Oh well, I'm seventy years old this year and I'm not jealous. My blackness ain't cracking too much. I might have been treated different growing up, but it has treated me well over the years.
Wow, the grandmother was so anti-black and colourist. Also Interracial marriage/ procreating will not “erase” racism, look at other multiracial countries like Brazil who still deal with colourism.
Italy has colourism as well, North Italians are lighter skinned and Southern Italians are referred to as Black Italians because they are darker skinned.
It's sad how even "mixed race" people push this idea that white is the norm or default race. The way that lady so casually said that her grown children would marry white people because they didn't identify with "urban" culture, as if Blackness is "urban" is so sad and ridiculous. Also, I am Dominican and I can tell you that as someone who was born into a mixed race society that discrimination STILL happens among mixed race people depending on hair/features/skin color/etc. Anti-Blackness is still an issue even when you are mixed, just as white supremacy is the sum of all that shit..
I don't think you got the point. What those ladies are saying is they are tired of being terrorized by darker skinned blacks when they've tried so hard to fit in. So they are tired and decided why not accept themselves as dark-skinned blacks have constantly shoved down their throats for decades. Believe me, I know because I am one of them.
Dame Luz colorism is not the handiwork of mixed race people. They are as much a part of it as victims of it. Dark skinned people can be colorists too, as well as white. It's not mixed race people's jobs to carry the burden of two other races. Furthermore, mixed race people are mocked for even acknowledging that's what they are in this country. Thanks to the one drop rule. Mixed race people have as much a right to preserve who and what they are just as anyone else.
so u jus gonna absolve mixed people of any and all responsibility huh? u jus gonna act like lighter people don't perpetuate colorism against darker people huh?? please have several seats cuz u sounding real stupid right now..
Dame Luz lol Im so glad you replied. Even happier that you replied the way that you did! First, I'll answer your question. No, mixed race people are not absolved from colorism but IT IS unfair and counterproductive to put the blame solely on them when colorism is a worldwide problem amongst all countries and ethnicities. Not just mixed race people here in The US, who can not even call themselves what they are. They are denied their identity by both white and black Americans. Also, I saw in another post you wrote that you are Dominican yet here you write in African American vernacular English (Ebonics) and use slang that is also African American. Why are you USURPING other people's cultures! You are not a black American. You are appropriating their speech pattern to be "cute" "sassy" "irreverent" also perpetuating stereotypes about blackness. Speak and act like what you are! 😂😂😂 people like you make me laugh. You want to be accepted by black Americans so bad you'll throw yourself in the trash. Guess what they'll never really think of you as one of them and you will have to subdue your own culture, language, and history to roll with them. 😂😂😂😂 pathetic.
Race and nationality are two different things. Saying your "American" when asked your race doesn't make you clever. If you want to list all your racial backgrounds, do that. To be in one group means that you are not in another. That means that we are all not apart of some group.
I´m brazilian. People here don´t identify as back, white, brown, asian etc. The colors are there, but they are as importante to us as eye color is to you; sure eyes have different colors, but noone in his right mind would insist on marrying someone of the same "eye color race".
@@HawaiiDEEPS because you can't identify the genes, doesn't it doesn't exist, it only means you can't identify the genes. Do your eyes agree with your assessment that race doesn't exist? Things do not suddenly start existing, when you discover it. Whether or not it's important on a social level, is different from Whether or not it should be relevant or a social level. It's importance and impact is dependent on the situation at the time. I don't even know how you can disagree with me.
