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Originally Posted by pbradley
Newsflash.
You were white with your dreads, as well.
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yes, but i was not stuff that white people
liked, i was stuff that white people
avoided, and in Los Angeles walking around on 46th and Compton Ave where I go to church, or near my brethren's spot on Pacific and Gage or Manchester and Budlong, the difference between being a dreadicated white rasta, and a clean cut white guy is the difference between getting in where you fit in, and tucking yo chain... seen?
I went from looking like white guy who married somebody's sister in to looking like the landlord or the probation officer and that has already put me in several awkward positions just this week, lord have mercy I am still me though i don't look it, and can talk the talk enough to overpower what my city perceives of as a racial handicap. I'm cool with myself, its getting everyone else to be cool as they were last week this week that is the problem..