Denmark Vesey: According To Mike Fisher - Only 1 Person In This Photo Is "black". No Wonder He Thinks There Is A Global System of "White Supremacy"

Sunday, April 20, 2008

According To Mike Fisher - Only 1 Person In This Photo Is "black". No Wonder He Thinks There Is A Global System of "White Supremacy"

By the way, DV. If this is your Pops, I don't think he really looks African-American. Not West African either. Certainly not Southern African. East African... Tanzania? Kenya?

Ahhh. Ok. I'm a little slow. Looks like the same brother as the young guy with the white lady on the side bar. So your Mamma is white and your Pops is African?
Since you are just as much "white" as you are "black", why is it that you say that you are a black person? Why don't you say that you are a white person?

Denmark Vesey said ...

Wrong, yet again Mike.

Pops - Baltimore via Virginia. Moms - New York via Georgia.

They say if the only tool in your box is a hammer ... every problem looks like a nail.

Mike your only tool is the race card ... and every problem looks like a brown bag test. The dignity, the love, the grace, the combination of coco butta complexion and aquiline features, which seems to simultaneously puzzle and bother you cannot be explained away with mere ethnocentric psychobabble.

Nah Mike. The phenomenon that is DV transcends your simple minded notions of race. I am a product of a 1,000 years of selective breeding. The child of generations of free black men and women skilled in the art of self-definition. Unhindered by lingering notions of inferiority and self-hatred which seems to plague you petit bourgeois inmates of the plantation persuasion.

Biracial? Nah. But even if I was, I'd still be the blackest man on the planet.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...: Mike, as a Black man with light skin I am surprised at your evaluation.

You though DV's mom was white, that means you didnt pay much attention to her hips. Look again.; Apr 20, 2008, 11:33:00 AM
Anonymous said...: you thought....; Apr 20, 2008, 11:34:00 AM
Michael Fisher said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; Apr 20, 2008, 1:13:00 PM
Michael Fisher said...: "Mike, as a Black man with light skin I am surprised at your evaluation."

Which evaluation is?

Why would DV's mother be considered "black" rather than "white"? Don't there exist women classified as "white" with hips like that?

If hips are the criterion that mark biologic "race" distinctions, would it not be more logical to distinguish between a race of folks-like-DV's-momma's-hips and a race of folks-not-like-DV's-momma's-hips?

What is "black" Robyn?; Apr 20, 2008, 1:14:00 PM
Michael Fisher said...: DV...

"I am a product of a 1,000 years of selective breeding."

So your father then purposely chose a light-skinned woman rather than a dark-skinned woman to "breed" with?

Interesting.; Apr 20, 2008, 2:13:00 PM
Anonymous said...: Mike, I was just saying to look past the color of her skin. Certainly you agree that Black comes in a multitude of shades. When I saw that photo about a year ago, I knew that was a Black woman. It never even crossed my mind that she may have been white. I guess I see things differently, more clearly perhaps. I subscribe to the notion that I know Black when I see it.; Apr 20, 2008, 11:13:00 PM
Michael Fisher said...: Robyn...

"I subscribe to the notion that I know Black when I see it."

I've seen black people that are lighter than her, Robyn. The question I'm trying to get at is what are the criteria for "black"? And, once so defined, why those criteria.; Apr 21, 2008, 2:30:00 AM
Anonymous said...: Mike
The question I'm trying to get at is what are the criteria for "black"? And, once so defined, why those criteria.

I think that is precisely the question that was being figuratively being posed to you Mike. On what basis did you determine that the woman in the photo was white?

So answer that question for me.

RJEsq; Apr 21, 2008, 11:47:00 AM
Michael Fisher said...: Well, actually I wasn't sure whether she was white. If so I thought she might be southern Italian or Arab. But I decided it would be nice way to fuck with DV and raise a crucial issue at the same time.

Namely. What is "black"?

Note I asked him why he is "black" rather than "white". The questions still stands. As in this: Why is DV's momma considered black and not white?; Apr 21, 2008, 12:11:00 PM