January 31, 2010
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Racism Over For Light-Skinned Blacks
Last night a new Miss America was crowned. She is African American.
I have noticed how some dark-skinned African Americans have complained that light-skinned African Americans are treated with equal rights.
They see President Obama win as president but they are less impressed when a light-skinned black man wins.
Do you think light-skinned black people are treated differently than dark-skinned black people?
Comments (112)
Obama is just as white as he is black.
eh idk…
probably
“Fact. Strawman. Question.”
Seems like a lot of your entries follow this format.
well… i cant really tell the difference sometimes… my boyfriend actually makes fun of me a lot because i can’t tell if someone is african american or not… sometimes even if they are not “light-skinned”… i dunno, i’m not racist though so no i don’t treat them differently but if i was i guess then i would because i wouldn’t realize they were african american.. if that makes sense
yes . definitely . i know from experience . i`m a light skinned black & everyone automatically treats me like a legit human being , while there can be another darker skinned black girl sitting next to me & she gets treated like crap . so yes , light skinned blacks DEFINITELY have an advantage .
Yeah I think so.
What? Rush Limbaugh was one of the judges and a black lady won? I thought Rush was racist?
@Imnotcrazyjustinsane - I don’t think his maternal heritage matters as much to people as his Kenyan heritage does.
@UnworthyofHisgrace - for a moment, I forgot Miss Virginia was black.
I think racism. These days has less to do with skin color and more to do with the way someone acts and speaks.
from what i noticed, yes. because the light skinned person you know has some “white” in their family history.
personally it doesn’t matter to me.
Maybe..
@seeker_nyc - All while it shouldn’t matter at all.
@JessxMaxine - that`s a good point . but a darker person can have a white person in their family history too . like my sister . we`re blood sisters , same mom , same dad , but i look mixed . my sister looks pure black . we`re both mixed .
@Imnotcrazyjustinsane - there’s always going to be a big difference between how things should be and how things are.
wait , wtf , i thought rush limbaugh was racist & sexist . how the heck did he get through the doors?
@nylondare - true, but most people don’t think logically when they are racist towards a person. they don’t think HEYY most of the word does have some sort of other race in their blood.’
xo
They probably are.
Blacker people are awesome-r
It’s possible, especially depending on the area. It’s not fair though.
Yes, probably.
You’re only really black if your skin is burnt.
A bit. I’m sure light-skinned blacks get it from time to time, but they are more able to say things that make somewhat racist whites forget they’re black for an hour and marvel at their clean appearance and lack of a “negro” dialect.
Probably.
From what I’ve seen, they usually just treat each other differently, I think.
Yeah. Because it’s always about they’re neither this or neither that. The only thing they glorified about mixed folks is that of their looks.
Pretty skinny, smart, funny blondes are treated differently from ugly, fat, dull ones. Racism is afoot.
I have a lot of friends and a relationship history that include a lot of black people. It’s my understanding there is unequal treatment… but among their own race (also). Most of my black friends, and even a dark-skinned girl I once had a relationship with, will blatantly tell you they will only date light-skinned black women. That’s been my experience.
In Obama’s own party, there is definitely preferential treatment, I guess you could call it. After the SOTU address, Chris Matthews even said, “I forgot he was black there for a minute.” Really… was that necessary, and did it matter if he is black or not?
oh yeah! i’m half black and black girls treat me real nasty for no reason. it’s silly.
Oh yeah, I’ve seen it happen.
yep
I think light-colored African Americans receive more discrimination from the black community than the white community. Personally I could care less about color… it’s exceedingly boring. Respectability and issues of character are what really matter.
Every race of color treats the lighter skinned different.
Where I’m from, definitely. It seems to have gone mainstream too. Look at the pictures on products like bedsheets, for example. The African-Americans on there are almost always light-skinned with curly/kinky hair. You hardly ever see a dark-skinned A.A. on a product unless it’s a product specifically made for “ethnic” people.
In México, there are blacks, Jews, Whites, Mulatos, Mestizos (75%), and all of them are Mexicans. My point is that they, all, intermarriage regardless of the color of their skin. There is no such a thing as that of the marriage Black with Blacks, Mestizos with Mestizos etc. Gene546
I don’t doubt it.
I never saw it that way, but then again, I always saw people as people and not necessarily by whatever color their skin happens to be.
maaaaaaybeeee
Aren’t we forgetting about David Palmer?
