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Wentworth Miller Family Photo

Prison Break star Wentworth Miller, aka Michael Scofield, was in Memphis, Tennessee late last month to celebrate a family reunion of descendants of the late Dr. Green Forte Pinkston of Memphis and Cordova. Pinkston, the grandson of freed Mississippi slaves, died in 1963.

Pictured are (from left) Mila Jasey (Went’s aunt), Rhena Jasey (Went’s cousin), Leigh Miller (Went’s younger sister), Wentworth and Jason Cox (Went’s cousin).

Read up more of the Pinkston clan honor the pioneering Dr. Green Forte Pinkston at CommercialAppeal.com.

Thanks, KW!

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super_girl @ 01/19/2008 at 2:17 pm

Thank you Samira.I am arabella maybe you remember me I changed my name beacuse my sister know it and I don’t want her to read my comments.

Ah ok lol !!!
Yes I remember of course ;)

Lovely photo of a lovely familia………………….. ;)

I can’t believe it…. you are insaly racist guys.

Hi samira ;-) Comment vas-tu?

Supergirl I totaly agree. My best friend’s also multi-racial, I asked her what she thinks about some of the board’s speculations and she told me that’s crap. Her boyfriends has always been white and the question” why” never crossed her mind. Her mother is black, of course her aunts, uncles and cousins are too.

Yep stella i understand your best friend. my mother is black my fathe white and i grew up with both culture, most of my friends are black but it doesn’t mean i have a problem with white!! and i LOVE my family!
well well idon’t understandyou
bye

Hé stella ;) !!!! je vais bien merci et toi.

Je vois que ça ne change pas ici, il y a toujours autant de fous. Qu’est ce qu’ils ont fait avec ton pseudo lol, ils se sont pris pour toi lol ????

Il y en a une j’ai pas compris son délire, elle me dit oui je l’aime pourquoi t’es jalouse et tout ça c’est de ta faute lol, j’avoue que là ça fait peur lol.

En faite, je pense que tellement il y a rien a dire sur lui, qu’ils lancent des débats inutiles. Ils sont frustrés on dirait.
Ce site, je l’aime bien, parce que c’est le premier à avoir des news sur went, mais sinon niveau commentaires, c’est zéro. Heuresement, il y a quand même des personnes matures.

biz :)

Moi ca va ;-)
Oui en fait je suis venue ce matin voir s’il y avait des news et qu’est ce que je vois, des gens qui ont posté avec mon nom des messages du genre coucou je m’appelle stella je suis une francaise de merde…….ou alors j ferais bien de rester avec mes petites copines francaises et aussi c’est moi je suis la pour vous casser les cou****….j’ai directement pris contact avec jj et il a effaçé leurs conneries, mais je sait bien qui l’a fait. ;-) mais hônetement je m’en fous. Comme tu dis le niveau est parfois très bas.

Non j’ai pas vu le délire de l’autre lol mais c’est vrai que certain message font peur :-o

Mais il n’y a rien a dire sur lui! :-) il est parfait lol

Je crois que l’autre là plus haut, tu sais le bien bien vois des trucs qui n’existe pas il a trop d’imagination. Ca théorie sur les médias est vraie mais rien à voir avec les artistes comme Went.

A+ :-)

Every time a black person is on this post you people have to call them a monkey, well look at some of your white folks, i think they look like albino monkeys, and im sure you dint know he was black, so next time shut your damn mouth talking bad about black people because you may be talking about your own family member,,, buti didnt know he was black/white…… goes to show what the world is coming to … the under dog the brown race.

and i dont know what the hell you people are talking about that black cousin is fine as hell and i bet you women wouldnt have a problem getting next to him, but by looking around a black mans looks doesnt really matter to youexample… seal, flavor flav and it must be so good to them they keep prducing mixed kids, seal 2, flavor flav 4……….

well well @ 01/19/2008 at 4:30 pm

Some of you keep repeating the same point about your family or friends being with white people or dating black people. lovely but that is not what I am addressing.

WM is a fake brotha… allowing himself to being exploited by the media and Hollywood PR system. Admit it, you don’t even know what the word means. He’s seen running with whites non stop, but his pr team (along with his permission no doubt ) need to keep it out there that he is black by making sure this pvt. family pic is now circulating on a very popular celebrity fansite. The pic makes a timely appearance here on this site after another new batch of Went with his white gf pics have flooded the same site.

He benefits from passin’…
He is perceived as a white male, he runs only with whites and to offset that image..but now his people (PR) has to to get his pic of his family out there…to keep reminding you he’s black…it helps in his career.

That is called exploiting. You buy into it because it sells with you. You are now convinced that this “passin” guy is a brotha. You honestly think he has the same experience as any black man living in america today.

