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2017-09-27 22:37:02 UTC  

haha

2017-09-27 22:37:04 UTC  

absent far away black father

2017-09-27 22:37:08 UTC  

white mother, generally academic

2017-09-27 22:37:13 UTC  

or communist etc.

2017-09-27 22:37:36 UTC  

Chukka Umunna, Barack Obama, Colin Kaepernick

2017-09-27 22:37:48 UTC  

speculation is that his father was James Lofton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lofton) and that the relationship was an affair and thus the mother won't reveal the father

2017-09-27 22:38:20 UTC  

In October 1984, a dancer at the Marquee Club in Milwaukee accused James Lofton and his Packers teammate Eddie Lee Ivery of sexual assault. Lofton and Ivery asserted that the acts were consensual. Neither player ended up being charged in the incident due to a lack of evidence. Two years later, Lofton was charged with second-degree sexual assault following an incident in the stairwell of a Green Bay nightclub. He was found not guilty of that charge.

2017-09-27 22:38:52 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/267086373285134338/362729835841323011/Lofton-James-3.jpg

2017-09-27 22:39:06 UTC  

speculation is that his father was

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/267086373285134338/362729895371210752/Lofton_James-HS_630.jpg

2017-09-27 22:40:16 UTC  

it's the hero's journey inverted fallot

2017-09-27 22:41:19 UTC  

the youth, disadvantaged by his parenthood (unjustly! through no fault of his own!) transcends his humble beginnings to take on ever-greater challenges

2017-09-27 22:41:34 UTC  

in our inverted version, he takes on challenges from the agents of order and decency

2017-09-27 22:43:06 UTC  

nice

2017-09-27 22:43:19 UTC  

they are always saviours of some sort too

2017-09-27 22:44:29 UTC  

right. huble beginning provides the arc and inherent challenge to be overcome. lack of effective parenthood or other humble beginning puts them in the hole from which they must climb out, in the process realizing the greatness within themselves

2017-09-27 22:44:58 UTC  

in this instance, it's a very pure version of the archetype because we learn that his father is SECRETLY the king - here a famous former football star

2017-09-27 22:45:19 UTC  

thus Kaepernick's arc is especially classic hero's journey

2017-09-27 22:45:41 UTC  

he's jon snow

2017-09-27 22:45:46 UTC  

young arthur

2017-09-27 22:45:49 UTC  

etc

2017-09-27 22:46:12 UTC  

moses

2017-09-27 22:46:33 UTC  

although the moses thing is interesting because it is like the mirror-world hero's journey

2017-09-27 22:46:56 UTC  

which is used to show the spiritual supremacy of god's chosen people

2017-09-27 22:49:33 UTC  

also black

2017-09-27 22:49:46 UTC  

the mixed race part is important too

2017-09-27 22:50:03 UTC  

for the inversion, definitely.

2017-09-27 22:50:22 UTC  

in the classic version, the "mixture" is divine + mortal

2017-09-27 22:50:25 UTC  

I meant more just to push that thing, a future "united race"

2017-09-27 22:50:58 UTC  

for sure but I think it comports with my theory

2017-09-27 22:51:00 UTC  

as well

2017-09-27 22:51:57 UTC  

because the hero is the hero partially because of his mixed nature. His years unrecognized allow him sympathy, understanding, etc for those he must eventually rule, even though they are technically beneath him.

2017-09-27 22:52:09 UTC  

jesus, hercules, etc

2017-09-27 22:52:36 UTC  

here, it's not divine and mortal admixture but racial

2017-09-27 22:52:49 UTC  

with the structural implication that to be black is to be divine

2017-09-27 22:52:56 UTC  

yeah he's Naruto

2017-09-27 22:53:02 UTC  

what's naruto's story

2017-09-27 22:53:16 UTC  

early on at least, Naruto is a young strapping boy in a ninja village

2017-09-27 22:53:29 UTC  

who hates no one, but who everyone fears because in him has been locked a raging fox demon

2017-09-27 22:53:34 UTC  

that earlier terrorized the village

2017-09-27 22:53:54 UTC  

MOTHER IS CZECH AND IRISH

2017-09-27 22:53:58 UTC  

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