@citymadeofASHES - glad to hear that there is someone else like me out there.
@roxics <– good point.
well where I live if you’re not black you’re a piece of shit, and if you’re mixed your parents fucked you over
I believe it’s called colorism. The preference for light skin over dark skin. There are lots of studies done over it, I looked into it for awhile out of curiosity.
Yeah.
@Imnotcrazyjustinsane - Truth.
I wouldn’t know. I have no black friends to ask and I’m about as white as they come, so I have pretty much no authority on the issue.
The real question is why don’t they come up with something OTHER than singing or dancing for the talent portion?
Obama is light-skinned? wtf?
“Miss America” makes me ROFL. so silly.
and i don’t know. maybe, unfortunately.
Well if we are assuming racism is still rampant, then it goes that those who look closer to whites will be more highly revered. Light skinned black people, often also HALF WHITE (let’s not forget) are usually cast in a high light, partially because they look more like we do. Also most of them are much better looking than both whites and full-blooded blacks, on avg and in the general public’s opinion.
Yes, it’s a historical thing…. I’d write a post on it, but I’m on break lol
I’m sure there probably is. Sadly.
I can’t speak on this topic because I can’t relate.
yupp!!! I’m dark skinned, and my closest friend is light skinned and we are definitely treated differently in every way. Lighter skinned blacks are usually considered to be more attractive than dark-skinned blacks. Also, at first, people usually gravitate more to her. I ‘ve also heard that some people are scared of darker skinned blacks.
Obviously.
My sister is mixed and she got a lot of hate b/c the white kids didn’t want to hang out with her and the black kids didn’t want to hang out with her either. So, I don’t think light skinned black people would get treated the same, but that doesn’t mean they get treated better. If anything, they can get treated worse.
It depends on who is doing the treating. It also depends on their personality. Sometimes people can be a real pain in the ass and then holler racism if anybody tries to put them in their place. Sometimes people see something that isn’t really there, and believe they have been discriminated against. And some people actually believe what color your skin is is reason enough to like or dislike a person.
(On a side note.) Some people who will never even be a candidate for Miss America are the best people in the world.
I don’t know I live in California. Don’t get me wrong there is plenty of racism here but there are also a lot of inter racial couples and children. I lived in PA for nine years, my town was mostly white. I think we are a bit more jaded here in Cali.
Just the fact that we have a president that isn’t wrinkly, old, uptight and white shows that the racism in this country is far better than before. Or am I more naive than I thought?
Because they have white features. DUHR.
- Kunoichi
I heard that they discriminate against each other. To quote a funny parody, “Everybody’s just a little bit racist.”
i think its all bullshit and everyone needs to stop overloooking the differences in everyones skin. its ridiculouss
Obama is dark-skinned? hmmmm…..
I voted for Alan Keyes in the Republican primary about a decade ago.
Now I would consider Alan dark-skinned.Would he get more than 20% of African American’s to vote for him?Let’s ask the light-skinned Jesse Jackson.
I suspect there is more to it.
Hmm. Perhaps. I’m sure it’s especially apparent in other parts of the world.
I find it odd that a black person can put up a post about racism period! As I did on my post the other day and whites are afraid to voice their opinion! I’m a light – skinned black and it’s ironic that outsiders who are priveledged simply because of society, can analyse our interactions! I’m NOT MAD I”M JUST BEING VERY CANDID HERE! Come on xangans do you really want to understand my people? The post is fine it’s just a double standard ,i’ve noticed on xanga sometime. There will be a webblog on my sight tomorrow come an participate!
Probably so. It’s unfair. A person’s color shouldn’t determine how they are treated.
I do agree that dark-skinned black people are treated differently than light-skinned black people.
BLACK PEOPLE treat dark-skinned black people different than light-skinned black people!!!
@roxics - You’re half right.
@AlterEgo909 - Lol.. want me to sub in for it?
@LillyVRose - You may be right.
yes
Hell yeah, it’s true in almost any culture.
I’m Mexican (and I’m pretty brown, not gonna lie..) and if there’s a lighter Mexican girl next to me, I can guarantee you that she would get more attention.. Not that I care for attention, I’m just illustrating a point.
@DirtyAndShaken - It’s true; A lot of times, when I talk to my black guy friends, they specifically list “light-skinned” as something they would prefer in a girlfriend. :/
Treated differently by whom?