@@loveyrae84 That's the problem, you don't understand how I can disagree with you so you assume I'm wrong. It isn't that scientists can't identify the genes, it's that they're not there! There are no "racial" genes any more than there are genes that give 1 "white" person a big nose and another a small one. I'm considered black yet pewdiepie has a wider nose than me. We've categorized humans based on certain features, many pertaining to skin tone, but you know why that's flawed? A place like Africa where nearly everyone is considered black, is the most genetically diverse continent in the world. The label was only given because of their dark skin, but if that's the basis for race than Indians should be black too; there are Indians darker than me. In addition, there's too much genetic variety in Africa to put them all under the same race, and too many to give each group their own specific race. Look up the San people who are considered the oldest ethnic group in the world, yet many outside of Africa would probably think they're mixed African and East Asian because of racial concepts. Arabs aren't even given a race in Europe, they're just Arabs, and the funny thing is the Arab world has mixed ancestry of Arabs(colonizers from Saudi Arabia), indigenous people(throughout West Asia and North Africa), and some Sub-Saharan especially in North African populations. Yet, they're just all called Arab by their ethnicity, not given a racial label, we just accept that they don't all look the same. In the US the census has them identify as white(to show you more flaws of racial categorization). Even Southern Europeans with North African ancestry and brown skin identify as white. When it comes to mixed latinos, practically any mix of European, North African, and Indigenous is accepted as latino, but when you have visible African features people assume otherwise and doubt how latino you are. You get the Afro-Latino label instead, while everyone else is Latino. Lastly, we need to look at the fact that racial categories vary by nation, which would be impossible if race was concrete. In the US I'm black, in DR I'm Mulatto, in Brazil what I am is up to me but I'd probably be seen as Pardo, however many who would be considered white there are considered black or mixed in the US. Race is not real, it's how different groups of people label others based on their understanding, but it isn't necessary and all it's ever done is cause division. Humans label things they don't understand. In the name of science that doesn't care if you don't understand it, there is 1 human race that simply has genetic variety, and with the world now interconnected everyone will be mixed in the future. Maybe then people can see past this social construct that only became mainstream in the 15th century when Europe wanted labels to make Africans and Indigenous Americans seem less than human to justify slavery and colonization.
"Proximity (real or imagined) to Whiteness" often becomes a "reason" for black folks to bully lighter-skinned folks, from what I've seen as a brown-skinned woman. Growing up, light-skinned people were "honored" by some black folks and bullied by other black folks, just because of their skin. I always found this confusing and odd. I myself was bullied for "talking white" (sounding too "proper" in my speech). That led me to associate more with white kids, because 1) They had no problem seeing me as black and 2) they didn't bully me for how I spoke. I just wanted to live and not be bullied.
Bullied by blacks because some blacks actually know their history. They know that many Mulattos took on the analogy of their white slave owning parents and they began to own slaves (natives too) . That's usually why blacks are so butt hurt over mixed race people and whites. Weird thing is they don't seem to know some elite blacks that had freedom owned slaves also. Also why don't blacks ever talk about how Africans captured their ancestors and sold them into slavery.
As a South African coloured (brown) person this is sad to hear. There are 4.5million of us here and we are very proud of who we are! We also know for a fact that there are no 'pure' races in the world. And if all nations had a particular colour that the world would have been a pretty motley place. I think this dilemma for American mixed race people stems from the one drop black blood definition, which is, to put it bluntly, Stupid. A comedian once said that if someone is wearing a black shoe and a white shoe. Can anyone then comment 'what a nice pair of black shoes you are wearing?' Be proud of who you are because you are BEAUTIFUL. The world is becoming more mixed race! Just look around. And if you are not happy in America, come to South Africa where you won't be conscious of this colour nonsense!
Just as an added comment. The first persons on the planet (Adam and Eve) must have had mixed genes. Hence the mutation of man into the various 'races' Remember too that Jesus wasn't 'white' Be proud of who you are because you are beautiful!
@@ronalddippenaar2381 I don't think the first people were mixed at all. What would they be mixed with. I think it's clear that the original man was African.
She has African facial features/bone structure. The only thing white about her is her light skin color but I knew she was black when the video came on. I guess because I'm from New Orleans and have aunts, cousins who look like that.
