It took me until I was about 24 yrs old to be truly comfortable inside my own skin and to embrace who and what I was. My moms was black..father white. And they were not married. Although he did support me. In school I was called everything from halfbreed to high Yellow..and even oreo. I was a big kid played Football. So nobody bothered me physically. After trying to..fit in with one group then the other. It dawned on me, I didn't have to fit in anywhere. I went to the military ,college and got a job. I've dated every race on this earth!! I finally married a Filipino. I live my life having a variety of friends. I don't try to fit in with any one particular group. I'm simply myself. Proud to be alive and thriving. And I am thankful my moms and dad got together to create ME.
It's a struggle to overcome the hatred and insecurity of our society pressuring you to chose one or the other. The reality is you are both. Only someone that's insecure will try to tell you that you're not enough. Accept who you are and be happy.
Omg..im so glad that i stumbled apon this....the Louisiana Creoles are exactly like the South african coloureds...even the way they look...its so nice to find people like yourself halfway across the world..
they are all beautiful people. Nothing wrong with recognizing all of your heritage. I am black, Native American, Chinese, and German. I love all my ancestors and all my cultures.
VAMPIRELIBBY HODGES amen I'm with you I'm mixed to, my mother half black, half white and Native American. On my father side My great grandmother was of Hispanic heritage. I get people who say what are you?. I tell them I'm mixed, if we learn to accept mixed race exist. Forget about this brainwashing one drop rule
Brown eyed Starlight my father is acadian and native american and my great grandmother on my moms side is afro-native american. I think its really cool how diverse and ethnical we are and we should be able to express that celebrate it
@@aor8092 you’re a clown lmfao. me accepting and embracing who I am, isn’t erasing any culture. And newsflash buddy, I’m part of the black community. Whether you like it or not lmao
i really wish that the term "mulatto" will be acceptable again in America. In Spanish-speaking countries, "mulatto" simply means someone who is mixed black (sub-Sahara African) and white (European). "biracial" is too vague, it can mean black-Native American, black-Asian, black-Polynesian
Some of "us" were NEVER raped or enslaved... some black families as far back as the 1700s were FREE PEOPLE here in North America before 1776. My family is originally from the Northern Virginia area (1770s) then before the Civil War moved to Richmond, Kentucky... but ended up in Richmond, Indiana & Ohio as FREE PEOPLE of color.
You are typical person who assumes multi generational mixed race ppl are begotten by slave rape. Our white granfathers, married ALL of our African grandmothers, 7 generations ago. Free people of color. Know your history and stop trying to tell us ours. We know where we come from.....
That whole thing where you are what society says you are NEVER STUCK with me, it never mattered to me what society looked at me as, I've Never NOT Identified as a Mixed-race person . When I look in the mirror i see a Mixed race person staring back at me. When i look at the world i see it through the eyes of someone who has a duel heritage and not through the eyes of someone who is just of one race and that's it . No matter what someone else sees when they look at me I identify myself by what I SEE when i look at me and that's as a Biracial or Mixed-Race person . I don't know why most mixed people end up caving in to society trying to tell them what they are and they just go along with it, i was never of that mindset, the more someone tries to tell me what i am and how i should identify the more i don't give them what they want and it makes me want to identify as Biracial even more because my identity is up to ME not society , it's called having a BACKBONE and not letting society push you around, I think it's time Biracial people stand up and start pushing back .
you are who your father is cause that's where we come from. having a mother whose a different race from your father makes you, the offspring, look confusing. That's the hard truth. deal with it.
