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A mixed race person a heck of a lot more conscious than some said, "I hate it when white people when say walk up to me and say, 'You're so pretty because mixed-race people are just so much cuter. I wanna ask cuter than who? It's like they're saying, 'Thank God you got some white in you to erase some of that ugly' black, Asian, or POC DNA."
And I say,
When people of color say this sort of thing, they are doing the same thing, only it's self hatred.
When mixed race people of color say the same thing about themselves, it's probably self hatred as well. They might as well go home and smack the parent that's a person of color in the face as much as they respect the darker/more-ethnic parent.
The 'oh my god they are so cute because they're mixed' conversation is a colorism/white-supremacy conversation because this conversation mostly comes up when the child is a pale person of color, and the other parent is white.
By the way, bi-racial and multi-racial is mostly about social choices as far as the black community is concerned because many if not most black people are "mixed." During slavery, rape was one of the benefits of ownership. We're all shades of the rainbow as a result.
While the genetics of skin color is a lot more complicated than dropping tablespoons of chocolate into a glass of milk, when it comes to black and white people having children together, Vanessa Williams (two light-skinned black parents) looks about as "mixed" as Halle Berry (one black parent of unknown skin-tone and one white parent)
---which is why they both are legitimately able to identify, by choice, as "African American."
A mixed race person a heck of a lot more conscious than some said, "I hate it when white people when say walk up to me and say, 'You're so pretty because mixed-race people are just so much cuter. I wanna ask cuter than who? It's like they're saying, 'Thank God you got some white in you to erase some of that ugly' black, Asian, or POC DNA."
And I say,
When people of color say this sort of thing, they are doing the same thing, only it's self hatred.
When mixed race people of color say the same thing about themselves, it's probably self hatred as well. They might as well go home and smack the parent that's a person of color in the face as much as they respect the darker/more-ethnic parent.
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| Halle Berry Vanessa Williams |
By the way, bi-racial and multi-racial is mostly about social choices as far as the black community is concerned because many if not most black people are "mixed." During slavery, rape was one of the benefits of ownership. We're all shades of the rainbow as a result.
While the genetics of skin color is a lot more complicated than dropping tablespoons of chocolate into a glass of milk, when it comes to black and white people having children together, Vanessa Williams (two light-skinned black parents) looks about as "mixed" as Halle Berry (one black parent of unknown skin-tone and one white parent)
---which is why they both are legitimately able to identify, by choice, as "African American."
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