Youneverknow: "half-black"

[Laurence Horn]

On Dec 7, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:

> Isn't that pretty common to say? I guess a lot of people call President Obama black, but (when I mention it at all) I try to say he's half-black or half-black, half-white.
>

*That's* common enough, but being able to answer a question about ever having had sex with a black guy in the affirmative by coming up with an occasion in which one had had simultaneous sex with two half-black guys, that takes some advance planning.

LH

> Benjamin Barrett
> Seattle, WA
>
> On Dec 6, 2011, at 10:34 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>> Tosh of the Comedy Central trash-TV show, "Tosh.0." interviews a white couple.
>>
>> Tosh: Would you ever have sex with a black girl?
>> He: Hm. Maybe, if she was light-skinned.
>> Tosh: How about you? Have you ever had sex with a black guy?
>> She: Well, I had sex with these guy-twins who were _half-black_, once.
>> He: Yeah! Both of 'em at the same time!
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