"Let it go" singer (Idina Menzel) ex doesn't want you to call his son BLACK..

[J-Cole]

                      

 

 

Taye Diggs is getting destroyed for saying he doesn't want his son to be labeled black -- but he'd like to remind all the Internet trolls ... he can raise HIS son however HE sees fit.

Diggs has been trending all day ... after he did an interview telling The Grio he doesn't want his son to disrespect his mother, Idina Menzel's heritage by identifying himself as just black. 

 

Diggs told The Grio why he feels biracial kids should not simply identify as one race or the other. He said when you call biracial kids black, “You risk disrespecting that one half of who you are, and that’s my fear.†Diggs added, “I don’t want my son to be in a situation where he calls himself black and everyone thinks he has a black mom and a black dad, and then they see a white mother, they wonder, ‘Oh, what’s going on?'â€

 

Twitter came at Taye, hard -- saying he has "self hate issues" and "Somebody tell Taye Diggs Black man + white lady = black baby, that's just how it is, bro."

Well, check out Taye's reply to all the criticism ... he not only stands his ground, he addresses this -- what if his son wants to identify as white??!! 

 

http://www.tmz.com/2015/11/18/taye-diggs-black-white-son-mixed-me/

BTW, this all started over Taye's new children's book, "Mixed Me." 

                               

[ShineeVIP]

Let him do what he wants

[Cloud Of Perception]

So he has a mixed child and doesn't want his child to identify as one race because he wants him to respect and appreciate both sides of himself...how is this a problem again 

[sungjonggg]

Well, I understand where he's coming from. Race isn't solely based on looks; his son is just as much white as he is black. Identifying only as black because his skin is brown even though he's mixed race is ignorance imo...? If he wants his kid to be identified as biracial because he IS IN FACT biracial, there's nothing wrong with that. It's not like he's denying that his kid is black, just that he's not 100%.

[Susu]

hmmm so he wants his son to identify as white ?

 

what about his black side, does he want his son to disrespect his black side only?

[LiquidNoir]

He's right though, this reminds me of people on here negging and bashing everyone who called that Alex girl mixed and not black in that thread.

[SAYAKA]

Ah Taye Diggs...

 

I don't see whats wrong. Because of the way his son looks people are always going to think he's just black but he has the right to identify how he so wishes when he gets older. At the end of the day the boy is biracial and will be considered as such on forms that require "race"

[yeokdae]

the title makes it sound awful, but read the article and it makes perfect sense.

[ErikaEGO]

 "Somebody tell Taye Diggs Black man + white lady = black baby, that's just how it is, bro."

 

 

Lmao stfu

[MiaSanMia]

"Let it go" singer (Idina Menzel) ex 

 

why not just say taye diggs lol, how irrelevant has he become 

[MidnightEXO]

Twitter came at Taye, hard -- saying he has "self hate issues" and "Somebody tell Taye Diggs Black man + white lady = black baby, that's just how it is, bro."

 

 

I'm sure this math is wrong. How is that even... ok.

 

So every mixed kid that's mixed with said black is suppose to just forget their other half. My friend is mixed and has corrected me several times that she identifies as both and its disrespectful to call her just black. She said mixed kids already have it hard enough and making them fit to one side is more harm then good. This is why I am afraid to even have children with someone non-black because of that shit, I can hear my family saying this shit now. 

[Kaity]

"that one half of who you are, and that’s my fear.†Diggs added, “I don’t want my son to be in a situation where he calls himself black and everyone thinks he has a black mom and a black dad, and then they see a white mother, they wonder, ‘Oh, what’s going on?'â€

 

i get what he's trying to say, but does he really think in this day and age that people are oblivious to biracial children? It's not the 1950s Like if the child knows he's biracial. His concern sounds like he doesn't want his child to be labeled black by first glance or something? Well unless his ex doesn't plan on being in the picture and the kid doesn't own a mirror then...because why would a child who knows his own race only call himself black? It doesn't quite make 100% sense even though I keep reading it?

[DocumentaLy]

As a mixed person who is part black, I don't think a lot of people get how we are classified. Sure we are mixed, but when people see us, they mostly see black. I don't look at the boy in the OP and see mixed. I just see light skinned black. Maybe if his hair wasn't so coarse, I would get mixed more. People are trying to make mixed a thing in the US, but it's not really working unless you visibly don't look black enough for people to be sure.

