Jack Johnson, beating cac ass, desegregating brothels and marrying pawgs before jim crow had a say, legend :wow:

[Afro]

You can turn to your community and choose to foster relationships with other understanding Black individuals.

You would have to define community, because as I see it, we are a community of mercenaries.

Every Man woman and child for themselves.

The difference is, White boys who immersed themselves in Blackness can wake up one day and say to themselves, “this isn’t me, this isn’t mine,” and then proceed to find their Whiteness.

What does "finding whiteness" even look like?

What does "finding Blackness" look like?

You are better off finding people you vibe with regardless of Race and keep it moving.

I've rocked with more people from all over the world way more because it's fun to cultural exchange.

Not hope I fit in with some kind of twisted expectation based upon something I have no control over.

 

[GreenGhxst]

People always mention his wives, but he also married multiple Black women

I respect it

 

[3rdWorld]

I don't give a shyt about his obsession with White women.

But His patent for the shifting wrench he designed in prison, now that's a meaningful story.
Thats the most important contribution of his to humanity but brehs rather talk about nasty white whores as if thats an accomplishment..cacs nicknamed it the monkey wrench

 

[GreenGhxst]

But at the end of the day y’all are actually Black. You can wake up and decide to fully embrace all of it.

You can turn to your community and choose to foster relationships with other understanding Black individuals.

I cannot do any of that b/c I’m discernibly mixed-race and even racially ambiguous to some ppl. In any space...amongst any group…at any given time…my identity, attribution and allegiance are up for debate whether I’ve endeavoured to make them clear or not.

It’s funny too, cuz right now I’m kinda going thru what feels like the end stage of wiggerism where I’m confronted w/ the reality that I was never one of y’all to begin with, despite the occasional well-meaning affirmation.

The difference is, White boys who immersed themselves in Blackness can wake up one day and say to themselves, “this isn’t me, this isn’t mine,” and then proceed to find their Whiteness. I don’t have that option so I’m sorta stuck in this type of no man’s land.

you don't get more love from black people?

you can't lean toward one sort of look?

i'm asking because I want to understand

or you look like an afro latino

 

[Mac Ten]

I don't know if you are joking, so I will go ahead and say it plain. James Earl Jones won a Golden Globe award and was nominated for an academy award in 1970 for playing in a movie loosely depicting the life of Jack Johnson. The movie was called the "Great White Hope."

James Earl Jones did it all...

No wond3r they let be Darth Vader and Mufasa.

His own voice commands authority.

 

[BobbyWojak]

I don't give a shyt about his obsession with White women.

But His patent for the shifting wrench he designed in prison, now that's a meaningful story.
Thats the most important contribution of his to humanity but brehs rather talk about nasty white whores as if thats an accomplishment..cacs nicknamed it the monkey wrench

@GreenGhxst


that's actually a common myth

In February 2005, the Jim Crow Museum published a brief history of the wrench in an attempt to answer a question about Jack Johnson and his 1922 patent:

Did Jack Johnson invent the wrench?

Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight boxing champion, patented a wrench (U.S. patent #1,413,121) on April 18, 1922. His patent was not the first for a wrench. Solymon Merrick of Springfield, Massachusetts, patented the first wrench in 1835. Charles Moncky, a Baltimore mechanic, invented the monkey wrench around 1858. Moncky's wrench was named using a purposeful misspelling of his name. On September 9, 1913, Robert Owen Jr, of Shawnee, Ohio, received a patent for the "Double Acting Wrench" (ratchet wrench), arguably the most important advancement in wrench technology. Daniel C. Stillson, a steamboat firefighter, received a patented on September 13, 1870 for an invention later known as the Stillson pipe wrench.

 

[GreenGhxst]

I don't give a shyt about his obsession with White women.

