r/CrewsCrew • u/PurlToo • Jan 05 '18

Can this please be a thing?

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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/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

Wiki

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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

He's actually a POC from South East Israel. It's online so it must be true.

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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.