These racist posters are just being short sighted...most of them have no clue what we went through trying to get Civil Rights Act of 1964...they have no clue...absolutely no clue...no respect for what people like Dr King and so many others tried to get accomplished...now these folks are setting us back at least 100 years with their "separate but equal" mentality.
Desaline Redux - Everyone isn't mixed? It's not true that humans receive half of their chromosomal DNA from their mother and then other half from their father? I guess Mendel was wrong. If you can find this hermaphroditic/ asexual person who receives 100% "pure" genes from birth, you would be essential guaranteed a Nobel prize!
I really feel sorry for black people who puts so much infuses on their European heritage because most people especially white people will see you as Black, period. Also those older women act like just because they’re college educated that they are better than other black people or that’s just not the norm for black people. You all need to get out more because there are plenty of educated black people then and now. I’m so glad my parents raised me to love my blackness and yes I’m Black mixed with black.. Do I get those same types of questions asked? Yes. Are most black people mixed with something else down or near the line? Yes. Soooo what!! #BLACKANDPROUD✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Lol...NO ONE is "better" than another person. Your standard of living or life-style may be better or up a few notches, but it is really one's "character" that should be looked at. I don't know WHEN this "better than thou" crap began, but it will finally die it's deserving death when people stop feeding into it.
I have aunts and uncles that are very light skinned like these women. my grandmother has white skin. our family just goes by black. we have some European in our family like many african american famalies. so I do
marc holmes, If you get mixed and white skinned people being accepted as black by black people then that amounts to voluntary genocide. Fucking stupid.
Thank you for your open and honest posting. Though I strongly disagree that racial mixing is the key to the tragic inferences in racial relations, i do believe that we are all share the same original black ancestors. White supremacy is not very well addressed in this posting, and if you look at the color caste system in many highly mixed race nations like Brazil and Cape Verde, you will find that common condition of wealth and power stratification along the color line. It seems that mutual separation of equals will breed the mutual respect that all sane and civilized people desire. Black inferiority must also die off, and simply mixing blood has never addressed these root factors. May God continue to bless and guide you all along your journeys.
When the last lady Diane said that she was 55 years of aged my facial expression were like this😲 On this video she looks 10 years older. I am 50 years younger Melanin woman and people are always assuming that I am in my later 30s.
@@adoris864 I was rolling my eyes at the the younger with the Glasses🙄 When she said that her classmates were saying to her what are you. I knew that should would say that she also has Native American Indian😂 She looks lighter Melanin aka Black woman to me.
I see why the young lady in this vide is confused about her race seeing as though her aunt / slash mother / grandmother are confused about who they are. Black is black. Its fine to be mixed but dont deny your black!
my father was lightskin,he was still discriminated by the majority white society for being black.i have family members of all complexions.iam older black catholic male;who had to fought white racism from high school.I attended a black college;a lots of blacks wanted to be white.black frats and soros were color conscience with their plantation mentality.
Hey, I just wanted to say that I came across this video and I am REALLY fascinated. I'm of mixed heritage myself, my mother is African-American and part White and my father was of Italian-American descent. Being of mixed race is a unique, complex and often difficult experience, going through positive and negative encounters with both White and Black people because of the racial/political framework of this country, and our fraught collective history. I'm always interested in listening to narratives of the elders in the community, will take a listen to this. Thank you for sharing.
How is your mother African American if she is part white (she is mixed) ? Wouldnt she be Mulatto American? You do realize mixed race people have a history that dates back several hundred years. From the US (includeding colonies/settlements) to Haiti to Dr to Brazil, Martinique etc
mark brown Native Americans would of had to drink out of the same fountain , the Japanese would have also had to drink from the colored fountain as well . Having to be subjected to segregation laws didn’t mean you was black it just meant you wasn’t white .
Do you know your history? When was the Civil Rights movement and when where the Civil Rights Acts passed? Ignorance is a very dangerous thing because it breeds people who are too lazy to give think logically.
