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Posted: Wednesday April 18th, 2007 22:19 |
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Ekspeptional wrote: A Mixed race person is a mixed race person. Simple. And as a mixed raced person, they have a RIGHT to explore their cultures and choose (if they feel the need to) the race they feel comfortable with.
And what are some of u on about when ur saying "I don't trust mixed race people that hang around white folk" WTF?!?!? I rather be around a mix race person who equally embraces both races and cultures than someone who desperately tries to identify themself with one or the other.
People like Ms Dynamite for example piss me off. Preaching this and that about black folk and saying all kinds of f**kries about white folk in her interviews, but her Mum........who brought her into this world .........is WHITE?!?!? F*cking hypocrite.
Maybe her experience with white people OTHER than her "Mum" has led her to not so positive conclusions about them as a collective.....I think it's funny that "full blooded" Black folks can't seem to believe that mixed race white people who come to negative conclusions about whites as a collective are basing that on THEIR experience with them,lol. (particuarly in America). Many of them get a more up close and personal view of whites and how they do(in many cases getting to hear the most venomous racist drivel from their OWN WHITE RELATIVES...)I've known some who've experienced JUST THAT, than Full blooded Black folks ever do. If they conclude something negative about them as a group, who are we to argue? It's not like it doesn't square with many of OUR experiences/observations,lol.
BTW, Black people often confuse individual relations or how they get along with/FEEL about an individual white person with GROUP dynamics/behavior/tendencies. White folks by and large don't suffer from that little hangup....They routinely did/do come to the conclusion that:" my maid/friend/coworker XYZ is alright, but the rest of them ain't sh*t, or are criminals liars thieves,stupid etc." and are not the least bit troubled or thrown off focus, by what SEEMS like a contradiction to Black folks who obviously still don't have this race thing figured out, and spend far too much time obsessing over racial minutae,lol.
BTW, there are BLack people who marry and reproduce with a PARTICULAR white person, but don't have a positive view of white people in general, it happens EVERYDAY. There are white people who marry/like A PARTICULAR Black person(she/ he IS not like the OTHERS), and can't stand Black people in general, happens all day, errday.
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Posted: Wednesday April 18th, 2007 23:21 |
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Ekspeptional wrote: A Mixed race person is a mixed race person. Simple. And as a mixed raced person, they have a RIGHT to explore their cultures and choose (if they feel the need to) the race they feel comfortable with.
And what are some of u on about when ur saying "I don't trust mixed race people that hang around white folk" WTF?!?!? I rather be around a mix race person who equally embraces both races and cultures than someone who desperately tries to identify themself with one or the other.
People like Ms Dynamite for example piss me off. Preaching this and that about black folk and saying all kinds of f**kries about white folk in her interviews, but her Mum........who brought her into this world .........is WHITE?!?!? F*cking hypocrite.
Do you guys twist the point on purpose? We keep hearing the same thing. I am trying to "claim" both sides of myself. You have to do what you must and "Black" folks must do what we must.
The point has been made in various ways. Let me remake it. "Black" folks have always accepted mixed race people. And probably will for a good deal longer. Make no mistake, it may not always be that way. Cultures change over time. And so do their requirements for entry. African-Americans and most Africans in Western countries are by definition. . .mixed race anyway. But since race is social, we have become a defined group. . .even if there isn't a scientific basis for it.
We accept each other on the grounds of culture.
"Whites" do not, nor have they ever knowingly accepted a mixed-race person as their own. Because "Whites" created race and they created the notion that they were "pure" race. You can't tell "White" people who they are. They must decide that for themselves. If they wish to believe they are pure, so be it.
We have never been pure race. That has been a lie for 500 years. And that's where mixed folks go wrong. Genetics doesn't figure into our definition. We were "Black" because we were not "White". We created a culture with elements of European and African experiences. We became African-Americans.
Now, if you want to find the middle ground between "Blackness" and "Whiteness" do your deal.
But don't whine about it.
Because it's simply another group. And it isn't "enlightening". Mixed-race folks are simply creating another social group. One that will be as exclusive as the "White" one. It isn't about embracing both sides, because in order to be a member of a culture or of a group experience, that group must accept you.
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Posted: Wednesday April 18th, 2007 23:40 |
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Anyone wonder why the majority of mixed-race folks usually have some amount of African blood?
It ain't rocket science.
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Posted: Thursday April 19th, 2007 00:07 |
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I have seen you write this a few times in this thread. On the other page you wrote this " We are all half-breeds, who id with cultural groupings."
