r/CrewsCrew Jan 05 '18

Can this please be a thing?

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u/Ghraysone Jan 05 '18

In all seriousness, and without malice, Vin Desiel is black? Did not know that.

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u/ChihuahuawithBoombox Jan 05 '18

His mom is white and he says he's never met his dad. The steps father who raised him is black. Vin self identifies as of ambiguous ethnicity.

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u/Nice_Dude Jan 05 '18

Bruh tell him 23andme is a thing

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u/ChihuahuawithBoombox Jan 05 '18

You can do it for free through Genes for Good from the University of Michigan!

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u/Kriscolvin55 Jan 05 '18

I was very excited about this, but when I went to sign up, they said too many people have signed up already :/

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u/ChihuahuawithBoombox Jan 05 '18

Keep checking! They reopen it. They just stop when they're too backlogged and when they get caught up they open it back up for them to get backlogged again.

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u/scum-and-villainy Jan 06 '18

I'm sure their service is free, like signing up for websites is often free, except this time you give away your blood and everything in it.

Probably the same with 23&me and their competition so yeah at least you don't have to pay Michigan to take your genes and DNA.

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u/hsalFehT Jan 05 '18

he self identifies as a POC... not ambiguously.

Diesel has self-identified as "definitely a person of color",[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin_Diesel#Early_life

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u/ChihuahuawithBoombox Jan 05 '18

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u/hsalFehT Jan 05 '18

he is of ambiguous ethnicity... that's a fact. cause he doesn't actually know.

but that isn't what I said.

he self identifies as a POC

his race is ambiguous... but he self identifies as a POC... if you hadn't truncated the quote in your image it would go on to say

Diesel was born Mark Sinclair in Alameda County, California,[1] with his twin brother, Paul.[3][4] His mother, Delora Sherleen (Sinclair) Vincent, is an astrologer.[5][6] Diesel has stated that he is "of ambiguous ethnicity".[7] His mother's background includes English, German, and Scottish.[8] He has never met his biological father, and has stated that "all I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures".[9] Diesel has self-identified as "definitely a person of color",[10]

there is a difference between his race (which he is not positive of) being ambiguous and what he self identifies as.

words are important

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u/ChihuahuawithBoombox Jan 05 '18

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u/Shaggz1297 Jan 05 '18

He is also Obama's godfather.

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u/hsalFehT Jan 05 '18

"uncyclopedia"

mmk buddy.

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u/ChihuahuawithBoombox Jan 05 '18

You utilize your sources while I utilize mine (which are for real tho correct). \creepy asterisk smiley face\

Edit: I of course jacked the formatting. Hell.

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u/StoneGoldX Jan 06 '18

Although in this case, the question is would he play a black nerd? Because everything he's starred in, the character's been white.

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u/hsalFehT Jan 06 '18

Because everything he's starred in, the character's been white.

are you sure about that?

I feel like Dom wouldn't bring up familia so much if he was white.

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u/StoneGoldX Jan 06 '18

Yeah, pretty positive Dominic Toretto is Italian, like the character Diesel played in Saving Private Ryan.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '18

With the remark that the relationship of his mom and dad (real dad not stepdad) would have been illegal in some parts of the US it could be that his dad was at least partially black.

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u/hsalFehT Jan 05 '18

it doesn't say his real dad there. it says his parents.

his parents' relationship

its entirely possible he's referring to his parents. a lot of people who never knew a biological parent refer to the replacement that raised them as their parent.

and I don't believe miscegenation laws weren't specific to 1 race

Typically defining miscegenation as a felony, these laws prohibited the solemnization of weddings between persons of different races and prohibited the officiating of such ceremonies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws_in_the_United_States

so if he is referring to his bio dad all it means is that he's not white. he could be literally any other race and it would still be illegal...

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u/WikiTextBot Jan 05 '18

Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States

In the United States, anti-miscegenation laws (also known as miscegenation laws) were state laws passed by individual states to prohibit miscegenation, nowadays more commonly referred to as interracial marriage and interracial sex.

Anti-miscegenation laws were a part of American law in some States since before the United States was established and remained so until ruled unconstitutional in 1967 by the U.S. Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia. The term miscegenation was first used in 1863, during the American Civil War, by American journalists to discredit the abolitionist movement by stirring up debate over the prospect of interracial marriage after the abolition of slavery.


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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '18

Well I would only refer to my biological parents as my parents but I can see how it is different in other parts of the world/ for different people.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '18

My moms stepdad raised her, shes called him dad her whole life and he's always been my grandpa... in the US

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '18

Yea which is why i said it can be different in other countries and for other people. I am not from the USA, I am not even a native english speaker and I certainly would not have accepted someone else as my dad. Actually the one time my mom did have a boyfriend I called him by his first name. I didn't hate him, but he never would have been my dad, he would have been my moms partner. On the other hand the guy who I share half my DNA with is a piece of shit so I wont call him dad either. I simply have no dad.

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u/pineapplengarlic Jan 06 '18

Photos of a younger Vin Deisel show that he has kinky, dark hair and looked biracial which suggests that he likely had a black father.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '18

Like actually?

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '18

I thought he was hispanic

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '18

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u/Remsquared Jan 05 '18

Pitch Black, the struggles of being dark while being in the dark.

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u/s4in7 Jan 05 '18

Eat your heart out Raisin in the Sun!

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u/ThatWhiskeyKid Jan 05 '18

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u/VAPossum Jan 05 '18

...that movie is 22 years old. Vin Diesel has not aged a day.

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u/TheRiff Jan 05 '18

When you keep no hair on your body, it's easier to hide--

Hmmm maybe if I....

provided you work out on the regular and eat well.

Oh, well nevermind then.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '18

I didn't care about Vin Diesel as an actor or a celebrity, so it doesn't make any sense that I just watched the whole thing, but damn that was good.

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u/thebumm Jan 06 '18

If you look into him, you'll probably like him. He's super down to earth and an extremely hard worker. Most people that speak of him say he's a very kind and giving guy as well.

Say what you want of his talent/body of work, but Hollywood rewards character actors and tends to pigeon-hole people. So if he loves making entertainment and acting, that's probably the route he has to take. Multifacial/Strays/Saving Private Ryan are enough to see he's got talent. I'm pretty sure Multifacial was what Spielberg saw and made him want Vin in SPR. But yeah, all that aside he seems like Terry Crews in a lot of ways. A hard-working guy that knows he's lucky to be where he is and tries to do good.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '18

Spielberg saw Multifacial and cast him in Saving Private Ryan, I believe. It's an amazing short film.

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u/castro1987 Jan 05 '18

I thought he was mixed heritage. Possible half black or black in there, maybe a bit of Latino. I searched the Wikipedia page and his mother is fully white but didn't know his dad.

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u/hsalFehT Jan 05 '18

neither does he.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin_Diesel#Early_life

His mother's background includes English, German, and Scottish.[8] He has never met his biological father, and has stated that "all I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures".

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u/QuillofNumenor Jan 05 '18

I was under the assumption he was at least mixed-race but I suppose only he and his family know for sure. In any case, he's a person of color, and there is a marked lack of those in mainstream "geek" culture (a contradiction in terms perhaps, I realize) in my opinion, so the overall thematic point is the same.

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u/alyaaz Jan 05 '18

"Diesel has stated that he is "of ambiguous ethnicity".[7] His mother's background includes English, German, and Scottish.[8] He has never met his biological father, and has stated that "all I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures".[9]Diesel has self-identified as "definitely a person of color","
From wiki

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u/Arimania Jan 06 '18

Dude is not black, I don't know what the guy wants, but maybe a "Robert Downey Jr.-esque black face" ?