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Nope. Which is why I am confused about the "all black people in here say they are light" thing, since I've never said that. But maybe you didn't know I was black. *shrugs* no biggie.
Okay, I don't feel so alone now However online, there seems to be a high number of mixed looking black people (so they claim). I don't know whether they just have more access to computers or some are fibbing. But its very rare for an African American to admit that they are darkskinned and have little to no mixed ancestry. Just about all of them claim to have a white parent, grandparent or great grandparent.
1) This is not a predominantly African American forum so it would obviously lack the full spectrum of diversity that exists within 'our' community
2) You have personally made an assumption about me specifically being "light skinned" and I have had to correct you and inform that I am "brown skinned"
3) It really bothers me that you are inferring that there can not be kinship among us if we are at different ends of the color spectrum. We all usually tend to have at least some shared experience just by being under the umbrella of being "Black" in America.
4) I'm sorry if it bothers you that some Black Americans are not "black enough" for you. You do realize that we really did not have a say in our own "coloring", right?
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1) This is not a predominantly African American forum so it would obviously lack the full spectrum of diversity that exists within 'our' community
2) You have personally made an assumption about me specifically being "light skinned" and I have had to correct you and inform that I am "brown skinned"
3) It really bothers me that you are inferring that there can not be kinship among us if we are at different ends of the color spectrum. We all usually tend to have at least some shared experience just by being under the umbrella of being "Black" in America.
4) I'm sorry if it bothers you that some Black Americans are not "black enough" for you. You do realize that we really did not have a say in our own "coloring", right?
People should learn to rally around the shared experience of being human - Damn!
There was a guy on NPR last year talking about a book he wrote that stated Blacks have moved so far in our society that their is no such thing as a black experiance aanymore. Basically according to him 50 years ago nearly all African Americans had the same or similar experiances in life. Most lived in rural areas in the South or in a few urban industrial cities. Most lived under Jim Crow, They had their own schools, few went to college and most of the ones that did went to historically black schools, etc.
Now African Americans have been despursed throughout American society and have only a few things in common (Such as dealing with rascism).
This.
Black people born and raised in suburbia have little in common with Blacks living in the inner city. Sadly, the propaganda machine we have in our society wishes you to think otherwise. There is no such thing as "acting Black". When people say someone is "acting Black" it usually has connotations related to acting like a rapping drug dealing inner city gang banger. That is not "acting Black". For years, the crap network known as Black Entertainment Television worked relentlessly to perpetuate the stereotypes that all Black people love Hip Hop and R&B and that all Black people live in the hood and aspire to be nothing more than video hoochies, drug dealers, basketball players and rappers. BET toned down a few years ago after fed up Black folks demanded a change in the network's programming. BET was especially damaging because our society is so vastly White. The average White person living in the average 90% White town who knows no Black people personally would come to the conclusion that all Black people are crazy from watching the minstrel show that is BET and logging onto Worldstar Hip Hop.
Black people born and raised in suburbia have little in common with Blacks living in the inner city. Sadly, the propaganda machine we have in our society wishes you to think otherwise. There is no such thing as "acting Black". When people say someone is "acting Black" it usually has connotations related to acting like a rapping drug dealing inner city gang banger. That is not "acting Black". For years, the crap network known as Black Entertainment Television worked relentlessly to perpetuate the stereotypes that all Black people love Hip Hop and R&B and that all Black people live in the hood and aspire to be nothing more than video hoochies, drug dealers, basketball players and rappers. BET toned down a few years ago after fed up Black folks demanded a change in the network's programming. BET was especially damaging because our society is so vastly White. The average White person living in the average 90% White town who knows no Black people personally would come to the conclusion that all Black people are crazy from watching the minstrel show that is BET and logging onto Worldstar Hip Hop.
Please stop speaking from a place of ignorance.
There are Black people in the inner city who are intelligent, ambitious, hardworking and seeking a better life. There are Black people in suburbia who are "thuggish". Same with White people. There are White people in wealthy neighborhoods who are drug addicts and wife beaters. There are Whites in trailer parks who work hard and just want their kids to do well in school.
1) This is not a predominantly African American forum so it would obviously lack the full spectrum of diversity that exists within 'our' community
What "community"? The slums?
Quick note for all people without any or much African blood in them: blacks are not like Germans or the English. The best analogy for people of African descent living in America are Asians. Some innocently ignorant people see a Vietnamese, a Japanese and a Korean guy who don't get along and they say "hey, you guys are all Asians. What's the issues?" Without understanding the differences between them.
Likewise, they see a Nigerian named George, a mixed guy named Roger and a black American named Jameak and they don't get along. People say "you're all black, what's the issue?"
"The black community" is an absurd term. I couldn't care less about the ghetto slime in the slums across America.
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3) It really bothers me that you are inferring that there can not be kinship among us if we are at different ends of the color spectrum. We all usually tend to have at least some shared experience just by being under the umbrella of being "Black" in America.
One could say those same things about brown Mexicans and women. In the end, I have very little in common with the blacks, even the ones in my own family...I have yet to hear of a black being constantly mistaken for Dominican or Indian or Arabian.
Many years ago I saw a pic of a white guy with a bunch of Black dudes in some African country: that guy was Mohammed Ali. He looked nothing like those Africans so what happened to you with those Kenyans I def believe.
That's because American blacks are the descendents of West Africans, many of whom aren't as dark as Bantus in the East. The Fulani and the Igbo people are known for being naturally lighter than Kenyans or Zulus, who weren't brought to America as slaves.
Just as there are Europeans who are darker than other Europeans while still being European (compare a Sicilian or a Greek to a German or a Norwegian) there are Africans who are lighter than others (from black as they get Tanzanians to medium Igbos to light brown San)
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However online, there seems to be a high number of mixed looking black people (so they claim). I don't know whether they just have more access to computers or some are fibbing. But its very rare for an African American to admit that they are darkskinned and have little to no mixed ancestry. Just about all of them claim to have a white parent, grandparent or great grandparent.
