My late brother-in-law was born in Germany. He resembled the Babe, also German in ancestry, in appearance. The Babe was the best ballplayer evah: top-notch pitcher, plus his hitting, of course. Shame he ended up with the Evil Empire, but that doesn’t take away from his greatness.
Interesting that Babe Ruth died of Nasopharyngeal Cancer… AKA the Cantonese Cancer. Quite rare in the West, but rather less so here.
Is Kyle Rittenhouse Hispanic?
The question has come up after a report by Snopes, formerly known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, claimed that separate Wisconsin court case records have described Rittenhouse’s race differently in each. One record when the teen was pulled over by cops on August 19, 2020, for driving without a valid license and going about 20 mph over the speed limit has called him “Hispanic” while the other filed for the August 25 event listed him as “Caucasian”.
There are some tweets as well on the Internet that mentioned the 18-year-old’s race as “Hispanic”. For instance, @reviewlhu tweeted in February 2021, “Having a gun is what allowed Hispanic Kyle Rittenhouse to defend himself from three white attackers.” And @AUChizad added: “Kyle Rittenhouse is Hispanic and shot three white guys, one of whom was shouting the N word at him earlier that night.”
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Though the reason behind the race difference in the records is not known and a disclaimer with the database said, “This designation listed in the race field is subjective. It is provided to the court by the agency that filed the case,” Lt. Joseph Nosalik, of the Kenosha Police Department, told Snopes that his agency’s records listed Rittenhouse’s as a “white male.”
Snopes explains that there was no evidence other than the Aug 19 traffic stop record which, carried a disclaimer that law enforcement noted “Hispanic” based on a subjective look at Rittenhouse and was not a self-assessment indicated that the 18-year-old was possibly any race other than Caucasian. For those reasons, Snopes also rated previous claims calling him White “True.”
I don’t generally trust Snopes on anything political anymore, but nothing else came up on my search.
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Ruth was suspected of having black ancestry too, though it was never substantiated.
https://medium.com/buzzer-beater/was-babe-ruth-black-6a4f3cf9188#
(Some discussion @ https://www.thenewneo.com/2021/11/19/the-left-reacts-to-the-rittenhouse-verdict-with-its-usual-grace-class-and-style/#comment-2589897)
Or Ruth reincarnated in his next go around?
My late brother-in-law was born in Germany. He resembled the Babe, also German in ancestry, in appearance. The Babe was the best ballplayer evah: top-notch pitcher, plus his hitting, of course. Shame he ended up with the Evil Empire, but that doesn’t take away from his greatness.
Interesting that Babe Ruth died of Nasopharyngeal Cancer… AKA the Cantonese Cancer. Quite rare in the West, but rather less so here.
Maybe some of KR’s ancestry is Black-Dutch, as reportedly Waylon Jennings’ was?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dutch_(genealogy)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waylon_Jennings
If KR is the reincarnation of the Babe, that might explain the young man’s accuracy-under-pressure with high-velocity projectiles.
My thoughts, exactly, Commander Professor McTravel!
“The Babe was the best ballplayer evah” Gringo
I share that opinion. I recommend simply looking up the
Babe’s bio on Wikipedia, his record is literally jaw dropping.
I don’t think Rittenhouse is even rumored to have black ancestry; Hispanic has been alleged but not seriously checked.
https://meaww.com/is-kyle-rittenhouse-hispanic-teens-race-described-different-in-separate-court-cases-white-caucasian
I don’t generally trust Snopes on anything political anymore, but nothing else came up on my search.