My Little Sister Is Flirting

Splitter XXVIII

"'People think I am black American. They always want to hip-hop rap to me. Are you East Coast or West Coast? they ask me, and I tell them I am Ivory Coast.'
'How have things been since September eleventh?'
'Ah, a good question, sir. It's been interesting. Because people think I'm black, they don't see me as a terrorist, only as a crackhead addict on welfare. So I am a victim of only one misguided idea about who I am '"

(Sherman Alexie - Flight Patterns ; from: Ten Little Indians )