I can understand the want to identify yourself as a biracial person but the rest of the world considers us Black.I am so proud to be black I may not be black enough for some but I am who I am and I will not change that for anyone! Just love yourself that's all that matters.
I think you should be able to identify yourself however you want. Society shouldn't label you. I am black and not biracial. Yet, I have biracial friends. How they identify themselves vary but they still all say that they have black ancestry. My only concern with some biracial people ( that are half white and half black) is that some like to erase the black side. That is sad and means there is alot of self-hatred there. That is the only time I get upset. There should never be any self-hatred about who you are.
Well...... I love all of me both the Black and the Italian! I agree biracial people should never ignore the black side of themselves but it's really due to our society being so anti-black. But deep down other races want what black people have lips, curves, tanned skin, style, etc. they just don't want what comes with being black. BLACK is Beautiful!!! I have experienced prejudice for being biracial and for being black but I have learned over time that it's not my issue it's someone else's ignorance.
The fact that they look so different despite only 3 years has nothing to do with genetics. That has to do with lifestyle. Plus, as you notice the 55 year-old has gray hair and the 52 year-old doesn't. So the 52 year-old could be dying her hair for all we know...we don't know. The 55 year-old may have had more health issues which can age a person...there are many factors that play into it that we don't know. But it has nothing to do with genetics...just a lifestyle difference.
Why do people get offended by people that do not conform to the one drop rule? It is a social construct, not a scientific or religious fact. The USA is not the world. Outside the US we use terms like black or mixed race and in southern Africa mixed ethnic people, are identified as coloured. Wanting to be identified as mixed is not about rejecting black ethnicity ( I sense self-insecurity from those that think this way). It is about excepting multi-ethnicity, embracing our parents, ancestry and so forth. It is so odd that she is being accused of snubbing her black heritage when in fact she wants to celebrate it exactly how she was born, not how society expects. I guess some only hear what they want to hear.
@@donniasjordan3701 you're actually the one guilty of self hatred and just plain hatred. When you mix red and white together the end result is pink, you no longer have red nor white but something new. It's exactly the same principle when you're mixed race.
So that people have such a complex situation towards people ethnicity and makeup this is what drives us apart. illusion has always Driven Man to his full craziness
Say what that's weird my mom is the young lady's color and hair and guess what I am milk chocolate in color tone. So please stop with your none sense.
As a Caribbean person it breaks my heart how our black race as become confused. What keeps us alive is our Culture and Customs. Never forgetting our roots. Big up mama Africa!!
PRICELESS DIAMOND No such thing as the black race as races were invented by Western European enslavers to rationalize their crimes against humanity. And of course the original white supremacists have used DECEPTION to create confusion among its victims including Africans throughout the diaspora.
I'm blonde hair blue eyes I knew I had Native great grandparents Did a DNA test and found out I have more native(showed up as Asian in a DNA test for obvious reasons) and BLACK FROM AFRICA(Gore'e Island and West Africa) then I did European blood quantum... shocked me but I absolutely accept and love it And at that moment I realized why my kids were born looking exactly like a Eskimo with Asian eyes jet black hair tan skin and black eyes.... to the point the doctor once ask me the race of my baby when my husband was away lol Found out my maternal grandparents side of the family were Creek Freedmen.. Which were mixed natives who mixed with black slaves So recessive genes can make people look all kinds of ways and looks shouldn't determine race....
Isn't it amazing that we have a creator that has created everybody for different colored us and still we cannot go past the perception of colorism towards everybody being just ONE. the delusion and illusion of life and all towards 1 things human existence
A dark complected person isn't looking for you to save them...save yourself. I personally do not think that people are sitting around saying "you're going to get a job before me."