Some Black Caribbean people in the UK may have a mixed ancestry but a lot of them do not. It maybe only a small amount of mixed ancestry that some may have got but there are plenty who are not mixed. Also, there are a lot of West Africans in the UK. In fact the fastest growing Black community in the UK is the West African community. The large majority of Africans in the UK are not mixed race and many are only still first generation and their parents came from Africa.
There are plenty of AA who have a 95% or more African ancestry.
Maybe you could explain what you mean about this a bit more.
TheDogon Do you guys twist the point on purpose? We keep hearing the same thing. I am trying to "claim" both sides of myself. You have to do what you must and "Black" folks must do what we must.
African-Americans and most Africans in Western countries are by definition. . .mixed race anyway. But since race is social, we have become a defined group. . .even if there isn't a scientific basis for it.Â
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Posted: Thursday April 19th, 2007 00:49 |
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I am speaking directly to the argument of "embracing who you are". Mixed people must do what they must. If that is their road, they have chosen it. They may feel this is unavoidable. Well, others don't feel that way. And it isn't about denying who they are. It is about understanding group identity.
Some folks don't want to try to identify with a group that rejects them. Others may simply like one culture over another. Still others may simply see race for the farce that it is.
Again, race isn't about the "races". It is simply about who is "White" and who is not "White". Understand, and as I have often said, these are social definitions. The only validity they have is in the beliefs of the people who are involved. If a person really believes they are pure race, then they are. If they truly believe they are mixed race, then they are. And that is all the fact that goes into it. No science. No genetics.
Mixed people are mixed, because they claim to be mixed and they accept each other for being mixed.
So I don't pretend to be pure race. I have a culture and a history. My grandmother had American Indian blood. My great-grandmother was half "White". We know that we are descendants of mixed race folks. We know that our ancestors were slaves and slave owners. We know that we aren't "White", because "Whiteness" would not have us. We know that we are not American Indian because American Indians would not have us.
Yet those folks you have named. . .those Africans who have better than 95% African blood, accept us without question. I don't know where that other garbage comes from. The crap about Africans making fun of the way light-skinned folks talk. Or rejecting us, or whatever. But my life wasn't like that. I was the one with the "good" skin" and the "good" hair. My auntie has hair down her back. My cousin, because of her mix, look like she was Asian. In fact, most "Black" folks look for reasons to put us on a pedestal, simply because we were not dark-skinned.
But we were always "Black" folk.
My cousin married the darkest brother you would ever want to see. My aunt married another "mixed" "Black" man. No one even batted an eye.
We are not a race. We never were a race. We never will be one. This is who we are.
Africans in America.
rachie wrote: I have seen you write this a few times in this thread. On the other page you wrote this " We are all half-breeds, who id with cultural groupings."
Some Black Caribbean people in the UK may have a mixed ancestry but a lot of them do not. It maybe only a small amount of mixed ancestry that some may have got but there are plenty who are not mixed. Also, there are a lot of West Africans in the UK. In fact the fastest growing Black community in the UK is the West African community. The large majority of Africans in the UK are not mixed race and many are only still first generation and their parents came from Africa.
There are plenty of AA who have a 95% or more African ancestry.
Maybe you could explain what you mean about this a bit more.
TheDogon Do you guys twist the point on purpose? We keep hearing the same thing. I am trying to "claim" both sides of myself. You have to do what you must and "Black" folks must do what we must.
African-Americans and most Africans in Western countries are by definition. . .mixed race anyway. But since race is social, we have become a defined group. . .even if there isn't a scientific basis for it.
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Posted: Thursday April 19th, 2007 00:53 |
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TheDogon wrote: Ekspeptional wrote: A Mixed race person is a mixed race person. Simple. And as a mixed raced person, they have a RIGHT to explore their cultures and choose (if they feel the need to) the race they feel comfortable with.
And what are some of u on about when ur saying "I don't trust mixed race people that hang around white folk" WTF?!?!? I rather be around a mix race person who equally embraces both races and cultures than someone who desperately tries to identify themself with one or the other.
People like Ms Dynamite for example piss me off. Preaching this and that about black folk and saying all kinds of f**kries about white folk in her interviews, but her Mum........who brought her into this world .........is WHITE?!?!? F*cking hypocrite.
Do you guys twist the point on purpose? We keep hearing the same thing. I am trying to "claim" both sides of myself. You have to do what you must and "Black" folks must do what we must.
