Mixed Race?

[aitm]

I grew up in an all white town, our church elders told us all about niggers and their sex habits after church and at the coffee shop in the mornings. I never met a black kid until I was 16ish at a Detroit Tigers baseball game. I rooted for the black baseball players that were on the team like Willie Horton, but at the same time the main TV networks were beaming riots all across the country by them damn anti-american negroes.

When I got to college I worked my ass off to overcome that racism, to a degree of success. As I started my own business I purposely hired blacks to not just overcome that but to try to atone for my own racism. Over the years I am quite happy at my progress but readily recognize that I most likely will never be able to completely overcome those early years. My 12 years in Texas introduced me to my wonderful beaner friends and the realization that the majority of Mexicans will always outwork the majority of whites and black and the Mexican hate blacks more that whites do and the black hated Mexicans more than whites….man…Texas is crazy about that shit.

I am conscious of my racism every day and work very hard to overcome it.

[stromboli]

True story. Never met a Hispanic that didn't work is ass off at any job.

[Shiranu]

True story. Never met a Hispanic that didn't work is ass off at any job.

I know some, but for the most part yeah they work hard.

[Aroura33]

I'm German, german, German, English, Scottish and native American, I'm white as white can be XD

Anglo-Saxon, Aryan if you're feeling dramatic, and 19th century.

We are all one race/species just with different skin tones, not too much different from is fundamentally except for cultural stuff


Though some of those dark skinned girls are beauties *beams*

This is almost me, I'm German, German, Irish, British and a little Native American.  My brother shows the Native American more than I do...everyone says I just look German. 

My husband is 100% Irish, and our daughter is the whitest person I've ever seen, aside from an albino, I kid you not.  And her hair is as pale as her skin.  She looks like the little kid version of Disney's Elsa, even with the big blue eyes.  I feel sort of bad (especialy after seeing Strombolli's beautiful kids!), she looks like "we are the Aryan Nation!" is our family motto. But it's just genetics.  I'm mostly white, and I married a guy who comes from the whitest white people in Europe.

This picture is about a year old, but she's only gotten whiter if anything!  lol.



But yes, we are all just one species.  I like the fact that my daughter has friends of all colors and doesn't even think twice about that.  I have some hope that future generations will be less racist.

[Mermaid]

I am half German Shepherd and half Irish Wolfhound.

[Solitary]

There's something fishy about. 

[trdsf]

'Mixed race' as a phrase bothers me.  It's only accurate if you're talking about crossing modern humans with something that's not modern human -- Neanderthals, for example.  So there hasn't been any race mixing in tens of thousands of years.

[Mermaid]

'Mixed race' as a phrase bothers me.  It's only accurate if you're talking about crossing modern humans with something that's not modern human -- Neanderthals, for example.  So there hasn't been any race mixing in tens of thousands of years.

Race and species are not the same thing.

But the term "mixed race" bothers me, too. It's a social construct.

[trdsf]

Race and species are not the same thing.

But the term "mixed race" bothers me, too. It's a social construct.

Point taken.  Though I have heard 'mixed race' used as though the speaker considered it to be interspecies.  My point is only that the genetic differences between Caucasian me and an Asian or African/whatever are so small that the idea of trying to divide humanity up by physiology just can't fit in my brain without a great big WTF tag hanging from it.

[Ro3bert]

Last week my dad made a joke about god being a black woman and some (other) white man replied "god doesn't have an ethnicity; he is white". Too many white people view themselves not as a race or culture but as "normal". Everyone else, they think, has a race or culture which prevents them from being white.

In "Mad Magazine" some years ago there was a picture of Charles Lindbergh after landing. He made the observation that he'd seen god on his flight across the Atlantic and commented "I saw God and she is black". That was back in the fifties or early sixties, what a gas.

Robert

[Ro3bert]

Point taken.  Though I have heard 'mixed race' used as though the speaker considered it to be interspecies.  My point is only that the genetic differences between Caucasian me and an Asian or African/whatever are so small that the idea of trying to divide humanity up by physiology just can't fit in my brain without a great big WTF tag hanging from it.

Lets face it in all probability if there were different "races" there would most likely be no chance of intermarrying and producing offspring. The term "race"  is not true; we are all Homo-sapiens what ever skin color and what ever ethnic background.

Robert

[Munch]

Yes!

Yes!

Yes!

Yes!


But above all, who can resist Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnsons pearly white smile?

[GSOgymrat]

I recently submitted a DNA sample to Ancentry.com to determine my genetic background. The results will take about 6-8 weeks and I anticipate by background is going to be British and Scandinavian but perhaps I will be surprised.

[stromboli]

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