text: Oh Boy, Hollywood strikes again. You know how many times I've been stopped by the COPS while I was walking in the last 10 years? 4 Times! 1 guy, 1 time, patted down pants and asked me why they were damp near the ankles - turns out I'd walked through a patch of grass 1/2 an hour after a rain shower, and that was Suspicious? Whatever. Do you know how many times I've been mistaken for an Employee at Loblaws, Bestbuy, or Leon's? More times than I can count on 1 hand. 1 time 20 odd yrs ago I was sitting in a Psychiatric interview session with an old friend who'd been hospitalized after a suicide attempt, and I'd told the (white) shrink about how I was aiming to get the highest Grades in at least 5 of my Grade 13 (OAC) classes, and she said quite incredulously (& rudely): You think you're smart enough to do that? So... the only difference is, that I didn't immediately attribute all this to my Whiteness, I guess since Hollywood hadn't Clobbered me over the Head with Race-War-Histrionics.