Fresh Deed and Race

It is a Friday morning August 21, 2009, and for the last two hours I have been flying around in second life with my avatar named Fresh Deed. I am an African American man with a large build. I am wearing a suit and have on a gamer hat. Right now I am flying over a store and am feeling pretty happy being able to fly. I use flying more than walking because I can get to places faster. Flying also lets you get a better look at what second life has to offer. As a black man in second life I am trying to talk to as many white women as possible and see how they react to me. I am challenging race in second life to see if being a black man will help me or restrict me from talking to white women. Everyday I talk to white women and I am getting mixed results. On several accounts I have been asked to teleport to other areas with white women to engage in virtual world sex. This humors me quite a bit when it happens. I have gone to two of these spots to see what it is like. I talk for a while and sometimes log off right away to see how they react the next time I get on. Being of a different race than I am in real life lets me see things through different eyes. Sometimes when I engage a white woman she walks away and ignores me, or flies away which always gives me a few laughs. Sometimes when I try to talk to some white women their response right away is not interested. Its like they think right away I am trying to have sex with them. Race comes into play a lot in this game, which brings about hegemony quite a bit in this second life game. Hegemony, which is one culture dominating another culture I feel is destroyed in this game. I truly feel that in second life hegemony is disconnected from this virtual world. In second life everyone is free to do whatever they want and there is no one culture or person dominating over other cultures or other people. I feel that this is one of the reasons people play this game, is because they are free to control their lives without as many prejudices being given to them. I still feel though that race is connected with second life. As I said back earlier in the journal some white women are taken off guard by a large built black man. I feel my second life avatar does encounter race prejudice, because sometimes I just want to talk to white women or go flying with them and they are offended by me and seem to ignore me like I am a threat to them. Race is also seen in second life when you create your account. In second life you can create your avatar to match all races. You can even choose the pigment off the skin color of your avatar. When you choose your race of your avatar you can also choose his name. My name is random and is not affiliated with a preconceived notion of a black persons name. My character has even been commented on as looking good by many other avatars in second life. I am still talked to more by black women then by white women. The black women avatars normally come up to me and engage in conversation with me at least three times a day when I am playing. I normally talk to them but I am starting to ignore them and focus my attention on talking to white women. My goal is to pull down the race prejudices and make friends with all of the white women in second life. I also want to have a white girlfriend in second life. I am currently now working on getting in a relationship with a fellow white woman avatar. This is my ultimate goal and I’m not going to stop playing until I have a white girlfriend in second life. Well I'm now finished with his journal entry and imp going to go log off second life and prepare to play tomorrow.