Blake Griffin Reflects on His ‘Super F–ked Up’ Experience With Dating as a Biracial Kid in High School
Blake Griffin candidly reflected on the racism he dealt with growing up in Oklahoma with interracial parents.“[People] had their fair share of nasty looks, of comments, of remarks,” the Detroit Pistons power forward, 31, said on “Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard” on Monday, June 22. “It’s still happening today, so you can imagine what it was like 30 years ago.”Griffin explained that his father, Tommy Griffin, who is Black, and his mother, Gail Griffin, who is white, did not give people’s racist actions “the power,” so it “didn’t affect” their family too much.However, the NBA star did have some trouble dating as a biracial teen in high school.