+rockster0192 No. you are what both of your parents are science says so. The whole thing "you are what your father is " comes from the bible, in a time where women were looked at as property therefore as property she could inherit nothing, not even the right to take claim to her own children , the mindset of " you are what your father is " comes from a very misogynistic era where women were only valued for the bride price and her womb Science has already debunked this patriarchal ideology a long time ago catch up, the offspring is the direct genetic representation of BOTH their parents not just one , the mans genetic code is carried in his sperm giving the offspring 23 genetic chromosomes the mother's genetic code is carried in the egg giving her offspring 23 genetic chromosomes from her as well . Both parents contribute the same number of genetic code to their offspring anything more and you have genetic disorders such as Down Syndrome anything less and you have disorders such as Turner Syndrome . Go educate yourself, just because it has been a popular concept for a long time doesn't make it factually correct .
i hate when mix people say stuff like the whole world is gonna be mixed and everybody is gonna look mixed one day i think it's so silly to think that because yo black mother or father fell in love with someone outside they race that every person on the planet will fall in love with someone outside they race and i say this as multi racial mix of puerto rican Brazilian and African American person that i love to see other walks of life other visions of love i love things that are foreign to me and what i grew up around and it is silly to think that the actions of interracial love making can whipe out a single race it's just a foolish way of thinking it's like when people say spanish will be the new english because of how much latinos are dominating the work force in america and so on and so forth LOL like people who don't grow up in Spanish speaking households don't normally end up speaking Spanish as a first language i would think people are smart enough to know that LOL it's just silly
I like how they mentioned the voice and how people talk! I have learned that some people get offended if a Black/Multiracial person speaks proper or clear English! Some people call it being "stuck up" or "smart mouth".
It's strange, because I have heard similar life stories in my country Brazil, but these stories are in history books. In 1700s and 1800s biracial brazilians seem to have gone through similar hardships.
Hello, my name is Sterling Hudson. I made this documentary out of my own curiosity and questions about my identify as a Black American. I thank all of you for your comments! I read every one of them, both the positive and the negative, the interaction lets me know that these kinds of questions still needs to be asked! There is a journey that each of us need to take to fully have a better idea of who we are! Please continue to question your self and the answer will be more clear!
Do you still stop by to read commentary? I guess this vid popped up for me because I have been searching for videos about biracial and mixed folks, since I am biracial. I noticed Charles Byrd is in this. I recognize him from some online social media groups I used to be in. That piqued my interest further and I watched until the end. I might someday write or create a video about the changing social climate that I'm now seeing: more & more monoracial black ppl are speaking out and stating disapproval over biracial black and white folks identifying as black, only. It's interesting to me because I never heard that from the black community when I was younger. In fact, there was def more pressure to claim your blackness as an expectation of being biracial - at least where I grew up.
Waaaaaao I'm very surprised to see that here un America, this biracial thing is such a big deal. in my country this is so comun, and I come from a "third word" shocking stuff.
morenita margarita It shouldn’t be shocking if you knew American history. This country was founded by white supremacy. Race will always be a big deal in America.
In America 4 in 10 black babies are aborted unless the father is white then the mixed baby is celebrated, BLM? Why do black folks still say the N, support the Democrat Plantation and mock those with dark skin?
Hayden H Where did you get those stats ? Credible sources please. Most of us are not checking for white men. Come way down off that high horse. If that was the case, there would be millions of black women having babies with white men. There’s a lot of black men who have babies with other races but that’s not our thing. Sorry to burst your bubble.
@@slarvadain188 You come down from yours too lol cause it's near the same on black men and women going with other races. Media may make it look as if one does it way more than the other but in reality it's pretty close. over 80% of black men and women marry a black woman or man. sorry to bursy your bubble it's yall thing at just about the same rate that it's a black man's thing.
At the end of the day know one is going to tell me who I am and am not allowed to fall in love with. If mix racing was really prohibited I would be a single mother atm. When I was ready to marry and have children all black men told me was we can have a baby but I'm not getting married. However that was not the answer I got from the man who is now my white husband.
Good for you, I'm white and honestly I don't restrict myself to who I fall in love with or who I should be friends with, because I judge people on their personality not what colour skin they have, shame more people don't think like this.
