5.25.2010

basketball fan baby, dwight howard, and are band aids racist?

Tilda is much to my delight a basketball fan.  Sure, I'm a graduate student and a scientist and hoodyhoodyhoody and perhaps there are plenty of intellectual sorts that frown on sports in general and maybe particularly on an organization such as the nba in particular.  Fthem, to keep it family style.  I've always enjoyed the game of basketball.  So I'll strap on the baby bjorn borg and I'll watch the nba playoffs and she'll squeal and squawk at the antics of the game.  As far as I can tell, the most reaction she's given has been to Dwight Howard and so I've deemed her an Orlando Magic fan.  She likes dunks and celebrations.  So we were watching the Lakers v Suns game the other day and Tilda's mom and me were talking about Amare Stoudemire's glasses.  I don't know why he wears them?  But he takes them off for free throws, which is when we noticed that he has a band aid between his eyebrows, presumably to cushion his skin from the plastic of the sports-goggle-like glasses that he wears.  And this is where we get to the point, are band aids racist.  Why do band aid makers assume that everyone has the same color skin and that that color is pale-pink?  We're either white, or our skin is tiled with repeated patterns of little sponge bob square pants characters?  Maybe those hoody intellectuals are right after all?  Maybe if I didn't expose Tilda to basketball she wouldn't have to witness the band aid industries misconceptions?

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