-headdesk-
Differently, maybe. Better, by whom? He said above that there are dark-skin people who are resentful because light-skin people are being treated with equal rights. That’s so backwards. Instead of thinking “If I don’t have any rights, you shouldn’t have any either,” they should think progressively, “I should be treated equally, just like everyone else.”
It is still racism to try an make a distinction between light-skin and black-skin people, no matter who is at what end of the stick. If you’re black, you’re black. I don’t understand why there are people attempting to instigate a rift between a people so it can be like the American version of Rwanda. And I don’t think light-skin people getting treated “better” has anything to do with racists not feeling racism toward them. Think about it: if you were racist against black people but your position demanded that you had to be fair to black people because everyone was watching you, wouldn’t you be fair to the people who looked the most similar to you, seeing as prejudice stems from fear of the unknown?
I do believe so… but it’s one of those things that if you’re not black, you don’t understand it. But oooooh well! @Imnotcrazyjustinsane - literally!
Yes, at least from remarks i sometimes hear in the city.
Yes, they are, and I’ve learned that first hand. I suppose being mulatto (in-betweener) doesn’t exactly put me in a prime position to comment, especially since I don’t look half black at all, but there’s just a mentality that’s been permanently branded with the colour of skin. Although this doesn’t exist in everybody’s minds, it does exist, and the mentality of the darker you are, the “blacker” you are, is definitely still around, and won’t be gone for a very long time.
What about the Blue Man Group?
yeah i saw an tyra episode on it
I’m so sick of this racism shit that blacks have to call all the time. Oh it’s racist that she won because she’s light skinned! We’re in 2010, get over it.
There’s plenty of racism everywhere, but that’s not the issue here. It’s more of a class thing. Look at Oprah Winfrey, she’s not light-skinned, yet is obscenely successful because she spouts upper-middle-class liberal rhetoric. Michael Steele is dark complected, and became house minority leader by having the worldview of Ward Cleaver.
As a light-skinned black person, I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt YES. There is a weird kind of acceptance from the Caucasian population (I married a white man, and actually heard people tell me it wasn’t so bad because I didn’t really look black. True as you live.) There is also “racism” from the other side. All my life I was called “White Cloud” and other nice names from my darker brothers and sisters, and hated because I was not only light-skinned, but intelligent and happy to be in a learning environment. I can’t tell you the number of times I was pressured to do less than my very best by others around me simply because I was light-skinned with “good” hair and somewhat articulate.
And yeah, I can speak “ghetto” when I want to. I could also speak Creole if I wanted to. Why would I want to except with family who would understand?
Historically, light-skinned blacks have always had an advantage over their darker skinned brothers and sisters, just as whites have an advantage over both groups by dint of the color of their skin. In previous generations, light skinned blacks were often encouraged to “pass” as white, so they could have better lives and more opportunities. This kind of prejudice certainly still exists to this day.
No. We are treated just the same. Mind you I’m multi-racial, but I’m light skinned with African in me.
In MS and most of the south, they treat us as maletows, which is either too light or just mixed. It really hurts that some don’t consider you black just bc you’re light. And then some darker skinned people don’t like you bc they assume you get it better, or are just jealous. I’ve gotten both of that most of my life. ehhh.
And this: “You’re only really black if your skin is burnt.” is the most ignorant comment I’ve ever read.
@mama_jess - Actually, those blacks were disliked bc they were mixed with Black. It was considered a dirty race, so you really couldn’t pass as white and be accepted.
Other Caribs think Bahahmian are stuck-up. French and Germans don’t get along. English and Irish. Indi and Pakistani. Couples fight. Neighbors fight. People are people.
Of course.
according to my light-skinned boyfreind, black women with lighter skin are often considerd more desirable by black men. and i’ve heard from more than a few of my friends that “darker black guys are scarier”. i have no idea why that would be, unless they’re afraid of the dark, but whatevvs. lol.
@MsKittyCatty - Is she your half-sister or does she have the same parents as you do?
I was scrolling through here and I just got struck with curiosity for some odd reason.
@AlterEgo909 - I’d be interested if you wrote on it, actually.
@Axis_of_Doom - I think I will…when I come back
@AlterEgo909 - DO IT NOW!!!
I command thee.