@@richardbryant3169 And see that’s the other thing you have people like umar Johnson out here telling people specifically black young men that they don’t need to be dating outside of their race that is ridiculous and racist I don’t care who anybody falls in love with as long as they make you happy that’s all that matters I’ve dated every single kind of woman there is and I love all people I don’t care what color you are are you a good person that’s what I care about your character. You could be the darkest most mellow needed black woman ever but if your character and your personality sucks then I’m not gonna fuck with you
Amshyll good for you is right! Why people have to be so stupid about color is something I've never understood. I can't imagine putting color before love.
This is a beautiful video. I teach Race and Ethnicity in the US, in a university in Budapest, Hungary. My students just read "The Color or Water" and were beyond touched by it. This is a fabulous addition. I cannot wait for them to view it. Thank you!
AS Mohamed Ali said you mix white with black you get weak coffee,he was proud of his race and looked down on blackmen who chased whitewomen and degraded blackwomen.
@1:32 Omfg. That's precisely the same reason why I love the word mulatto and have been using it as my username for over a year now. I find it odd, however, when I get attacked by people (both black and white) when they see me commenting on certain subjects and think that me having that name makes what I'm saying even more offensive.
I felt awkward teaching my daughter with colors for the first time. It wasn't until this past summer that i expressed that she was not black but mixed. It was when we were talking about colors and i couldn't find anything brown so i told her she was brown and it started from there. She then asked if i was brown i pointed at my arm and said i am white and showed her a picture of her dad and told her he's black. Ever since that day she loves the color brown. It's her favorite. And I'm proud.
Very nice, the best way to raise a mixed race child is like that, letting them know they are unique, both races, and that is and to be proud of it, anything else leads to confusion.
***** You're either crazy, jealous or both. It's no less or more selfish for someone (like you) to decide on a "designer baby" based on who you WON'T have kids with. Plus, I can tell you firsthand, I LOVE being biracial : )
you're clearly angry and bitter no one wants you, boooh hoooo , and take it out on mix people because the person that dumped you left you for another race and had a mixed child.
I agree there's nothing special about mixed (biracial) kids. But when some blacks obsessively intrude on biracials, insisting they ID as black, those blacks are over-valuing biracial people. All see it but them.
***** I agree there's nothing special about being mixed (biracial). Hopefully a lot of blacks will come to understand that by no longer trying to "claim" half-whites.
I love being Mixed-Race/Multiracial. I wouldn't want to be anything else! And I see you got my man Charles Michael Byrd on the video!? The founder of the legendary Interracial Voice website from back when. Where's the rest of the video?
@BigJem, I don't know why but the reply button isn't working. I just wanted to thank you for making a reference to "Mulatto Butts." One of the best TV songs ever!
So what his dad abandoned his mother and he lived in a former colony of the creators of slavery , in a land where maroons forced freedom , its not unusual for him to be proud of his black side all he had was his black mom... everyone’s situation are different no biracial is one race or two races , reality dictates what he feels comfortable as but no biracial claims white , why is that if not the lack of acceptance by white society of anything to do with black ... Malcom x another mixed race but that didn’t help provide him more opportunity for his white side , Obama mixed race and he never did anything for the black community and spoke to his black community in a different way then he spoke to his white audiences , that’s part of his upbringing to conversely to bob marley , Obama was raised by a white mother and white grandparents, his African father was in Kenya living the African lifestyle , Obama was brought up in a white lifestyle so , no we didn’t forget he was biracial nobody forgets , but you forgot bob Marley forgot he was white , intentionally .
Am from the Caribbean my dad was Black my mom is half white & half Indian , back home is normal, I never felt out of place. But I do hate to be call a Mulato , it sounds so horrible in my book I don't think is right to use it is for Animal only🐕🐈
Y'all keep saying and using the word "black". Black is not even a race. Damn wake up!! Smh...sounds so stupid. "Black" this and "black" that....smn..and "black" and "black"..
In America 4 in 10 black babies are aborted unless the father is white then the mixed baby is celebrated, BLM? Why do black folks still say the N, support the Democrat Plantation and mock those with dark skin?
