Depends. At the best, you're being paranoid. At the worst, he could be developing schizophrenia. Is he in his late teens or early twenties, does he sound agitated or paranoid? Is his thought process coherent? What is he talking about? A young, paranoid male talking gibberish to himself without regard for who's around would be concerning. If you want a great portrait of schizophrenia, watch "The Soloist": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0821642/
But if he's not acting like that, then maybe he's just helping you expand your definition of normal.
Looking at the map for my city of residence (Atlanta) confirms a pattern I've observed in real life: the black community generally will support its own, seemingly regardless of the details of the performance.
Look at the patterns for The Soloist (Jamie Foxx), Lakeview Terrace (Samuel L. Jackson), Traitor (Don Cheadle), Obsessed (Beyonce), and the Tyler Perry movies. These movies have little to nothing in common, and their Metacritic scores vary widely, yet their distribution maps are essentially identical.
A further point of interest: judging by these patterns, Atlanta really is as segregated as it is often made out to be. The only other city that I noticed with such stark contrast was D.C., which I've heard is another heavily segregated city (at least culturally).
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Depends. At the best, you're being paranoid. At the worst, he could be developing schizophrenia. Is he in his late teens or early twenties, does he sound agitated or paranoid? Is his thought process coherent? What is he talking about? A young, paranoid male talking gibberish to himself without regard for who's around would be concerning. If you want a great portrait of schizophrenia, watch "The Soloist": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0821642/
But if he's not acting like that, then maybe he's just helping you expand your definition of normal.
Looking at the map for my city of residence (Atlanta) confirms a pattern I've observed in real life: the black community generally will support its own, seemingly regardless of the details of the performance.
Look at the patterns for The Soloist (Jamie Foxx), Lakeview Terrace (Samuel L. Jackson), Traitor (Don Cheadle), Obsessed (Beyonce), and the Tyler Perry movies. These movies have little to nothing in common, and their Metacritic scores vary widely, yet their distribution maps are essentially identical.
A further point of interest: judging by these patterns, Atlanta really is as segregated as it is often made out to be. The only other city that I noticed with such stark contrast was D.C., which I've heard is another heavily segregated city (at least culturally).