
people need to stop, think, and see the nuance in how we relate and speak to each other.
otherwise, this sh*t will be going south faster than it already is.