I was in the same checkout lane as Bradford Cox at the Hipster Kroger not long after it opened. It was like 2am and he looked paranoid as fuck. And yes, he’s as skinny as they say. I’m a 6’3"/150 stick man, and I can say he’s skinny without it being hypocritical.
/useless, idle gossip
But anyway, you guess correctly, Deerhunter is super white-people music.
You make a lot of great points that we as a culture fail to understand/choose to ignore. I agree it’s both true and also annoying and troublesome.
But it bears mentioning there’s also the tendency of whites to pick apart our own behavior under a microscope in an effort to–as a black teacher of mine used to say–“go to heaven,” which is equally wack. To whatever extent I’ve stopped doing this is because, one, it has been pointed out to me; and also that my social circle has expanded beyond the mostly white one that was available to me before I moved to Chocolate City. We honkys play this game of “gotcha” with each other in an effort to feel good about ourselves and prove how not-racist we are. A white who dares call this ridiculous is a redneck (which, unfortunately, may also be true….) Meanwhile, non-whites don’t obsess over our failings nearly as much because they assume white folks are all nuts anyway (me writing all this tends to support that view 
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I suppose there’s no getting around the fact that I’m assuming you’re white, too. Which I may well be wrong about (and: sorry!) But surely this is something you’re familiar with. Speaking for only myself, the pitfalls I’ve fallen into, seeing other whites fall into these games, and seeing the reactions of non-whites when we do it, this is definitely a thing.
But then, does this mean the burden of fighting our bullshit falls on non-whites and we just get off scot-free? I don’t mean to imply that, either, although it seems that I may have. If we don’t tell each other, then a merely clueless white may remain so, and an out-and-out racist can just wholly write-off any criticism as the provenance of someone they don’t give any credit to in the first place. I cannot really determine what the line is, but there must be one, if for no other reason than that I personally know black people who get annoyed when we fuck it up.
Anyway, sorry for the tangent, but it’s something I think about and seldom see expressed. Your wall-of-text tangent (which, again, I agree with) spurred me to voice this particular conundrum with you (also as a wall-of-text : P ) I guess as a “clearing the air” gesture.
