I'm a white woman who loves to surf. I went to the beach yesterday with four other women, one little girl, and one man. All the females surfed. Three of us are white, one of us is mixed-race, one is black, and the little girl, who we were teaching, is mostly black. We became really aware of people staring at us eventually. We heard another little girl tell an older boy, "See, girls *can* surf," and other women tell each other, "I've never seen black people surf before." The guy, who hung back on shore, told us he'd heard other comments, too. And we became aware that the only other surfers were white males.
We're not going to stop because of this, but it was a sour note in a mostly good day, and we were glad we all went in a group instead of going alone.
Is anyone else here a surfer who's not a white man? And would you really think anything of it to see non-white and/or female surfers?!
2006-09-25
07:40:24
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GreenEyedLilo
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