SoozanJ Bee if that's the case most of Black America is biracial we have a quarter this in a quarter of that cuz it's a proven fact that most black people in America have at least 25% European blood in them most not all
You're right, you are both. However, I don't blame the black people that see you as black. It's normal to see your ethnicity in someone else, even if that person is mixed. I've heard Jewish people refer to Lenny Kravitz as Jewish, and Asians refer to Tiger Woods as Asian. Sadly, when a person is part black they usually get love from the black side only ( I know, exceptions). It's understandable that Dustin would gravitate to the side that shows love. I don't really care about the labels.
The problem begins the moment someone asks: 'what do you think about yourself? do see yourself as black or white, or mixed?' As if we all had to choose a side, and if you choose to take no sides at all, or all of them....., there will be consequences then....We all are aware of our physical differences (to say otherwise would be ridiculous), but we don't get into these categorizing debates over people who wear glasses vs not glasses, or taller vs shorter, or thick eyebrows vs thin ones...
It's VERY important. It defines your History, it defines the future of you race, it makes you who you are whether you acknowledge it or not. It determines how successful your children will be, the choices they make, and how society views them.
Honesty First well guess what their still black because I’m half black and half white and people in this world still look at me as a black person and I’m light skinned
@@kyboutbizz2417 Same, I was raised under the belief that we look more Black cause Black genes are dominant. Not sure if that's actually true or not, but if I had to pick I'd say it's true.
I'm Italian & Beninese (Benin) male and that's exactly how i feel. There was a time where i tried finding myself, looking for a sense of belonging but like you accepted the circumstances. I told myself just be yourself and the people who you attract will be the people you attract. It just upsets me when i hear races particularly white & black degrading each other. Sometimes i feel like a dad watching two brothers fight over who's toy car is the prettiest and well engineered, when it dont matter
"Mulatto" is only derogatory in America. It was on the US census until 1930 when racist congressmen fought to have the racial classification removed so to strip Mulattos of their identity by enforcing the one-drop-rule.
@ZacariasVEVO Well said! Mixed people should be proud of and embrace their heritage,and should not have to choose a particular race over another. And why is it that black Americans are so fast to scream about racism, yet are so happy to uphold the racist one drop rule! Just to clarify I'm black by the way.
@celena332 I love that phrase"Love live Ambiguity" ( although i think you meant "Long live Ambiguity"-not important, though). You are absolutely right about the colorism/ light and dark skin issue. The sad fact is that many AA's have had nothing but absolute contempt for our kind of people through the decades and there is still a smoldering hatred. I know this because I got comments and e-mails from biracial teens and adults who told me about how they were treated by blacks, often cruelly.
@marastat1 Im multiracial as well. my father is black and korean and my mother is black/white/indian. I never did realize my family was different until i was about in the 7th grade. I have been discriminated against becasue of my racial background. People see me as a black person.when people ask me what i am,just like you, i say multiracial. i wish more people could understand the multiracial society more.i wish they would see us as a person and not all the different races.
Yes exactly. I am sick of people saying that you are only your fathers race and not your mothers race. That is not true that you are not supposed to identify with your mothers race even though you get chromosomes and DNA from both parents. I am not going to follow a sexist discriminatory race and ethnicity tradition.
I don't think race will ever completely disappear. People will find resason to differentiate themselves. Look at within each CONTINENT same race people fought each other over many issues , some might have been over phisical difference.
You're right. People think that everybody was singing Kumbaya together before contact and interaction with other races. Most crimes and conflicts have been intra-racial i.e within racial groups.
Omg this documentary really meant alot to me. My father is multiracial(white Portuguese African) and my mom is full African.Alot of people Ask me What are you?"why is your hair different from other black peoples" Mind you, i am In the 8th grade and people are still curious on my racial identity. I mostly get these questions from African Americans.I still the occasional stares when i go out with my dad because he looks like a full on Mexican being with his almost full "black" daughter.
