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    Peso28Neetzan Zimmerman
    1/10/14 2:10pm

    Those camo shorts, black tank top, and biceps make him look like the most badass dad on the planet.

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      reggiebushlateralPeso28
      1/10/14 2:20pm

      According to the comments he received, I believe that outfit makes him a rapper, drug dealing thug.

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      dahabPeso28
      1/10/14 2:21pm

      He's definitely on Team Great Dad. But Team Grown Ass Man has a strict rule against camo shorts.

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    toothpetardNeetzan Zimmerman
    1/10/14 2:07pm

    2014, is it? Well done, everyone.

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      scruffiremstoothpetard
      1/10/14 2:25pm

      Wait until it's 2050 and whites make up less than 50% of the nation. I imagine a new breed of racism before things get any better.

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      keeplosingburnersscruffirems
      1/10/14 2:30pm

      This nice prison / surveillance state we've managed to build will come in handy when the white racism starts to turn really desperate.

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    MizJenkinsNeetzan Zimmerman
    1/10/14 3:31pm

    Hmmm...I wanna see an after photo of this "nice, tight ponytail". I support the brother's devotion but mommies and daddies do tend to have different standards when it comes to hairstyles that are acceptable to be worn in public.

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      Ignorant NoiseMizJenkins
      1/10/14 4:27pm

      Seriously?

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      MizJenkinsIgnorant Noise
      1/10/14 4:29pm

      Yes, seriously. As the daughter of a Black single father and an Asian mother (thus I have hair much like that child's). I was a mess well into college.

      Ask any kindergarten teacher and they can probably tell you with decent accuracy who did a little girl's hair on any given day. Not the daddies' fault though, they don't generally don't have a lifetime's worth of experience styling long hair.

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    DurrrNeetzan Zimmerman
    1/10/14 2:22pm

    Please nobody read any sort of racial commentary into this because it's absolutely not my intention. But can you actually pronounce "Do-ween" from "Doyin"? I'm genuinely curious because I've never seen that pronunciation before in English and I'm wondering if it is a French thing or something like that.

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      sizor_sisterDurrr
      1/10/14 2:25pm

      It's a Haitian name and therefore its orthography is influenced by French. I have a friend with the same name and she pronounces it like that.

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      scruffiremsDurrr
      1/10/14 2:32pm

      Can you? I suppose you can, since that's his name. Just like Niamh is pronounced "Neev" or Siobhan is pronounced "Shiv-ahn" or Sean is "Shawn." It's not a French thing, it's a name thing.

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    Dear ZeusNeetzan Zimmerman
    1/10/14 2:28pm

    Did us multiracial people do something wrong to make people assume our parents are kidnappers/thugs/druggies/insane?

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      GetItGotItGoodDear Zeus
      1/10/14 2:39pm

      No it's people's need to group things together, like when you're a kid and you go "One of these things is not like the other," and then you point to the object that does not belong. It's shitty and has no bearing on actual families or what they actually look like.

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      PortmanteaubotDear Zeus
      1/10/14 2:47pm

      I had a guy once tell me that he "didn't believe in inter-racial breeding, because where would the kids belong?" This is after I told him I was mixed race.

      If mixed race kids shouldn't exist because people might be mean to us, then WE are not the goddamn problem.

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    forcornsakeNeetzan Zimmerman
    1/10/14 2:10pm

    Niiiiiccce! Love me some good old fashioned Klan action.

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      The Ghost of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ AKA BabyStepsforcornsake
      1/10/14 2:14pm

      I wonder how many of the folks commenting (negatively) are black.

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      ThatsTheBoonesTalkingThe Ghost of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ AKA BabySteps
      1/10/14 2:17pm

      Probably more than people will admit to. Whites don't have a lock on saying crappy things about interracial kids.

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    reggiebushlateralNeetzan Zimmerman
    1/10/14 2:15pm

    I saw this photo and my only thought was that this dad is awesome. The paternal leave from work, helping out mom, multi-tasking, doing girl's hair - awesome dad.

    The vile shit that people spew anonymously from their keyboards is disgusting.

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      TheTyrantVirusreggiebushlateral
      1/10/14 2:32pm

      Seriously. First thing I thought when I saw it was how adorable it was.

      What happens to people that wires their brain in such hateful ways? I just don't understand it whatsoever.

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      reggiebushlateralTheTyrantVirus
      1/10/14 2:34pm

      It is a pic that one would think most everyone would have a positive reaction to, but I did forget about the closeted internet racists.

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    pantrogNeetzan Zimmerman
    1/10/14 2:17pm

    He has a beautiful family, and he is a great dad. All the hate in the world can't take that away from him.

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      Mount_Prionpantrog
      1/10/14 2:22pm

      Amen. The only racially-based judgment this photo makes me want to say is that I bet those daughters grow up to be ridiculously good looking.

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      brobinson416Mount_Prion
      1/10/14 5:33pm

      *call me in 2040

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    etfpNeetzan Zimmerman
    1/10/14 2:46pm

    I must point out the idea that people were calling a man styling his child's hair a "deadbeat".

    Think about that for a second.

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      Zabellaetfp
      1/10/14 2:56pm

      Kind like how women who use Plan B get labeled as irresponsible, even though they are making sure that a baby they cannot care for never gets conceived.

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      Ph Dad wants an ally cookieetfp
      1/10/14 3:11pm

      In what passes for logic in their universe, a black guy behaving in a way that fits their prejudice is proof that they are right in their bigotry; a black guy behaving differently is obviously just putting on a show to look good, again proving that they are "right" in their bigotry.

      It must be nice to have a worldview that isn't bound by any standards of sense or logic. It's like writing in the Star Wars Expanded Universe.

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    GamblinwithArafatNeetzan Zimmerman
    1/10/14 2:23pm

    Why do media outlets publicize these stories? This country has 330 million people. Yet it becomes news when 5 people make racist comments on the internet.

    A guy has a blog about being a father (which itself seems moronic), and a few trolls made comments. This isn't news.

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      Jockimo LeChatGamblinwithArafat
      1/10/14 2:50pm

      I wonder that about 99.999999% of the "news". But, still, I read it.

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      GamblinwithArafatJockimo LeChat
      1/10/14 3:07pm

      Right, my problem is this:

      "In a lengthy response post since reposted by The Good Men Project, Doyin invokes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and says he dreams of a day when "people will view a picture like this and not think it's a big deal."

      99.99999% of people are already like this. He and the authors are acting as if internet trolls are representatives of "people". It's not news when a homeless dude shouts out incoherent things to random pedestrians. Nor should it be news when 5 internet trolls make odd remarks to some random blogger.

      This guy ends up getting more attention for his parenting blog because everyone goes around and starts clucking over it.

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