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What about Christopher Reid "kid" from the dance/rap group "kid n play"? I always considered him white.
Its weird that you say this and with Ice-T and Him being so successful in the hip-hop industry. They are seen no differently than any other black person and its never been in question they just found some way to blend in. In fact this is the very first time ive seen anyone speak about it.
Its weird that you say this and with Ice-T and Him being so successful in the hip-hop industry. They are seen no differently than any other black person and its never been in question they just found some way to blend in. In fact this is the very first time ive seen anyone speak about it.
Really? Well I remember kids, including black kids reffering to that rapper form kid n' play as the "white boy". I heard similar comments about Ice-t back then too.
To those who are familiar with the racial classification in the various carribean countries how would most light skinned black-Americans be viewed in some of these countries? I once heard a light skinned black-American say that in Haiti they didn't view him as being "black" like he is in the U.S. Instead they used some other term to describe him that was associated with him having "clear" skin or something. So if rapper Ice T was walking around Haiti how would Haitians describe him?
Actually it all depends. Even in the USA light skinned blacks get their blackness questioned. We all know how black identified people can be hypocritical at times. One minute they call a person black when it's convienient for them and then the next minute, they aren't black enough. It's like damned if one does and damned if one doesn't.
And many times light skinned blacks go out of their way to over compensate for their blackness as well.
On a sidenote it's quite ironic that Ice T called out Bryant Gumbal for selling out and being an uncle Tom and acting white. Bryant Gumbal is Louisiana Creole. But meanwhile Ice T has a white woman yet he calls out others as being brainwashed NY whiteness and white supremacy? Pot meet kettle.
Its weird that you say this and with Ice-T and Him being so successful in the hip-hop industry. They are seen no differently than any other black person and its never been in question they just found some way to blend in. In fact this is the very first time ive seen anyone speak about it.
I don't think hip hop fans and viewers are looking at celebs for their race. It's just like Teena Marie. She is viewed by many as a soulful white woman. People accept her as binaries soul R&B singer and star that the race didn't matter.
It doesn't necessarily have to do with being viewed the same as or different from black people etc. Music shouldn't really be tied to race anyway. If you have musical talent and do good music then you can do any genre. Music IS music period.
In Sierra Leone, in relation to skin color someone Ice-T's complexion would called "bright"...this was told to me by a friend
who is a member of one of the indigenous ethnic tribes there..as most people there are dark-brown to blue-black..with some
people being medium-brown...
I was told in Haiti, they make a difference between Afro-Haitian culture vs. Anglo culture ( a French-Canadian) told me this
and he is very familiar with Haitian culture and has lived in Haiti and gone back and forth to there..So I think someone like
Ice-T would be viewed as an Anglo-American..
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