Growing up, from the age of 4, I knew what "passing" meant but in the 1950's I thought I was a universe of one for doing it. I watched my great aunts straighten and bleach their hair and I could tell they were relieved that I was strawberry blonde. I wondered if that was why loved me? As I grew older it took on a wirey texture and the kids teased me. As a teen my sense of 'otherness' alienated me and filled me with rage. When the race riots came to Boston I was convinced I was a universe of one
My beautiful mixed brothers and sisters, do not let these black people or any people fool you and claim you as their race. Don't follow the prejudice ways of the one drop rule because your still mixed that rule is for people who couldn't afford the proper Education. Mixed race is beautiful and would continue to grow which would mean less comments on race genocide and stuff. I understand that people are scared that we wouldn't know our roots and cultures but who cares. I'd rather live in a world without racism than know my roots. People must accept the mixed race instead of being jealous and being full of hatred
Dear BabbyKissy Saadiq, I understand that many of you mixed people have faced many challenges in your human experience. Pointing the finger at black people, as if we are the cause will not help, only hurt. I feel bad for you because as a human, we should always seek knowledge over emotion. The old saying goes if you don't know your history you are destined to repeat it. Black people didn't create the one drop rule. Thanks to Colorism, we have to see and hear about it everyday. My mother was very insecure and bullied by light skinned people growing up and still hasn't gotten over it. I'm very mixed on my father side. People keep hounding my daughter about her ethnicity at school on a daily basis. Please understand that Black people do not want to claim you nor do we hate you and we are not jealous. My boyfriend is Lebanese actually and we've been together many years. There are much greater tragedies in this world that we should be helping with. We should uplift each other, love people and understand each other with the hope of making this world better. Peace and Blessings
J B well I have a black mom and black friends and etc, so I'm nothing against blacks. It's just in my experience it was blacks that always praised me for being mixed then also bashed me to for being mixed, but then when I say something like "I'd prefer my white side because I feel more comfortable if I had to choose" then they'll say I'm black and stuff like wtf.. And I had the same treatment from whites at times because even though my skin gave a pass, I still had the thick 3a hair, full lips, hazel eye, and button nose which made sone of them think *WTF ARE YOU* I guess, but most never questioned my race as much as blacks do.
White people came up with the one drop rule.....you don't have to deny your heritage....and if a person who is of mixed heritage and they choose to identify with the black community for political and social reasons they should not be criticized...
Don't blame black people. Take a DNA and you will find out you have more than one ethnicity. The world is multicultural. This country is divided, because one group skin tone is different from the other.
Michelle Hurd has the accurate view here-she comes from her mother and father. Biraciality is based on parentage, simple as that. It is not based on a certain racial admixture per se and the calibration of race on a personal basis.
My people are from Trinidad which is a multicultural society, people mixed with a little of everything. This is not a new concept. Here in America it seems to be a Black/White issue. In the islands blacks are mixed with indigenous Indians, East Indian indentured servants, Europeans conquerers, Chinese laborers, the African slave and whatever else. Blacks recognize mixed people , whites may be clueless but we're not.
This woman crazy most blacks in Trinidad ain't mixed she is probably a mule herself which is why she trying to lump us in with her; you can see the coolie in she to with her dogulas ass. 30+ percent of the country is east Indians and 30+ percent is black of African decent the rest is divided up between the mixed breeds and other ethnicity such as Chinese, Syrians and whites. Go read a census with your lying ass! And she has no Carib in her the Caribs were killed out by the whites and them remainders fled into south america you can find the in countries such as Suriname along with the Arawak and other indigenous groups.
Dougla is what you call someone mixed with east Indian and black not indigenous. and I would still get a dna test because a lot of people black people tend to say they have Amerindian decent when they don't have an ounce and in actuality it's white dna they have, btw that is a scientific study. but anyways the Black gene is dominant and i'm sure you will show up with more black in you than anything else over generations the black gene takes over.
