"Watch your mouth!!!!"

Just the other day, my cousin wanted to stop by American Apparel and buy a v-kneck t-shirt [which came to an excruciating $26...lol..."you know it's hard out here for a pimp"; right?]. After he purchased the t-shirt we were quite hungry. one of my cousins went to chipotle mexican grill, and me and my other cousin went to Koronet which is a pizza spot on 110th and Broadway. I heard about the spot all the time and couldn't wait to get a slice. Little did I know how huge the slices were [see image below]. These things were humungous...lol...they were quite good. So good I had two slices each for $3.25, which wasn't a bad deal.

As I finished my first slice, though I received an email with a url of a clip of Bill O'Reilly when he snapped off-air due to the lack of tech support for a recording. I clicked on the link and began to watch it on my BlackBerry Storm [Shameless Plug]. I thought that I had it loud enough for my two cousins and I to enjoy. When it was over though a young man approached our table, and I think he was Jewish, but he was White, and said to me very politely, "Excuse me, but can you turn that down a little bit, just for the little kid over there. Thanks." I replied, "No problem."

What's funny is that before he even approached our table we had previously joked about how the pizza was just as big as the little kid at the counter--a good two meters away from our table. There was a little profanity in the clip:



I didn't think it was that serious, but the fact of the matter is he was right. I should have been more courteous of the young child in the vicinity.

What's even funnier is the conversation my cousins and I had after this encounter when what just happened really sunk in. One cousin said, "Man he really has balls." We're three black gentleman: I'm light-skinned with Hispanic/Arab/very mixed features, my other cousin is Jamaican, very dark with long dreads, and my other cousin is light-skinned very tall with a skate-boy-P kind of look. Basically, it doesn't happen that often that one single White individual has the courage to approach a group of Black Men and tell them that they're doing something wrong; not to be racist, but completely honest. It doesn't happen often, but my cousin said, "He must have a Black girlfriend or he just has balls." Whatever the case I'm glad he approached and informed me of my ill advised lack of character.

It's deeper than hip-hop...nah it's just deeper than race relations...I don't know.