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Hold Up, NBC Sportscaster Mike Tirico Says He’s Not Black: “I’m Not Black, I’m An Italian-American From Queens!”
Mike Tirico has built his news reporting career for just under 30 years. He spent a good portion of that time on ESPN and then moved on to NBC Sports. What’s everyone talking about this reporter for? Well, take a god look at him and read this: He does not consider himself black.
Tirico recently sat for an interview with the New York Times titled “Mike Tirico Would Like to Talk About Anything but Mike Tirico.” For someone who works in the public eye, this doesn’t seem unreasonable, does it? Apparently, he’s especially conversational to some people when it comes to race.
When you see something in the news with the word “race” anywhere in the title, your mind may leap immediately to some variation of a person under the Caucasian persuasion saying something derogatory about skin pigments differing from his or her own. This is not the case here – if anything, it’s the opposite. Not only does Tirico not want to talk about it, he will tell you, if you insist, he identifies with being Italian.
He told the NY Times, “Why do I have to check any box? If we live in a world where we’re not supposed to judge, why should anyone care about identifying?” Do you think he has a point?
He went on to say, “The race question in America is one that probably never produces a satisfactory answer for those who are asking the questions.” Do you think this is true? Should we accept we’re all variations of tan and stop talking about it? Are we still talking about it because people won’t accept that – or, will they not accept it because we continue to point it out?
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http://realcoolnation.com/hold-nbc-s...ican-queens/3/
Mike Tirico has built his news reporting career for just under 30 years. He spent a good portion of that time on ESPN and then moved on to NBC Sports. What’s everyone talking about this reporter for? Well, take a god look at him and read this: He does not consider himself black.
Tirico recently sat for an interview with the New York Times titled “Mike Tirico Would Like to Talk About Anything but Mike Tirico.” For someone who works in the public eye, this doesn’t seem unreasonable, does it? Apparently, he’s especially conversational to some people when it comes to race.
When you see something in the news with the word “race” anywhere in the title, your mind may leap immediately to some variation of a person under the Caucasian persuasion saying something derogatory about skin pigments differing from his or her own. This is not the case here – if anything, it’s the opposite. Not only does Tirico not want to talk about it, he will tell you, if you insist, he identifies with being Italian.
He told the NY Times, “Why do I have to check any box? If we live in a world where we’re not supposed to judge, why should anyone care about identifying?” Do you think he has a point?
He went on to say, “The race question in America is one that probably never produces a satisfactory answer for those who are asking the questions.” Do you think this is true? Should we accept we’re all variations of tan and stop talking about it? Are we still talking about it because people won’t accept that – or, will they not accept it because we continue to point it out?
read the rest here
http://realcoolnation.com/hold-nbc-s...ican-queens/3/
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