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Birth Name:
Michael Gerard Tyson
Birth Place:
Brownsville, Brooklyn, USA
Ethnicity:
African American
The boxer was born in Brooklyn, New York City. He was born to an African American Mother named Lorna Smith Tyson. His Father’s name was Jimmy Kirkpatrick which indicates that he could have had Irish ethnicity. His Father left the family when Tyson was 2 years old and Tyson rarely talks about his biological father.
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I get the need for people to be “aware” of their heritage, but seems to me that “celebrating” mixed ethnic background is a specific issue for mostly non-whites; after all, non one actually celebrates, for example, a mostly say, Irish, English or German heritage on both sides of the family, at least not in the media.
It just isn’t PC, is it?
Is there something wrong with NOT having mixed racial identities; can’t be milked for personal gain and public sympathy as easy, can it?
The natual history of human biology seems to have been to diversify, not to then be re-mixed in a modern PC environment where it can be legally codified, protected and used as a means of social control and ethnic majority suppression, as it is in the UK.
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mike dad last name is not a key. most blacks get irish/white from female side they were slaves too many irish males died fighting for freedom. some say he is part Korean from his mom side could be true. he does look part native or zambo.
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I find that it’s an over exaggeration that since his father’s name is Jimmy Kirkpatrick he has some irish in him, if that is so i wonder what is pure black seriously.
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black people in Africa
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