There's this scene in a movie penned by one of my all time favorite screenwriters, Mr. Quentin Tarantino that I love and I quote all the time. Of course you know Quentin, 2 time Oscar winner for Best Screenplay, genius, a man I see as a black man in a white man's body. I just love his brilliant mind.
In this scene in the movie True Romance (which to me is a classic) Gary Oldman (in a very unassuming role) plays a white man who has appropriated a Jamaican Rastafari personality, growing dreads, talking/dressing like them, associating with black people. So when they come to rob him and fail, he beats Christian Slater's character (a white boy) to the ground and says:
"You must have thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?" He looks over at his big burly black bodyguards and they laugh in agreement. Meaning, this is not the day for white boys to be winning.
Sometimes when people try to mess with me or pull one over me or tell me an obvious lie. It could be anyone, my mechanic, my manager, taxi drivers, guy I'm dating, you name it, I switch up that line and think to myself:
"Hmm...you must have thought it was Negro day, or Swindle a Sister day...or Mess with Anita day." That is, your day to pull one over Anita. "Nah, today's not gonna be that day."
And then I unleash Mrs. Hyde.
It always sort of confuses them because...they really and truly thought, it was their day. Hmm...
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