Stereotypes and stuff I guess.

Throughout this book we've seen lots of instances where stereotypes are mentioned, and its interesting to me how different characters go around these stereotypes.
First off from the get go we have the grandfather. As we all know by now his 'dying words' or whatever was telling his family to play the *stereotype* of black people being submissive while not actually being submissive behind their backs. In this sense he is 'assuring' the white people that he is doing what hes told but in reality he isn't. Hes using a stereotype to push his own motives.
The same can be said for Blesdoe, but he has a much more sophisticated(?) manner of serving the white donors, and letting them believe they have power.

However what really interested me was that one part where the narrator went to the brotherhood party and that one guy asked if he could sing, and the other brothers removed him from the scene.
That, to me at least, was really, really, funny. The brotherhood is always like "we don't see race/ we're postrace", etc etc, yet here they are asking these stereotypical questions. The question doesn't even bother the narrator, the fact they removed him from the scene did. That whole section of "we're not like him, we would never ask you to sing for us" is something that is pretty amusing to me.
Even in the present day world, minorities sometimes have this happen to them.
I think its something most of us have seen before, either in real life or in movies, where person 1 says something that might kinda be stereotypical to person 2, and while person 2 doesnt really take much offense, person 3 butts in and seems more offended that person 2, and starts talking for them, etc etc.

Nico do you like tacos?
yeah, they'r-
why would you ask that? Just because hes Mexican doesn't mean he likes tacos! Mexican food isn't just tacos, you need to get your facts str-
I'm not Mexican.
Not all latinos are Mexican. I'm an American citizen. By birth. I'm not a Mexican citizen, I don't have a Mexican ID, and when I go to Mexico, I still have to fill out all the forms that you do. Why do you assume, then, that I'm Mexican?
Does the fact I like tacos mean I'm Mexican? Does the fact I like tacos have anything to do with my race? With my ethnicity? Can only Mexican people like tacos? What about other people? Do you like eating tacos? Are you Mexican?

Normally, of course, it doesn't end well.
I guess its good that people are aware of stereotypes. Yet this means that sometimes, by acknowledging these stereotypes, we somehow get it into our minds that no one within that category is what that stereotype says.

"Mexicans like tacos." -> "Not all Mexicans like tacos." -> "Never ask anyone who seems remotely Mexican if they like tacos, you'll hurt their feelings."

Then, we're more likely to want to correct anyone who mentions that stereotype to a person of said category, as to not hurt person of said category's feelings (and, I guess, perhaps to kinda flex, maybe (?), like, "I am more socially aware than they are, I understand you better than them" type of thing. Idk. Just thoughts). This is what happens in that scene.

We are humans. We like to classify things. Even if we don't consciously knowledge it, we can tell if one person is Asian or Latino or "White", and even then we can split it up even more (Hes Brazilian, shes Chinese, they're English). The brotherhood claiming to be postracial is an obvious lie, as they obviously see the narrator to be different from them.
Claiming to be postracial adds to the invisibility the narrator has.
Did I make a point? Maybe. idk