This is a funny debate only the Black community seems to have - as to who is 'really black' or who is 'blacker than you
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Alicia Keys
alouette1977 — 15 years ago(February 01, 2011 01:31 PM)
This is a funny debate only the Black community seems to have - as to who is 'really black' or who is 'blacker than you are.' Like the black people sometimes considered 'high yellow' and count less as a black person than someone darker (kudos to Spike Lee & The Boondocks for bringing this debate into the open.)
Alicia Keys may be half Caucasian, but visibly is considered black. Does that make her count as a hot black woman? Because Jennifer Beals is half Black, but is visibly considered white (A Black friend of mine once called her the best passer - as in a Black person who passes for white.)
So if I had to consider someone who is 100% Black? - My first choice for a Black beauty is Gabrielle Union. But whatever. Alicia is really hot & talented. -
Duchess89 — 15 years ago(April 06, 2011 09:06 AM)
Theirs a reason for this; black women are often, if not always pushed to the back of the queue when it comes to beauty. Alicia keys and Jennifer Beals are mixed race! Alicia Keys; Italian, black Jennifer beals; Irish and black, can you tell me how that equates black? You never hear such nonsense with other races, and thats because of the ONE DROP RULE, which was a racist system used in the BLACK COMMUNITY to keep the whites and the mulattoes separate. This is why mixed people are often labelled as black.
In terms of the beauty standard mixed women are highly preferred in the black community, and in the media, when they want to talk about a beautiful black woman. This of course has a bad effect on black girls and women growing up. No other group has to go through this; you don't see white women being replaced by a non white woman, or an Asian woman being replaced by a white woman. But black women are constantly replaced in the media, by mixed race women, Hispanic women, or white, Its only black men who don't have to go through this, so that explains the insensitivity when addressing this issue. That's why this discussion will always rear its ugly head (no pun intended).
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