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In our parents day, mixed / biracial was Black. White people really did a good job in confusing things. With the rise of kids of black and white parents, they did the French colonial/slavery thing and said 'Y'all different' and created 'Creole' out of it as a buffer class. That's what this 'Biracial' thing is. Older mixed people were always Black. White society reminded them they were black. Lenny Kravitz has a white Jewish father but was always known as a black singer. Halle Berry has a white mother and was always seen as a Black actress early on.I'm a little sad to hear black folks telling half black people they aren't black (in the video below). Here is the trip thing. We claim any great historical figure with a drop of black blood as black, even if they have a white parent: Queen Charlotte. Alexandre Dumas. Frederic Douglas. Bob Marley.[MEDIA=youtube]LlWXNmSWFnA[/MEDIA]
In our parents day, mixed / biracial was Black. White people really did a good job in confusing things. With the rise of kids of black and white parents, they did the French colonial/slavery thing and said 'Y'all different' and created 'Creole' out of it as a buffer class. That's what this 'Biracial' thing is. Older mixed people were always Black. White society reminded them they were black. Lenny Kravitz has a white Jewish father but was always known as a black singer. Halle Berry has a white mother and was always seen as a Black actress early on.
I'm a little sad to hear black folks telling half black people they aren't black (in the video below). Here is the trip thing. We claim any great historical figure with a drop of black blood as black, even if they have a white parent: Queen Charlotte. Alexandre Dumas. Frederic Douglas. Bob Marley.
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