Gentrification runs amok and mofos energy is all on if someone meets the "Black Enough" criteria
Blasian pizzeria owner gets accused of false flagging
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‘They’re gentrifying our race with that sign on a white establishment.
Is Wal-Mart black owned? Is Amazon Black Owned? How many fast food spots you been to Black Owned? What about clothing stores? Is your plumber black? Your maintenance man black?
most of these people come from a time when the social-rules were simpler and people weren't playing fast and loose with "black" and "biracial" or whatever their other side(s) is. And you didn't have the complexities of non-black people or biracial people using "black" to sell products or collect donations. But in 2021, some of these situations would have to be case by case due to race-mixing (and i hate using that phrase because it sounds).
One thing i do know for sure is when it's something negative everybody is quick to label a mixed person as black. And black people have to eat that failure or that negative stat.
The issue today is you have a bunch of people trying to police what is black on every level. This whole story is nothing more than someone trying to Police blackness.
Bob Loblaw
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Wouldn’t happen if she had some brothas on the wall
I mean, we don't know that it wasn't originally white owned or still partially white-owned somehow.
But yeah, it has now been proven that Davina dikkens is legitimately the owner of the pizza shop and has been since at least 2020, and that Tyrone Reed has been involved in some capacity since its original founding. It is also proven that Davina dikkens and Tyrone Reed have some sort of relationship with each other that goes beyond those corporate legal documents. Whether this Matt Molina guy was actually the owner or part owner at some earlier point or whether he was just head chef isn't really established clearly.
The part that's fukked up to me are the people trying to claim that she's not Black cause she's part-Asian. That issue is completely separate from the role of the Matt guy.
Well in that case....
so you don't want him to claim black, but the others don't won't let him claim them. So then what ?Yeah I just thought about this...my son is Half-Indian (I'm Black American) and...
If he had "Black-owned" on an establishment of his. I'd be like:
"sooooon ok you are my blood but this sign is low-key a stretch"
If he put "Tamil-owned" every Indian in the Bay would come to the shop to tell him he wasn't Tamil...them muhfucaz racist as shyt.
get these nets
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What's even more ironic is that he is half Italian, with a father who was born in Italy.So, I just realized how fukking ironic that is cause:
Was only half-Black himself.
Probably speaks the language more fluently than Sal.
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Bet majority of the same ones saying she shouldve said blasian owned instead of black, claim Naomi Osaka and Tiger Woods as blacks.
He is half-Black and half-Indian. He’s just as Black as he is Indian...if he said “I’m Indian, I would feel offended because I would feel like he wasn’t accepting his Black side which is what I gave him”. The same is true if he says “I’m Black” because his mom is not Black at all not one bit. Y’all so stuck on the one drop rule that you don’t even understand that someone could literally be half-Black. It doesn’t mean that he won’t identify solely as Black American, that’s on him but when he looks in the mirror he gonna see features that don’t look like me or my mom or dad or any other Black American...some of his features are consistent with a person name Vidrak Srinivasan and he needs to understand and accept why.
philmonroe
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You know how online faux blacks get down. I don't know why these dudes have to be comically faux black online. Stuff don't even seem real.
I legit never thought that through.
Why does it have to be "half-Black", as if something's missing?
Go back to that James Baldwin quote. He stated that John P. Davis had lived Blackness, no matter what he looked like. Is Jesse Lee Peterson and Candace Owens the authentic Black experience, and Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley is not? Should Frederick Douglas or Booker T. Washington be dismissed as "half-Black" and people who do not deserve to call themselves actual Black, even though they both were born into slavery and raised by Black mothers and lived incredible lives that lifted up the Black community?
Your son gets to decide for himself, but I don't see why he can't be Black and Indian. Be proud of his blackness and be proud of his Indianness. I would think if you teach him that he is neither truly Black nor truly Indian, that he is only half of each and not worthy of either, it could be the start of a complex where he doesn't fell like he deserves to belong anywhere.