The point has been made in various ways. Let me remake it. "Black" folks have always accepted mixed race people. And probably will for a good deal longer. Make no mistake, it may not always be that way. Cultures change over time. And so do their requirements for entry. African-Americans and most Africans in Western countries are by definition. . .mixed race anyway. But since race is social, we have become a defined group. . .even if there isn't a scientific basis for it.
We accept each other on the grounds of culture.
"Whites" do not, nor have they ever knowingly accepted a mixed-race person as their own. Because "Whites" created race and they created the notion that they were "pure" race. You can't tell "White" people who they are. They must decide that for themselves. If they wish to believe they are pure, so be it.
We have never been pure race. That has been a lie for 500 years. And that's where mixed folks go wrong. Genetics doesn't figure into our definition. We were "Black" because we were not "White". We created a culture with elements of European and African experiences. We became African-Americans.
Now, if you want to find the middle ground between "Blackness" and "Whiteness" do your deal.
But don't whine about it.
Because it's simply another group. And it isn't "enlightening". Mixed-race folks are simply creating another social group. One that will be as exclusive as the "White" one. It isn't about embracing both sides, because in order to be a member of a culture or of a group experience, that group must accept you.
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Hmmmmmmm, I understand what ur saying, but I don't think it's really that white people don't accept mixed race folk, remember that the majority of the time, mixed raced children are raised into predominantly black societies, so it's natural that they're gonna identify with black folk more than whites. Most mixed race people I've seen who stay around white folk where brought up in a white neigbourhood.
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Posted: Thursday April 19th, 2007 16:05 |
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TheDogon I think that your reply made things a bit clearer for me. 
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Posted: Thursday April 19th, 2007 16:28 |
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Ekspeptional wrote:
"Whites" do not, nor have they ever knowingly accepted a mixed-race person as their own. Because "Whites" created race and they created the notion that they were "pure" race. You can't tell "White" people who they are. They must decide that for themselves. If they wish to believe they are pure, so be it.
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Hmmmmmmm, I understand what ur saying, but I don't think it's really that white people don't accept mixed race folk, remember that the majority of the time, mixed raced children are raised into predominantly black societies, so it's natural that they're gonna identify with black folk more than whites. Most mixed race people I've seen who stay around white folk where brought up in a white neigbourhood.
Why do you think most times they are raised in "Black" communities? Now, take your own point and read up on Halle Berry.
She was raised in a "White" community. She was never accepted. Beyond that, she had to endure racism and prejudiced.
Notice the way I said this. First, she was not accepted. "White" people treated her as though she was not one of them.
Then the racist part came.
When you are accepted by a group, that identity is given to you just like it is your second skin. You feel that acceptance intimately.
I am illustrating a cultural difference. "Whites" actually may possess superior traits. But we have our strong points too. Being able to extend a cultural identity to someone who may not even have "Black" parents is a trait we should not be ashamed of. Though often times, Mixed people pretend like we are making them be "Black".
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Posted: Sunday April 29th, 2007 14:53 |
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Mixed raced people are accepted into white society the same way black people are. I know mixed raced people bought around black and white people and it doesnt make any difference. If your not white...in white peoples eyes then your just black !
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Posted: Monday April 30th, 2007 18:10 |
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mi$$ wrote: Mixed raced people are accepted into white society the same way black people are. I know mixed raced people bought around black and white people and it doesnt make any difference. If your not white...in white peoples eyes then your just black !
That's the deal.
"If you don't have a fundamental understanding of "White" supremacy, everything else that you do know about racism will only confuse you."
People don't want to remember what caused all this garbage. A group of people became convinced that they were genetically different than their other Human brethren. They created a name and a classification system to describe that difference.
Race classification is about "Whites" and non-"Whites". It isn't about "Whites" and "Blacks".
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Posted: Wednesday May 2nd, 2007 21:41 |
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nikita wrote: I consider them to be what they are, mixed race. To be honest I dont really trust them I have come across too many mixed race people who identify as black but think they are better because of their european features. But I blame black people for giving them that superiority complex because we are the ones who have placed them on a pedal stall because of their european resemblence but thats another story.
This is my position as well. I find because blacks placed them on this high pedestal they feel we can be manipulated at will. There's also a knee jerk reaction when it comes to defending whites.
