IS HE MIXED????
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sonofaque1986 — 19 years ago(December 11, 2006 06:40 PM)
Half White, Half Black. Here are his parents
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byrnesnotice — 15 years ago(March 01, 2011 03:57 PM)
All African Americans are mixed is a cop out excuse. You don't see people over at the Don Cheadle or Serena Williams board for example asking of they are mixed because most people do not think they look mixed.
The reason people ask if Coby Bell is mixed is because judging by his phenotype he does look like he has more Caucasian blood in his family tree compared to somebody that looks like Whoopi Goldberg or Michael Jordan. -
ranmalein — 18 years ago(September 14, 2007 09:06 AM)
mixed breeds live longer. ;D
i myself am mixed, too, and don't find the term mixed offensive at all. "human" is a race, but not "chinese" or anything else.
and yes, mixed people are beautiful lol
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sonofaque1986 — 18 years ago(October 15, 2007 06:54 PM)
Here are his parents. He's half black and half white
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andrea_thomas-1 — 18 years ago(December 11, 2007 09:03 PM)
Um, that picture that was posted is not of Coby Bell's parentsread the bio. His dad is a Broadway actor, Michael Bell, and he is a white man. Where are people getting their info, b/c it's not accurate. And there are plenty of "black" people with "white" features, so the whole discussion is kind of ignorant. As someone mentioned, the ethnic mixture of most blacks in the Western Hemisphere, from Canada to South America means that black people can look like almost anything w/out having a white parentI don't know why white people always want to "claim" everyone who doesn't fit their narrow idea of that black really means. And I include people like Beyonce and Vanessa Williams, who people somehow pretend don't have black features even though neither looks like any Europeans I've ever seen, and that's AFTER Vanessa Williams got her nose done.
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redessa01 — 17 years ago(June 02, 2008 08:31 PM)
Actually no, Michel Bell is a black man.
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fitnessgyrl — 17 years ago(May 16, 2008 02:11 PM)
I find it so funny that every time someone considers a black person gorgeous the next question is are they mixed??? I understand why the OP asked the question but why in hell does it matter? He's fine as hell and a pretty good actor too ; )
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gbulmash — 15 years ago(August 17, 2010 09:16 AM)
Regarding people losing their minds over the word "mixed".
If you want to assume it's used like with dogs "mixed breed", let's look at that characteristic. "Pure" breeds are usually inbred within an inch of their lives and suffer a wide variety of health problems due to that inbreeding. They may have "papers" and conform to breed characteristics, but they're the cousin-effing hillbillies of dogs.
"Mixed" dogs are often smarter and genetically healthier than purebred dogs are.
My wife is African-American and into geneaology, so I got her one of those genetic geneaology reports for Mother's day. She's got 4 or 5 distinct racial groups popping up markers in her DNA, so even if she'd married another African American instead of a white Jewish male, they'd be "mixed". But by the racially ignorant "one drop" definition, they're still Black.
Heck, I'm of primarily Ukranian extraction at least during the last couple hundred years. My dad's cousin, who is the family historian, has traced our last name back to Turkey, which our family must have passed through as they wandered from the Holy Land to Ukraine to America in the centuries after the diaspora.
But it takes more than a few hundred years to genetically adapt to an area, which means that since my family looks white and not Arabic, there were children of rape in my ancestry children of cossacks, invaders, and others who preyed on Jews as they traveled and settled in Europe. So, if I were to get my genetic geneaology tested, I wouldn't be 100% middle-eastern Jew. I'm "mixed".
My wife and I are both mutts, genetic melting pots, and our kids have (hopefully) the best bits of both. They're gorgeous & smart, big fish in their little ponds at daycare.
Call my kids mixed, bi-racial, blended I call them "loved"."Ook" - The Librarian at Unseen University
