Comments on: David Myers: a black boy who thought he was white

By: Brown Melanic

Brown Melanic — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:46:03 +0000

This is exactly the problem when Melanic people are raised by those non melanic beings. He looks odd in that picture just like people look odd today with whites. We are people of color and they are in their own RACE “White” for a reason! This should be against the law, whites raising God Melanic people but they want us to SELF HATE just like people do today when they say they are NOT BLACK, just a Woman or Man. BS, Everyone else see YOU for wat you are! I just read on freedompeoplemagazine.com truelife, my life the same siltuation this time with a NATIVE. So sad, everyone who is raised by whites just about get treated with this bullsh**. I think them having someone of color is like a accessory. i just watched “grace” a chinese little girl on pbs tell her adoptees “your white i am chinese, we are different” its crazy a 6 year old CAN GET IT!. LOVE YOUR MELANISM – ITS WHAT THEY ENVY!!!!!

By: Jefe

Jefe — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:21:35 +0000

The children at school called him names and would be mean to him for no apparent reason. That sort of thing was completely beyond his parents’ experience. They told him that it was his fault for not knowing how to get along with people. It certainly had nothing to do with race.

OMG, sounds just like my mother.

By: Dave Myers

Dave Myers — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:52:28 +0000

Thank you for your sentiments Jennifer, but please don’t be sad, that will only disempower you… Maybe in educating ourselves, if each one teaches one, we can make a change.

By: Jennifer C.

Jennifer C. — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:22:42 +0000

I am so sorry for your pain, And I know it sounds silly and simple in a way, But seriously.. Can’t we all just get along, I am so sick of hearing black, white, latin, indian, Whatever for God’s sake, Just people, Color and race does not do this, Ignorance does this. It all makes me so sad.

By: Dave Myers

Dave Myers — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:22:16 +0000

I recall hearing about a professional basketball player having my same name, but it’s been a while since I’ve thought about him, and I certainly do not recall the story about him finding his black relatives and brother… where did you hear the story?

By: Rock T.

Rock T. — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:45:21 +0000

Dave your story seems awfully similar to one I heard before about a white basketball player named Dave Myers who played for the Milwaukee Bucks. He too found that he had black relatives including a brother he had never met. If you’re not that person what a coincidence!

By: Dave Myers

Dave Myers — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:53:20 +0000

As I began to press my mother more directly than I ever had the courage to do before, she turned to me and said, “What to do think, I was raped by a nigger!” This is the best that my mother could come up with when I had asked her for the first time in my life, to her face, about my father. Fifteen years earlier in 1986 , she left a message on my answering machine informing me of my father’s name… Our society has taught us that black skin does not have anywhere near the same value that white skin does. My mother , who will be 74 this year, was indoctrinated by her eurocentric schoolbooks and especially her second-generation German-Romanian parents. We have not spoken more than a couple of words since I began to publicly tell my story in 2003, nor have I a heard a single word from my three younger sisters , younger brother , or my adoptive father.

By: diane77

diane77 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:43:31 +0000

Nowadays there’s a lot more acceptance of race mixing because of I believe desegregation in the south and some parts of the U.S. Houston,TX is in the south has a lot of race mixing and is integregated. Chicago (black majority) is the most segregated major city in U.S. I agree with his dad I don’t believe his father raped her because she didn’t call the police or press charges. I also read a study http://ijo.sagepub.com/content/54/1/92.abstract that most sex offenders are unmarried. And his father was married to a black woman had 5 kids when he conceived him with a white woman.

By: Demerera

Demerera — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:48:56 +0000

@ Adeen

I think its fear, fear of the perception because it seems that these individuals were always taught that black=bad. There mothers, for whatever reason, did not feel strong enough to justify their choice of mate but nevertheless chose to live with and raise the legacy of this.

I guess we have to put it in to context of the times too as these girls grew up in the 70′s and 80′s like me and whilst there was a strong emergence of Black Pride, it is clear that these girls would not have been exposed to this.

By: Adeen Danica Mckenzie

Adeen Danica Mckenzie — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:57:35 +0000

Aw, that is so sad, Demerera. I didn’t know th nonsense has been going on for so long. I think it should stop. Parents sould teach their children both sides of their enthnic and cultural heritage; their mother’s or father’s.

By: Demerera

Demerera — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:28:23 +0000

This unfortunately, is not the first time I have heard this story. I went to school with two girls who’s mothers both told them the same thing – that they were raped by BM.

I recall being at primary school and asking one of the girls about her parentage (her skin looked white but her features and hair suggested otherwise) as I was fascinated. She became very upset and this was the first time I heard the story of the ‘rape’. I also got severely told off by the headmaster who said ‘How dare you say that she looks black’ – a confusing thing for me as a 9 year old child. Clearly a horrible and heinous thing to say to this individual who, unbeknownst to me was struggling with her identity.

Both individuals have gone on to have children with WM – I couldnt say how what they were told as children has affected their adult lives but I guess that there will always be that ‘concern’ which they manage to keep at bay on a day to day basis.

By: Adeen Danica Mckenzie

Adeen Danica Mckenzie — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:16:47 +0000

I can't believe the actual real David Myers commented on this post. Although I am a 16 year old Black girl, a lot of my White counterparts still think the same way you mother and your Caucasian stepfather thinks about Blacks and race. Even in a ''post racial'' society, race till matters. Yes, Dave, reading your story made me so sad! And it is so sad because dave seems to be a very good looking guy.

By: georgeson

georgeson — Thu, 05 May 2011 00:54:55 +0000

TO CLARIFY MY PREVIOUS POST
I mean in the sense that he believed he was white and was raised as a white person. Not implying he’s a white supremacist or anything.

By: sailorscout1986

sailorscout1986 — Tue, 03 May 2011 15:39:24 +0000

‘I have to say that the undertones of this post bothers me. It seems to imply that the content of character is somehow predetermined by race. This notion is (which is common) is completely ignorant. Race roles is something that is played up by the media to box what they don’t understand into categories, which often are negative. We are all human, with complex personalities, desires, and dialects and the idea that ‘black’ or ‘white’ is a distinct personality trait is wrong.’

it isn’t even an undertone. the post is so backwards.

By: georgeson

georgeson — Tue, 03 May 2011 06:47:29 +0000

He’s like the real life version of Clayton Bigsby.