Mike Tirico on his :mjpls: again

[Wacky D]

mike tirico is creepy.

dude has bigger fish to fry than lying about his race. aint nobody tryna claim him.

so i'll sit this one out.

Franco Harris embraced both sides and was embraced by both races. Frank Sinatra lead the charge.

say what now?

 

[MustafaSTL]

c00n

 

[backbreaker65]

Franco Harris embraced both sides and was embraced by both races. Frank Sinatra lead the charge.
say what now?

Franco Harris, who is part Italian, when he was playing for the Steelers, had a Fan Section in the old Three Rivers Stadium called "Franco's Italian Army" and Frank Sinatra would show up at the games in His Army Suit and be part of the section.

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

If he's actually mixed he should claim being mixed.

Sick of mulattos being considered black in the media

Except nobody seems to have a clear cut definition anymore as to what it means to be black or mulatto.

The one-drop rule gets applied around here based on the humidity and cloud formations of the day.

 

[ZoeGod]

Wasn't he mixed up in some sexual harassment case back in Espn? So he has weirdo creep tendencies. Also he is a lost soul.

im italian

Looks like a cornball ass nikka.

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Tirico's story reminds me of the documentary on Lacey Schwartz.

Same deal: Her white mother had an affair with a black man, but mom claimed
that she inherited "dark" Jewish genes from her dad's side of the family. Her entire extended
family raised and treated her as a Jewish white girl.

She wasn't pegged as "black" until she applied for college.

 

[NigerianDonDada]

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Yall gotta understand. Italians are big into their culture and community. I know a girl that got kicked out of her house for fukking with a black dude.

So I can see his mother completely shutting out any black side he had and running with some lame story that he's full Italian with a tan.

They wouldn't bat an eye if your friend hooked up with a mick though. It's one thing to be prideful it's another thing to be them

 

[Remote]

Mike Tirico would rather not discuss his identity because he knows if challenged and asked difficult questions he won't have sufficient answers.

But at this point everyone knows what a clown and misguided person he is anyway.

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

A lot of posters here agree with him that he's not black.

He's not

 

[Easy-E]

The number one thing you get out this is these white folks see race, oh, they DO.

 

[NYC Rebel]

Kenneth L. Shropshire, the author of the 1998 book, “In Black and White: Race and Sports in America” who now runs the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University, said he had overheard men in his barbershop joking that Tirico was “the whitest black man on TV.”

What is the point of this being included in the article? To somehow justify his shame of being black, blaming barbershop (aka black community's) for wanting to her himself? I don't get it

 

[JBoy]

What is the point of this being included in the article? To somehow justify his shame of being black, blaming barbershop (aka black community's) for wanting to her himself? I don't get it

I missed that part of the article, they have to get their petty digs in at the Black working class somehow in any article involving black folks

 

[richaveli83]

This nikka real name is probably LaMicheal Terrell Johnson. I wouldn't doubt if he stole somebody identity on some Don Draper shyt

 

[AITheAnswerAI]

He's in denial, or he thinks there's some shame associated with admission of what he is.


Oh well