Fantastic long-read: How black NBA players have embraced SLC

[Rubashov]

Have you ever had polenta? Grits are kind of like polenta.

yeah man my family background is northern Italian, I've been eating polenta since I was a kid, one of my favourite things in the world.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

yeah man my family background is northern Italian, I've been eating polenta since I was a kid, one of my favourite things in the world.

Essentially the exact same thing. Coarseness and type of corn are the only differences.

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[jope]

50 miles from the border. Married into a Hispanic family. They would laugh at you for using the term "white Hispanic." You are "white," "Hispanic," "Mexican," "Chicano," or "IDGAF." Nobody will say "I'm white Hispanic!" even if they are white AND Hispanic.

my wife's father is from guadalajara, her mother is a white woman from los angeles. She identifies as white, mexican, latina, and hispanic. I'm not seeing your point.

 

[VINYLONE]

Great article by Spears.

I like how he got accounts from both the young and old to add a sense of change over the decades. SLC has come a long way and that's a good thing.

There are some definite business opportunities available in SLC proper...

 

[VINYLONE]

I'm graduating in May with my PhD in counseling psychology. She just graduated from law school. Interracial power couple!

Damn, son. Look at you! Congrats.

 

[UB]

Thanks man. Living the dream!

 

[UB]

I gotta say, I love that this article is the front page of ESPN NBA right now. It's like they're helping the Jazz plant the seed to recruit better free agents...

 

[JimLes]

i'm all for people not wanting to label themselves, but that is the dictionary definition of the word. whether you know people who use it or not doesn't challenge the validity of the claim.

The dictionary definition of a word does not trump the actual usage by people. It's like when I was a kid and my parents' English wasn't as great as it is now and my mum would be watching a sitcom and not know what horny means and look it up in a proper printed dictionary and all it would say was "having horns; syn. horned." And she'd say to me and my sister "Dat very strenj. Iz not make sens. Chandler not have horns." And us kids would laugh our asses off because no person under the age of 50 used horny the way the dictionary prescribed.

Since Hispanic is an actual category on the US Census, perhaps we ought to look up whether people with parents from Spain actually used that category in any statistically significant number. As opposed to just checking off "white."

 

[jope]

The dictionary definition of a word does not trump the actual usage by people. It's like when I was a kid and my parents' English wasn't as great as it is now and my mum would be watching a sitcom and not know what horny means and look it up in a proper printed dictionary and all it would say was "having horns; syn. horned." And she'd say to me and my sister "Dat very strenj. Iz not make sens. Chandler not have horns." And us kids would laugh our asses off because no person under the age of 50 used horny the way the dictionary prescribed.

Since Hispanic is an actual category on the US Census, perhaps we ought to look up whether people with parents from Spain actually used that category in any statistically significant number. As opposed to just checking off "white."

Here's the definition from census.gov

Spanish may be any race.3.*Definitionof*Hispanic*or. Latino Origin Used in the. 2010*Census. “Hispanic*or Latino” refers to a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.

Id be curious to see if you can find a study that quantifies when someone is like "my parents are from spain but f*** your terminology, i won't check Hispanic"

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