I am a grown woman and when I worked for the U.S. Gov, well I was in the cafeteria one day and a group of black female empoyloyees asked me: "What are you"? I replied: "HUMAN"
@@marliseisrael3017 Ies, I have a working brain so it got into my memory bank. Most healthy humans are able to remember things that challenge thier "Sense Of Self"
This family is so problematic that I don't even know where to start. I see where the younger woman is more enlightened than her elders but I also see where they have corrpted her thinking and she is yet to become aware of it. The only positive resolution is that the elders seem to have encouraged their children to marry out and so will breed themselves completely out of the black community. They can be somebody else's problem.
All four of them suffering from fantasty island...especially the old woman. She was happy to sit in a white movie theater...you want a cookie for sitting in there. She's old but not wise.
@@ladybugrona7321 she's not on fantasy island alot of us feel the same way and we are not feeling it it's not ok to be disrespectful in the way that blacks disrespect us it's also not ok to try stuff on people
You only should embrace that ALL if you are biracial, meaning you have a 1 white parent. But if you have your average black American admixture bloodline, you are just black American. We black Americans don't always embraced our European ancestry. we just don't. Because that is what we are but it is not Who We Are.. Therr is a difference between being racially mixed and being ethnically black.
The comments the second daughter who is 50 comments about her kids saying they would purposely marry white because they didn’t identify with the urban culture. That was disturbing. It’s like she’s saying the African American people aren’t educated or cultured. Just breaks my heart.
Well said, Angie! Thanks for sharing the testimonies of these beautiful ladies. Many people have multiple heritages, and its silly that we're expected to choose only one. Your family should be accepted for what you are -- members of the human race.
I have 4 siblings, all fair skinned, who all experienced attitudes and problems that I never had to deal with; things that took their toll psychologically on them. There were people who wanted to be seen with and be "friends" with my siblings simply because they were fair skinned. None of these "friendships" ever lasted, but created a strange type of insecurity in my siblings that is with them today. It's truly tragic.
My skin color is yellow. Ive always been a proud black woman. Sometimes in my life I have gotten told off by darker skin people about calling myself black.Actually many times.
My skin color is also "yellow". Have always been "yellow" and called that growing up by people of my race. So I've been called colored, negro, and african american. I am black! My family runs the gambit from light to dark and we embrace all, we love all. Call us what you want, we're black and we're proud and we're family!
lol are you sure about having Native American? Too many African Americans and White Americans claim nonexistent Native American ancestry due to family folklore. When you said you were very mixed, I was waiting to hear four or five races. Being mixed black and white is not very mixed, and in certain cities of the United States your look is not uncommon. Go to New York, New Orleans, or Miami and you'll see for yourself.
I'm creole and yes, my native heritage is legit. My paternal grandmother lived on the Muskogee Creek reservation in Muscogee as a girl and my creole maternal grandmother was a third Houma from Louisiana as well as French, African and Indigenous Mexican.
This is not a practical view and is unhelpful in the fight against racial terror. I actually believe it's a view point put out to confuse ppl and neutralize would be fighters into sabotaging themselves and submitting to being overpowered.
Agreed. I just had this conversation, 7 years later from when this first "aired". I made your point, the other person said we must track ppl's race so we know where, and how often, discrimination and hate crimes are happening Evidence of just how effectively and tragically the divisiveness has worked!
That's a good comeback I have ancestors from Europe And... Africa and I agree skin color has nothing to do with beauty and the one drop rule is bull s***.
Well, Caucasians did an excellent job of making people "feel inferior, and less than" if they weren't 100% Anglo Saxon. This was done to oppress, subjugate, and control. Well I too am Multi-Ethnic, and damn proud of it! I feel like a potpourri, a little bit of this, and a little bit of that. When people ask me "what are you?" I feel like responding, human, but I say I'm an American, born, bred and buttered.
