I agree with just about everything you stated but I just want to make a correction- by definition, Latino is not a race
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MaryCherry — 19 years ago(July 26, 2006 10:33 PM)
Exactly, you can't just neglect your other half. It is awfully insecure of blacks who get all up in arms when people of mixed ethnicities actually celebrate who they are and embrace all parts of them, instead of trying to pacify the black community, be it for political reasons or what have you. Is's a shame.
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allergic-to-trolls — 19 years ago(August 30, 2006 05:35 PM)
Maybe it would help the discussion and views on this subject to go to this link?
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lavenderspirit2005 — 19 years ago(November 28, 2006 11:41 PM)
I view Jasmine Guy as a talented actress of mixed race who happens to culturally identify with the Black community as is her TOTAL right. I think she was also awesome in "A Different World"-I loved her style!
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activista — 18 years ago(March 30, 2008 07:09 PM)
It's not a stupid discussionsadly, race is STILL an issue in this societyI'm sorry, but anything like race that determines where you live,whether you'll even get decent health care, or even whether you will get a job outside the specific zip code you live in. There isn't a damn thing stupid about something that has a direct effect on your quality of life. The subject of race,frankly,is only stupid to people who have NEVER in their whole damn lives had to even deal with it AT all.
Also, about Halle Berryshe said that it was her own white mother who told her early in life that she was black,and that she was going to have to deal with the fact that people would treat her differently (and not always in a good way). So how the hell is she denying her motheror any other bi-racial person in or out of the public eyeby not constantly mentioning her half-whiteness all the time? Let's be realdoes she look anything like a white woman? Hell no! Has society ever accepted her as one? Hell no on that,too! (She looks great, and is actually one of my fave actresses,BTW, so,no I'm not dogging her or nothing.) Gimme a damn breakin this society, people don't give a damn about how white one of your parents may be, if you look black, you're BLACK, period. Sure,Barack Obama's mama was white, but that sure as hell didn't keep him from going through the same predjudice/racism that all black men/men of color in this society go through, mainly because everybody else saw him as what he isa BLACK man, and he's obviously very proud of his blackness.
To mizzhollywood:
Just because someone is half-white does not make them 100% Caucasianit dosen't even mean that they will be accepted as white depending on what part of the country they live in. Just because someone LOOKS white dosen't mean that they are,or that even consider themselves white. You sound like you're saying that anybody who only a little bit black should automatically consider themselves whiteyou go on and on about how Jasmine is ignoring her white half, well the reality is, if society (or even parts of her own family) have never even accepted her as white, why the hell should she? Hell, just because a black person looks white dosen't mean they're gonna be accepted as white right off the black. Obviously you're not a black person, otherwise you would not have ever brought this up as an issueI think it's ridiculous, and also think the whole one-drop-rule is bulls*** because it was invented by slavemasters simply to divide black slaves from the mixed slavesthat's ALL that s*** was aboutit shouldn't even be relevant in the 21st century, but we're still holding onto that outdated,useless 18th century racial catagorizationsthat pretty beep up, if you ask me.