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Why are Zack and Randy D the only two black guys active on this website?




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Posted - February 15, 2019

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  • 4631
    Why so sure?
      February 16, 2019 2:12 AM MST
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  • 52903

      Not 100% sure, but so far the only ones I know of who self-identity as such.
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      February 16, 2019 5:53 AM MST
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  • 16197
    I'm 1/32nd Australian aboriginal, does that count?
      February 16, 2019 6:05 AM MST
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  • 52903
      I don't know; what do the Aboriginal people say about it?
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      February 16, 2019 6:49 AM MST
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  • 16197
    To them, it's not about blood, it's about culture. I don't identify with it, so no.
      February 16, 2019 11:16 PM MST
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  • 9777
    Because Beans has disappeared again. I hope he returns.
      February 16, 2019 6:15 AM MST
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  • 52903

      Beans is a black guy?  Wow, I didn't know that!

    :)
      February 16, 2019 6:36 AM MST
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  • 44173
    He showed his family pic a couple of times.
      February 16, 2019 6:53 AM MST
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  • You said I could be black if I drink enough coffee. So I’ve been drinking it 3 days straight. Non stop.
      February 16, 2019 8:32 AM MST
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  • 32527
    Not coffee. Just a tan and a new hairstyle. 
      February 16, 2019 8:41 AM MST
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  • Lol, oh no :)
      February 16, 2019 9:08 AM MST
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  • 52903
    I know, right?


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      February 16, 2019 9:28 PM MST
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  • I had no idea.  I am not sure why we all must know who is black and who isn't. 
      February 16, 2019 8:43 AM MST
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  • 52903

      Who said anything about what "we all must know"?

      February 16, 2019 9:14 PM MST
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  • Well, apparently there is an issue somewhere, otherwise threads like this one would not have been created.
      February 16, 2019 9:28 PM MST
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  • 10029
    I don't really know what color or even what gender anyone here is, and I don't really care. 

    That being said, there's another member I speak with pretty regularly who is allegedly black and male. I've no reason to believe that he isn't. 
      February 16, 2019 8:51 AM MST
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  • 7776
    Well, I'm stumped.
      February 16, 2019 9:10 AM MST
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  • Well considering the small population of users here, it might be proportion to the black population at large.

    I'm not aware of other Asian or even half-Asian users here, though, now that I think about it...
      February 16, 2019 11:05 AM MST
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  • 16197
    Veena hasn't been on for a while. India is quite definitely Asian, if not Oriental.
      February 16, 2019 11:18 PM MST
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  • 1430
    oh i didnt knew you were 'black'. answermug is a really good website, i like it, but the members count is relatively low. theres just the same bunch of active members, and probably not a lot of them are black....

    i hope you dont feel so lonely out there 
      February 16, 2019 11:33 AM MST
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  • 6988
    I always wondered about my grandfather. He had sort of a dark skin tone and brown eyes. He didn't look like his other brothers. His last name was 'White'. 
      February 16, 2019 12:12 PM MST
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  • 7919
    For the same reason adultMug is/was slow. I tend to leave membership up to chance and when I have run ads before, it has always been in the same places. Diversity isn't something that just happens, though. It usually has to be cultivated. People tend to stick to a specific social circle and gravitate toward the same things over and over again. Unless I actively recruited or advertised on sites with a greater population of black people, I wouldn't increase our black population.

    I do occasionally run campaigns to bring people in from different demographic backgrounds. The adultMug thing was one. I also ran campaigns to try to create more religious and political diversity at one point. The religious campaigns worked to a certain degree. We had a rise in Muslim members for a while. The political ones did not. I may have played it too safe with that because I was afraid if I egged people on, they'd come here to fight.

    It's a bit harder for me to identify how to create more racial diversity. To be honest, I have no idea where to start. I would genuinely need a consultant or someone helping me choose locations and create ads because because otherwise I will probably struggle to create any kind of authentic-sounding connection for groups of people who aren't like me. 

    If you think back to how I approached the adultMug thing, I asked for feedback from others about who we needed to try to reach and bring in. Without that, I would have just brought in more people like me. Ergo, if you, or anyone else for that matter, wants to give me suggestions on how to improve diversity here- where to promote the site and what kinds of links I should attempt to create- I'm all ears. Or eyes, as the case may be.
      February 16, 2019 1:47 PM MST
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  • 1893
    I really did not, nor do I think about race.  This goes for when I never see the person, or when I am face to face. I ask are they good people.  In my pup days from E1 to O5 I asked are they a good Marine.

    Some things about race you cannot ignore, say skin color.  After that is it is all character and culture.  Now ignorant slobs do abound regardless of race, those guys and girls I have little time for - if any.
     
    PS I did not know Zack was black, nor did I care
      February 16, 2019 2:10 PM MST
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  • 6098
    If that is true maybe because they know how to get on with white people. 
      February 16, 2019 6:58 PM MST
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