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WOW!!! What a read these comments have been for me. I find it so sad to hear a person of African descent say they feel they do not fit in. After all of the negative things we as a people have been through since the beginning of time. We should all be loving and respecting one another, especially those of us with color. If we don't love ourselves no one else will. Scientifically proven hands down the human race originated from the continent of Africa. Anyone of you out there with a hint of brown, tan, beige, mocha, cappuccino or whatever, please by informed you do somewhere somehow have African blood running through your veins. Even the palest of Caucasians could quite possibly have African blood running through their veins also. My complexion is a beautiful "Milk Chocolate" that I would not trade for anything in this world. I am truly loving the skin I'm in!!! Although I must admit it has not always been that way for me. My mother has a "Dark Chocolate" complexion and my father was a "Yellow Reddish" complexion with red hair. Needless to say my siblings and I are various shades of "light to dark" with "Sandy colored" hair, as well as our children. Born in 1965 I kinda fell into the era of "light skin" being prettier, so quite naturally that is what I desired to be. Especially since my one and only sister was 1/2 shade lighter than me, I always thought she was prettier. Which actually wasn't the case at all. Not trying to "toot my own horn" she readily admits now that I am the prettier one. I never felt pretty as a child, now at the age of 52 being a breast cancer survivor and honestly looking an easy 35, compliments on my looks abound. So I finally realize I am truly beautiful "Milk Chocolate" skin-tone and all. However, we are all equally beautiful in our own right. I have said all that to say this. Being a member of Ancestry.com I have been contacted by a 4th cousin on the paternal side of my family. This has made me so happy as I did not have contact with my father after the age of five, so to have a cousin find me is just amazing!!! That was my main reason for joining looking for paternal relatives. Remember the description of my father light skinned and red? So I wasn't a bit surprised that my cousin is Caucasian with curly red hair and 8% African running through her veins. I by the way am 12% European. She doesn't look African and I do not look European but it is definitely running through our veins. As well as some Irish, hence my father's red hair. So there you have it, you can't judge a book by it's cover. Please learn to love the skin you are in, as well as all of the various shades around you. Love and respect simply put, Peace.
My Lord, what's is this? I would have hated to grow up in that family. It's obvious too me that their 80+ mother confused her children. Listen to them.. It's obvious to me they do not read alot of books on the subject that is being discussed.
Omg. Thank for your comment, because that was so so sad and painfully cringe worthy to watch. The sheer level of self hatred was only matched iwith an equal level of ignorance. To that old and silly is pathetic.
I understand why you feel they have self-hatred especially if you're listening to them speak as though they should identify as black. I had to keep in mind, as I was listening, that these ppl are not black. Knowing their white ancestors makes them proud and feel special bc they are literally of mostly white ancestory. If they were black with maybe 15% white anceancestry. It could be said they struggle with self-hatred. Self hating is not the condition of liking what you have just as much right to claim being 60 or 70% of it. Mix racing is a very confusing thing and I haven't met anyone, near or far, who has this thing figured out once and for all.
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Im a creole from new Orleans as well and i never called myself mixed race both of my parents are African american so that makes me african american but here in new Orleans we have both light skin creoles and dark skin creoles and we all identify as African American. Its crazy how when I tell people I'm African american they make a face or some how think I'm lying. only on the internet though. Light skin dark skin people here in new Orleans come together as well because we know who we are and where we come from, I've never in my life experienced racism from my own people here because of the color of my skin except on the internet. I'm always told I'm not black enough. That shouldn't matter though
Those of us who are mixed race must take the time to include all complexions into society. There are situations that children feel different. When children feel comfortable with you, they will reveal their problems to you. All elements must be treated fairly and included in order feel secure in our ethnicity.
What happened to "if you're Black, stay back; if you're brown, stick around; if you're white, you're alright? What happened to the brown bag test to keep people who are darker than brown bags at the margins of society?
