Who Counts as Black? | Tammi Mac Full Episode 

As an unambiguous black woman, no. You are black if both parents are black. you are biracial if you are biracial. I don't get excited when I see biracial people represent black people in media because I don't see myself in them.

This panel is clueless. As an unambiguous Black woman, I find the topic offensive. WTF?!!

What a silly question! Two black people equals a black offspring. One black person and one non black person equals a mixed race person. I honestly don't know how that cannot be comprehended. Geeezesh🙄

Tammi, no disrespect intended, but you should revisit this topic with an intellectually (topically) stronger panel.

When will Tammi do an episode on ‘Who counts as White’ and bring have white panelists and some biracial folks and let’s see how quickly they tell you who is what if they’re not full European. Not one guest on this panel was intellectually equipped to discuss this topic.

Where is Cynthia g. She can shut this down

BLACK DOES NOT MEAN MIXED! WE HAVE BECOME HATERS OF THE BLACKNESS WHICH COMES FROM THE BLACK WOMAN!!! I'm still waiting for someone to tell what favors they do for black folks? What are we getting /gaining from them? Seems they are always copying off a Black woman's child and many of them become rich and famous from that.

There's no fully "black" people on this panel. Where's the ADOS, FBA's, Indigenous, "Black Americans" etc at?!?!

Being "not white" and "definitely not white" does not make you BLACK. It was interesting watching the actress be adamant about not reading for white roles, but still acknowledging that she reads for Black roles. She should not read for Black roles either, possibly taking opportunities from Black actresses (2 Black parents). Respectfully, she should read exclusively for roles created for bi-racial, mixed race, and multi-racial people. 🧐

Zendaya is biracial. She is not the first black anything

This is frustrating. The black women isn’t representing the issue properly

I would have loved to be on this panel for this question. This panel missed the mark.

This was not a good panel there was no contrasting argument.

Why is it always a big conversation about mixed people being black but never a discussion about the other races that they are... because other races gatekeep their bloodline

This was not the best panel to discuss this topic. I don't want to call out anyone specific, but one of these just didn't seem.....*unable to find a gentler word*....smart.

This panel was a let down. none of them had well thought out ideas or thoughts. for instance, one angle would have been, maybe we celebrate a black win or first when the person who wins or does it proclaims THEMSELF as black. black people have been saddled with the racist one drop rule for far too long. black is more than how you look. it's your spirit. your center. your identity. if a biracial person sees themself as black, then it's a black win. hell, if rachel dolezal genuinely sees herself as black, and attributes any wins or success to blackness, we should take that too. in slavery, white kids were raised by black slaves. a case could be made that black people owned whatever success the white kids grew to have. but i stand firm, it only counts as a black win or first when the person who does it claims black. period.

*Mix is mix and monoracial is monoracial; Latino is not a race, Latino is a male and a Latina is a female person regardless of race a part of the Hispanic "culture"* .

Regardless to what they say, a mixed man can't speak for me.

The girl in the blue needs to stop talking. She is all over the place.

I just learned that race is not defined by genetics anymore. It is all about what you as an idividual choose to identify as. The one drop rule was abolished in 1967. I have never felt much affiliation with the black culture, almost like I was forced to be a part of this group without warrant. I have spent my whole life duped into thinking I was relegated to the dungeon when the door was always open elsewhere unknowingly. So depressed that I missed out on a normal womanhood, life, opportunities, and significant relationships all because I thought I had to identify black. The next half of my life I am choosing to be something else. I prefer to have no racial category but if I have to choose something, it will be other. I have that right and I will exercise it.

Des keeps contradicting herself...they're mixed not black...🤔🤔🤔✊🏽🙄🙄🙄

' A Black of drop in you '

These days, all black people who are NOT Republicans are considered the REAL, card-carrying black person.

Why were these particular guests selected for this topic? This was a wasted segment.

if my paternal grandparents are fully black (coming from black parents), and my maternal grandparents are white and a Pacific Islander (Chinese, Philippine, and Hawaiian), and I have a “brown skin” child with a bm, should she identify as black being as though her phenotype actually portrays that of a black baby or multiracial like me?

