The R&B singer has an African-American father and an Italian-American mother.
The R&B singer has an African-American father and an Italian-American mother.
I saw this article today and I have to tip my proverbial hat to these kids for putting this together. It is so important that we get beyond cultural stereotypes and the jokes that derive from them. And it is true, Halloween tends to draw so many of these out. Cultural stereotypes are definitely not costumes. Here’s to hoping we get past this Halloween without such nonsense.
And here’s a link to the bigger article.
OK, here is one of those instances when somebody goes too far in their usage of the “race” issue.
Bryant Gumbel referred to NBA Commissioner David Stern as a “plantation overseer” in commenting on how he treats NBA players. Right. Men who make millions or hundreds of thousands of dollars for playing a sport are the sane as slaves. Try again Bryant.
Here is an article on what he said and how he stands by it.
I am not a big fan of Rihanna myself, but it is good again to see that the mainstream does on occasion recognize that people of various skin colors are also beautiful. The pop star was recently names “The Sexiest Woman Alive” by Esquire magazine. To read an article on the honor, click here.
The popular British singer and musician has a father from Saint Kitts and Nevis and a white British mother.
I always like to applaud TV shows, movies and even commercials I see or hear about that are unafraid to show mixed couples and treat them as just another relationship, in other words as normal.
Kudos today then to Kumho Tires. I was watching football and the above commercial came on. It features two couples, one of them being a Black or Mixed guy and a White or Hispanic woman.
Way to go Kumho.
The former basketball star and now actor, has a Bahamian father and a Canadian mother.
So here is more proof that this whole silly notion of “race” is idiotic. I read an article that now says the white population is growing because more Hispanics, who didn’t previously identify as white, did so in the most recent Census in 2010.
This change occurred because the government made a change in it’s concept of Hispanic. In previous years Hispanic was defined as a a “race.” Now it is an ethnicity.
The issue to me isn’t whether this is right or wrong, but that it shows these racial concepts are so arbitrary. So my Mexican-American wife who has never considered herself white by any stretch, is all of a sudden white? Nothing has changed about her. The box that is supposed to define her has changed.
Give me a break. When will we get over these silly notions?
Here is a link to the article on the subject.