@striemmy - lol, yea go ahead, send me a message if u post about it
yes light skinned blacks are treated better than darker skinned blacks. my dad has a lighter complextion and he’s told me stories from his childhood. blacks would treat him differently also. @randomneuralfirings - that’s funny.
@imperfect_smash - Didn’t you just say you’re treated the same?
Anyway, that’s cultural backlash from the circumstances that created the light skin vs dark skin phenomenon in the first place. It’s a bi-product of people with light skin being treated better. Soooooo contradiction! =)
pretty much all African-Americans in this country right now do have mixed ancestry. Many people of my generation are ignorant of this but there is a long history among African-Americans in this country of socially stratifying themselves accordning to skin color or percentage of white ancestry, because lighter color skin afforded them better treatment in racists society. This was the source of terms like “quadroon” (a person who was 1/4 black, is mostly white), “paper bag test”, “high-yellow” and other terms to specify degree of “blackness.”
in my experience now, children who are obviously of mixed race (white, black or any others) have a harder time then children of any one race because they may be rejected by both races. however, it is true that blacks who have a more “white” appearance (thin nose, light skin, straight hair) are the ones that have been more commercially successful in this country, and some people who seek success seek out those traits.
However, I do think that is changing. As more Afro-looking people become successful and powerful, it encourages people to think, “I can look just like myself and be successful.”
@striemmy - No. Meaning “dark skinned blacks and light skinned blacks are treated the same.”
That’s what I implied; I assumed you could tell from the context.
Wasn’t Vanessa Williams crowned years ago?
I haven’t really ever thought about it before, but I suppose it is possible.
Sadly, yes.
Yes, they are. As Lil Wayne said, he wants a ‘light skinned, thick red bone.’ Not a dark one. It occurs not only outside the African American race, but inside. Light skinned people have become more of a symbol of beauty. When was the last time you saw a dark chocolate woman on television portrayed positivitely? Now think about the last time you saw a light skinned woman on tv portrayed in a positive light? See, it’s just the way society is.
This is a problem that shows up in every society around the world, the darker your skin, the less desirable one seems…..it’s long rooted in all of the worlds nations histories. It’s a shame that some may have to fight through that, but I enjoy when those find strength in doing so, instead of looking at the world negatively, and blaming us “white people” for their problems.
@Axis_of_Doom - We have different dads.
I’m a light-skinned black person (mixed with Cherokee indian, not white, although I’m sure there’s some somewhere) and I occasionally get nasty looks from darker skinned black women and more attention from black men than my Nigerian best friend does.: Super lame.
Eventually everyone will be a light skinned African-Asian Hispanic Jew Muslim… so who cares?
Yes, I agree; I see it happen a lot. For example, I see that more Caucasian guys think light-skinned African-Americans are more beautiful than dark-skinned women. It’s because the majority of America sees beauty from a white perspective. If the person is another ethnicity, they will think the person who looks the most Caucasian is prettier. In Asian, Hispanic, and other cultures even a lighter person is treated with more respect and more desired when it comes to marriage. I’m Indian, and I see that it happens a lot and it’s so gross to me. In India they sell skin lightening products and many actresses get lightening procedures done. I see this as a reason to look as though they are more wealthy. I think it started since the majority of farm workers and etc. would be darker due to working out i nthe sun while the richer people got ot stay in their houses and not get tanned. Idk.
Probably.
idk.
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It often comes as a surprise for people to
discover that There is No Such Thing
as a “Light Skinned Black” person!
The term “Light Skinned Black” is nothing
more that
a racist oxymoron coined by
White racial supremacists
who tried to
forcibly deny ‘Mixed-Race’ people who are
of a Multi-Generational Multiracially-Mixed
(MGM-Mixed) Lineage the right to embrace
and openly acknowledge their full-ancestry
AND
to falsely label the Black bloodlines
found in a Mixed-Race person’s lineage as
being a “tainted”, “inferior” “contaminant”
that destroyed all of their other lineage.
Again,
so-called “Light Skinned Blacks”
are simply ‘Mixed-Race’ people
who are
from families that BOTH BECAME AND
CONTINUALLY-REMAINED Mixed-Race
THROUGHOUT their multiple generations.
This is NOT stating or implying that
having a LIGHT-Complexioned
SKIN tone IS THE ‘ONLY’
(OR even a ‘REQUIRED’)
PROOF of a person being
OF MIXED-RACE LINEAGE.
