Comments on: Future Baby Daddy: Lewis Hamilton!

By: ladyc

ladyc — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:45:49 +0000

PJW shut up, please for real, people of mixed parentage in the UK where one of their parents are black, are referred to as black and mixed comes in as almost like a subdivider.

Pick your battles because this really wasn’t the place for you to be getting your shit wrong…. If this issue is so important to you don’t come on here picking on these americans because you feel they won’t know any better and that fellow brits like myself won’t pull you up on it…

I come from a very varied and mixed family, however they all refer to themselves as black. as is the norm over here.

In America if Barack Obama becomes president he will be referred to as the first black president, why will race be mentioned??? because not only will it be a record, race matters.

You are talking out of your arse…

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:09:10 +0000

I don’t care what you call him he is delicious!!! More, more, more please!!!

By: PJW

PJW — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:07:50 +0000

Actually ’sorrytodissapointyou’, i’m IN the U.K aswell and no, mixed people are referred to as mixed, not black.
Recently (as in the last couple of years) it’s become the fashion to refer to mixed people on a whole as black – an import from the U.S – but in the long run and to this very day, it’s mixed.
I’ve found it common that the black community are more accepting of mixed people than the white community…not in a racist kind of way – mixed people are often exulted as beautiful by both races- but in a embracing sort of way. I have admittedly had a few people tell me no, i’m black not mixed…but it’s ALWAYS been either from black people themselves or from white people who are in long term relationships with black people.

You know some Filipinos refer to themselves as black? Does it mean they are? Of course not. What it demonstrates is that it’s become apparent in the world that if your skin is darker, you’re considered black. I think the most important thing people need to remember is black is NOT a race. It’s a colour. Sadly, it’s not looked at like that.

Ultimatley, his race shouldn’t be mentioned at all. It makes absolutley no difference to his driving, his talent, anything. But if the issue is gonna be raised it should at least be correct. Being half something and half another doesn’t make you more of either. Somebody half Bengali and half French isn’t immediatley either, in the same way that someone who’s mixed, but of the same ethnic make up (white & white for example) is more, say, german than they are Irish. It’s ridiculous.

In the same way that people don’t believe interracial relationships are acceptable for example, there are people who don’t believe that mixed people should be labelled mixed but black.
I strongly disagree with even mentioning someone’s colour – but if you’re going to, don’t label them something they’re not. Accept them for what they actually are.

By: Diabolical

Diabolical — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:54:41 +0000

LadyC is correct … Yall takin ish too seriously geeze, it’s one for the record books … just like BARACK OBAMA … Calm down people dang.

Aside from that … Good for him, you never see that in the U.S.

By: BabyBrown

BabyBrown — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:26:33 +0000

i said OOOOOHHHHH OOOOOHHHHH BABY!!! DAMN HIS SEXY AS SEX LOL!!!

By: ladyc

ladyc — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:36:11 +0000

Can you all just get off BScott’s dick, in the UK he is referred to as black, although his being mixed race is acknowledged. I have yet to hear him correct an interviewer referring to him as black.

The reason why his race is mentioned is because it is a record and it is a first. It is an extremely difficult sport to get into if you are from the wrong class let alone race, and much the same as Tiger Woods did for Golf, Lewis Hamilton has broken barriers in Motor racing.

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:52:44 +0000

This man Is absolutely without question BEAUTIFUL…WOW.

By: sorrytodissappointyou

sorrytodissappointyou — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:31:30 +0000

uhh…no…PJW about the U.k thing we actually call mix raced people in the public eye black , Hamilton and Leona Lewis are considered black. Even Leona’s white mum has been quoted saying Leona is black, so the U.K isn’t as great as you thought after all.

By: Janet Lover

Janet Lover — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:34:23 +0000

“Hamilton has set numerous F1 rookie records and is the first black mixed race driver to compete in Formula One.”

B – Why mention race at all. Did not think it was appropriate…

By: PJW

PJW — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:10:53 +0000

Black Mixed Race??? Oxymoron.

I don’t mean to start a debate here but I believe in this with such passion that i’ll risk it.

If you mean of ‘first mixed driver of Black descent’, please say that Hun (even if Wiki, being it’s uninformed self, states that)
I, as a mixed race man, feel that we Mixed people have to fight against enough prejudice in this world with others – of any ethnicity – being quick to label them into Black/White/Whatever catergories.
Whether or not this applies to peoples personal beliefs is down to them but I know that i’m not a ‘black mixed race’ person anymore than i’m a ‘white mixed race’ person – i’m a mixed race person period. And proud of it.

Alot of kids live with confusion, prejudice and hurt in their lives over their mixed backgrounds and either them or others being ill informed about it.
It’s taken Mixed people in the public eye (like the wonderful Mariah Carey) to stand up and say it’s alright to be who you are, to be made up of different things. It’s alright not to label yourself and to be proud of being mixed, no matter what others tell you.
Unfortunatley, the United States still has some kind of issue of acceptance of mixed people for who and what they are, whereas other countries (the U.K for example) look on it with a positive light.

I know you’re proud of being who you are and everything that makes you your fabulash self B.scott, so please don’t join the ranks of labelers and pigeonhole Lewis.