I never said you were a liar I called that woman who made the comment about trinis being mixed a liar. and that pic is hard to determine. what he is? well you can see his afro features but his face has a feature to it so maybe you're right maybe or yyour wrong I don't know the facts so i'm not gonna call you a liar. I can tell you this though you are black if you know anything about genetics you would know that you probably have 10% or less amerindian dna which means nothing. You should get a dna test though not for that but to find out what part of the motherland you come from.
Why you keep dwelling on some lil bit of native blood you have in youif you have any at all the amount is so small its nothing you can't even claim Amerindian heritage. if go to Suriname to the Amerindian tribes they not gonna accept you they gonna tell you to go to one of the African tribes.bottom line is you have very little as every generation pass you family will have less and les of what ever dna that is. your grand father was less than 30% something, your parents most likely less than 20 percent which put you at less than 10% or none at all because genes can skip a generation which can explain you sister hair and yours.
@marastat1 i know about being teased.i used to think that i was a white person becasue of my light skin,people used to tease me about it,but i just think they are jealous of our skin color.my mom had to sit me down and explain what i was. my hair is curly on the top and back but straight on the sides which is kinda weird, but i like it. but i think that im pegged for being black because my mom is part black.i dont look either black,korean, white or indian. im a mixture and im proud.
Today is February 23, 2018 Time is 2:45am. I have a strong comment !! I'll comment later? And I'll give the time and date, when I do. But I will leave a very long comment !!! Why do biracial people catch hell from black people, ( who are of darker skin tone )?? I listen to Tommy Sotomayor and he makes a good point !!! ( Mix people are not black ) Today's date is February 23,2018. Time is 3:02am
We wouldn't say things like mixed in reference to people like my sons if they where just black. They are black and ect. But then again maybe we the only tommy fans here...
I've gotten questions like this. I used to get frustrated answering because I've always said I was black. So I told my mom and she said," People ask because you are mixed. But putting what you are mixed with together makes you black." So to this day I'm still a little confused but it makes sense. Any way, I enjoy being mixed raced and black all the same.
People use the word Black as an umbrella term for mixed with African DNA or 100% African. So basically if someone calls themselves or someone else Black they can be mixed. A lot of Black people are actually mixed. Mixed is more accurate and current.
Oh my goodness, reading these comments are hilarious! All nations of people came from black people, the gene is dominant. Black can produce all colors of people. This has been scientifically proven. So, if life started in Africa and people walked across the continent into Europe and begin to mate with other people that were fare in skin tone, (due to evolution of darker skin becoming light. Mutation of the dominant gene becoming recessive, lack of melanocyte will cause a lighter color.) Then why are we talking about mixed race, and having to identify? All peoples of the earth are of one people, whether they want to admit it or not. You can come up with all kind of scenarios, but you can't lie on science. White, Coco, Tan, Yellow, Brown all come from black... Sorry to tell ya especially if your a hard core racist. So does one drop of white blood make one more white..naaa it really makes you more black.
"When the morning gather the rainbow won't you to know I am a rainbow too...To the rescue here I am...Won't you to know just if you can where I stand ?" Bob Marley, son of a black jamaican woman and a white british father...What a poetical description of our stuggle...
