The Study of Racialism

Marcus_Aurelius · Posted: Wed 30 Aug 2006 17:39 Post subject: Rapper Ice-T

He's clearly a Mulatto, but I'm sure if you asked him or almost any other black person they would tell you he's Black. As a matter of fact, to me he looks a little paler than the average Mulatto. It's only in America that he would be considered black.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/MMPH-E/253802.jpg

http://www.tvod.com/2000-08/mrice-t.JPG

http://www.ctv.ca/archives/CTVShows/images/20031125/lawsvu-bio-IceT/SVU_IceT_235.jpg

http://www.riveting.com/images/icet.jpg

http://www.everyschool.org/u/scu/keffe/ice-t2.jpg

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/tv.yahoo.com/images/he/photo/tv_pix/nbc/law_and_order__special_victims_unit_cast_photos/_group_photos/ice_t7.jpg

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Marcus_Aurelius · Posted: Sun 03 Sep 2006 03:36 Post subject:

I am well aware that Ice-T is most definetly black identified and such is his right, I wasn't implying that it is wrong for him to identify as such. I was only pointing out that he is clearly mixed race and that nearly everywhere else in the world he would not be considered black. I'm sure you will see many people who look similar to him in countries like Cuba, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cape Verde, and a few other South American countries. And all these places he would more than likely never be considered black.

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If I'm not mistaken, the girl on these covers is his ex-wife

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That's his fist wife, the lovely Darlene. I believe she's Mexican American. She was with him back in the day when he had nothing.

His current wife is named Coco and she's white and blonde. Not as attractive as the first in my opinion.

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Trust me....Not too long from now you'll see her in some porno movie directed by Ice-T.

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^^^^LOL at his Bryant Gumbell comments. Ice T once did an interview to do with the rise of political hip-hop in the 1980s and he said, "everyone criticises Ice T and says 'look Ice T has a white woman'".

I thought he was speaking out on the fact that it was hypocritical for people to criticise him as he is part white himself but it seems I was wrong. I never knew he viewed himself as black.

Even my boyfriend (who is white) is quite often bemused about some of the stars who label themselves as black in America (he even felt this way about Beyonce), Though he understands it totally. As do I, I think it has become a case that black has been denied so long that even many biracial or mixed stars have come to the point when they want to stop this injustice and this has resulted in them embracing their blackness (though often comprising their non-black heritage). They are sometimes often viewed as black in society.

Though some mixed people can be pushed into viewing themselves as black I do find it admirable that though they can be viewed as mixed they often choose not to because they want to breakdown barriers or stereotype of what is being black. I guess this is often my stance too.

I doubt Ice T is doing it for these reasons though and I hate is stereotypical view on what being a black man is all about.

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