re: Steph Curry's rise in American pop culture brings out the race baiters

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I remember hearing some black people calling other blacks "red".

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Yeah, Malcolm X was called "Red".

His father was DARK, and he was a Garveyite. He had dark children, and Malcolm was "red" because he was the son of a white man who raped his mother.

Malcolm's mother couldn't really stand the sight of him because he reminded her of his rapist, but his stepfather favored him because Malcolm was part white, and his father was ingrained to think white was better.

Crazy stuff.

Race baiters? It's just commentary on the divide within the black community between light and dark skinned people.

He's white enough... He's ours. They can keep Eminem.

It's more common than you think.

In Pass Christian and Delisle, lots of the "black" people are very light skinned like Curry. Darker black people would call them "yellas" and they would fight over it.
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"High yellow" is offensive. "Bright" is the preferred nomenclature.

i was playing ball at the Rec this year and was on a court with all blacks. one guy asks to clarify what our team is and i was like, "me, you, those two, and that lightskin."

if i knew how bad this poor bastard would've gotten reamed, i wouldn't have said it. they were hooping and hollering at him because a white guy called him a lightskin. he was a good sport, but it was endless.

he gets backed down in the paint. "get big, lightskin"

he gets blocked on a 3. "nuh uh, u too lightskin for that."

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People like SC because he's an amazing talent without being physically huge.

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We all get that. Everyone knows that. This guy is just trolling.

For all this talk Lebron James makes more in endorsement $ than the top 2 soccer superstars (we just had a thread where we argued about marketability) and he's very dark and doesn't have the great Madison Ave. backstory. The author is an a-hole looking to sow even more division within our country.

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now what i have heard explained 100 different ways is the difference in a redbone and yellabone

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I always heard redbones had some injun in them.

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I have always found it kinda hilarious (and sad) that some black people actually act "racist" towards their own race when it comes to the shade of their "blackness"

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You know who hates black people the most?

Other black people.

I've never understood it either. Then again, looking the continent of Africa itself with all the civil war going on, I guess it's not too farfetched.

It also takes on an economic aspect.

My father is dark, but not black. My mother is white. My parents didn't grow up with money but then became wealthy. We lived on one of the nicest streets surrounded by other white, wealthy families.

The other kids didn't really play with us, called us halfbreeds, would fight us, make fun of us, etc.

I used to think it was because they were "racist", but it didn't take me long to realize that it was because we were "new" money.

Of all the contrived race baiting shite, this has to take the fricking cake.

I'm darker than the author of that article and have spent not one second fixating on Curry's skin tone. Curry is awesome because he's a great player. Period.

Hell, a few ofy siblings are Steph's skin tone, and my parents are both darker skinned. frick anyone of any race who makes this an "issue."

Jesus Christ.