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Jump in on the heated discussions happening in the comments sections of Mixed Media Watch! Here are today’s most talked-about posts:

“Other” provides confusion

Lyonside: …Honestly, I think that since I happened to be the only part-black student in my grade (small school, and the lower classes were more diverse ethnically), the school wanted to show “DIVERSITY” by making sure they had a “NEGRO” scholar…

Ben: …my principal called me into the hallway from class one morning and said “ben, you’ve been chosen as a national achievement scholar. but are you aware that that scholarship is for… black students?” i stared back in mild disbelief before breaking the news to him. (man, when multiracial people talk about “coming out,” we’re not kidding!) he got very flustered and awkwardly apologized…

2 mixed NHL players

Renu: what kind of ridiculous statement is that– this one looks asian and that one doesn’t??!! I think we all agree it’s of minimal interest to the individual, how we’re racially perceived by others, though it can often be detrimental– or at least annoying– to feel we have to justify if we, in fact, ARE this or that mix.

justin: It is ridiculous but I don’t think it’s of minimal interest. Friends tell me they don’t think I look ‘that’ Asian, at the same time I regularly have strangers yelling slurs at me because they can see that I am and that’s all that they see. Excuse the clichés but people see with their minds and racial acuity is really fascinating, to me at least. Some times women tell me they are not attracted to Asians followed by ” but you don’t look that Asian” then I want to throw up so the conversation ends.

Hybrid vigor in Sports Illustrated

Jon Entine: Perhaps J&C should interview Jon Entine, author of “Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It” next?

Merq: I’m sorry, but Entine’s publication has been roundly discredited by many of his peers. Let me see if I remember some of the arguments against Entine’s rhetoric.

*The whole human race shares 94% of its genes
*Humans & chimps have only a 2% genetic difference
*“racial” differences (curly hair, brown skin) can be attributed to 4 genes of 30,000
*Most importantly, many of these characteristics are more relevantly linked to *POPULATIONS* than “races.”