Mike Tyson disappointed over Congolese ancestry

[Jasmine20]

akon had to spin ducktales about congolese people beating up gorillas 1v1 to cheer mike up lol

Maybe he was expecting to be Bolivian...

 

[Umoja]

Who did he beat? In their prime? If you weren't a bum and he couldn't blast you in the early rounds he was a once dimensional boxer.

Compare his resume to a Larry Holmes or an Ali.

People see his explosive highlights and think that constitutes all round boxing ability.

You're both right. I think he had good wins over an aged Holmes, a cruiserweight in Spinks, and solid fihhters in Rudock, Bruno and Tucker.

But he is incredibly overrated. Much of his resume is built around speculation. "If he was in his prime", "If he was focused".

The fact of the matter is the same things could be said about Zab Judah. You're measured by what you do in the ring.

 

[Black Sinatra]

Mike has been hollow since 15. Hollow people are filled with things or ideas that they embrace easily. Cust to Don King to Muslim to Zen mike. Hes searching for peace. Cacs have been mike whispering for decades, he trusts them. His only familial link to African is from Trauma.

 

[yates]

I've noticed that the diaspora tends to forget that bantus were also taken to the new world in large numbers. The focus always seems to be on west africa. Don't know why tho. Maybe the allure of the all the medieval empires or something

I've also noticed black americans also tend to have more bantu ancestry than west indians ( based of those ancestry tests ). I'm part bajan but my west indian family just says they descend from Ghana lol but quite a lot of the slaves that went to barbados were from central africa.

 

[Thurgood Thurston III]

Akon's a cool guy for that lol

I would've called Mike a c00n...

Then promptly get my head punched into outer space.

Kufi intact.

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

People are remarkably ignorant about Africa and that is by design. It's a huge continent with hundreds of cultures and languages and ethnic groups. It has a ton of history that most people know nothing about.

They dont know about the castles and kings of Ethiopia. They dont know about the songhai empire or the sculptures of yoruba land. They don't know about great Zimbabwe or the nubian pharaohs or the fact that it was only in 2008 that they were able to decipher the meroitic language.

Chances are all that mike knew about africa was the maasai people and egyptians so he was hoping he descended from some pharaoh or something.

 

[MR. SNIFLES]

Akon's a cool guy for that lol

I would've called Mike a c00n...

Then promptly get my head punched into outer space.

Kufi intact.

EVERY 142 YEARS YOUR KUFI WOULD BE VISIBLE IN LOW ORBIT FROM ONLY THE HIGHEST PEAK OF MT. KILLAMANNOHOMO IN BOLIVIAN.

 

[generic-username]

Mike Tyson is a 50 yr old man who grew up in the hood. His view of Africa is kinda expected.

 

[TallMan_J]

I watch Hot Boxing a lot and I notice Mike has some serious self hate around his blackness. He’s super Zen in other areas of his life but always has a tinge of disdain when talking about Africa and blackness in general. And always leans extra hard into calling himself a nikka or talking about “nikka” shyt

I peeped this too, breh. I love Mike, but it’s almost like he despises “Blackness”.

Did you see the episode with Jim Jones when Mike was roasting the people of Sentinel Island and calling them “savages” and shyt?

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Who did he beat? In their prime? If you weren't a bum and he couldn't blast you in the early rounds he was a once dimensional boxer.

Compare his resume to a Larry Holmes or an Ali.

People see his explosive highlights and think that constitutes all round boxing ability.

It was some cats that didn’t get that bum status until Mike beat them

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Y’all are making way too much of this

 

[88m3]

nothing new for Mike unfortunately /

 

[JBone4eva]

MyHeritage

Even better than African ancestry? I thought that one had the largest database of African tribes out there.

I want to get the most thorough ancestry reading for my wife and I.

 

[ZEupTWN]

This nikka Akon just casually telling lies like it's nothing

lollll i fux with kon but he do be saying and doin some out the box dumb shyt....


and yeah it no reason to put too muich trust into any of these dna services

 

[Speaking Womanese]

Akon’s that parent who buys their kid fake Jordan’s and tries to spin it like they’re better than the originals

“All the cool kids are wearing ‘em!”

Mike probably thought he hailed from somewhere more commercially popular.