It’s actually pretty easy to see how Trump got elected in hindsight.
He used Democrat campaign tactics in the Republican primaries. This made him so unique he stood out and got all the attention, and won.

Then the Democrats threw an utter shit candidate against him. A bad candidate would have won. But not one as bad as…

Suggesting reasoned discourse on the internet?
Are you new here?
Joking aside, oh how I wish yours was the prevalent attitude online.

I’d pay to watch.
I’d love to see a hate filled internet troll try to carry out all of his keyboard fueled bravado against an absolute giant like that.

This is an interesting sentiment.
Several people told me I should start reading The Root. It will help me connect better with my black heritage.
Guess what the VERY FIRST article I see on The Root is.
Wonderful first impression....

Speaking as someone with that exact mix, based on my experiences, and those of other mixed people I’ve met, read, or listened to...
I’m sorry to say, no. They are not.

We need our own club!

That hate of mixed is nothing new to me. I’ve never been white enough for white people, but I’m too white for black. So I don’t exactly belong to either, but somehow sorta belong to both. It’s an interesting place to be. I’m outside just enough to look at each group with an outsider’s perspective, but inside juuuuuust…

“THIS. Right here. Selling out our heritage to whites.” — Selling it to what whites? Johnson is producing it. He’s not white at all. He’s half black, half Samoan. If he wasn’t producing it, he wouldn’t have been in a position to cast himself in the role of one of his childhood heroes. I’m afraid I don’t see any logic…

Of course there was going to be a sequel. Black Panther 1 made ALL OF THE MONEY!!!
It conveniently also proved that our society has come a long way from darker days of yore. White people are completely willing to fork over fistfuls of cash to see an all black (save the two Tolkien white guys) black cast if the film has…

Sadly, she is placing the blame on the one who is producing it and who cast it. Johnson himself is producing this.

This is the experience of being mixed. To any who care about race, of either group you are made of, no matter what you do, you do not belong, you are not “us” you are “them.”

Always. You. Are. “Them.”

“I’ll just sit back and watch some uppity Becky chime in to explain blackness to me as if I don’t know what it is like to be TRUE black (while she herself is whiter than snow), which is somehow linked to growing up in a shitty situation in the City.” — Holy crap! I didn’t know we went to the same college! Man, was she…

These comments made me smile. A nice change after all the hate I’ve seen here.

I’ve been reading the comments here, for 2 days now, and have not seen anyone bring this up. (if you have already, I apologize for missing it)

“No, you absolutely can’t be ‘either.’”
Tell that to my parents. They always told me when I was growing up, that when applying for jobs, on every application I am as white as the driven snow; but when applying for college, and grants, I am as black as coal.
:)

“I also don’t identify solely as white or native American but that flies over people’s head.” — I am perpetually amused and disturbed by those people to whom race matters, but then can’t accept that one can accept being more than one. ‘Though frankly, I prefer to be around those for whom race is approximately as…

Johnson is producing this. He’s not even white at all. He’s half black, half Samoan.
But if putting up his own money to tell the story of one of his childhood heroes is somehow selling out to whites...

You are a horrible person Jystad... for saying the things I was thinking so much more eloquently than I ever could. :)
Please do it again!

Queen Unicorn, I too am half black, half white. Ask the Klan, or the Alt-Right if people like me are anything but black... Wait, nevermind. They will agree with you. We aren’t black…