Youneverknow: "half-black"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/7/2011 03:47 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>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.

Were the twins half-black because one was white?

Joel


>LH
>
> > Benjamin Barrett
> > Seattle, WA
> >
> > On Dec 6, 2011, at 10:34 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> >
> >> 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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