I don’t know a single Doper reg who is black. Is this like Star Wars before Billy Dee Williams came around in the sequel because Richard Pryor called George Lucas out?
If we are to truly be the “Teeming Millions,” we need representation from all walks of life. Despite this, we’re as white as Frank Black, and we need some Barry White, baby!
We here at the SDMB had a decided lack of Fundamentalist Christians. Thankfully, thanks in no small part to my grievous error (sorry, Nav!), we got some.
So we got the Christians… but now we need soul!
Someone (and does it really have to be me again?) needs to recruit some Nubian brothers and sisters to increase the diversity that this white as a crowd at a Pat Buchanan rally MB lacks.
Oh, and BTW - Do we in fact HAVE a black person on this board? A lurker? Anyone? Bueller? Oh wait… Ferris was white too. Damn…
How many of the 4300+ members do you have accurate personal statistics on? Are you just guessing our races from our screen names? Maybe there was some Identify Your Race thread that I missed…
I remember how on Sesame St. about a decade and a half ago (when I was small, and therefore could watch it without being called a weirdo), none of the muppets had human skin tones. They were all yellow and red and and blue and purple.
But I was just watching it the other day (because I AM in fact a weirdo), and I noticed that they have “black” muppets now. I wonder if this was the result of complaints? “I look at Sesame St. and I see red, green, yellow and blue muppets, but where are the BLACK muppets?! Where’s the diversity??”
This is MPSIMS, dammit…I’ll go wildly off-topic if I want.
IIRC, Roosevelt Franklin was a black muppet on Sesame Street back when I was a wee gene.
I used to rock and roll all night and party every day. Then it was every other day. Now I’m lucky if I can find a half an hour a week in which to get funky.
Nubians are the lop-eared dairy goats.
Oh. . . The ancient kingdom of Nubia was located on the upper Nile. Trade (and conquest) between Nubia and Egypt provided most of the contact that Europeans had with black Africans. (There were several joint Nubian/Egyptian kingdoms when they weren’t trying to dominate each other. This has led to some of the more fanciful claims by some black authors that Egypt was a “black” civilization. It appears that Nubia did, indeed, contribute to Egypt’s culture in their 3,000 year association, but not to the extent that some recent authors would like to believe.) Because Greece borrowed much of its culture and technology from Egypt, Nubians appear in several Greek myths.
As to the OP: SterlingNorth is and I’m fairly sure that MrScott is also black.
And I, just to be a jerk about it, am refusing to disclose my race. Looking back, I see that (darn it) I’ve already disclosed my sex, so no fun there. But I happen to have seen a few references by others here revealing their femaleness. So no crying foul that there’s no ladies present, 'cause there are.
A committee is a lifeform with six or more legs and no brain.
I have always wanted to do this and to Tom of tomndebb fame no less!!
Hey Tom!
Whooooooosh!!
Heeeheee, I feel like I just put chalk in the teacher’s eraser.
As far as the original post, its kind of weird, I mean, what are you basing that everyone is white? I have only seen a few pictures, so I guess you might be basing it on that, otherwise, its the internet, how can you tell?
Yea Rick. What about brown people? Why is it always white black, black white. Ok, I know why, but still. Besides, there are more Latin Americans in this country than blacks. Including me. I’m half Mexican, and half “white.”
