Comments on: 2 mixed NHL players

By: WOW!!

WOW!! — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:23:33 +0000

“all other mixed raced people who identify as black” are “stark raving mad!!!”

I don’t think so sweetheart. What’s mad is people like you trying to promote a color conscious society. Didn’t we already have that in the 60’s???

By: Hmmm...

Hmmm... — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:19:52 +0000

No, I’m not stark raving mad. If you read my post closely you would understand why I choose to identify as black. Though yes, I am of mixed ancestry, politically and culturally I am black. Anyone who has a problem with that can go to hell. To follow your logic, I guess I should expect that guy I met to identify as black since his skin was coal black, right. If he hadn’t frowned at me then I would have explained to him my mixed ancestry, though I don’t know why I need to do that. What was it to him if I was Hispanic, he wasn’t Hispanic. He was South Asian, so what did my “racial” background have to do with him. My mother always says, “Don’t be nosey. You ask people questions and they might give you a response you don’t want to hear.” He should have minded his own business for the few seconds we shared an elevator. I already have a boyfriend, I wasn’t interested in him.

Thadie Newton and Halle Berry (who had a nose job by the way) have dark skin tones. I guess they should identify themselves as black since they have very dark skin. But I’m sure you will try to argue that they don’t look “black” because they don’t have the physical features of a Bantu African, as if that is the only phenotype that Africans carry.

Some of you “mulattos” out here are hopelessly ignorant. Some of you harbor negative attitudes towards African/African-Americans because you believe black people to be inferior, so you feverishly latch hold to you non-black ancestry in order to seek other peoples (READ WHITE PEOPLES) approval. Pity, pity you.

By: I'm just sayin'...

I'm just sayin'... — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 00:52:54 +0000

^He probably frowned at you because he assumed you were stark raving mad, like all other mixed people who identify as black.

By: Hmmm...

Hmmm... — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 22:01:13 +0000

I was on the elevator once and this South East Asian guy asked if I was hispanic. (my mother is African-American and my father is Hispanic by way of Puerto Rico but I identify as black politically and culturally,) Anyway I told the guy I was black. He actually frowned at me and quickly became silent. He was several shades darker than I am so I guess he couldn’t understand why I identified as black when he actually is black in skin-tone. I have had a lot of various reactions from people when I have identified myself, but never has anyone frowned at me. I wasn’t upset though, I was more shocked and just laughed. I think next time someone asks me “what are you?” I’m going to follow Lyonside’s cue and say “Human and proud.”

By the way, usually after I identify myself as black I explain my mixed ancestry to explain why I look the way I do, but I didn’t bother with this fool, aftre he frowned at me.

By: Lyonside

Lyonside — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:17:57 +0000

That reminds me of my husband’s family - Puerto Rican, but his father claimed Italian for years - he was afraid people wouldn’t hire him otherwise. It was to the point where my spouse as a kid believed it. Then one day he hears his mother say, “The island was so crowded,” so he asks his sister, “We’re Sicilian?” At which point his sister set him straight.

I think the reactions you’d get would depend on the area… in some places you’d get a “positive” reaction to saying Native American (if a stereotypical, likely WRONG one).

Ah, “What Are You,” the bane of many of us. A suggestion: a very cautious, confused “Human?” response works too… especially if you start looking surreptitiously for antennae on the person asking you. If you’re a sci-fi fan, answering with an alien species name or two works too (I tried that at a sci-fi convention - it worked).

By: Marsha

Marsha — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:42:18 +0000

I agree with Justin’s first post. I’m half Peruvian and half white and I get the “What are you?” question all the time. I also get the, “I thought you were white.” all the time too. I’ve gotten so sick of the “What are you?” question that I started to tell people that I’m of different backgrounds just to experiment with how people react. I’ve told people that I’m Italian, East Indian, Native American, Middle Eastern, Mexican- you name it. The reactions I get are typical- almost ALWAYS POSITIVE when I say I’m Italian and ALWAYS NEGATIVE when I say I’m East Indian, Native American, Arabic, etc. It really is all about perception…

By: Hapa Meister

Hapa Meister — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:28:02 +0000

I think that Czech exchange student in American Pie is actually like part Arab and/or Aremnian or something. Looking at her complexion and some features I wasn’t surprised she was mixed.

Zach and Deuce are harder to target as EA’s but I can see some mixedness, esp. after I found out that they were. But I need to see more pics of this Jamie Storr guy. He has to be the least EA-looking of them all! Wow! Wonder if they got the right baby at the hospital.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:58:55 +0000

Hapa Meister… how about Zach Morris? Deuce Bigalow? the Czech exchange student in American Pie?

By: Hapa Meister

Hapa Meister — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:24:22 +0000

lmao, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a hapa as white-looking as Jamie Storr. Maybe a few that were close, though!

I guess there really might be more undercover hapaz that I thought. *raises eyebrows*

By: Merq

Merq — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:31:46 +0000

Weird, Justin. It seemed pretty clear to me what you were saying. I don’t know what Hannibal was reading, but you were pretty clear from the jump.