What is she mixed with?
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leroyol — 15 years ago(January 12, 2011 02:29 PM)
Just saw the repliesmy appologies, didn't mean to word it like that knight_sentinel. I just got a little frustrated but its cool, I read your retort and I agree with the part where you made the comparison to Tyra Banks and Beyonce and how "people" try to do that.
Im cool with it for some reason (I guess because she isn't saying she's mixed with 1/3 Irish, 1/8 Scotish, and all that other BS like some black celebs do LOL. I can understand honoring your heritage, but when people say"Im not black" (Im speaking to you Kid Cudi lol) it pisses me off too.
AnywhoI know where your coming from tho
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knight_sentinel — 15 years ago(January 12, 2011 04:40 PM)
I just find it weird that they need to be mixed to be attractive universally or at least look mixed.
When Jennifer Beals first came on the scene back big time in the 80's with the film "Flashdance" after she mentioned she was mixed, most of the films she did after "Flashdance" were barely registered on the map. I thought she would have been a bigger star.
A few decades later Jennifer Beals does "The L Word" and being mixed race is marketable, if you look at her board this topic is discussed on several threads.
From her being bi-racial, to not playing the black half, to being a lesbian to people still asking if she's really bi-racial which she has actually stated in interviews in the past, I remember her talking about it during the "Flashdance" craze, but it's almost as if it hurt her career by telling people she was mixed back in the 80s, Although part of that was probably because she went back to school to finish getting her degree and graduating from college.
This is a link to one of the post on Jennifer Beals' board.
Topic: Jennifer Beals is a glimpse of the future?
http://www.imdb.com/board/20000884/board/nest/145306372?p=1
She's considered to be universally beautiful because she's mixed, and from what the poster is asking is she the future of what beautiful people will look like because she's mixed.
I just think Jennifer Beals is attractive as well as some of the other women I had mentioned and I don't think all of them are mixed at least not visibly, and even if she hadn't stated she was bi-racial she was very attractive to me in "Flashdance", and she was in great shape.
Another example is the film "Dreamgirls" was suppose to be Beyonce's film, and Jennifer Hudson stole that film and I think Ms. Hudson is a very attractive woman even more so than I do Beyonce who is also attractive, but I think Jennifer Hudson is a beautiful woman. IMO, but she doesn't get the attention that Beyonce does.
Although since she's lost weight, Ms. Hudson seems to be a bit more confident about herself so that may change, maybe.
The late Barbara McNair once stated
"Lenny Bruce used to say about me that I was a Caucasian, that someone took a paintbrush and painted me brown. White people are not aware that Negroes look all kinds of different ways."
Which is why this question always gets asked on this site.
Her reply to Lenny Bruce's remark is one of the best ones I've seen by someone who has been asked this question.
Ms. McNair wasn't mixed to best of knowledge, she was light skinned she was an actor and singer and Co-authored a book entitled "The Complete Book of Beauty for the Black Woman". Ms. McNair doesn't have any pictures on IMDb, she's not as well known as Pam Grier.
http://www.barbaramcnair.com/barbarasstyles.htm
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Tresix — 15 years ago(February 27, 2011 08:59 AM)
Lenny Bruce's remark about McNair's background reminds me of Archie's line about Harry Belafonte in the Sammy Davis, Jr. episode of "All In the Family": Archie wants the family to guess which famous black person was in his cab and as a hint says "Bongo, bongo, bongo." to signify that it's a black man. "Belafonte?" Mike guesses. "Get outta here!" Archie says, "Harvey [sic] Belafonte ain't a black guy. He's just a good-lookin' white guy dipped in caramel."
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knight_sentinel — 15 years ago(February 28, 2011 01:13 AM)
That's a good line. I think when Will Smith was in "Ali" he used that line on Michael Michelle's character in that film or he may have said dipped in honey. Ms. Michele is mixed raced, and her skin does look like she was dipped in caramel or honey.
I don't think a lot of people know that at one time in certain states in the U.S. if a person had one drop of Negro, Native American Indian, Mexican etc. they were considered to be colored, it was the start of the eugenics laws that started in Virginia. The eugenic and miscegenation laws were s1c84etup as colored, whatever they called people who were mentally impaired and white, and that "One Drop" designated a person being called one of the races that was categorized as colored, and the other covered people who were mentally impaired, they also include criminals in those laws as people to be sterilized. The belief was to keep the white race pure, and eventually the other races would, as well as the mentally impaired would eventually die off.
