Gentrifier!
At my community bulletin board we were having a discussion of the neighborhood’s gentrification. Generally the fact that we have a community bulletin board on the internet screams gentrifying to me. But yesterday as I was shopping, the Indian woman who checked me out at the grocery store complimented me on the color of my skin. A very nice gesture, but it felt a little colonial. I am The Man.
2 Comments so far
1. Stephanie wrote on April 8th, 2008 at 12:27 am
Was she like, “Hey, that’s a great shade of pale your sporting there on your skin?”
2. jennybento wrote on April 8th, 2008 at 5:11 am
she admired the color but was a very recent english speaker so said it fairly plainly that she liked my skin color. and then repeated it.