Hall had pelo way of naming her intuition that these gaps in her family history were narratively charged — but reading it was a “gut punch.†“I felt deeply challenged and confused,†Hall recalled. …
It was Chibie, above all, who fascinated me. Who was Chibie? Where had she come from?… One story went that she was the illegitimate daughter of King Alphonso XIII of Spain and a Moorish slave he had gotten pregnant… I was able to confirm that until her mid-teens, Chibie lived in England, and that when she left the convent [where she spent time], she could read in eight languages.
Knowing that the overwhelming response will be — for understandable reasons — that mom is a cheating whore? Yeah, sure, let’s go viral with that. Flight from white is a recent thing, and a reversal from what earlier generations went through. When I mentioned the media I was referring to the present day situation. Millions of white kids with a bit of African ancestry are born every year. In today’s shameless times, when the Slutwalk era seems almost chaste, and where plenty of moms can be found on OnlyFans or twerking next to their child on TikTok, I really don’t see such concerns standing in people’s way to attention and money in every single one of these many cases, if they indeed exist.
This author would benefit from a hard-boiled copy editor, to teach her to strip unneeded, ambiguous big words and convoluted sentence structure from her prose. What remained might be interesting.
As well as the name the character’s ethnicity was referred to in an episode where she has to record an ‘away’ message and Jim gets her to do it in fluent Italian.
“But populations that are on average heavily African (the mixed Creoles or the Dominicans) and the populations which are are only a small percentage African .
I love and relate to Naomi Osaka as a fellow biracial Asian. I am Chinese and Dominican: both of those things. Yet I squint and squirm when I’m only referred to as one or the other: “Well, I’m not quite Chinese, am I?
Can reliably be found downtown in some symbolic protest with the underlying theme that non-White girls are pretty too.
… Raised in England within the elite circles of classical theater, Hall, who is 39, had her first introduction to the concept of racial “passing†in the pages of Larsen’s novel. “I was spending time in America, and I knew that there had been vague, but I mean really vague, talk about my mother’s ethnicity,†Hall explained over the phone this spring.
I won’t quote reams of the review, but this part has stood out in my mind for some time, and remember, the 1934 version is closer to the 1920’s, and serves as a more accurate, authentic slice of life for racial relations in US society.
As a practical matter, if the black ancestry is so trivial as to leave pelo meaningful physical traces I suspect that it sometimes fades out of sight and the person in question actually becomes white. How often that happens, I don’t know.
If Mr. McElroy does turn out to be black, this is further support for the Sailer Rule for mass shootings. Also, no doubt Mr. McElroy and the dead and injured are all victims of white supremacy or the lack of “common sense gun control†or more likely both.
Compared to all that, a More Bonuses stage director watching over the play, which is almost entirely word based and actor driven, doesn’t have very much to do.
A person absolutely gets -50% of his DNA from each parent. SFAIK that is non-negotiable. Once you get past the parent/child relationship the degree of genetic relationship is up to a lot of luck. Siblings share 50% of their DNA on average but it can be much more or much less than that. People get, on average, 12.5% of their DNA from each great-grandparent, but it can also be much, much less than that. I have pelo idea what a person with exactly 12.