It’s simply stating that the person’s
Light-complexioned skin coloring and
tone is simply an Undeniable physical
Proof Of the Fact that their family’s
Ancestral Lineage has been
‘Continually’ racially Admixed
‘Throughout’ the Generations
(from the very first occurrence
of “racial” admixing up to their
very present generation of such
– ex. Griffe marries Metis, etc.).
THE KEY to being MGM-Mixed*
IS LINEAGE-CONTINUITY!
In order to be MGM-Mixed*/Mixed-Race,
one’s ancestry MUST have BOTH
BECOME & REMAINED (at least
25%) racially-admixed THROUGHOUT
all of their family generations — from
the very first occurrence of admixture
until their present generation!
Simply having 1 or 2 “ancient-ancestors” who are
said to have been of some “other race” and that
are allegedly found “somewhere-down-the-line”
(ex. a great-grand whatever of another “race”)
– DOES NOT — make anyone MGM-Mixed
(or else nearly everyone found on the planet
could (falsely) claim to be MGM-Mixed)!
Being MGM-Mixed REQUIRES that
one has “CONTINUITY-of-Admixture”
(*Multi-Generational Multiracially-Mixed)
THE racist ‘ONE-DROP RULE’ (ODR)
WAS BANNED IN THE United States
(U.S.) way back in 1967
by the
U.S. Supreme Court (via the
‘Loving vs. VA’ court case).
That decision struck down the ‘VA Racial Integrity Act’
(VRIA) & every ‘Anti-Miscegenation Law’ (AML) in the
U.S. — AS WELL AS the racist, ‘One-Drop Rule’ (ODR)
on which both the VRIA & the AMLs were based!
There’s been NO ‘ONE-DROP RULE’
(ODR) in the U.S. SINCE 1967!Thus, there is NO SUCH THING as a
“Light-Skinned Black” person
(these people
are Mixed-Race from families that have been
racially-admixed throughout many generations).
For more information on this topic,
please feel to contact me via email
and / or to visit the websites below.
— APGifts, Founder / Moderator
(Generation-Mixed; MGM-Mixed
and FGM-Mixed ‘Yahoo!Groups’)
email:
soaptalk@hotmail.com
WebSites:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MGM-Mixed
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FGM-Mixed
http://www.youtube.com/user/apgifts
Related links:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1602
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1691
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SWIRLinc/message/17634
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SWIRLinc/message/17622
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1745
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/3331
http://mulattodebate.websitetoolbox.com/post/show_single_post?pid=1266120092&postcount=56
http://www.mgmix.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=423&p=2214#p2214
ALSO … FOR THE RECORD …:The term of ‘African-American’ (AA) IS NOT
a synonym for BLACK (“Race” or ‘Descent’)
The AAs are NOT A RACE or CULTURAL Group.
The AAs are
a largely Mixed-Race
^ETHNIC group
composed
ONLY
of …
“The ‘Descendants-Of-The-Survivors’
Of the Targets of the antebellum-era
continental U.S. chattel-slavery system”.
[
^The Lineage of MOST (+70%) AAs
contains +20-30% European & +25%
Amerindian THROUGHOUT the line
.
The Non-AA Citizens of the U.S.
who are Racially-Black are called
Black-American (BA), not AA.]
RELATED LINKS:
http://boards.mulatto.org/post/show_single_post?pid=39707103&postcount=20
http://boards.mulatto.org/post/show_single_post?pid=39707086&postcount=18
http://boards.mulatto.org/post/show_single_post?pid=39707093&postcount=19
http://www.mgmix.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=303&p=2213#p2213
http://boards.mulatto.org/post/show_single_post?pid=34070161&postcount=13
http://boards.mulatto.org/post/show_single_post?pid=34070414&postcount=14
http://boards.mulatto.org/post/show_single_post?pid=31574826&postcount=17
.
.
It often comes as a surprise for people to
discover that There is No Such Thing
as a “Light Skinned Black” person!
The term “Light Skinned Black” is nothing
more that a racist oxymoron coined by
White racial supremacists who tried to
forcibly deny ‘Mixed-Race’ people who are
of a Multi-Generational Multiracially-Mixed
(MGM-Mixed) Lineage the right to embrace
and openly acknowledge their full-ancestry
AND
to falsely label the Black bloodlines
found in a Mixed-Race person’s lineage as
being a “tainted”, “inferior” “contaminant”
that destroyed all of their other lineage.