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Posted: Wednesday May 2nd, 2007 21:55 |
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Gmahogany. wrote: BTW, there are BLack people who marry and reproduce with a PARTICULAR white person, but don't have a positive view of white people in general, it happens EVERYDAY. There are white people who marry/like A PARTICULAR Black person(she/ he IS not like the OTHERS), and can't stand Black people in general, happens all day, errday.
You are so right.
http://www.clubmom.com/jforum/posts/list/180523.page
She has biracial child, but hates Black people
There is this woman I know who met a Black man, she is White. She got preg after knowing him for couple months. While she was pregnant she made racist remarks about Black people because the father didn't want her anymore.
When the child was born, she did things like get arrested for drunk driving with the baby in the car, abuse the child etc. She hurled racist names to the Black officers just like she does when in road rage. I feel so sorry for her child. She claims her child is not Black, her child is not a "n". I am sorry for child. Black and White biracial kids are Black, like it or not. This is what makes up Black people in general, all kinds of backgrounds. Biracial is a term. A lot of White mothers can't deal with that concept, and she is one of them but for deeper racist reasons. Why do some women have babies with men of other races if they don't like or respect that race? Its hard already for a biracial child, it must be torture to have a mother like her. Child services don't seem to care either because she makes a lot of money, she has doctors that say its.... Post Partum Depression. I hate it when the wrong peole use that for excuses.
BTW, after all that, calling the father and his family "n", hating Black people and getting in trouble with the law, she is now pregnant again from a one night union with the same guy "because she was lonely one night". I blame him too, he has no pride. So sad.
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Posted: Thursday May 10th, 2007 17:13 |
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Rockette,
If she has a biracial kid and she's hurling those insults toward it, her kid should be taken away from her. Strangely, it's considered to be abusive to hurl any kid of insult like that and non-racial insult like that. If I married a non-Black man and if he purposely did that to my kid, I don't think I would want to be with him. To me , if you are racist toward my kid, you are being racist towards me. That man, either don't know what kid of woman she is or he is just a straight up fool being with her!She's causing that kid a lot of damage.
Honestly, I have never came across a White mom/dad who did that to their kids, unless I don't know them. I've witnessed some instances where I've seen an South Indian dad telling his wife " You White(people are trash"and around his daughter, a Black man calling his another White man a "cracker" in front of his White wife's faceI had a neighbor to tell my brother that a White woman he dated in New Mexico " called him the "N", he has no kids. In some really weird reserved cases, I had one White friend( and I mentioned her once or twice), who said she would disapprove of any White man dating her children ( by a Black man)because I quote " I was sexually molested by stepfather and father and my mother put that B-----before me and my siblings!"--no joke! When I asked about dating other races she fine with it especially a Black man because her African-born foster parents raised her. I talked with my former teacher from time to time, who was also her teacher. The last that she heard from her, she was a teacher, teaching a Black school( her request) and living a Black neighborhood. She really had a strong hatred of White people in spite of her being White and please don't call her White, she'll tell you that she's Native American( not the blond haired Swedish American that she truly is) I even remembered she even saying that she liked NOI and hoped that her kids would get in it. I only nodded my head in disbelief when she said that. I thought that she was so troubled about her rape and being White, I thought that she needed counseling, but I never told her that.
Yep! I seen a few instances from these angles, but it's never good for a kid to hear that kid of one sided hatred, no matter what. I often wonder about my White friend, how are her kids. Yes, I can say that maybe their transition may be more simplified because they are people of color and they recognized as African-Americans or multiracial in my state, but it can still hurt those kids. I mean here they are possibly hating White people and people going aroud telling them Man, What White man/woman was your parent?" and then at they end the very people you downed are part of your bloodline. Wow! I imagine that it's even worse for that kid. If he's one of those kids who can pass, just imagine that the kid going thorugh life thinking he's White , when he's actually. Remember that bizarre article that a poster put up about that Black man, who looked Black and thought that he was White?! Look at some of the problems his mother caused him with her rcist views.