[wiaraewiwiarae]

the title makes it sound awful, but read the article and it makes perfect sense.

 

This.

 

On a side note, as someone who comes from a culture where people on average don't really care about things like that, I find US's preoccupation with things like "heritage" quite fascinating. I wonder what social factors have influenced that.

[ohsolively]

Not at you calling and labeling Taye Diggs as "Let It Go singer's Ex" 

 

Overall I agree with what he said but ofcourse twitter already went for his ass without comprehending what he actually said. 

[DocumentaLy]

This.

 

On a side note, as someone who comes from a culture where people on average don't really care about things like that, I find US's preoccupation with things like "heritage" quite fascinating. I wonder what social factors have influenced that.

 

Umm, everything. This entire country is built on race.

[yeokdae]

hmmm so he wants his son to identify as white ?

 

what about his black side, does he want his son to disrespect his black side only?

i assume since he doesn't want his son to identify as black and disregard his white mother and her family, he doesn't want him to identify as white and disregard his black father and his family

 

from the title of the book he wrote, it think it's clear he wants his son to identify as mixed or biracial.

 

 

This.

 

On a side note, as someone who comes from a culture where people on average don't really care about things like that, I find US's preoccupation with things like "heritage" quite fascinating. I wonder what social factors have influenced that.

where are you from?

[wiaraewiwiarae]

Umm, everything. This entire country is built on race.

 

You mean that heritage is used to confront the racial issue?

 

 

where are you from?

 

Russia. Does it matter in the context? ))

[Celiaa]

He's right though, this reminds me of people on here negging and bashing everyone who called that Alex girl mixed and not black in that thread.

It depends how Alex identifies herself... I'm lighter-skinned than her but still consider myself black even though my genealogical background is diverse enough to say that I'm mixed. 

 

I say you do you, the title of that thread is REALLY misleading though.  

[TheKaiTales]

Well this makes sense to me but it also has never been an issue for me, because being mixed-race in the uk is about as unique as a fish & chip shop but as I understand it the usa has a very different approach to it all.

[DocumentaLy]

You mean that heritage is used to confront the racial issue?

 

 

 

Russia. Does it matter in the context? ))

 

It's not so much heritage, but race. Americans judge things very much based on race. Like there are general ideas about race and a lot of people will apply them to you when they first meet you on some level. Like you're not thought of as a blank slate. If you look mixed enough, you can kinda bypass these. Like a lot of people have mistaken me for South Asian or Arab, so I was in effect bypassing their ideas of what black people are like (I'm mixed though). 

[abra]

This.

 

On a side note, as someone who comes from a culture where people on average don't really care about things like that, I find US's preoccupation with things like "heritage" quite fascinating. I wonder what social factors have influenced that.

Probably because America is a 'new' country, and almost all of the population consists of immigrants just a few generations back. To have any sort of context in the country they kept identifying with their countries of origin. For descendants of black slaves that was more difficult.

[wiaraewiwiarae]

It's not so much heritage, but race. Americans judge things very much based on race. Like there are general ideas about race and a lot of people will apply them to you when they first meet you on some level. Like you're not thought of as a blank slate. If you look mixed enough, you can kinda bypass these. Like a lot of people have mistaken me for South Asian or Arab, so I was in effect bypassing their ideas of what black people are like (I'm mixed though). 

 

I see. Thank you.

 

 

Probably because America is a 'new' country, and almost all of the population consists of immigrants just a few generations back. To have any sort of context in the country they kept identifying with their countries of origin. For descendants of black slaves that was more difficult.

 

That makes sense as well. I wonder if it's the same for Canada then.

[MidnightEXO]

The mess on twitter. I wish there wasn't this Idea you have to identify as one :/ its so confusing for the kid. They will always feel they aren't enough for one side 

[yeokdae]

Russia. Does it matter in the context? ))

Yes and no.

I was just curious about the place you were describing, but I've heard and seen news about racism in Russia and even though I know Russia is ethnically diverse, I kinda got the impression that most of European Russia is not, and most other ethnicities are primarily in certain regions.