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The first thing we learn about this guy is that his black mother met his white dad at school? how is that relevent to a neutral story? If his parents' ethnicity is of significance it could be mentioned somewhere later in the article, but inappropriate in the opening summary. -cordovan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.223.160.66 ( talk) 18:47, 16 March 2012 (UTC) There is no way this man has black ancestry. He looks Italian to me.
A bit strange that the President of NAACP is not listed as an African-American.
When did it become mandatory to be 100% African-American to lead a group that seeks to advance people of all color? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.85.132.21 ( talk) 05:06, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
I changed the source from http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/17/naacp.president/index.html which was a broken link to http://m.cnn.com/cnn/archive/archive/detail/113295/full . I think the same article by the author is posted here as well: http://essence.typepad.com/news/2008/05/ben-jealous-35.html -- dave1g ( talk) 04:21, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
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Seems to be overwhelmingly his commonly used name, both historically and currently used in most news sources - including those already cited in this article. JesseRafe ( talk) 16:15, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
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They are now referencing former Executive Director Dan Chu as Acting E.D. Info and citations needed (beyond my capacity: so just FWIW). Thanks! Left Central ( talk) 14:53, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
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The first thing we learn about this guy is that his black mother met his white dad at school? how is that relevent to a neutral story? If his parents' ethnicity is of significance it could be mentioned somewhere later in the article, but inappropriate in the opening summary. -cordovan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.223.160.66 ( talk) 18:47, 16 March 2012 (UTC) There is no way this man has black ancestry. He looks Italian to me.
A bit strange that the President of NAACP is not listed as an African-American.
When did it become mandatory to be 100% African-American to lead a group that seeks to advance people of all color? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.85.132.21 ( talk) 05:06, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
I changed the source from http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/17/naacp.president/index.html which was a broken link to http://m.cnn.com/cnn/archive/archive/detail/113295/full . I think the same article by the author is posted here as well: http://essence.typepad.com/news/2008/05/ben-jealous-35.html -- dave1g ( talk) 04:21, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
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Seems to be overwhelmingly his commonly used name, both historically and currently used in most news sources - including those already cited in this article. JesseRafe ( talk) 16:15, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
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They are now referencing former Executive Director Dan Chu as Acting E.D. Info and citations needed (beyond my capacity: so just FWIW). Thanks! Left Central ( talk) 14:53, 7 July 2023 (UTC)