pound what?

i wanted to talk about a tweet for a second.

and to illustrate my point, and simultaneously learn about blogging, i augumented my diversity blog with a real live feed of my own PERSONAL twitter. scandalous.

if you look to the right, you will see my friends tweet about how he went to high five a black person, and was reciprocated with a fist bump. this is described as a "white guy" moment.


i find this description interesting, because the high five was so popular in african american culture. it still is, but more sophisticated hand greetings exist, such as "daps". wiki further expounds on the african american communities involvement with the gesture:

In addition to the standard high five, several types of "five" exist, and this factor adds variety to the experience, which tends to maximize the satisfaction of participants. The "low five" had already been known, during the 1940s, in African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) as "giving skin" or "slapping skin".

do white people have their own hand greetings, or do they just borrow gang symbols and other forms of nonverbal communication once it becomes stale?


multiple offender


girl in middle can't do it