Angelus Errare
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I don't feel bad for Milo at all, dude can get hit by a car for all I care, wouldn't donate a dime to his medical bills.
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Shaun King responds to race questioning
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Dongs Macabre
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CountAntonius
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Despicable situation.
Claim away! If you take a DNA test it will be there. That's the difference between what is real vs this socially constructed nonsense that has the world looking at America like it's a damn Insane Asylum.
Only in America would we be arguing over the blackness of a man that doesn't even look black.
Why are you still here? You have argued against black people about our blackness in a topic about another man's mixed race. You're opinions have been refuted yet you remain. Begone wannabe, begone
Thelonelykoopa
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Don't be a fool while I agree I feel biracial peoples should be able to identify the way they want that doesn't mean society will go along with it like can you imagine Obama running as a white President of course not it's still largely based on image
I Identify as Biracial but I feel I could still identify as white even if I'm a quarter Native American as most people I think assume my hair is dyed black and don't really pay attention to eye shape or facial structure so I have not suffer very pure directed racism. But I come from a very small town and my family doesn't talk to anyone and in the real world who knows how people will respond to me but many people are far less lucky than I feel I am.
This entire debacle has proven that "looking black" is a very subjective thing.
Oh I am. I and others do as well. I live in NYC where people apparently have the ability to express themselves very differently than most of the country. Most people that I have encountered have no problems identify with their other ancestry and no one bats an eyelash or makes them conform. The term mixed race isn't some sacrilegious term that's met with 'No you're black! One drop rule! One drop rule!!!!'
Chie Satonaka
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No, only in America would we be arguing with human trash who decide they get to be the arbiter of blackness when they aren't even fucking black.
King is biracial. There's nothing else to discuss, and calling your posts here ignorant would be paying you a compliment.
As if I couldn't be disgusted enough about the situation, but there's always fucking one.
Wtf....how can anyone respond like this to a piece this moving?
You've got to be joking. You really have no clue what you're talking about now.
Please stop? Please? Blacks don't have family trees other than the one they were all buried under hundreds of years ago. For you to continue on posting in sheer ignorance like this is baffling and insulting.
How so? He's still biracial in America. More importantly, half black...in America. What about this situation is so elusive to you that you need to fabricate another racial identity and narrative for a life you've never known?
I don't understand the objection at all. He said he never really sat down and made the choice and explained how it was that he never made the choice. Remember this is in response to people accusing him of being white and choosing to identify as black. Whether or not he could make a decision to change his mind and assert a new racial identity really is entirely irrelevant. His personal story, the actual story under attack by some in the media, is that that identity wasn't a conscious decision on his part.
Mrs. Manky
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Not to mention that there are Latinos of African descent. See: Zoe Saldana.
Anyways, I said in the original thread that there was a chance that King's mother didn't put the biological father on the birth certificate. I was right.
Speaking as the mother of a mixed child and as someone who knows mixed children and mixed friends, it would be super nice if there was a space for them to identify as mixed, and that space exists and it is growing. But this is still a country founded on slavery and racism and that one drop rule hangs over all our heads like the Sword of Damocles. If Shaun King, or any mixed child, wants to identify as black, then so be it. It's not like they won't have to deal with racism anyways, as Shaun King's experience has shown.
Also, re: NYC...tell that "they wouldn't call him black" shit to Dante DeBlasio.
Chie Satonaka
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IdreamofHIME
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Cant believe I live in a world where a man has to dox his own senior citizen mother for having an affair with a black guy, just because a blogger want to make up shit about the dudes race.
What a world we're living in, truly we're being sucked into to the abyss with the power these little blog shits have.
This Milo idiot is loving the attention too, all his articles are now just a about this story with some just being boasts about other vendors running his garbage.
What a world we're living in, truly we're being sucked into to the abyss with the power these little blog shits have.
This Milo idiot is loving the attention too, all his articles are now just a about this story with some just being boasts about other vendors running his garbage.
Angelus Errare
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Yup to all of this, especially the bold, I fall under the bold.
I'm honestly surprised he lasted this long.
This was in regards to socially constructed view on what is "black".
All this because someone was giving black people a voice that white people couldn't control.
So they tried to control the very ethnic heritage of one of their leaders by declaring him white.
And a whole bunch of people ate that shit up like they were starving fat kids.
America shouldn't be so hungry for overt racism.
So they tried to control the very ethnic heritage of one of their leaders by declaring him white.