It's not been my experience except maybe with foreign born Americans to be a curiosity to others as to my racial identity/nationality and I may be mistaken but I think my appearance is similarly lighter skinned Black American just as the women in this video yet I didn't feel set apart by others because of it..perhaps my parents being darker skinned grounded me by never making any issue of my lighter skin in our family even though I was the only one to remain lighter in color after becoming an adult ( some even think it influenced my college choice of Howard U., known historically for it's lighter-skinned graduates) - It did not, though my baby brother was also similar in skin color at birth- as evidenced by my Mom's response to her Midwife's astonished " What's ( my Dad ) going to say?? ( about my light skin) " , upon my entrance into the world, " Nothing, because she is his child ! ". The Midwive's astonishment was based on the many times she had helped deliver a child to a Black woman who apparently had not revealed that she had conceived a child with someone other than her Black spouse and/ or had hidden that she was raped by a white man - which given the racial climate and the lack of civil rights for people of color left Black women defenseless in a court of law or public opinion- So, my Mom was defending her honor at being suspected of falling into a common position of silence due to powerlessness and fear at being found out by a spouse, in-laws and community that might never believe what she had no DNA test to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt. It's ironic though that my GRGrandDad was born of such a union and he though subjugated by this powerful white landowner, who was his father, resented how his Mom was used AND!! , the fact that the husband she came out of slavery with and her brother in law both were "DISAPPEARED" probably because this white man who then fathered my GRGranDad, and all his siblings desired my GrGrGrandmother for himself, resented his half white brothers even calling him Bruh Jeff, seemingly benefited by the white landowner clearing the way for him to purchase land - a priveleged and rare privilege for Blacks back then, though he himself paid for the land, and my GRGrandfather reveled in the fact that I took after him. I can recall he called me " Red Gal" as I stood in his lap and rubbed his balding head of straight, chestnut hair. Still, he had married my GrGrandmother Carrie though he loved her sweet, gentle, kind spirit especially because of her darkest of brown skin to reverse the effects of the circumstances of his birth. (please excuse the run on sentences and other annoying errors, my level of exhaustion is epic this last week of final exams)
Please look up the Willie Lynch letter and the Willie Lynch syndrome. Light against dark was a tactical measure to keep us from uniting as one people. It seems to have worked. My father's family (my 'black' half) are some of the most beautiful people I have ever seen. Light don't mean right and dark isn't evil. Unlearn and Relearn.
I couldn't get what specific point was been made. Many ideals came out. I would have preferred that you focused on one and develop it. Maybe you could have had a part 2 - 4.
For one I hate the term African American being used to describe the people who have been here since the country's founding. But two, isn't it a given that black Americans, given our various shades and colors are mixed to various degrees? idk. My mother's family is from VA and my grandmother and aunts all look like the woman in the middle but my grandmother is very adamant about being black even though she knows, and we all know that she has a lot of European ancestry
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All people who are not white go through crap. But as your skin gets darker, the crap gets worse. It doesn't go away when people become more mixed. It just get more complicated, because now we are talking about family ties. We see this with the Latino community whereas the darkest ones in their family are excluded out of certain opportunities. It is also seen in the communities around the world around dark pigmentation.
