re: Mike Tirico: People shouldn't assume I'm black, my parents are white

I bet it's super seed gejes, he doesn't even look mixed he looks like a short black man


I'm extremely light skinned and have non Sub-Saharan facial features,i.e small lips, small nose, i dont gave corse black people hair, if i let ut grow its naturally thin and wavvy, myeyes are not dark black (hazel) and I have small slanted eyez. Every one assumes Im mixed and I can easily pass as Hispanic. Both my parents are black and while my mom is not what I would call dark, neither are light skinned, my dad is black as frick tho lol. But while my mons side is black as far as I can trace back, my dad's mom my paternal graND mother is 100% Kaskinampo indian, and looks like it, with similar facial features, small lips, small nose, high cheekbones, small eyes, etc light skinned almost yellow. My dad looks black, because his dad, my paternal grandfather is the blackest man to ever walk on the face of the earth lol and he takes after him, but my dad is really mixed

It really kinda sucks , everyone in my family us dark and all my cousins growing up were jelly and used to ostracize me cause I didn't look black



in humans it really just takes 2 generations to visablly rid oneself of an ansestors features. look at obama's 2 kids

damn in 5-7 years wqhen the one on the left grows into her face lol she go be fine as hell lol

anyway, remember that their grandmother is as white as lilly snow. it wouldn't shock me at all if tirco's ancestors is black and this is just the recessive gene popping back up

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He's mixed. As a guy in an interracial marriage, it pissed me off that he and those around him only celebrate one side of his background.

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you are married to a white woman (i've seen pics she fine as hell too btw good job lol) being the offspring of an interacial couple is one of the hardest things you can ask a child to do in america. a person's general nature is to relate to the group who accesepts him the most, as we all crave accecptance. i'm pretty sure obama was probably accecpted more by black people growing up looking like this

then he did with with white or indoneasion people. mixed kids in general associate themselves as black as we still have a one drop rule mentality, its' not so much that they don't see themselves as part white, its' that no one else does. When is the last time fox news ran an article about obama's white heritage or considered obama anything other than a black president?



i believe in the next 5,000 years we will have created a new race of people by the blending in of races, i dont' believe we will ever fully occratdiate white and black people as a race because of Africa and Europe, black people in africa are pretty much going to frick black people in africa lol, and 5 thousand years from now your unborn child will have a group of peole he can hang out with at school that are just like him. considering it took about one hundred and fifty five thousand years for "white people" to derive from the first humans that appeared in western ethopia 200 thousand years ago, that within 25 thousand years of civilization we will have created an entirely new race of people not by evolution but by selective breeding over and over again. but we aren't there yet .


Tl;Dr I look like my Indian grandmother not my black parents

This would be a highly debated topic on TD.

Obsessed.

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Keith Jarrett was born on May 8, 1945, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to a mother of Slovenian descent and a father of either French or Scots-Irish descent.

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Jarrett has acknowledged that audiences, and even fellow musicians, have at times been convinced he is African-American, due to his appearance. He relates an incident when African-American jazz musician Ornette Coleman approached him backstage, and said something like, "Man, you've got to be black. You just have to be black," to which Jarrett replied, "I know. I know. I'm working on it."

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Keith Jarrett - "Shenandoah"

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Why does it matter if he is white or black??????

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wanna bet he has gotten jobs in the past because hiring managers think he is black?

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Michael Todd Tirico

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I can't think of too many brothas with the name Todd.

I'm just curious how a two year old article was posted and discussed for four pages without anyone ripping the OP to shreds for posting an old story.

And he's going to be hanging out with people before he's even born!

That guy's seen your wife?

Meh. I'm raising an 8 year old mixed kid in south la with zero problems. You northern racists haven't infiltrated down here