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 Posted: Jan 27 2011 at 9:37pm |
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pattigurlatl wrote:
British actor Stephen Graham openly discusses his mixed heritage
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I was shocked when he said his dad was black. And he played a racist skinhead in This is England too. |
That was him?! I thought he looked familiar!!
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Posted: Jan 27 2011 at 9:54pm |
chrissypoo wrote:
I just read it and it's very interesting!
I guess I can relate to this, I'm half black & half white and people have
mistaken me for pure white among other things many times. I don't really see it but I do
get pretty darn pale in the winter, I have grey/blue eyes and a
straightish nose. I've been asked if I was from various european
countries before and they're usually pretty surprised when I correct
them. (I don't know why because my hair is usually big and tightly curly
so I would think that at least that would be a give away lol).
I've also heard people say genuinely racist things about blacks around
me because they didn't know I was half black, and if I knew them I
explained to them that my mother is black and that their statement was
very ignorant. They felt pretty stupid after that lmao. But it really is
sad that the things that some people will say if they don't see
any blacks around them, very two faced.
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I know I'm super late, but I always thought you looked like Fiona Apple.
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Posted: Jan 27 2011 at 10:00pm |
Great thread
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Posted: Jan 27 2011 at 10:22pm |
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Posted: Jan 27 2011 at 10:27pm |
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i just watched an interesting law and order episode about this.
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Posted: Jan 27 2011 at 10:58pm |
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you have to remember that in the past (and in some instances, today) if you had one drop black, you were black. biracial people were black, end of story. so they still had to pass. passing isn't just about 100% black people pretending to be white for whatever reason. passing is about anyone who isn't 100% white pretending to be 100% white.
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Posted: Jan 28 2011 at 7:36am |
misatisha wrote:
anderson cooper looks nothing like that black dude |
I agree.
I cannot believe Gordon could produce a child that is as entirely White as Anderson Cooper. I think for that to happen would mean that Gordon would have to be very light-skinned himself.
That's the thing, when people say one of their parents is Black but they turned out looking very White - it's because that 1 Black parent is ... fairly light.
This is how Halle Berry's child will look. The child will be Black .. but since one parent is completely White and the other (Halle) looks pretty White ... people will ohh have a hard time believing that child is .. Black. You have to consider the background.
That's like believing that Michael Jackson actually fathered those 3 completely White children. Hee hee!
People are stupid. 
Edited by Becky - Jan 28 2011 at 7:49am
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Posted: Jan 28 2011 at 8:35am |
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This thread is interesting. It was interesting reading many members views and observing the pics but it only left me confused. Alot of these people are biracial, or multiracial. So is passing when a person completely ignores the black side? why not just identify as biracial then claiming either black, white, etc. idk. confusing.
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Posted: Jan 28 2011 at 9:01am |
cliffnotes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_%28racial_identity%29
in depth: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/lawjournal/issues/volume62/number3/kennedy.pdf
it saddens me that we don't know our history.
nikietc wrote:
you have to remember that in the past (and in some
instances, today) if you had one drop black, you were black. biracial
people were black, end of story. so they still had to pass. passing
isn't just about 100% black people pretending to be white for whatever
reason. passing is about anyone who isn't 100% white pretending to be
100% white.
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passing stemmed out of racism. i.e. Jewish people passing during the
Holocaust so they wouldn't be murdered. Black Americans passing during
slavery so they wouldn't be worked to death.
you passed to live a better life. knowing good and well if people found
out that you were a minority, you would be ousted and most likely
killed. it was dangerous, but people did it to save & better their
lives. many parents even encouraged their children who could pass to do
so.
there are probably many, many white people in American who are 1/4, 1/8,
1/16 black but will never know it. these passing black people took it
to the grave. and if white America knew about their black ancestry, all
hell would break loose.
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