WellWell I know you like to provoke and I know you only do it to get a rise out of people and you’re probally enjoying this by jacking off, who knows, you have nothing valid to say, you don’t know this man personally and if you are a person of colour shame on you…you stupid F U K, who gives a S hit weather he hangs out with white, black, yellow, green or blue and for you to continue w your filth it’s embarrassing, go wash your mouth out with some soap better yet, stop making sh it up people are smart enough not to beleive s c um like you………that’s all you are is S c U M………

#138

well,well, the screen name alone pretty much says it all. So self-satisfied. The strain on your body in it’s efforts to contain that overbearing and malicious ego must be immense or maybe, someone just didn’t get their juice box this morning.

Whether Miller is passing, considers himself bi-racial or Black is after all his personal choice. Just as it is the personal choice of others to view him as white, a brotha or a “fake brotha”. (see well,well)

How about just viewing him as a human being with a racially mixed heritage?

In essence you are saying that by attending a family reunion he is allowing himself to be exploited by the media and the Hollywood PR machine?

I doubt that seriously, just as I doubt it to be a PR ploy to exploit a certain portion of his heritage. It is simply a photo taken at The Pinkston family reunion, which was used in an article published by “The Commercial Appeal” in Memphis because Miller’s great grandfather Green Forte Pinkston was a pioneering Black doctor in Memphis.

More like his cousins Joyce and Bonnie C. Pinkston who wrote the article and probably chose the photo seized upon an opportunity to “exploit” the diversity and success of Dr. Pinkston’s descendants.

Miller as never hidden his racial heritage nor has he exploited it. My questions to you would be, “Why so much vitriol? Why do you care so much?”

Sorry for being so long-winded but I never bring a knife to a gunfight.

“… so by your logic if he was sitting at a reunion table with his mother’s family, would you still be calling him Black? or would he be White?”[

He would be the same that he is here. Biracial. He is half Black here. He is also half "White." [How "much" of his mother is Middle-Eastern (white)? Would that be noted depending on what part of her family he is out and about with? Should it be noted? In the States, yes, it probably would be. We're "funny" that way.]

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“I’m not discussing his family because I don’t know them..they are private citizen..they are not actors or in the entertainment business aka.public arena. Exploiting their backgrounds for media publicity. He (WM) has.”

So because he is a “public figure”/celebrity his racial identity and background differs from theirs even though they share the same bloodline and genes?
Going by your statement one would think he has never gone to any family reunions from his father’s side of the family.

Call me naive, but the “exploiting” of this part of his family has less to do with his PR and how he is perceived by those like yourself, well well, and more to do with an Anniversary of sorts for the family and their community.
I have no doubt that he would be there had he never gone into acting and was working behind-the-scenes at whichever studio he would currently be. The picture would be there in the paper and people would notice it or not thinking, “Wow. Good looking and accomplished family. Very interesting family history.”

I also don’t think I will ever understand where the ‘only NOW is he promoting being Black’ comes from because as far as I can remember he has always been biracial and that has always been made pretty clear pre-THS. I remember it being mentioned as an aside in a synopsis of Dinotopia [which, unfortunately I cannot find online and will therefore be called a liar for it].

I would ask, for the sake of educating us all, what Black celebrities you do consider “true” and worthy of identifying as Black and why, but if you want to consider Miler a “fake brotha” and “‘passin’ guy” that is your prerogative. You are most likely not the first nor will you be the last to think that.

As for the incredibly appalling racist statements from others here, certainly there are those here who see the “Report Abuse” prompt. Goodness knows with the lack of monitoring for these types of threads on gossip and media sites of this nature [I swear this place is turning into PH's site more and more every new WM item], there has to be some way to inform JJ of the truly vile comments posted from time to time.

#140

Brilliantly said! Kudos

SUELI - You rock honey!

you are so stupid, wellwell, you don’t know what kind of experience he has. a lot of people like him who look white hear more nasty racist comment from white people then people who look black. people will say things in front of him that they might not say in front of somebody who looks black.so he may know as much or more about racism because whites won’t censor their words in front of somebody like him who they think is white.

wow what more can we say!
SUELI everytime i’ve reported an abuse, JJ has done something. There’s a contact box on the main page if you really want to contact him.

and oh BTW anyone can tell me what PR means? :-)

Wentworth Miller on being a racial spy.

Wentworth Miller, star of Fox’s Prison Break, answers questions in the April 10 issue of TV Guide. Inevitably, the issue of race comes up, and he responds on what it feels like to be a racial spy, since many do not know he is biracial. His answer is an honest and straightforward one, and seems to indicate that he is a regular, though very hot, guy!

When asked about your race, what do you tell people?
I say I’m of mixed race, and if they ask for specifics, I rattle off the details: My mother is Russian, French, Syrian, Lebanese and Dutch; my father is African-American, Jamaican, English, German and part Cherokee.

