Bishop was intended to be African American. Depicted as such in other media too (to this very day). Claremont changed him into having Aboriginal descent. From what side of the family is the question. I remember also that he always thought that Monet St. Croix reminded him of his mother.
Yeah I know.
It's a typo via bad cut and paste.
Original sentence. "You do know that Brazil has the largest population of black people, right?"
Reply. Paste. Forgot to finish "in North America". Uh oh. Edit. Then your reply.
It happens.
There's more btw. Feel free to respond.
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To this day....to this very day....I'm still angry about that.
You have a perfect example of a positive black hero. I read Generation X since day one and Synch was one of my favorite heroes. But nope....he's killed off.
It was explained that Synch's death would be the catalyst of something, but it was already done before with Blink's death being the catalyst for Generation X. He should have never been killed....especially in that way.
And then they kill off Jesse Bedlam too and I liked him in X-Force.
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Speaking of Generation X.....there's another who gets similar treatment.
Monet St. Croix (and Claudette, Nicole, and Marius St. Croix)....Afro-Monegasque father (And before someone says anything, no Monet's father wasn't white. Two completely different X-Men characters with same last name and different backgrounds.) and mother from Algeria (And Algerians are many backgrounds and shades of people).
But some say none of the St. Croix kids count as having African descent. And you have Monet's skin lightened at times just like Sunspot.
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If you're Blink? "Resurrection!" (Gill, Street Fighter III)
If you're Synch? Get killed off despite the fact that your power to synch can go past city blocks.
If you're Skin? Get killed off with your name written wrong.
If you're Husk? Date a much older X-Men, go crazy, and see something in the guy that tried to kill you and other things in Generation X. Oh and forget the two dead teammates.
If you're Chamber? Go through changes and forget the two dead teammates.
If you're Jubilee? Forget the other two dead teammates despite having closeness/feelings for one.
If you're Monet? Get changed up to the point of being completely different and forget the other two.....oh and one being her major love and the guy who influenced her.
And dead two? Get one single errored panel in Necrosha.
(And if you're Mondo or Gaia, limbo. Then again, Mondo is a whole different case.)
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He was genetically negroid. Both his parents. He didn't understand that nationality =/= race. Don't start this issue with me, I was clear. Italian isn't a race. If someone were to ask my ethnicity, it's Brazilian-American, nationality American but my race is black. He was a black kid with black parents that migrated to Italy had him, then moved to the U.S. That's his story in a nutshell (and why none of them spoke any Italian).
You're one of those people that looks for holes. "Bleach will kill you" I say. Your retort "Well, we don't know that. It may kill, it may not." If it walks like a duck and quacks, it's not a bloody dog.
Also, typical negroid features from West(that's what I meant; pardon me as I had just come from overnight party and was tipsy as phuc) Africa isn't ignorant, it's a fact. Excuse me that my vernacular didn't sugarcoat the point. Black is black. It's unfortunate that whenever the question of one's race is brought up, if they are black people are quick to whitewash it, make up some bullsh!t excuse for it, or plain not accept it. That only happens with black characters or characters with black parents and it's disgusting. Taz, step tfo.
Black is a race. You have various cultures based off of that race, but black culture varies from region to region (much like how no white culture is uniform or no culture in the asian world is). There is no jusification in stigmatizing a race. That's like me refusing to accept being homo due to the overly sexual nature attributed to the community or me denying to be black because of the culture of black people in the hood.
American blacks =/= the only type of blacks. I'm a black latino (latino isn't a race, btw). Do I agree that all blacks shouldn't be slumped into African American? Absolutely. I'm not African-American, I'm not from Africa and at this point my family has been mixed with different races for centuries (and my father is an afro-latino from Brazil). Those people are in their region for the same reason I am in mine, regardless. Dismissing their heritage, outright discriminating against it, because of a stigma to a particular culture that also identifies with the race is ridiculous.
Those are the type of people who say "Iggy Azalea acts like a black girl." when no she absolutely does not: "She acts HOOD." People need to understand that isn't synonymous with being black. The behaviour from the hood community and whatnot is the excuse countless Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Africans, etc. with negroid descent dismiss the black classification and it's a benighted view of an issue. Also, people seem to forget the very real issues regarding race discrimination within those places I mentioned. The only black person who refuses to see themselves as a black person is that black person.
And, you would be absolutely correct...
Ororo's parents are brown skinned (Also Known As, "Black" in the United States) thus, making Ororo an African American by race and definition...
With an African mother and an African American father? Yea, that sounds about right to me
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