October 2, 2004
Black Skater Kids?: AWESOME!!
Anthony Bradley
My eyes nearly popped out. I’m sitting outside the Dallas airport for the one-hour wait for my ride, inhaling the secondary smoke of those oppressed and prohibited from polluting themselves (and the rest of us) on the plane and in the airport when I saw it. A green Honda pulls up and very urban outfitted young African American dude driving with his t-shirt and blue jeaned Dad in the passenger seat.
To my amazement, only because I harbor stereotypes, that this brutha would be wearing baggy Tommy jeans and a pair of Tims. He wore baggy jeans, yes, but skater shoes and his skateboard was strapped to his carry-on luggage? What?
What’s going on. “What progress,” I thought. True cultural cross-fertilization. I was happy and felt free. By the way, he was the second African American skater-kid I saw in the Dallas airport that day.
Yes. Yes. Yes. I am so with you on that man.
Posted by: R.L.F. at October 6, 2004 4:02 PMI totally agree. I'm just like them. Black skaters = freedom riders
Posted by: Gary at August 17, 2006 11:38 PMhey you
you guys are cool, i love body boarding, surfing, snowboarding, and skateboarding in graffiti saturated drained pools.
Jesus Rocks
eulice
blacks and skateboarding go hand in hand. just like a rat to the street
Posted by: chris at December 24, 2006 7:33 AMyou guys are so right im a black skater to skaters stick together
Posted by: akayla at February 14, 2007 1:35 PMi been doing for ever.black skaters got pop.
Posted by: marc cadet at July 24, 2007 9:15 PMim a black skater and i feel so good when i see other black skaters like me
Posted by: kris at September 6, 2007 9:41 PMyea im a black sk8ter n i like 2c other sk8ters like my self.yup im sk8in 4life
Posted by: fly~society at September 22, 2007 10:46 PMim black and juss strated skating in august and i love it. I fall and stuff but its what makes me want to do better. When i c other blakk skateboarders it gives me a feeling that maybe we can appreciate other things that the majority of another race do like skating. because o skating the way i think is different. for example, I use to think that if u dotn wear baggy jeans and have atleast one pair of air force ones or jordans then u aint black. thankfully, thats outta my head now.
FRA for Life. DGK ALL DAY!!!
Posted by: Andrew at October 2, 2007 9:04 PMdude im the best black skater in my place and everyday they say dude blacks and skater are like whites in gangs but i better than that
Posted by: Random Hero at October 6, 2008 4:19 PM