How difficult was it dealing with racism growing up and now trying to find roles in Hollywood?
I’ll find myself standing in the company of someone who will make an offhand coment about someone else who is clearly “this” or “that,” knowing that they haven’t realized that I may also be “this” or “that.”

They feel free to make that sort of comment in front of me, and then I’m faced with the choice of “Do I stop the party and start lecturing, or do I keep quiet and internalize this insult to someoen who looks like they could be my family?” It’s a difficult choice, and I”d like to say that I always do the right thing, but the fact is it can be exhausting trying to educate someone. Confronting people can be difficult. As for how race has played into my experience in teh business, it’s really difficult to say. Obviously I’m not in the room when they’re talking about my audition tape, so I don’t know what goes into that process. I will say I’ve been fairly pleased by the reaction to my castin in Prison Break, which is basically no reaction at all. I’m playing a white character. There are those who would argue that actors of a certain background should not play certain parts, and those who would argue that those limitations should be challenged. I’m not interested in weighing in on that. I just want to work.

source: http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/04/09/wentworth-miller-on-being-a-racial-spy/

“and oh BTW anyone can tell me what PR means”

Depending on the context it is either “Public Relations” or “Puerto Rico.”

*you have no idea how many times I’ve pulled an “Emily Latella” from not reading something completely. LOL*

WF #114, you are a ******* idiot, way too stupid and ignorant.

To well well:

WM is not “passing”…he looks like he looks! And so do a lot of other people who have mixed heritage. What would you have him do to prove he’s a “brotha”: get a tan, hang in Compton, dress like a gangsta, throw on the bling? Talk about stereotypes! And just how does it help his career to publicize his “black” side? Producers and directors already know his racial heritage, and the fans don’t give a s**t what color he is. We’ll take him green, pink, or purple. Maybe he hangs out with a lot of “white” people because they are simply in the majority in the U.S. If he really wanted to exploit his “black” side, he could simply take a “black” woman to a Hollywood event.

If you want to play the race card, go after Michael Jackson or O.J. Simpson. And can you please get past skin color? It’s people like you, who can’t move on, that are keeping us stuck where nobody wants to be.

Playing the race card? I stated my opinion about him, and the obvious fact that he exploits his black image as a media selling point about himself and the fact that he benefits from passin’ but to keep you from seeing it as such he/ his pr, now has to get a pic out there of him and his family reunion which will keep you tied to the idea he is black.

How can he be, if his mom is white. Why is he associated to being black..because it sells in the media that he’s the white guy that is black. This family pic now out there aids in that thinking. For me the timing is suspect..right after his pic of him and this Amie.

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“Maybe he hangs out with a lot of “white” people because they are simply in the majority in the U.S.”
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yeah …ok.

Now automatically you jumped to suggesting what should he do to prove he is black by dressing like a “gansta?” Or throw on “bling”. That came from you ok, not me, because that is an absurd point. Is that your only other way of seeing Black men in america? I’m saying this passin’ dude who is basically white is using his “black” side as a means to perpetuate his success in Hollywood.

In fact I saw that movie Human Stain, and quite frankly I was turned off by that character he portrayed..and it was more disturbing that he as an actor would feel comfortable taking that role as a “passin” for white black guy who in a boxing situation refers to another black man as a n*igg*r.

BTW, discussion about race in america and the media does not keep anyone stuck…(i.e..sagging economy and other social Infrastructures keep people stuck) Debating is when you open yourself up to arguing in civil discourse your opposing view.
I don’t need to talk about Michael Jackson and OJ…. although they too are part of the media and play a part in perception in it..they’ve been talked about and discussed for years anyway.

Ooohhhhhhhh look at Went he’s soooooo Beautiful. He’s so HoT!!! HoT!!! HoT!!!…LOL. :)

Jealous are we wellwell??? @ 01/19/2008 at 11:32 pm

Wellwell, I see you’ve stated your point over and over again, *** it’s the USA and if he wants to exploit his black African American Heritage, ohhhh just let the boy……………………………………………………………………… your tone comes across as a very jealous person and it’s sad to know you actually beleive what you are saying,
GREAT we know you don’t like this man due to beliefs that you created, besides this site where JJ posts dosn’t reflect anyhow anywhere any PR behind it…………..the photo of his family was posted last month in the memphis paper and if you were a fan you would have know that, and mabey JJ was responding to peoples request for more Wentworth, because everthing else is the pitts and if Fans want to say the guy is soooo hot hot hot hot and want to lick him and want to *** him and want to eat him, my personal favorite…….ohhh just let them there’s no harm in enjoying this man, if you are offended by his lack of black colouing than it is you with issues, and if you take the time to read certains people responses to your silly accusations than you would know there are probably lots of reasons to why he hang out with whom he chooses to be friends with…………..he dosen’t need any PR, really he’s a slight mystery and it bothers you that you cannot figure him out ……….. Boring People are just boring and Went is just that, but Fukn hot tooooooooo………

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