Really? Am I the Only One Who Thinks This?
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troy_meacham — 14 years ago(January 11, 2012 10:45 PM)
I can't believe there are still so many ignorant pin-heads in the United States, nearly 150 years after the Emancipation Proclimation, and more than 200 years after our founding fathers proclaimed that all men (and by extension, all women) are created equal. Maybe she is focusing on the fact that she is AMERICAN and that she is simply behaving the way she wants!!!
For every one of your so called "racial" stereotypes, I'll bet you can find at least one person that totally destroys it.
As for Aisha, I think she's awesome; she's hot, she's smart, and she's funny. -
tombowman6 — 14 years ago(January 20, 2012 01:03 PM)
You could take this same entire post and apply it to how Aisha is trying to prove to the world that she's not like all women. All women are like X, but Aisha plays video games and got raised by her pops, so she's "not like any woman you've ever met."
That's just Aisha's style of comedy. I honestly don't find her standup terribly funny, but she cracks me up in interviews. She takes pride in being intellectual and independent (probably too much pride sometimes) and she uses her perspective to poke fun at the things in life she perceives as funny. I don't think that means she's denying her blackness or her woman-ness or anything else. Check out her video "no ass at all" on youtube. It may reaffirm your belief that she's disowning blackness, but from my perspective, she's telling her own story about growing up not really fitting in with any particular group, and making her own way. To me it's a funny story, as well as one that I can relate to.
You said she's denying her roots, but just because you have certain roots doesn't mean you have life experience to match. -
AnnoyingCustomer37 — 14 years ago(March 29, 2012 08:26 AM)
She is of mixed heritage and is therefore stuck between a rock and a hard place. She is "not enough" of one thing or the other so she's trying to find a balance and she wants to let people know that just because she's this or that doesn't mean she's going to act this or that way.
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kaphawoman — 13 years ago(May 06, 2012 07:55 PM)
She is not mixedshe is a black woman from two black parents. Like every other attractive black woman on IMDB, there is mention of Native American ancestry in the trivia section, and ignorant people take this to mean the actress has one black parent and one non-white parent. As is often the case with African-Americans, the Native ancestry is many generations back, and sometimes nothing more than unproven family lore. I have no idea who submits trivia to IMDB and how/if they it confirm with the actual actor, but Aisha has never identified herself as anything other than black.
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CMitchell317 — 13 years ago(January 28, 2013 04:42 PM)
This is a sad and ridiculously ignorant statement. In one breath you're saying people should fight against stereotypesyet your entire argument perpetuates a stereotype of what being black is. There is no singular "black" identity. There is no specific behaviors or interests that define blackness. The only people that are "trying too hard" are the ones that participate in coonery and caricature because they think that's what being black is.