The Official "Ask A Brotha" Thread

[charl_huntress]

lol...lol...

I think even that one is starting to diminish.

 

[Erzengel]

I think someone a year or so ago at a sushi or Asian restaurant asked me how long the wait was.

 

[charl_huntress]

Wow...wow...

I guess it hasn't diminished...

I wonder if this is something that's more prevalent on the East coast. I just can't see that happening in Cali.

 

[Erzengel]

I mean it's once in a blue moon?

Only other time that I remember recently was a total stranger asking me what ethnicity I was as his first statement to me. I was entering a municipal building for a meeting with the town and the applicant.

It's like I was the first "Asian" he's ever met.

 

[KalMart]

Wow...wow...

I guess it hasn't diminished...

I wonder if this is something that's more prevalent on the East coast. I just can't see that happening in Cali.

Maybe...but again, NYC isn't exactly out in the sticks.

 

[charl_huntress]

I suppose. I'm trying to wrack my mind to remember if I've ever done something as boneheaded as that.

 

[MrMaooz]

Do black people shower in cocoa butter?

 

[charl_huntress]

My current bath soap contains cocoa/shea butter because I love my skin to be soft and blemish free.

Hope that helps!

 

[blknrdcllctv]

Love the cocoa butter question.

Which reminds me - I'm out and I've got to pick up some more

 

[Warhammer]

Damn cocoa butter. Shea butter is where it's at. Summer 2012 was the first time in my entire life that I got sunburn. My blackness failed me on that day. Shea butter fixed that up in less than a week.

And the kicker is it was my mother (who is Korean) that recommended it to me. It blew my mind.

 

[charl_huntress]

Ahhh...I remember the day my blackness failed me and I got the worse sunburn. Up until then I was convinced I could never be burned...though I don't know why in the hell I thought that.

 

[roach]

my blackness has never failed me...and i only use cocoa butter lotion

 

[Warhammer]

Because our ancestors have been either sweating it out in the cotton fields or with the lions in the Serengeti.

But real talk, I've never had a discussion about sunburn to any of my black friends or family.

 

[Anubis]

I just stay the f**k out the sun.

My blackness will therefore never fail me.

 

[Warhammer]

Anubis is a smart brother.

 

[chamber-music]

The only time I ever got sunburn was when I was in Spain when I was 14.

For some reason the Spanish heat over powers my blackness. I've walked around Jamaica, Greece and Miami in the sun all day and never burned. In Spain I went from Blade to Dracula.

I mean it's once in a blue moon?

Only other time that I remember recently was a total stranger asking me what ethnicity I was as his first statement to me. I was entering a municipal building for a meeting with the town and the applicant.

It's like I was the first "Asian" he's ever met.

I've had a random white African couple come up to me in the street and ask me where I'm from. I think they were hoping I was from their country so they could talk about it or something.

 

[Lencho01]

Even though I've been in the US since I was 18 months and don't have an accent based on the region I grew up in, my high school guidance counselor could tell I wasn't born in the US because she could hear an accent...

 

[terry78]

I'm a black dude with freckles so you already know I got issues with the ****ing sunlight.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I'm a black dude with freckles so you already know I got issues with the ****ing sunlight.

Do you have red hair too? Cause that would be wild.

 

[blknrdcllctv]

I remember my mom and uncle getting burnt up once, but they are both much fairer. Never had to face sunburn...and I hope I never have to.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I wish when our skin absorbed sun rays we got superpowers and s**t.

But then you know half of these brothers would turn out like Magneto.

 

[roach]

I get darker in sunlight so maybe Im Sunspot

 

[Hush]

If I watch a racially charged comedian like Kevin Hart, is it ok for me to then tell those racially charged jokes with my white friends or just my black friends? This has always bothered me.

 

[Manic]

The way I understand black people and sunburn: it's supposed to be harder for us to get sunburn, but our pigmentation also means that if we do get sunburn, it's a lot worse for our skin than if a fair-skinned person got it. In the unlikely event that a black person gets melanoma, we're more likely to die from it.

Thankfully, I work graveyard shifts, go to bed in the afternoon, and don't go outside past 10am.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

From wiki's "melanin" article:

Melanin is an effective absorber of light; the pigment is able to dissipate over 99.9% of absorbed UV radiation.[1] Because of this property, melanin is thought to protect skin cells from UVB radiation damage, reducing the risk of cancer. Furthermore, though exposure to UV radiation is associated with increased risk of malignant melanoma, a cancer of the melanocytes, studies have shown a lower incidence for skin cancer in individuals with more concentrated melanin, i.e. darker skin tone. Nonetheless, the relationship between skin pigmentation and photoprotection is still being clarified.[2]

Blacks have the most melanin.