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Originally Posted by Textcritic

No. Not all of them. Once Twitter blew up with Scott's original comments from a couple years ago, he was afforded the opportunity to address them on TSN 690 on Monday, and still came across as a bitter minor league hack.

What about the comment from Weekes in that video (1:14) that Subban "...is the first fully-black superstar in the history of our league?"

So I guess there's a "black-o-meter" for torchbearers like Iggy and Fuhr? I wonder what that's like for them? White sees them as Black, but Black sees them as not Black enough? That's a whole other layer of racism there.

Edit: (Don't get me wrong. Weekes is obviously 100% correct that Subban is "fully-black." Also, Iginla and Fuhr each had one Black parent and one White parent, so he's technically correct that Subban is the first "fully-black" superstar. It's just that the way he said it gives me the impression that Black people maybe don't see Iginla and Fuhr as the standard bearers that White people see them as. Like when some White guy refers to Fuhr as the "first Black person to win a Cup," do Black people roll their eyes and go, "yeah whatever?" That's got to be crazy to deal with.)