Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

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🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

You walk into a restaurant all ready for a lovely evening, and you get this feeling - an expectation - that you’ll be treated a certain way. Whether it’s being seated near the bathroom, getting asked for another glass of water, or being totally ignored- sometimes we react, sometimes not, but are we reading too much into this? Why do we sometimes go into restaurants with our guard up? From Europe to the U.S., we talk to three people about their experiences dining out. This is definitely something we need to chew on..

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0:00.0	Our appetizer today is self-doubt soup.
0:07.0	It's a hearty portion of thick self-doubt with notes of lavender anxiety and topped
0:13.5	off with the dollop of, don't let them see a sweat.
0:17.5	Enjoy.
0:20.5	Hey, hello.
0:29.5	Hey, Lila.
0:31.5	Okay.
0:32.5	So, we're talking about dining out.
0:35.5	You know, sometimes you just want to enjoy the experience, but you can't help but wonder.
0:41.5	Am I being treated the same as everyone else?
0:45.5	So, to be honest, it's something that I haven't really thought about in a deep way until you brought it up, Lila.
0:54.5	This idea that maybe you're being seated or treated differently because of your blackness.
1:03.5	And this also ties into this feeling where you're trying to hold it together, trying not to react, trying not to be that woman at the restaurant.
1:13.5	You know what I mean?
1:15.5	Guess who's coming to dinner?
1:18.5	Let's do it.
1:20.5	The stew.
1:30.5	The stew.
1:32.5	The stew.
1:33.5	Stories coming across the black diaspora.
1:36.5	My cousins were water and grease girls.
1:38.5	And I couldn't be a water and grease girl.
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