I just watched a news program, whereas a prominent researcher challenged the idea that Southern Europe was this monoracial society. She discovered that most of the great white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome that are exhibited in numerous museums throughout Europe were once painted with flesh tones, and are…

When you’re talking about my race I prefer just being called black. My family doesn’t know where we’re from and to be honest I don’t really care. I don’t care to find out.

This motherfucker out here darker than I am; who he tryin’ to fool? It’s one thing to claim all parts of your heritage, this ain’t that.

Excuse me, did the boot of Italy have some sort of wall up to stop all those Sicilian “other” groups from making it over to places like Naples? Did all the invasions of the peninsula from pre-Roman to the Risorgimento and beyond leave nothing behind but some spent arrows and broken armor? For generations, the major…

Sickle cell disease is present in Sicily, and the genetic research indicates that the African immigration happened a very long time ago.

Yeah I’m strongly against using the term “African-American” to describe a black person.

someone doesn’t like the idea that perhaps he might be a little black

Stop eroding my ancestry and heritage to include your fantasy

Apparently, implying the possibility of African ancestry is damaging. Huh.

Here’s a pic of the Tirico family back in the day.

You DO know where Carthage was located, right?? LOL!@!

“The only contact I had growing up was with my mom’s side of the family. And they are all as white as the refrigerator I’m standing in front of right now,”

Carthaginians are African. And Italy has the same higher percentage of sub-Saharan DNA as the rest of the Mediterranean. I’m sorry it ruins your fantasy of ancient European purity, but Italy has always been a significant place for trade and migration. Black Africans have been to Italy and fucked around leaving their…

I clicked on this article expecting a Dominican but left with an Italian.

fun fact: most of the jersey shore kids were neither Italian nor from jersey

If you think a comment on the internet is “eroding” your ancestry, you must have a real frail grip on it.

Tirico is aware that being Italian doesn’t preclude one from being black, right?

Yeah, if he really thinks that his parents and grandparents were all white, then I’m thinking mama Tirico may have been lying about what she was doing all those nights she was supposedly going out to her ‘Bridge Club’.

#GTFOH with that mess...

Either there was a Moor in lineage or somebody was cheating on the other.