I was thinking about my sister's best friend, who is married to a Latino( though he could pass for White). She doesn't like her husband and wants to divorce him and she hates his family. She also doesn't like her parents, who are Jamaican. She has 3 kids, one who is Black, the other two are biracial. She said that there would be a time that she was casual about using the " n" word in conversation, but after all of her kids were born, she decided not to say it anymore. She thought that it would be racially harmful to all three of them, especially, the Black one because, she's only surrounded around Latino people.I've only had one interracial relationship with an Asian( Pakastani) man, the rest have been Black. If I would have had kids with his man and he would have done what that woman is doing to her kid , I wouldn't be that thrilled about being around him. Even with medating a Black man--he's African bred. Even if my kids were of mixed nationalities, it still wouldn't be right to hurl anti- African sentiments around the kid because, the kid would be mixed and confusion can be a problem for them.Colorstrikeness is in my family. I hate it and told my mother that if I even have a Black( American or not American) or biracial, I don't think that I would want my kid to be exposed to them because they would ethnically mess' em up ( like my racially grandfather once told my parents about growing up in a mixed neighborhood). Children should have a healthy sense of who they are and it's not possible for that happen when mommy or daddy disses their hal or whole self.
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Posted: Monday June 4th, 2007 00:25 |
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Hello everyone this is my first post, and I have to say this topic STINKS, it is an insult to black history! If you are the descendant of slaves can we remember the ebony, the quadroon, & the mulatto beaten, raped, and held in bondage, whether dark, red, “high yaller�, All slaves despite their mix, all under the banner “black “ all so called “ni**ers, our ancestors. The descendants of them, YOU, all having these biracial kin in your family tree. This is history, our history. Divide an rule through petty divisions has kept us in bondage long after the chains were taken off, read “willie lynchs�(1712) slavers speech if you don’t believe me, find it on the net it an eye-opener. As for the one drop rule it was a RASCIST rule used to keep anyone with black in them, in servitude to white people. I cannot believe that 400 years later there are black people, now trying to reverse apply it on this site. The descendants of slaves are mixed blood, how can we get involved in dna snobbery? The slavers were racist, lets not mimic them! For you are all Africans, Africa is where humanity came from, follow it to its logical conclusion all races however unruly are your children. There are many white men right now scared of the dilution of their race by these mixed children, remember the one drop rule he made it not us! The African has been raided and its women raped, by the arab for 11 centuries, and the european for 4 centuries and still the African exists, though complexions and features vary, the African will always be here! Black is unique in that it is a consciousness firstly, and not a skin colour, it is who we are the sum of our history, and what we are second. So called ‘uncle toms’ and ‘sell outs’ are still reviled today. because of this. I shall tell you now that I am mixed, half white blood-half black blood, like Frederick douglass, bob Marley, George William Gordon, Dubois…………and your ancestors, and yes I do consider myself black! I am pro black, not anti-white, just honest about history an its implications on me. My children range from dark to brownskin, just like yours, I was raised and suckled by a black woman just like you, I lived with my black family just like you, I was chased, had fights, got beaten, called ni**er, c**n, by white people just like you! if you want to put me in some separate racial group, please tell that to the ‘white’ man when he calls me ni**er, or the police when they pull me over for nothing, and tell me ‘were all the bloody same’. Life would get a hell of a lot easier.
I agree with many of you about those mixed race individuals, who are lost, trying to be part of some IDEALISTIC sub-race, or be white—(reality) only few can pass, an they will always be called ‘ni**ers’ behind their back, they just don’t seem to realise it. We should also remember those lost so called ‘full-blooded’ individuals, who hate all of us more than the ‘kkk’ & the ‘bnp’ , who are only happy, when joining in the slander of black people, many of these also identify more with ‘white’ people. However it is not necessarily these peoples fault as mostly, they are born and raised in ignorance & misinformation. Anyway, WE WERE ALL forced rather uncomfortably, it seems, judging by some of the posts, under the broad banner of ‘BLACK’ by the slave-trade. It is to our credit we have made it something to be proud off! Something that indicates our AFRICANNESS, and yet something that is the opposite of ‘WHITE’, and its ludicrous idea of racial purity. There will always be ‘BLACK’ lost individuals, whatever complexion or blood mix, sorry if you come across them, but they are just that lost, and not a reason to single groups out, and divide us any futher with the kind of petty infighting that has suppressed us for centuries.
Half my family comes from Jamaica a country born out of the slave-trade, an on the flag it says ‘out of many we are one’, think about it!
Like I said this topic STINKS.