And a whole bunch of people ate that shit up like they were starving fat kids.
America shouldn't be so hungry for overt racism.
soundahfekz
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breh out here with that dollar general burner phone gaf account
Of course their are Latino's of African descent but they are viewed as black. Obviously this was in regards to the many more latinos that do not look black. Dante DeBlasio is not one of them. He looks far more black than Shaun King.
Angelus Errare
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You mean the one society reinforces every single day? Or is this in your utopia version of America where we're post racial and shit?
Oh man this is hilarious as hell to read after reading your other posts. LMAO!
Bottom.fucking.line.
Think of the groups these sacks of shit collude and plot with and their lack of empathy will become clear. These guys with probably all the privilege in the world. Get annoyed that ethnic people are sick and tired at how they are treated by the police and the structures that support them. And want to push for change.
They despise groups like BLM with every fibre of their being. No matter how this story goes they'll see this as a 'victory'.
Metalingus5150
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The people who started saying this are already not taking his response at face value, and have instilled doubt from what I've seen around the net. Whether or not those people actually care or are just making noise, I feel this will escalate into wanting Shaun to get a dna test or something. People are going to start claiming he is a liar and want more proof, if they haven't already done that.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Long-form DNA test.
Have at it! See people do have a choice.
Count Dookkake
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Mom sounds fun.
Its kinda gross how people become birthers exclusively when a minority reaches a certain position of importance.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not disagreeing with anything he said or validating the attacks on him, I'm just trying to emphasize that whether the accusations are true or not don't depend on anything empirical. MIlos is obviously wrong, but the reasons WHY he's wrong can't be strictly proven. Hell, that's why he's still considering himself vindicated on Twitter.
Chie Satonaka
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He didn't have to say this much.
As I said in the other thread, I was torn because on the one hand, he doesn't owe anybody anything, but on the other, sometimes it's good to try to quell something before it starts.
Seeing the responses from the that shit guzzling Milo and the troglodytes that are now kissing his ring, I'm even more upset. I wish he wouldn't have said anything.
DerangedHermit
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Well, maybe King likes Dark Souls soooo damn much that he "chose" to play it in real life.
Jeevesmeister
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This is ultimately a non-story and gone down a pretty dark road that's handwaved Shaun's suspected profiteering off of fundraising for charity causes that's gone unanswered, but then again that might require some actual journalism.
That's the thing. Society is very much regional which plays into the subjectivity of race. I've never seen Dante not identify as mix race or only identify as black despite the fact that he has obviously black ancestry and obviously white ancestry as well.
Angelus Errare
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Oh yea I forgot in your version of America, New York is post racial and shit.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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It's something when a poster comes into this thread and is like "hey, what about this Breitbart story."
Of course it can be empirical. The story in the letter is almost entirely reliant on his treatment by other people, and that can be verified.
It's cool, the version of America I grew up in; Eastern New Mexico, is totally post racial. They kicked all the black people out and declared racism dead to all the white kids left behind.
Thelonelykoopa
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Yes Dante can Identify as mixed race but that doesn't mean he is suddenly going to treated like a white male he will still be treated as black in many areas.
Morrigan Stark
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By being a complete sociopath blinded by ideology, I would imagine.
It's not post-racial. However, the diversity of it allows people a better understanding of race and less of a need to put people in simplified boxes.
Race is a complete social construct, so of course society pretty much dictates everything about race. Which is pretty much why I'm black despite being ethinically a mutt. I could identify as Native American, or Puerto Rican if I wanted to I guess, but at the end of the day I look black, and am viewed as black. Obama is half-white white and no one gives a shit. It's fucked up but the 1 drop rule is so pervasive in our society that's it's hard for me to see mixed people as mixed. People from a mixed background have every right to choose what they identify with, but society at large seems to peg you regardless. I've been around so many people of so many different shades in my family, who at the end of the day all consider themselves black. Not by personal choice, but because that's what society has reinforced for so long.
Sounds like the New York I grew up in.
New York is segregated as fuck, dude
It can verified, but in order for that to prove that he didn't misrepresent himself requires you to believe that a. he has an "actual" race that he can lie about and b. to believe that his "actual" race is determined by whether people treat him as black or not. Those are some pretty big assumptions and this uncertainty is while shitheads like Milos can still say "see? I wasn't wrong".
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The same New York that did stop and frisk?
New York looks really racist from the outside looking in.
New York looks really racist from the outside looking in.
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