Again,
so-called “Light Skinned Blacks”
are simply ‘Mixed-Race’ people
who are
from families that BOTH BECAME AND
CONTINUALLY-REMAINED Mixed-Race
THROUGHOUT their multiple generations.
This is NOT stating or implying that
having a LIGHT-Complexioned
SKIN tone IS THE ‘ONLY’
(OR even a ‘REQUIRED’)
PROOF of a person being
OF MIXED-RACE LINEAGE.
It’s simply stating that the person’s
Light-complexioned skin coloring and
tone is simply an Undeniable physical
Proof Of the Fact that their family’s
Ancestral Lineage has been
‘Continually’ racially Admixed
‘Throughout’ the Generations
(from the very first occurrence
of “racial” admixing up to their
very present generation of such
– ex. Griffe marries Metis, etc.).
THE KEY to being MGM-Mixed*
IS LINEAGE-CONTINUITY!
In order to be MGM-Mixed*/Mixed-Race,
one’s ancestry MUST have BOTH
BECOME & REMAINED (at least
25%) racially-admixed THROUGHOUT
all of their family generations — from
the very first occurrence of admixture
until their present generation!
Simply having 1 or 2 “ancient-ancestors” who are
said to have been of some “other race” and that
are allegedly found “somewhere-down-the-line”
(ex. a great-grand whatever of another “race”)
– DOES NOT — make anyone MGM-Mixed(or else nearly everyone found on the planet
could (falsely) claim to be MGM-Mixed)!
Being MGM-Mixed REQUIRES that
one has “CONTINUITY-of-Admixture”
(*Multi-Generational Multiracially-Mixed)
THE racist ‘ONE-DROP RULE’ (ODR)
WAS BANNED IN THE United States
(U.S.) way back in 1967 by the
U.S. Supreme Court (via the
‘Loving vs. VA’ court case).
That decision struck down the ‘VA Racial Integrity Act’
(VRIA) & every ‘Anti-Miscegenation Law’ (AML) in the
U.S. — AS WELL AS the racist, ‘One-Drop Rule’ (ODR)
on which both the VRIA & the AMLs were based!
There’s been NO ‘ONE-DROP RULE’
(ODR) in the U.S. SINCE 1967!
Thus, there is NO SUCH THING as a
“Light-Skinned Black” person (these people
are Mixed-Race from families that have been
racially-admixed throughout many generations).
For more information on this topic,
please feel to contact me via email
and / or to visit the websites below.
— APGifts, Founder / Moderator
(Generation-Mixed; MGM-Mixed
and FGM-Mixed ‘Yahoo!Groups’)
email:
soaptalk@hotmail.com
WebSites:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MGM-Mixed
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FGM-Mixed
http://www.youtube.com/user/apgifts
Related links:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1602
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1691
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SWIRLinc/message/17634
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SWIRLinc/message/17622
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1745
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/3331
http://mulattodebate.websitetoolbox.com/post/show_single_post?pid=1266120092&postcount=56
http://www.mgmix.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=423&p=2214#p2214
ALSO … FOR THE RECORD …:
The term of ‘African-American’ (AA) IS NOT
a synonym for BLACK (“Race” or ‘Descent’)
The AAs are NOT A RACE or CULTURAL Group.
The AAs are a largely Mixed-Race
^ETHNIC group composed ONLY of …
“The ‘Descendants-Of-The-Survivors’
Of the Targets of the antebellum-era
continental U.S. chattel-slavery system”.
[
^The Lineage of MOST (+70%) AAs
contains +20-30% European & +25%
Amerindian THROUGHOUT the line
The Non-AA Citizens of the U.S.
who are Racially-Black are called
Black-American (BA), not AA.]
RELATED LINKS:
http://boards.mulatto.org/post/show_single_post?pid=39707103&postcount=20
http://boards.mulatto.org/post/show_single_post?pid=39707086&postcount=18
http://boards.mulatto.org/post/show_single_post?pid=39707093&postcount=19
http://www.mgmix.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=303&p=2213#p2213
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It often comes as a surprise for people to
discover that There is No Such Thing
as a “Light Skinned Black” person!