I believe it all has to with how you are raised. My Mom has five kids. She is Black and so is my Dad. My Great Great Grandfather was Irish. I was raised in a Family that loved each and every one of us children be it Dark or Light skinned. My Mom would always say she has two beautiful chocolate children, two beautiful vanilla children and one sweet carmel child. We were never pitted against each other has sisters or brothers. My Aunts and Uncles loved us and that was all we knew.. We were never made to feel any less because of our skin color. I have a son who is of mixed race black and white. I can't say he hasn't had his struggles in regards to his Dads side. With a few family members who are from Nebraska and choose to act as if they can't figure out how to behave when he is around. Example: When my son sees his White Uncle. His Uncle always wants to greet him with a high five and using the words like "What's Up'" with my son. Instead of just being an Uncle without all the non-sense. But my sons Aunties who are White have children who are mixed with Arabic and White. He is very close to them because they have an understanding of having children of mixed race. I also have a daughter and her Dad is Black. But I have had people throughout my life asking if she were my child because she is of dark skinned and boy does that foolishness and ignorance piss me off. Though I am not mixed in regards to my parents both being Black. My skin is light and I have Freckles. I'm always asked if I'm mixed and when I say I'm not. People swear up and down that I'm not telling the truth. I have cousins who always make comments about my skin color. They will say "you can't be a part of this family because you are to light to fit in. But my response has always been. Stop the foolishness and get beyond believing that every light skinned person has to be of mixed race. Which is a straight lie from Hell! Their are millions of Black people who are also born into the world with different color eyes and skin. Who have parents that are not mixed. My dad for Example: His eyes were Green, two of his sister's eyes and brothers are green also. Not all of them had Green eyes. A few have hazel color eyes and the rest. Just brown eyes. My Dads parents were both Darker skinned people. But again I stress for the record. Color was not an issue on either side of our Families. My older sister who is dark skinned is Gorgeous and when she was in school. She was extremely popular. I wanted to be my Big sister. She was just cool and look like a Black Farrah Facet! I didn't think of color until stepping out into the World. When I realized this color thing is out of control. You have Irish people who were not considered White but now claim they are White. Really! You still have groups of Irish people who are called Black Irish. You have Italians claiming to be White. We know that's a lie with their skin being dark and even Spanish people claiming to be of White race. Lies all lies. So society is full of races that know damn well they are not White. We as Black people have a little bit of this and that in us. But being a Black Female having two gorgeous children. It is my duty to make sure my kids know that first and foremost they are loved. To let my son know to embrace his heritage from both sides of the fence and for my beautiful Black daughter who is not mixed to love her color and embrace the beauty of being born into a family of various colors. She is beautiful because she is a gift from God. My daughter did struggle when she was young because her cousins my sisters kids are Puerto Rican and Black. My daughter as she stated as a young teenager. Everywhere she turned people were always saying that her cousins were beyond pretty. But being the Mom that I am. I stated, that yes your cousins my nieces are beautiful but I made sure that my daughter knew she was just as pretty and that beauty started from within. For her to know her self worth and shine like the beautiful soul she is. Now she is in College has come into her own and you could never tell her she is less of anything because of the color of her skin. She loves who she is. Inside and Out. She doesn't desire to be anything other than the person God created. Your self worth has nothing to do with your skin color but everything to do with what God has put within you. Embrace your Beauty, mixed or no mixed and never let family or friends or anyone make you think your not as beautiful as they are because you are a shade darker. We are a Rainbow Society. Thank God we are not all walking around all one color. That would be extremely Boring. Plus when you choose a mate. Choose the a mate not based off of skin color but because you can see your life shining brightly with that person by your side.
Mulatto and Creole are differnet right? Creole is of French, African, Native, and Spanish and Mulatto is an old school term for a half white half black person.
18:36 OMG, no, she didnt! And was I the only one who was quietly enjoying the side-eye that Mother Yvonne was giving Grandma Dianne XD But, on topic, I thought this documentary was very interesting. But I think we should be striving for racial parity instead on racial oneness. These concepts or mutually inclusive: you cant have one without the other. Once we all start believing that we are the same and start treating each other the same, the superficial distinctions that divide us will cease to exist
Beautiful! I'm so happy for you that you realized you don't have to carry any label only identify the truth that you ladies are multi racial and multi ethnic beautiful indeed.❤️❤️😊👍❤️🌹
In America, we have our own definition of what is black in America. The internet allows people from other nations to spill their lack of information into our sphere. For those who don't know, all across the 7 continents there is something similar to the one drop rule. Europe is one. The African continent is another. In fact, America's rule was model after Africa
I am Creole and I’ve been through all this. I know who my European relatives come from and who some of them are. I know my Native American relatives are. I know my Caribbean great grandmother was and where she came from as a slave. But is might not be able to find her family. Anyways it has been difficult.
