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“lol we are all very different people with very different styles working somewhat adjacently who run in overlapping social circles. I assure y'all it's not that hard to tell Black people apart. All you have to do is pay attention to us for more than a glance.”

oh come on, Martin Douglas and Larry Mizell Jr. don’t look alike.

They do host one of the best podcasts of all time together, but that’s not the same thing.

#friends

This is a complicated one.

I lost a bet at my old office about the viability of a popsocket with my face on it, which escalated into the printing and distribution of stickers with my face on it.

Even though I don’t work there anymore (I loved working there), I was still alerted by not one but two old coworkers that a third coworker had compared my sticker to Steve Urkel.

What a reach!

#stickers #jaleel white #steve urkel #come on now #actors #tv

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Me and my work homie Nate look nothing alike. I mean, unless you think all black people look alike.

We’re now up to two people earnestly mistaking him for me and quite a few more people with no home training drawing comparisons.

We shall overcome. Someday.

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It happened again! In a similar scenario to the one pictured above. He was wearing glasses, I wasn’t, and the person had met me before. Sheesh.

Ralph Ellison wrote a book about this.

Me and my work homie Nate look nothing alike. I mean, unless you think all black people look alike.

We’re now up to two people earnestly mistaking him for me and quite a few more people with no home training drawing comparisons.

We shall overcome. Someday.

#friends #work #sometimes we wear similar glasses but that's no excuse

I was a networking event tonight and got to chatting with a wonderful shit-talking Bostonian. She has a unique first name. I went to look her up on LinkedIn and overconfidently poked the wrong result. Right in front of her. I deserved every bit of what she said next: "Not all Asian people look alike." 😬😬😬 I defensively brought up this blog - I was pretty damn embarrassed. (If it's not obvious from the archives, honoring people as individuals and not confusing or comparing them is pretty important to me!) She suggested I post this story without any screenshots. Seems fair. (Hilariously, I didn't even know there was a code scanner in the LinkedIn app until...five minutes after this happened. Oof. What timing!)

#my bad #Asians #I don't have a great phone and I would like to blame that #social

Someone (allegedly) thought I *was* Richard Ayoade

This has come up before - in 2013.

This comparison came from a server who wasn’t serving me at a bar in Belltown.

She claimed that when I walked in, she was waiting to hear me speak to see if I had a British accent. Preposterous.

She also didn’t know how to pronounce Ayoade’s last name, which makes it all the more confusing.

I don’t look like him.

#brits #actors #richard ayoade #bars

I am six feet, two inches tall. I look as much like Prince as I look like a stop sign.

#p #prince #musicians

this was a particularly brutal one

Any time a white person approaches me in a bar and starts with “I’m sorry, but I just have to say this” or similar, I know the jig is headed skyward.

This isn’t verbatim, but it’s pretty close. Happened at Rogue Hall, in case you want to avoid this place. I didn’t have a lot of patience for this, having just met someone much cooler than me not five minutes prior.

Stranger: I’m sorry, but I just have to say this... *squinches eyes shut* do you know who you look like?

Me: I feel like I’m about to be profiled.

S: Do you know the show “Don’t Trust The B---- In Apt. 23″?

M, immediately exasperated: Are you about to tell me I look like Eric Andre?

S: Is that his name?

It got worse from there. He ended up coming back to apologize twice.

Pictured: Eric Andre upon being told we look alike.

#eric andre #he tried to specify it was about andre's hair but what's done is done #actors #comedians

ah, election season

Man just bolted across a Des Moines coffee shop - to shake my hand and say 'It's an honor to meet you, Dr. Carson!' pic.twitter.com/oEHtQAZkmk

— Victor Blackwell CNN (@VictorCNN) January 28, 2016

#ben carson #politicians #victor blackwell #the struggle

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Has anyone ever told you you kind of look like M.I.A.?? Y'all both gorgeous!

no one has ever told me that before because we literally look nothing alike yall just keep telling me i look like any relevant south asian person u can think of lol its offensive tbh

#the struggle #south asian

We have a very important message for cable news: Former Def Jam record executive Kevin Liles is not — we repeat not — Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons. Within about a 10 minute span, both Fox News' Geraldo Rivera and CNN's Brian Todd approached Baltimore native Liles as he marched alongside New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony and insisted he was Simmons.

#the struggle #kevin liles #russell simmons

Coworker - not the same one as last time - says with different hair I’d look like Bruce Wooden:

The most dangerous thing about VR is the constant threat of bunny ears. Checking out @AltspaceVR with @CymaticBruce. pic.twitter.com/lIWk90PHVu

— David M. Ewalt (@dewalt) March 27, 2015

Also said something about us having a similar exclamatory jawline.

#civilians #hair

Coworker: "I have another person for your people-you-don't-look-like blog, except YOU DO."

That person: Tyler James Williams, star of The Walking Dead. Not seeing it. She says she calls his character Noah "Tyler". I guess we have a similar body type.

#tyler james williams #actors #tv #the walking dead #body type