Lol True and True... great presentationMore than likely, he doesn't know who his biological father his, despite his family's representations.
To your point, let's say his mother had an affair with the former baseball player Manny Mota who is from Dominican Republic. Mama Tirico found Manny irresistible while watching him against the Mets at Shea Stadium in 1965 (Little Mike T. was born in 1966).
So if in fact, we learned that Mike Tirico's biological father is actually Dominican, making him Italian and Latino,
would we still be so insistent that he claim his blackness? Probably not.
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More than likely, he doesn't know who his biological father his, despite his family's representations.
To your point, let's say his mother had an affair with the former baseball player Manny Mota who is from Dominican Republic. Mama Tirico found Manny irresistible while watching him against the Mets at Shea Stadium in 1965 (Little Mike T. was born in 1966).
So if in fact, we learned that Mike Tirico's biological father is actually Dominican, making him Italian and Latino,
would we still be so insistent that he claim his blackness? Probably not.
Dominicans are Black.
They are the products of African slaves, just like us.
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Well, that's certainly your perspective.
Yet, Cardi B, a Dominican-American-Bronx woman to my eyes of at least partial African descent, according to many
posters around here, shouldn't be allowed the valuable license of calling fellow black folk the n-word because "she isn't black."
Cardi B: Hispanics/Latinos Can Use the N-Word Because They're 'Minorities'
Is blackness just defined by the presence of African DNA (the one drop rule)? Many are abandoning that pass-down categorization from slavery and Jim Crow.
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Who is abandoning it?
These weirdo miltant types who think that Frederick Douglass isn't Black?
By a lot of their standards Malcolm X isn't Black
Somebody needs to tell him to consult Sammy Sosa for help with this matter
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before you get to the one drop rule, you can't ignore your eyes
You give a picture of Manny Mota with the name Chiwetalu Agu or Shawn Carter, you won't question his Blackness...give him a "Spanish" name, then his blackness is automatically questioned due to cultural attempts by current/former colonized countries to minimize Blackness
Ambiguous types like Cardi B, will use their "Blackness" when it's monetarily beneficial
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Cardi B looks clearly like a black Dominican to me
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I agree. Also, she and her sister can past for flavors of Middle Easterner, Indian, and Pakistani
Somebody needs to tell him to consult Sammy Sosa for help with this matter
came in to post its guaranteed he tried bleaching at one point in his life...
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But if 'blackness" has been historically based on just the "eye" test (before the one drop rule), then how do we explain:
Congressman Augustus Hawkins
NAACP head Walter White
Halsey
And if its just the eye test, does an Indian-American like Kala Rama suddenly become black in the U.S.?
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You're a weirdo militant if you believe that Paula Patton and Robin Thicke's kid isn't black?
He only would be considered such if you apply the idiotic, white supremacist one-drop rule.
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I don't understand your point. You post 3 white people and an Indian woman to point out that you cannot tell a Black person from another person?But if 'blackness" has been historically based on just the "eye" test (before the one drop rule), then how do we explain:
Congressman Augustus Hawkins
NAACP head Walter White
Halsey
And if its just the eye test, does an Indian-American like Kala Rama suddenly become black in the U.S.?
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Augustus F. Hawkins, the first African American from California to be elected to Congress and a champion of workers, fair housing and civil rights, has died. He was 100.
Hawkins, a Democrat who represented South Los Angeles first in the state Legislature and then in Congress for more than half a century, died Saturday at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md., of symptoms related to old age, his niece, Susan Jefferson, said Monday.
He began his public service career in an era that was far less congenial to minority politicians, serving as a state assemblyman from 1935 before winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1962 as the civil rights movement was taking center stage.
By the time he retired in 1990, Hawkins had served as a legislator for much of the 20th century. He also helped form the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971 and was the dean of the caucus when he retired.
Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was an African-American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for almost a quarter of a century, 1931–1955, after starting with the organization as an investigator in 1918. He directed a broad program of legal challenges to racial segregation and disfranchisement. He was also a journalist, novelist, and essayist. He graduated in 1916 from Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University), a historically black college.
Halsey with her dad.
And there are many black women around who look like Kala Rama.