"Fugitives of reason" by "Mulato Collective" .. me gusto! ^ ^ The etymology of the term may derive from the Spanish and Portuguese word mulato, which is itself derived from mula (from old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin mūlus), meaning mule, the hybrid offspring of a horse and a donkey. Some dictionaries and scholarly works trace the word's origins to the Arabic term muwallad, which means "a person of mixed ancestry". Muwallad literally means "born, begotten, produced, generated; brought up", with the implication of being born and raised among Arabs, but not of Arab blood. Muwallad is derived from the root word WaLaD (Arabic: ولد direct Arabic transliteration: waw, lam, dal), and colloquial Arabic pronunciation can vary greatly. Walad means, "descendant, offspring, scion; child; son; boy; young animal, young one". In al-Andalus, Muwallad referred to the offspring of non-Arab/Muslim people who adopted the Islamic religion and manners. It specifically used to refer to the descendants of indigenous Christian Iberians who after several generations of living amongst a Muslim majority adopted their culture and religion. Notable examples of this category include the famous Muslim scholar Ibn Hazm. According to Lisan al-Arab, one of the earliest Arab dictionaries (c. 13th century AD), the term was originally applied to the children of Non-Muslim (often Christian) slaves or Non-Muslim children who were captured in a war and were raised by Muslims to follow their religion and culture. Thus, in this context, the term "Muwalad" has a meaning close to "the adopted". According to the same source, the term does not denote being of mixed race but rather being of foreign-blood and local culture. *****: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto
Here we are in the 21st century still having this ridiculous discussion. We’re all human. Anyone obsessed with trying to put someone in a box should put themselves in a box. Some people who have more melanin than others are of mixed race heritage but because they have more color they are put into a different category than a sibling that may have less color. With chromosomes and genes a child can reach back and absolutely not resemble either parent, grandparent, aunt/uncle, or sibling. For those of you that are stuck on categories wake up we’re all human!🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨
Were all human I keep hearing, it's a pity that many people with different values, cultures, religions, don't act like human beings , because of it their wouldn't be so much hatred, racism,wars
Everyone needs to understand that 90% of the US is mixed. we saw the definition. the average "full black American" is mixed, 70 to 95% African, 5 to 30% European, 1 to 5 % Native American and anything else that got mixed in. Same with 1/4 "white Americans" (especially southern white) are roughly around the same percentages of black Americans so there for many people are mixed.
mix people are hybrids of their parents, they're neither one of them. Hybrid Vigor- The tendency of a cross- bred individual to show qualities superior to those of their parents... Oxford Dictionary. there you go now I see why we're hated on so much.
it always will be. Humans by nature notice differences among themselves. Race is a very conspicuous difference that will never be overlooked, and since cultural difference often times align alongside racial lines, differences in culture will often times be attributed to differences in race. Differences in anything will always produce opinions both positive and negative, therefore we'll always have those who like different races and those who don't
I get White and Black is a controversal mixed but is it me White/Black childern be so confused. I have heard some say I am neither....(crickets in the background) um...yes you are both embrace it mark all that applies and keep pushing.
I really dont understand all those concerned about, what label do you really belong that always happen in USA. You guys are from the top of the world, 1st world and you dont learn until now to respect the difference between people??? WE ARE ALL HUMANS DESPITE RACE. Where i live is super common to find mulattoes. People mixed from indians and blacks, chinese and blacks, whites and blacks, and all this mixes, mixed together. I'm from Mozambique, next to south africa, where we find indians, Arab people, portuguese people, chinese people, native black people, and many other races join together. And let me tell you... many of those mixes create very very beautiful individuals. I'm Tired to hear people calling, individuals as Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, Hale Berry, OBAMA and many others as Black people. SOUNDS wrong to call them like this, because they are half black and half white ( mixed race or MULATTOES) Why you can accept 50 shades of grey and dont accept Mulattoes? Hope you understand my english... You know what... my official language is Portuguese.
Race and ethnicity in America continues to be a"problem" because of the history on how the *current* country was formed. Truth is there were First Nations Peoples here LONG before Europeans came and created divisions to support their notion of freedom.....
drestrpi drestrpi, that is correct, yet you never hear of that. Only the big bad white man, lol. Truth is, Native Americans were killing other Native Americans, taking them prisoner, raping the rival tribes women, stealing their things, warring against them, etc. Same about the blacks in Africa. I'm not making an argument to justify colonization, but it's strange how these facts are overlooked. Liberal media perhaps?
Linda White Yes, maybe so. And also maybe putting the blame on others. You have to look at it in a different light. Back then, it wasn't like today, races were at war with other races. Whites were at war with Native Americans and vice versa. When you are at war with another group, you don't show any mercy. So that's what happened and the stronger group emerged as the dominant group. In this case, it was the Europeans.
