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orejon4 said:
The Rock's father is an Afro-Canadian former pro wrestler (Rocky Johnson) and his mother is a Samoan chief and pro wrestler's daughter (Ate Maivia). I think that the King Kamehameha biopic is still in the works. It's supposed to be his pet project. As far back as I can remember in the Rock's choice of roles, he is either openly black or implied to be black, such as his Hobbs character in the F/F series. Remember his early comedy role as the black gay aspiring country singer in Get Shorty or Be Cool (I forget which)?

As far as Vin Diesel is concerned, I agree that he downplays race as an ingredient to his character. In fact, I don't recall Vin Diesel ever playing an obviously black character. In fact, his first movie role was a quasi-documentary called Multi-Facial, where he documented his attempts to get roles as a biracial/ambiguous actor and he has since gone on to exploit that, even playing Italian characters (he's half Italian) in several films, not just Saving Private Ryan.

I guess to me the difference is The Rock chooses a variety of roles where he is either black, part black, some other nonwhite ethnicity or unstated, and Vin Diesel is usually Italian or ambiguous, but never black.
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The 2003 Crime Drama movie "A Man Apart" is the closest I've seen Vin Diesel looking Half-black:

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The Dark King said:
Not necessarily true I always wonder if they walk the earth as a black person. Like Jessie Williams makes that choice and walks as a black person. He's half black and half white.
People like the Rock and Vin Desiel don't
Some people treat their supposed blackness like a shawl. Only on when in season
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The Rock has never denied his heritage and even plays characters who were written as black in movies from time to time. Vin is a different story. He won't talk about it.
 
JamalSpunky said:
He has the complexion and hair texture of the majority of working black actresses and none of you dudes ever question their ethnicity. Stop putting black dudes in a box in terms of what they can/should look like.
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When would we have a chance to question black women's ethnicity on whitewomenblackmen.com
Please try again lol
 
The Dark King said:
When would we have a chance to question black women's ethnicity on whitewomenblackmen.com
Please try again lol
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There are a million threads that have drifted into a million directions on this site in which those actresses, their movies, their characters and even whom they may be dating have come up. Hell, if you dudes actually did question their ethnicity you would be using them as examples in the celebrity interracial dating page whenever they dated or married black guys. But you don't because you guys recognize all those mixed/biracial/lightskinned chicks as being black, at least technically. But somehow you are caught offguard by discovering there are black males born into the world who look the same way? Are you really that stupid? I doubt it so you instead must be making up your own guidelines on what makes a true black man. Enough of that already. As I've written before you don't have to be as dark as night with a shaved head to be considered a black male. Well, maybe you do in the porn business but outside of that black men, just like white males, are "allowed" to come in different packages.
 
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The Dark King said:
I seriously don't recall him playing black guy but hey whatevs
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Of course you don't. You're either too busy to look into it or you don't give a damn because it doesn't fit your agenda on the issue. Off hand I recall Johnson playing a real life black guy that inspired the movie "Gridiron Gang". In the "Walking Tall" remake his character had a black father and a white mother and all of his siblings are black/mixed like he is in the film. In "GI Joe" he played Roadblock, a character that was established as being black in both the comic books and the animation (and the GI Joe franchise hasn't race-bended unlike other movie franchises so The Rock was hired for his ethnicity). There may be other films but, hey, I guess I'm too busy to look into it further at this time.
 
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