It's was an interesting law, because at that time most of the people having children with those other races were white men. There was a book just recently written by an author who researched the relationships between blacks and whites and he states his research found that there were many blacks and whites who were having relationships together before these laws were penned inked and passed mainly in the southern states by the very same men who were dipping their pens in a variety of colors.
The "One Drop" rule and Racial Integrity Act of 1924 were absurd because at that time blood typing was still in it's infancy the first two major blood groups had only been identified in the early 1900's.
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knight_sentinel — 15 years ago(March 10, 2011 06:22 AM)
Find a verifiable source, I can say anything I want about being anything, Merle Oberon use to say a lot about her parentage, which was all a lie. It was fabrication on the studio's part and hers.
I'm ann idiot I haven't seen one piece of verifiable proof to prove where she's stated this, except where users have put down this information in variuos places, I haven't seen a legitimate news source, and whose to say she's telling the truth..
Robin Givens and her mother use to say a lot of things about Ms. Givens background, these were all prove false. FACTS! get some fool.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
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deed54 — 15 years ago(March 26, 2011 06:44 PM)
does anyone read the bio s on here? this is a quote from her's :
√but I'm a mix of several races: Hispanic, Chinese, Filipino. My dad was black, and my mom was Cheyenne Indian. So you look at things beyond just race, or even religion: I was raised Catholic, baptized a Methodist, and almost married a Muslim. -
knight_sentinel — 15 years ago(March 27, 2011 07:00 AM)
That quote was put there by a user, if you look up her actual quotes that is not one that is attributed to her, I looked, which I posted in a previous post, there are a couple of sites that have quotes from her and can be traced back to the sources where she stated them.
Yes I read the bios, but I double check information in the bios, because anyone can edit a bio on IMDb, and they're suppose to put the source of the quote e.g. the magazine, newspaper, television or radio interview. Like some people will put up a quote and also list that the person stated it in a format like this example [Source: People Magazine, and the date.]
Honestly the only time I'm asked if I'm mixed is by people who are white, i never been asked that by another black person, if you have certain features or are light complexioned you must be mixed with something in order for them to perceive you as being attractive.
I left the link of her quotes in a previous post to the poster who stated the same thing as you have they never got back to me because it's not there or the other site.
Both sites, that quote is not on either one, I could see it not being one site, but to not be on two sites
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/pam_grier.html
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/pam_grier/
When she was asked about Martin Luther King she stated the following: That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character. - Pam Grier
She has other quotes about race, but that is not one where can find where she stated it in an interview.
"My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation." ~ Pam Grier
Ms. Grier's family is not from Colorado they moved here when she was a young girl, so the only people she could be talking about would be Blacks. Colorado, Dakota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Washington fought on the Union side. Several slave-holding Native American tribes supported the Confederacy, most Native American Indians were sent to reservations.
You have to look at the context of a quote, and what was being asked and how they responded.
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Duchess89 — 14 years ago(July 18, 2011 04:20 PM)
Don't you think that that might be down to her being black? I mean how many white actresses do you know that look as good as her without the plastic surgery?
Naomi Campbell 41
Jennifer Beals 46
Halle Berry 40?
Mary J blige 38+
Missy Elliot 38?
Aisha Tyler 38?
Iman 58
Gladys Knight 60+
Beverly Johnson 60+
Grace Jones 60 +
Angela Basset 40 +the list goes on, all these women are either black or have black ancestry. For once can't people just give black women credit where its due? Its not like there blind or that they don't have eyes and they can't see that black people in general tend to age better.
I mean if you genuinely wanted to inquire what other ancestry she may have I get it, but don't post questions on here asking why this 5b4obviously black actress seems to be ageing so well there must be another race responsible for that-it can't possible be due to her being black, its as bad as the posters on here asking why a black actress is so beautiful followed by 'what's she mixed with?'
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Helen_Kay — 13 years ago(August 28, 2012 08:22 PM)
Funny that you mention primarily MIXED women, some of whom are a lot more white than black!
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