Last week Friday, my girlfriend and I went to see Ghosts of Girlfriend’s past. It was a, whatever movie, it was funny and not a piece of crap but nothing worth blogging about. And I definitely don’t recommend going out of your way to see it. But on the way to the theater something interesting happened. We live within walking distance of the movie theater. As we were walking there, I noticed a man who was walking and eating something. He suddenly stopped, his eyes went wide, and he said or actually he yelled “You look-a like-a Obama!” and then he said something else loudly and incomprehensibly as we walked by.
This was so hilarious that I couldn’t really be mad but I think if it wasn’t so amazingly hilarious I would have had mixed feelings about it. For that one person reading this that does not know me, the Ranting Jamaican is not an Obama look alike. I am much shorter than him, much darker than him, I had hair longer than his (I recently shaved my head), I wear glasses, I am not as super skinny as him, and I never ever wear a suit. That man saying I look like Obama was kind of like saying that all black people look alike, which is an annoyance. I don’t go up to all the Chinese girls here and say they look like Lucy Liu. But on the other hand, at least instead of being mistaken for a rapist that I look nothing like (which has happened, ridiculous! I know! This happened in the US by the way) I am being likened to the President of the United States.
Whether or not Barack Obama is a good President or not still remains to be seen but for someone to compare my appearance to that of the President of the US, no matter how unfounded is somewhat of a big deal and shows the significance of Barack Obama’s election to people around the world. Now instead of comparing African American people to whatever basketball player that they may know about, or whichever actor, or even whatever criminal, the first thing that comes to people’s minds outside of the US is president of the United States. Whether or not Barack Obama is a great president or an average one, he will, for sure, pop into people’s minds before any random American actor or criminal.
Oh, and in other interesting news there is no Chinese character or word for homosexual. Who knew! When Matthew McConaughey called someone a fag during the movie (derogatory I know sorry!) the subtitles went like this “Chinese Chinese Chinese GAY Chinese Chinese Chinese” haha who knew?!? No word for gay. And it really was all caps in the subtitles.
Peace out My friends I am off to sleep.
