Toubabs are not ugly either

• Although it is doesn’t seem quite as bad as the Dominican Republic (most self-hating group of black people on the planet remember?) it is obvious that white folks here get lots of love too. Last weekend I went back to Just 4 U to hear a Senegalese band, Ceddo (the Wolof word for the “traditional animist” religion that existed pre-Islam). They were really excellent, and I had a good time, but I felt bad because I was the only non-white dude without a white girl. There were around a dozen young white women all with what is essentially the same dude. If you have been to a beach in a tropical country with black people, you have met the dude. He is tall, lean, cut, has locks and is a musician and/or dancer. You have met the white girl too, she got her hair braided recently, she wears sandals, and is doing a documentary or volunteering at an orphanage or writing her thesis on rap music or maybe all three. Ok, I will stop stereotyping now. But seriously it was a segregationist’s nightmare there that night.
• I have also been asked four times now if Soizic, the Belgian volunteer, is my sister, and then they ask if she is my girlfriend and if they can hit on her.