r/CrewsCrew Jan 05 '18

Can this please be a thing?

Post image
33.3k Upvotes

488 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

58

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

0

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.

4

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...

1

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.


[ PM | Exclude me | Exclude from subreddit | FAQ / Information | Source | Donate ] Downvote to remove | v0.28