Black Violin - Stereotypes

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Music video by Black Violin performing Stereotypes. (C) 2015 Universal Music Classics, A Division of UMG Recordings Inc.

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[♪ violin intro]

[♪ violin vigorously played]

[Adolescent Narrator] Stereotype, An often unfair and untrue belief

that many people have about other people or things…

with a particular characteristic are the same

Stereotype: an unfair and untrue belief

that many people have about other people or things

Stereotype: A standardized mental picture that is terribly…

Va a predecir el comportamiento de una persona

basada en su raza y un nivel social. Estereotipo.

[♪ violin vigorously played]

I mean, mine is clear, mine is very easy.

My number one stereotype is,

just because I’m 6 foot two,

260lbs doesn’t mean you should be afraid of me.

I feel like when I walk into an elevator

and there’s like four-five you know

different other people in there,

they’re thinking, Hmmm,

let me see what this guy’s gonna do

and let me like double check.

Maybe they’re not afraid, but they're on notice.

In a way it’s like you know,

where in one sense I wish that it didn’t exist,

and I wish that I didn’t sense,

you know that they were threatened by my presence

without even knowing who I am.

Umm, although I wish that It didn’t exist,

I’m kinda glad for it because now it gives me like a goal

or gives me something to like try to debunk

and like the reason I smile on stage is because

I know I’ll completely crushing people’s perceptions

of not only what a violin can do;

or what music can possibly sound like,

but also of what a black man is capable of

[echo] – is capable of – is capable of

[♪ music - violin softly played ♫]