Black people don’t all look alike!
Black people don’t all look alike!
Black folks don’t all look alike.
This should be funny and in a lot of ways it is, but it’s not! Black people don’t all look alike!! Saturday September 15th during the Barclay’s Premier League match up between Arsenal Vs ManCity, the stadium’s camera panned to a young black or in this case a mixed race lad sitting in the stands behind dark shades. I remember the commentator saying
what must he be thinking and I bet he cannot wait to make his return to the pitch!
I was just about to start my Theo chant when I realized, ummm that is not Theo Walcott.What the hell are these guys talking about, it’s not like they are the referee from a few months ago who got mistook The Ox for Kieran Gibbs stupidly at another Arsenal match. Giving the wrong player the card in the end.
Now I get the confusion may occur on a fast paced, action filled pitch, for a referee, but I could guarantee he would not mistake Frank Lampard for Steven Gerrard or Wayne Rooney for Shrek…. wait ok that is a tough one. But once again my point, Black people don’t all look alike!!
Anyway moving on, how do you mistake Lewis Hamilton, World Champion primo driving sensation F1 driver for Arsenal FC player Theo Walcott and then for almost 30 seconds, none of your production team, correct the error, unless everyone there thought Lewis was indeed Theo Walcott too, which in itself is just sad.
Looking at the mirror (the newspaper not the glass) this morning I saw an image of them both together and a tweet from Theo
With @lewishamilton at game today #twins #speedmatters”
Now the twins comment is hilarious, I am sure some British asshole read that and actually thought those two were from the same womb. The fact that these two accomplished black British lads can’t be in the same place at the same time and have their own identity and be identified by “their own people” English/British whatever is just amazing to me.
Bottom line here is basically, in a nutshell Black people don’t all look alike!!
#COYG
