In Case You Didn't Know...

Well, he's a 51 yr-old black man from Alabama. Does that clear anything up?

 

but what about my spiral curly hair? I have a body like a black chick too and so do all of the women in my family. Some serious coke bottle action going on...

 

Vigintiroon

 

So glad someone mentioned this, but if a "bi-racial" person who looked black (dark skin, african features) can't say they're white, then a "bi-racial" person who looks white and has white features shouldn't be able to say they're black.

They can say they're both, though. Like Shemar Moore does, he always says he's half black, half white....just an example.

Identifying with the cultural background is one thing, but claiming your skin is a different colour than it is, is ridiculous. No offense intended, if it causes any, but that's my opinion.

 

Awesome. Sounds delicious - like me... :smt004

 

Jesus...that explains a lot.

 

Hmmmm...

 

:smt038

 

What do you mean by that?

 

What man doesn't like a coke bottle figure..that's what I meant.

 

Whatever.

Personally I don't claim ALL biracial people as Black. Some of them just happen to have a Black parent, but they just don't identify that way.

Claiming Carole Channing as 'Black' is laughable.

Some of these biracial folks may not really identify as Black, but they aren't hostile toward their biracial parentage. Slash is one of those cats.

But Jennifer Beals doesn't like being identified by her Blackness at all.

I still hold to the rule and it's cold to say this, if you have to TELL me you're Black, then you aren't really.

Some people like Cash Warren, I dunno how he identifies since his Black father was a famous b-ball player at UCLA under John Wooden and a TV star on 'Hill Street Blues'.
Any juice Cash had growing up was because of his famous dad, not his White mom.

Basically I take biracial people just as PEOPLE, since they really are in-between. Being a chill person is more important than what a biracial person's racial identity is.


Karen Finney is a Democratic strategist and political analyst who appears on MSNBC all the time, and I just found I out recently she's biracial and identifies as Black.
For the past couple years I thought she was Italian or of Mediterranean descent.
Whatever. But I'll go along with it cause she's phine!!:smt080

 

Karen's father is Black, so if you can find one of her parents, she could go in the family thread. I know of everyone in that stupid "outing" article, plus Karen, but I guess I'm more concerned about racialism than most (from a sociological perspective of course) and probably know many public folks with African ancestry.

I'm not going to make any slighting comments on Karens ID choice, though I have some for those who use their Black ID/White skin to get ahead in politics or their respective careers. These folks are no Homer Plessy.

The television media will select Karen types just to fill any quota so they keep can keep dark skinned folks of television. Cindy Brunson from Espn who has a Black dad and CNN's Suzanne Malveaux related to Juilianne are just two, but this practice goes on heavy in tv.

 

Suzanne Malveaux isn't biracial, she's just the offspring of a light skinned Louisiana creole family.

BTW, I no longer by into the old racial trope that one drop makes someone Black.

Some of these folks have Black ancestry, but I don't know many Black folk except the most desperate or insecure who would claim them as Black, especially if they don't identify as such.

Like some others have stated, I don't like the entire tone of the article, which reads as if they're 'outing' people for having a Black or Biracial parent.
Like, 'I caught you!! You're not an Aryan WASP!!'smh

 

Duh, I know, why do you think I mentioned Julianne?

I'm only mentioning Suzanne as being an example of how the media likes to use such people (especially women) to fill a Black quota, all the while shunning dark skin folks.

 

"I still hold to the rule and it's cold to say this, if you have to TELL me you're Black, then you aren't really"

That's how I see it as well.

 

Ah, so to truly be black, one would have to look like Kimbo Slice, or Precious.

 

Nope.

One Drop is all it takes.

 

No, LA. According to post #16, you're misguided if you believe that. Either that or you're old. :smt102

 

I am a person of dry humor and sarcasm

I may not display it all the time but it is more often-than-not shown.

Over time you will notice when I am serious and when it is tongue-in-cheek.

That being said, I was serious about a punch in the nose.

I was joking in regards to upholding the one drop rule.

 

I guess that's what you think.

A person can be 'Black', but if you look like this;



I think it's understandable if I don't see you as a Black person with a White/biracial parent, and instead as a White person with some Black ancestry.

Not saying my viewpoint is right, but that's how my reptile brain is going to process the inverted images bouncing off my retinas.:smt033