notwithstanding the foregoing

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They would assume immediately that you were from the hood. And the hood, in their mind, was a compilation of every single cop show, action movie that they’d ever seen in their lives. All these things were expected of us, like we would be great dancers. You would go to a discotheque and people would immediately form like a circle around us. And I’m like, ‘I’m not going to do anything worth watching. Stop looking at me. Just let me dance and not be looked at.’

Stew, On What Was Projected Onto Him When He Went To Europe

 

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