Stereotypes

I don’t want to come off sounding like a bigot, but if people don’t want to promote stereotypes, don’t find yourself doing them.  Case in point, this one guy who literally sleeps a good four to five hours a day on the couch in the lobby.  He happens to be black.  I don’t care what color he is, he’s a lazy person.  I’m not here to say, “Hey, check out that lazy, stereotypical black guy!”  Rather, it’s just that every time I walk passed him on my way to class, I can’t help but think of what some people say about black people being lazy.  I’m not going to say that this one offense justifies the stereotype, but certainly doesn’t help it.  It wouldn’t even pop into my mind if it was just here and there, but I see this guy nearly every day sleeping on the couch.  Does he not have anything to do?  I’m quite a lazy person, but I still don’t find time to sleep on the couch every day of my existence.  It’s not as if white, yellow, or brown people aren’t lazy couch sleepers, but the white people are too busy complaining about the black people, the yellow people are too busy creating computer software, and the brown people are too busy answering calls about that computer software in some other country using the monicker “Bob.”  Yeah, we don’t promote stereotypes around here…