Testo Stereotypes - Black Violin

Stereotypes

Stereotype: An often unfair and untrue belief that many people have about…
All people or things with a particular characteristic are the same
Stereotype: An often unfair and untrue belief that many people have about other
people or things
Stereotype: A standardized mental picture that is held in…
Predecir el comportamiento de una persona basada en su raza or universo social,
estereotipo
I mean mine is clear — mine is really easy
My number one stereotype is
Just because I’m six foot two, two hundred sixty pounds
Doesn’t mean you’re supposed to be afraid of me
I feel like when I walk into an elevator and there’s like four or five, ya know,
different other people in there
They’re thinking, «Hmm… Let’s see what this guy’s gonna do. Lemme double
check.» Maybe they’re not afraid, but they’re on notice
In a way it’s like, ya know, where in one sense I wish that it didn’t exist and
I wish that I didn’t sense, ya know
That they were threatened just by my presence without even knowing who I am
Um, although I wish that it didn’t exist I’m kind of glad for it because now it
gives me like a goal
Or it gives me something to like try to debunk and like the reason I smile on
stage is because I’m completely crushing people’s perceptions of not only what,
um, a violin can do, or what music could possibly sound like, but also of what
a black man is capable of