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Posted: Saturday June 9th, 2007 23:22 |
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Hello everyone this is my first post, and I have to say this topic STINKS, it is an insult to black history! If you are the descendant of slaves can we remember the ebony, the quadroon, & the mulatto beaten, raped, and held in bondage, whether dark, red, “high yaller�, All slaves despite their mix, all under the banner “black “ all so called “ni**ers, our ancestors. The descendants of them, YOU, all having these biracial kin in your family tree. This is history, our history. Divide an rule through petty divisions has kept us in bondage long after the chains were taken off, read “willie lynchs�(1712) slavers speech if you don’t believe me, find it on the net it an eye-opener. As for the one drop rule it was a RASCIST rule used to keep anyone with black in them, in servitude to white people. I cannot believe that 400 years later there are black people, now trying to reverse apply it on this site. The descendants of slaves are mixed blood, how can we get involved in dna snobbery? The slavers were racist, lets not mimic them! For you are all Africans, Africa is where humanity came from, follow it to its logical conclusion all races however unruly are your children. There are many white men right now scared of the dilution of their race by these mixed children, remember the one drop rule he made it not us! The African has been raided and its women raped, by the arab for 11 centuries, and the european for 4 centuries and still the African exists, though complexions and features vary, the African will always be here! Black is unique in that it is a consciousness firstly, and not a skin colour, it is who we are the sum of our history, and what we are second. So called ‘uncle toms’ and ‘sell outs’ are still reviled today. because of this. I shall tell you now that I am mixed, half white blood-half black blood, like Frederick douglass, bob Marley, George William Gordon, Dubois…………and your ancestors, and yes I do consider myself black! I am pro black, not anti-white, just honest about history an its implications on me. My children range from dark to brownskin, just like yours, I was raised and suckled by a black woman just like you, I lived with my black family just like you, I was chased, had fights, got beaten, called ni**er, c**n, by white people just like you! if you want to put me in some separate racial group, please tell that to the ‘white’ man when he calls me ni**er, or the police when they pull me over for nothing, and tell me ‘were all the bloody same’. Life would get a hell of a lot easier.
I agree with many of you about those mixed race individuals, who are lost, trying to be part of some IDEALISTIC sub-race, or be white—(reality) only few can pass, an they will always be called ‘ni**ers’ behind their back, they just don’t seem to realise it. We should also remember those lost so called ‘full-blooded’ individuals, who hate all of us more than the ‘kkk’ & the ‘bnp’ , who are only happy, when joining in the slander of black people, many of these also identify more with ‘white’ people. However it is not necessarily these peoples fault as mostly, they are born and raised in ignorance & misinformation. Anyway, WE WERE ALL forced rather uncomfortably, it seems, judging by some of the posts, under the broad banner of ‘BLACK’ by the slave-trade. It is to our credit we have made it something to be proud off! Something that indicates our AFRICANNESS, and yet something that is the opposite of ‘WHITE’, and its ludicrous idea of racial purity. There will always be ‘BLACK’ lost individuals, whatever complexion or blood mix, sorry if you come across them, but they are just that lost, and not a reason to single groups out, and divide us any futher with the kind of petty infighting that has suppressed us for centuries.
Half my family comes from Jamaica a country born out of the slave-trade, an on the flag it says ‘out of many we are one’, think about it!
Like I said this topic STINKS.
Wow, I can just feel such strong emotion coming from your words. I agree that those who contributed to our advancement as a people were few of the mixed race background. I have nothing against mixed race people. My aunt or as I liked to call her big momma before she passed, was a woman from a white and black background. She ended up identifying with black people, and lived as a black woman. She had a kind heart and worked hard to raise her daughter alone. I admired her strength of character and the fact that she never forgot where she came from. I'll love her always. Even so there are people I would not associate with that are mixed race. Those people are on the ones who hate black people, and believe in white supremacy. Just like I will not associate with whites, blacks, asians, etc who feel the same way about my people. I have learned that it's time to let people who do not want to be a part of the black family go, and mind our business. The individuals who wish to disassociate themselves from black people, are the ones doing less harm to black people and more harm to themselves. All in all, during the day and even before I rest my head mixed race people are surely the last thing on my mind. They are also the last thing on my mind when I wake up the next day. What do I really think of mixed race/biracial people? Nah, the question to be asked is what do mixed race/biracial people think of themselves?
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Posted: Sunday June 17th, 2007 20:44 |
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Melaninbrain
I am also disappointed with some of the opinions of the posters to this topic. I have several mates of mix heritage and they are good people to me and they feel part of black culture.
If mix heritage people feel more white than black then that is usually because they only mix with white people. A consequence of where they were brought up.
I refuse to use the term race as I only believe in the human race; anything else is fabricated rubbish and with black people continuing to use this term, it is only helping to reinforce the racist ideology.
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