But His patent for the shifting wrench he designed in prison, now that's a meaningful story.
Thats the most important contribution of his to humanity but brehs rather talk about nasty white whores as if thats an accomplishment..cacs nicknamed it the monkey wrench

I see the white woman thing more of a dominance and a display of his strength during those horrible times

Idc about the fact she's white, it's more so, the brother is having his way

 

[ViShawn]

Definitely a brazen brotha

 

[3rdWorld]

I see the white woman thing more of a dominance and a display of his strength during those horrible times

Idc about the fact she's white, it's more so, the brother is having his way

I Haven't read every post here, but there's the story of him getting caught by the cops speeding with a cave bytch.
Cop demands a 50 dollar fine on the spot. Jack hands him a 100, tells the cac cop he'll be coming back the same road again later

 

[BobbyWojak]

But at the end of the day y’all are actually Black. You can wake up and decide to fully embrace all of it.

You can turn to your community and choose to foster relationships with other understanding Black individuals.

I cannot do any of that b/c I’m discernibly mixed-race and even racially ambiguous to some ppl. In any space...amongst any group…at any given time…my identity, attribution and allegiance are up for debate whether I’ve endeavoured to make them clear or not.

It’s funny too, cuz right now I’m kinda going thru what feels like the end stage of wiggerism where I’m confronted w/ the reality that I was never one of y’all to begin with, despite the occasional well-meaning affirmation.

The difference is, White boys who immersed themselves in Blackness can wake up one day and say to themselves, “this isn’t me, this isn’t mine,” and then proceed to find their Whiteness. I don’t have that option so I’m sorta stuck in this type of no man’s land.

Damn, so you really got to find a Black woman

If you don't, your bloodline is finished

 

[jaydawg08]

One of my favorite old school athletes.. Ali and others molded some of their "don't give AF" attitude after him

He had his faults tho, one of them was not giving other black boxers a chance once he got the title. I understand it to a degree.

 

[TEH]

Director: Ryan Coogler
Starring: Jonathan Majors
Pawg 1: Ana de Armas
Pawg 2: Scarlet Johansson
Pawg 3: Anne Hathaway
Great White Hope: Michael Fassbender

Oscar Bait

 

[Koba St]

A movie about this man is way overdue

Hollywood is more interested in making black victim hood and suffering movies than movies like this.

 

[GreenGhxst]

Hollywood is more interested in making black victim hood and suffering movies than movies like this.

cacs might be up in arms because its real history and they cant deny it

 

[murksiderock]

But at the end of the day y’all are actually Black. You can wake up and decide to fully embrace all of it.

You can turn to your community and choose to foster relationships with other understanding Black individuals.

I cannot do any of that b/c I’m discernibly mixed-race and even racially ambiguous to some ppl. In any space...amongst any group…at any given time…my identity, attribution and allegiance are up for debate whether I’ve endeavoured to make them clear or not.

It’s funny too, cuz right now I’m kinda going thru what feels like the end stage of wiggerism where I’m confronted w/ the reality that I was never one of y’all to begin with, despite the occasional well-meaning affirmation.

The difference is, White boys who immersed themselves in Blackness can wake up one day and say to themselves, “this isn’t me, this isn’t mine,” and then proceed to find their Whiteness. I don’t have that option so I’m sorta stuck in this type of no man’s land.

You're from Canada too, correct?

Asking for clarity because this may be more of a cultural issue vis a vis nationality. Because in the US, vast majority of people with a black parent have always self-identified as black. There have definitely been those who expressed similar identity struggles as you have, but I would say 7 of 10 mixed race blacks stand within their blackness here, and always have. To the point that depending on where you are in the US, it's surprising when you meet one who doesn't identify with their blackness...

Like most black Americans, I have plenty of "mixed" negroes in my family. Including two siblings, my brother just became comfortable in his blackness within the last 5 years, while my sister seems to have completely shunned her blackness; no one has heard from here in 7 years or so. She married and had two kids (that we know of) with a white boy. Bit their case is also I think a product of how they look, more ambiguous looking such as yourself, as well as where they grew up, they grew up in San Diego mostly, mom is Mex-American, were reared mostly around their Hispanic family...

Aside from them, every other mixed nikka in my family is very comfortable in their blackness. I just think it's one of those things, since you do get to choose who you align with, shunning your blackness is a voluntary thing. The experiences you face from being "mixed", aside from having a white parent itself, are largely relatable to being black anyway, and I'll never understand why anyone black dislikes their blackness. But to each their own...