Quote Originally Posted by Throbert McGee View Post
The only possible way "You think this is a tan?" could mean "Do you think I'm lying?" would be если "белый" человек загорел, чтобы выдать себя за светлокожого негра! (If a white person had gotten a suntan for the purpose of trying to pass as a light-skinned black.)
!!!!!! This is actually from a conversation in HOUSE M.D. series. The conversation is between two African-Americans (doctor and patient); the patient doesn't believe the doctor. Here is the excerpt:

Patient: What kind of studies you talking about? What kind of studies are there?

Dr. Foreman: They get some patients. They give them some drugs.

Patient: I've had white people lying to me for 60 years.

Dr. Foreman: You think this is a tan? You think they tell you everything? The trouble
with us black folk, we can't tell the difference anymore between racism and everybody gets screwed.

So as I understood Foreman means: "Do you think I am lying? That I am white, and this is a tan?"
Is that what you mean Throbert?