I’m not American so forgive me if I’m wrong, but having racist relatives seems more like a stereotype of your bog standard Anglo American, possibly from the south, than an Italian one - then again these people have demonstrated repeatedly that they believe Europe is some homogenous land of racist colonisers with bland taste in food.Being that Keaton is white, I wonder if he will get compared to the uncle a lot. Because you know they are going to have to bring up whyboy's whiteness again and again. Especially when interacting with Anoki.
Also, ain't no one Italian American named Keaton. Even a stereotypical Tony or Vinnie would have been better.
Everyone hates somebody over here in the states.
Being Aussie I often forget that race relations in ‘Murica aren’t what the USA obsessed leftists I know make them out to be - I was under the impression that most black Americans were fairly insular in so much as they prefer their own kind, and accuse anyone who doesn’t act stereotypically black of “trying to be white” (amongst minorities here the word for that is “coconut” - brown on the outside white on the inside), people who wear their hair in braids, dreads or an Afro are celebrated, and if someone has lighter skin but makes a big deal out of being black, any white heritage they might have is downplayed (Beyonce for example - she’s got French ancestry but since her current image is a REVOLUTIONARY AFRIKAN KWEEN nobody seems to remember that she’s mixed)I have an aunt who was born in 1934. Her father was a dark Italian and her mother was a white as paste Pole whose parents were immigrants. My aunt was dark with black hair and raised by her Polish grandparents. She told me that she was called nigger and kids at school told her she wasn't welcome in this neighborhood. Despite being Polish culturally and speaking the language she was physically a dark Italian. The high school she went to is ironically just about all black now.
When people talk about the story of racism in America they conveniently forget or push aside that fact that some people were just not seen as white enough even though technically they were white. They like to forget how certain ethnicities were treated just because they had an accent or a certain last name. There's a pretty intricate layering to hate that isn't just about black and white. It's unfortunate that identity politics just likes to make it sound so much more basic and simple for the sake of BLM.
And colorism is actually a huge problem in the black community. Light skin and good hair gets you more attention. I knew a lady that paraded around her light skinned, red haired biracial grandson like he was a designer accessory. I was friends with the younger daughter who told me her mother liked the baby more than her because he was light skinned. All my friend's mother's kids were pretty dark.
I think that someone's bitterness may have fueled the skin palettes here to a degree.
I think they chose spicy white because it was less unappealing to them than the Wonderbread look. Never mind that they can't even make biracial people look biracial. I assumed they were scared to death of light skin privilege in any capacity.
Well let's make something up to have Keaton sound less random and unfitting. His mom had a huge crush on Alex Keaton from Family Ties. Lol so retro.
Too hard. They'd have to research something other than tumblrisms and memes.
No, that sounds about right. Or, at least, that's what I had to deal with.
Where I came from even trying to get good grades would get a black kid ostracized for "trying to be white"
contest launched the 12th.
He's white, so therefore he's immediately disqualified.
I have no fucking clue. It can't be a pride flag because it isn't eyebleeding enough, but it very obviously isn't some obscure country either.
They were probably all killed by the mafia or something. If we're gonna stereotype Italians let's go all the way.