I have an interesting perspective on this and I truly hope its received and perhaps considered. I am canadian and of mixed decent. My father is a Canadian immigrant from Trinidad . He came to Canada at 17 I believe. My mother is Syrian and Lebanese. She was born in Canada to her immigrant parents. Because her family is so fair they pass very much as Italians, ir just caucasien. However my mother does look Arab. Anyways they all married french on their side and raised their families as french. The family last name was even changed to a French last name when HER father came to Canada. Anyways all this to say ,because my father came to Canada alone, Us 4 kids were raised very "Canadian ". French family get togethers. Sometimes there were some Lebanese influences, but for the most part we were just raised Canadian. Yes, I always knew I was mixed. I never tried to deny that. I grew up feeling lucky to have 2 cultures to celebrate. Although most of my dads culture I only really knew the food and music. At 13 when my parents divorced my father moved to LA and my 2 sisters and I went with him. I have NEVER in my life felt such racism and EMPHASIS on race until I moved to the USA. Suddenly I was no longer Farrah, I was defined by my race. In canada I knew what I was, I was never confused by that. Moving to LA my first week of school I was approached by about 30 black girls ready to attack me because I didn't "talk black" , dress black, listen to black music. This relentless séparation amd need to classify is very much an American issue . And in my opinion not healthy. That experience living there led me down a path of questioning who I was . I felt forced to act and dress a certain way to be accepted amd that brought me to what I called my 'aaliyah' phase lol. Eventually I came back around to who the real me was, but the experience still happened and it was not positive. In my years of dating in the states I had been insulted and even physically attacked by means of garbage thrown at me because of being in an interracial relationship. This hate and obsession with race will not stop if it's constantly being seen as a positive thing. I only felt all of these things being discussed as far as confusion, not fitting in etc, when I was in that environment I'm the US where there's such an emphasis on it. And trust me, there are plenty of black people in Canada so it has nothing to do with That. Anyway this is just food for thought. But I will say I appreciate the respectful way this conversation is happening on this episode because I have seen some that really made me sad for the human race

Why am I not surprised the panel has no deeply melanated women. Smh

This convo is extremely disingenuous. I can't stomach sitting through the entire thing. Des is being dishonest & willfully delusional; Mckenzie is McClueless, but she was raised by a white woman from a racist fam, so I don't expect her to comprehend; the DJ added a bit of comedic relief, but he also contradicted himself numerous times. This convo needs a pt.2 with actual/real black people. Meaning both parents are black (making their child at least 80% or more African decent). People who when asked, what color are you, they immediately understand - with no questions asked - black/African American is the only option available to them (not a mixture, not other, etc.). Preferable a hue of the darker skinned men/women being replaced; & definitely someone with a 4-year college degree or their own business. How is this the business of being black, but all 3 panelist openly stated their not fully black (even the 1 who looks black doesn't want to claim it - damn shame - but I'm not surprised). This Is America.

This show features the most ignorant and inarticulate panelists they can find to have a discussion facilitated by a host with poor people skills. I've tried. I really have. This channel could really stand to improve their programming and who's featured on it.

1 black person + 1 black person = black 1 biracial with black person + 1 black person = black Everyone else is not black

My son is majority black and I am not. I mark Black and Latin on our paperwork. We’re also indigenous and White. But majority of both of us is Black and Latin. So that’s how I mark it.

These conversations could be so important but it’s always the wrong people on the panel. And then sometimes Tammie(as much as I like her) asks the wrong questions.

I don't agree with DES I take that back

For me mixed raced people are black, especially if they identify as so. Is the reason some black women feel different because of the light skin privilege ? but you also have light skin black people too.

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I respectfully disagree with the young woman Des that said you have to be 100% Black to be Black. If you're Black and your Ancestors were enslaved in this country (the U.S.), then you are not 100% Black; meaning you do not have 100% African DNA. Many of our female Ancestors were r*ped during slavery and as a result, your DNA is also composed of European DNA as well as DNA from other racial groups. If the majority of your DNA is mostly African DNA, then you are Black.

If Black and Latin aren’t both being able to be marked at all … then I just mark Black. Bc my son is majority Black anyway. I’m not … But I am more Black than I am Latin. So whatevs. I just mark Black if Black and Latin aren’t both able to be marked. I identify as both though. Also, Afro American people are Americans that are of African descent. I am still the definition of Afro American. I am of an Afro Latin ethnic group Louisiana Creole. So if I’m marking Black it 99% of the time says Black / Afro American and doesn’t only apply to those that are majority Black. Those of us that aren’t majority are still within the Afro American classification.

I disagree with thee are so many shades of Black and African when there is not. Reds, High Yella and more are not BLACK or AFRICAN. There is only one shade.

10:42 its a partial win for "pure blacks" it does count

So if Mariah Carey a win for blacks

Biracial means two identities at once. Just like I am a black woman, and a black American woman, so three at once! I have a different experience than a black British woman, or a black Jamaican woman, or a black Nigerian man but there is a connection and common experience there. To identify as both, or all, or focus on one more than other sometimes is not negating one or the other.

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Fully Black, 100% Black IN America. OK 😂

BO are so damn divisive even when it comes to allies🤦🏿‍♂️ they constantly run off help and then complain about not being accepted 🤦🏿‍♂️

Kamora Lee?

You are who you identify as and who you represent.