Stereotypes @ MindSay

NBA superstar LeBron James is set to become the first African American to grace the cover of Vogue in April, sharing it with model Gisele Bundchen. However, the photo that will be used is stirring up controversy, as some are arguing that it perpetuates stereotypes, with James striking an angry pose that “some have likened to "King Kong" and Fay Wray,” according to the AP’s report.

The picture is above for you to judge – is it perpetuating a stereotype, or are we becoming overly sensitive to race issues?

Hmm good one let me see:

Although I am black:

I do not have rims on my car.
I do not speak ebonics.
I LOVE rock and roll music as well as alternative.
I do not love basketball, chitterlings, and fried chicken.
I do not call myself african american or black. skin tone is not what makes me who I am.
I did NOT go to college on the EOF program.

Although I am Native American:

I do NOT live on a reservation.
I do NOT own a casino.
I do NOT get drunk off firewater, have no teeth, and cry about what the white man has done to me while in my drunken stupor.
I do not run around outside dancing for it to rain.

Although I am a woman:

I have never caused an accident in my car due to a lack of driving skills. I can drive rather well thank you.
I do not always get PMS and freak out, eating chocolate all day.
I do not happily scrub dishes and clothes in the sink.

Although I am a black woman:

I do not say everything with an attitude.
I do not have baby daddies with bebe's kids running around me.
I do not feel the need to run around screaming independent but go home to a weed smoking, drug dealing gangster in a one bedroom hell hole in the projects.

Although I am a black Christian:

I do not need to go to church and pretend to shout all over the church in order to have a good time.
I do not feel the need to bake cookies and go to dinners after church with the church folk.
I do not feel the need to go to black churches all the time.
I do not run around preaching and singing hymnals all day long to passersby.

Although I am Christian:

I do not think that church is the end all be all for everyone.
I do not think that gays are going to hell.
I do not think that the rapture is going to save us all from tribulation.
I do not think that everything in the bible should be taken literally.

Although I am a Spiritualist:

I do not worship satan.
I do not do seances in my living room on Saturday nights.
I do not do pagan rituals.
I do not believe in more than one god.

Let me stop before I go off for real LOL.

Everytime I see this, I laugh so hard that I get tears in my eyes:

 

 

myclette has a wonderful posting about shattering stereotypes. here goes mine:

 

I am an upper middle class Jewish married woman with blonde hair, big boobs and a soft voice.

 

I do not believe in God in the traditional Jewish sense. I fall somewhere between a buddhist and a Diest.

I do not believe Israel is always right.

I have believed there should be an Independent Palestinian state since the middle 1960's.

Jerusalem belongs to three major world religions and should become an international city open to all.

 

I admire and am fascinated with Islam and have no knee jerk hatred for any ethnic group.

 

I hate gifilte fish and only minimally enjoy lox.

 

Although married for almost 40 years I do not think monogamy is the glue that holds most marriages together, I think it is respect , honesty and friendship.

 

Despite being a jewish wife, I love performing fellatio and am open to all sorts of kinkiness with my husband.

 

Although blonde and busty I graduated summa cum laude from a prestigious woman's college.

I love blonde jokes but I hate racial jokes. Actually I do not believe in RACE as a construct. I think we just come in different phenotypes.

 

I own a mink and some great jewelry but I bake my own bread, clean my own house and do my own gardening. SO I guess I am not a JAP ( jewish american princess)

 

Although small in stature no one has ever pshed me around and I can control a classroom of 30 childlren with body language and a soft voice.

 

(The only stereotype that is true is that I love to pay wholesale)

I thought it would be fun for my Mindsay friends to list things about themselves that shatter myths and stereotypes about their race, gender, religion or sexuality.  I'll go first:

 

My name is Myclette and I am a black, American, Methodist, female who is a Trekker(ie)

 

All though I am black:

I can NOT rap. I've tried, it was sad...very, very, sad. 

I did NOT get a minority scholarship I did however get a band scholorship. I played clarinet so the horn was black, but I don't think that counts as affirmative action.

I did NOT grow up in 'da hood. My parents are upper middle class. I grew up more like the kids on the Cosby Show.

I am a horrible athlete, although I was / am pretty limber and a good dancer. I took ballet, tap, jazz and modern dance.

I only have one baby and one baby daddy -- er husband.

 

All though I am American:

I DO know how to locate things on a map.

I DO try to follow foreign politics.

I do NOT automatically get annoyed when people from other countries don't speak English well. As long as they are trying to speak to me in English I have no beef with them.  English is a terribly hard language that constantly breaks its own rules. Besides, have you heard my French? It's horrible! I would hope that if I ever visit France, Montreal, Martinique or St. Lucia or even Haiti (one my ancestorial countries) I run into people who are patient with me while I murder their language.

 

Although I am female:

I am NOT a chocoholic. I only crave chocolate during that time of the month, along with a lot of different foods.

I do not run in horror at the sight of bugs.

I am NOT proned to crying. (I just don't cry much, not matter how upset I am.)

I am not a domestic. When I was a kid I would have rather helped my dad fix things around the house  than help my mom in the kitchen. I liked handing my dad tools when he worked on the cars.

Though, I am a Trekker:

I did have dates.

I do have social skills.

Other than that, most of the stereotypes apply to me.

 

Although I am Christian:

I do NOT hate gays or think they chose to be gay.

I do NOT impose my beliefs on anyone else.

I LOVE science and all things scientific.