White Boy
April 29th, 2006 by Editor BI just got called “white boy” as I rode my bike past the Iberville projects:
“White boy! White boy! Come here!”
Just like old times. I haven’t been white boyed since Katrina. Yes, things must be getting back to normal here in New Orleans. By way of contrast, just a month ago I rode my bike through the Iberville projects and encountered some young men smoking reefer on the sidewalk. I think they wanted to intimidate me, but they were off their game. They called me “bike boy.” It was kind of pathetic.
April 29th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Congratulations white boy. For more guaranteed chip up on their shoulder urban edginess try the Galvez/Canal Spur (Ideal Mart). It is as you say (and to me even more so than before), pathetic.
April 30th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
haha, that would SO not happen in bloomington–
1,) prevalence of ‘white boys”
2.) PC police!
check out my best friend since age 6 [!] http://www.katrinafirlik.com
she’ll be on NPR, fresh air, this tuesday!
May 1st, 2006 at 10:41 am
While living in Providence I was called “cracker” in an interesting part of town. Funny, I didn’t feel threatened by the word at all. The word just doesn’t have the power that other racial slurs do. Of course if those guys had baseball bats in their hands, I would think different.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:52 am
Sounds like a combination of race and age discrimination. Shouldn’t someone of your years be known as “white man”?