The term “Light Skinned Black” is nothing
more that a racist oxymoron coined by
White racial supremacists who tried to
forcibly deny ‘Mixed-Race’ people who are
of a Multi-Generational Multiracially-Mixed
(MGM-Mixed) Lineage the right to embrace
and openly acknowledge their full-ancestry
AND
to falsely label the Black bloodlines
found in a Mixed-Race person’s lineage as
being a “tainted”, “inferior” “contaminant”
that destroyed all of their other lineage.
Again,
so-called “Light Skinned Blacks”
are simply ‘Mixed-Race’ people
who are
from families that BOTH BECAME AND
CONTINUALLY-REMAINED Mixed-Race
THROUGHOUT their multiple generations.
This is NOT stating or implying that
having a LIGHT-Complexioned
SKIN tone IS THE ‘ONLY’
(OR even a ‘REQUIRED’)
PROOF of a person being
OF MIXED-RACE LINEAGE.
It’s simply stating that the person’s
Light-complexioned skin coloring and
tone is simply an Undeniable physical
Proof Of the Fact that their family’s
Ancestral Lineage has been
‘Continually’ racially Admixed
‘Throughout’ the Generations
(from the very first occurrence
of “racial” admixing up to their
very present generation of such
– ex. Griffe marries Metis, etc.).
THE KEY to being MGM-Mixed*
IS LINEAGE-CONTINUITY!
In order to be MGM-Mixed*/Mixed-Race,
one’s ancestry MUST have BOTH
BECOME & REMAINED (at least
25%) racially-admixed THROUGHOUT
all of their family generations — from
the very first occurrence of admixture
until their present generation!
Simply having 1 or 2 “ancient-ancestors” who are
said to have been of some “other race” and that
are allegedly found “somewhere-down-the-line”
(ex. a great-grand whatever of another “race”)
– DOES NOT — make anyone MGM-Mixed(or else nearly everyone found on the planet
could (falsely) claim to be MGM-Mixed)!
Being MGM-Mixed REQUIRES that
one has “CONTINUITY-of-Admixture”
(*Multi-Generational Multiracially-Mixed)
THE racist ‘ONE-DROP RULE’ (ODR)
WAS BANNED IN THE United States
(U.S.) way back in 1967 by the
U.S. Supreme Court (via the
‘Loving vs. VA’ court case).
That decision struck down the ‘VA Racial Integrity Act’
(VRIA) & every ‘Anti-Miscegenation Law’ (AML) in the
U.S. — AS WELL AS the racist, ‘One-Drop Rule’ (ODR)
on which both the VRIA & the AMLs were based!
There’s been NO ‘ONE-DROP RULE’
(ODR) in the U.S. SINCE 1967!
Thus, there is NO SUCH THING as a
“Light-Skinned Black” person (these people
are Mixed-Race from families that have been
racially-admixed throughout many generations).
For more information on this topic,
please feel to contact me via email
and / or to visit the websites below.
— APGifts, Founder / Moderator
(Generation-Mixed; MGM-Mixed
and FGM-Mixed ‘Yahoo!Groups’)
email:
soaptalk@hotmail.com
WebSites:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MGM-Mixed
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FGM-Mixed
http://www.youtube.com/user/apgifts
Related links:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1602
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1691
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SWIRLinc/message/17634
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SWIRLinc/message/17622
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/1745
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Generation-Mixed/message/3331
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http://www.mgmix.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=423&p=2214#p2214
ALSO … FOR THE RECORD …:
The term of ‘African-American’ (AA) IS NOT
a synonym for BLACK (“Race” or ‘Descent’)
The AAs are NOT A RACE or CULTURAL Group.
The AAs are a largely Mixed-Race
^ETHNIC group composed ONLY of …
“The ‘Descendants-Of-The-Survivors’
Of the Targets of the antebellum-era
continental U.S. chattel-slavery system”.
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^The Lineage of MOST (+70%) AAs
contains +20-30% European & +25%
Amerindian THROUGHOUT the line
The Non-AA Citizens of the U.S.
who are Racially-Black are called
Black-American (BA), not AA.]
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In my own experiance its based on looks, ive heard “mixed race girls are so pretty” , for me this is a very big stereotype, one so unfortunet that it has effected the way people look at other races, pretty full black girls are ignored yet ugly or maybe ordinary looking mixed race girls are praised & overrated.
It is somewhat frustraiting, but all i can do is continue being open minded – everyone is on the same wave length being apart of a racial group should not effect your status of being superior or inferior its when the person does me wrong when i take a dislike!