Isn't he both whiteness and blackness?
How can he be so angry about half of his race about the other half of his race? Maybe cause I'm full whiteness I don't get it. Someone please explain it to me. I'm honestly not trying to be a jerk here.
I'm so adjective I verb nouns!
If a random "non-mixed" black guy tries to hit up some drunken white guy's girlfriend at a party, what word does he generally get called (at least behind his back)?
Now if a "mixed" guy like Jesse tries to hit up a drunken white guy's girlfriend at a party, what word does he generally get called as well?
THAT'S very loosely why people like him so often self-identify as "black". Because their so-called "mixed-blood" doesn't stop them from periodically being called...
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
In addition, think of the accumulated times he's almost certainly heard his own extended family members (that are not "mixed") called racist things in his presence.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
I don't really understand what people expect from us, as mixed-race people. I'm basically wondering out loud at this point. What some call anger, I call truth. With all due respect, for people who think like you...it's easy to call someone angry when you admittedly don't walk in their shoes.
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Now if a "mixed" guy like Jesse tries to hit up a drunken white guy's girlfriend at a party, what word does he generally get called as well?
THAT'S very loosely why people like him so often self-identify as "black". Because their so-called "mixed-blood" doesn't stop them from periodically being called...
Damn right,'lil georgie! That's exactly what would happen. You're killing it with the knowledge as usual---keep on schooling 'em!
@rickstersmouse
Oh, boy. Here we go again. Mr. Williams was pissed off about how racism causes the police to profile black people more than anybody else, and how quick a black person getting shot and killed by police always get reduced to being the black person's fault, and always justified even if it wasn't----like Tamir Rice, whom he mentioned. If you look up that case, you'd understand why he got mad about that. I certainly did, because that young boy did not have to die the way he did. So,no, he wasn't "mad about half of his race."
And let's get this strsight---if you watch interviews with Williams on youtube, he's already said it was both his black father and his white mother who taught him to be the activist, and to be proud of his blackness. He himself is a former history teacher-turned-actor who's been involved with the Black Lives Matter Movement for quite awhile now---he just produced a documentary about them---he talks about it in this interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIRYiUB9Z5A
Also,he talked about how since some white folks didn't know he's mixed, they would talk a bunch of racist s*** about black people around him. Also, being mixed-race is not some automatic shield against people being racist against you. And,yeah, even biracial people can have racist white relatives who won't accept you in the family---that's old news. Even President Obama said that his own white grandmother was scared of black men,even though she hardly knew any---she had that racist fear taught to her in the era she grew up in. White folks threw a fit when he basically all but said that she was a racist, but it was the truth----end of story.
And just because a black person is mixed dosen't mean that they can't call out racism whenever they see it, even in their own family. As if just because a person is part-white, they're supposed to give their racist relatives a pass or some silly s*** on their racism. Hell, no, they don't---they can be called on their racist s*** just like anyone else.
Also, being mixed-race is not some automatic shield against people being racist against you. And,yeah, even biracial people can have racist white relatives who won't accept you in the family---that's old news. Even President Obama said that his own white grandmother was scared of black men,even though she hardy knew any.
I can confirm this. The perception I'm getting in general from Jesse's critics is that they simply can't understand how a half white guy can think and act like he does. Oh me, oh my. Simple! Mixed-race folks are often treated horribly by racists. I've been spoken to like a dog by some of them. And when they aren't, they see Black people, frequently in their families, treated horribly. I've seen that too. Mixed people can be activists because they get their eyes opened real quick and in a unique way, about the state of race relations in this country.
What does he get called if he hits up some drunken black guy's girlfriend at a party?
Not...a...chance!
You DEFINITELY sound like someone two days from a nervous breakdown, and looking for someone to blame it on.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.