Black people: What are you mixed with?

[Zapp Brannigan]

Damn, there's something that just seems way too perverse about claiming whiteness when it really doesn't seem to come up in said person in any significant way. I fukking hate when people declare me white because I'm educated or something, or tell me that as if it's some sort of compliment.

"Oh! You don't act like those dirty beaners that I see on TV! You don't even hang out in front of Home Depot begging for work! Look at you in a suit and tie, and your diction! "

 

[MidniteJay]

Knowledge of bloodline is weak in my fam. My mother was born in Haiti from a dark mother and a mulatto father (so she looks like a redbone). She thinks it may be French, Spanish lineage on her father's side or whatever cac foreigner settled in Haiti to make him so light.

My father is a regular typical Haitian.

I came out a Nick Cannon look a like with an extra 40 lbs.

So I don't claim to be mixed.

 

[Versa]

100% pure black man

Read this post and got legit jealous. Would that be reverse c00ning?

I'm only about 80% black.

 

[BigMan]

black, chinese, little bit of french, spanish etc

 

[mbewane]

shyt must be crazy...are you super light bc mom's is white?

are you culturally black or white?

i grew up on the blacks side, but i know mixed folk who grew up white (Drake etc)

I'd say my complexion is more or less Alonzo Mourning...I'm lighter in the winter though

That's a VERY hard question, and it's precisely why I'm sometimes confused...Moms was (she's deceased) white, so you know Moms have a big influence on how you grow up, I went to a French school and I was brought up in French, so that's that "white" influence...but I lived in Central African Republic from ages 8 to 16, and was mostly in "black" environments my first three-four years in Europe...plus you got to add that my first memories are form the US (I lived in New Rochelle from ages 3-8) and that I've been following hip-hop/basketball/(african-)american culture ever since, so that's yet another layer to add...having lived in Europe for the past 15 years, I'm def more "white" than when I got here, that's for sure.

But as the saying goes, I'm too white for black people and too black for white people.

But yeah a lot of mixed people tend to "choose" (I doubt that "choice" is ever fully conscious and/or wanted) one "side" or another, which is unfortunate. In my experience a lot "choose" the white side because most mixed guys I know have a white mom and that influence is stronger than the pops, plus around me it's almost always Moms coming from a European country so it even makes "sense" to lean more on that side, education and opportunities-wise. But those who do manage to strike a balance and get both of both worlds, I can only

 

[Sad Bunny]

I'd say my complexion is more or less Alonzo Mourning...I'm lighter in the winter though

That's a VERY hard question, and it's precisely why I'm sometimes confused...Moms was (she's deceased) white, so you know Moms have a big influence on how you grow up, I went to a French school and I was brought up in French, so that's that "white" influence...but I lived in Central African Republic from ages 8 to 16, and was mostly in "black" environments my first three-four years in Europe...plus you got to add that my first memories are form the US (I lived in New Rochelle from ages 3-8) and that I've been following hip-hop/basketball/(african-)american culture ever since, so that's yet another layer to add...having lived in Europe for the past 15 years, I'm def more "white" than when I got here, that's for sure.

But as the saying goes, I'm too white for black people and too black for white people.

But yeah a lot of mixed people tend to "choose" (I doubt that "choice" is ever fully conscious and/or wanted) one "side" or another, which is unfortunate. In my experience a lot "choose" the white side because most mixed guys I know have a white mom and that influence is stronger than the pops, plus around me it's almost always Moms coming from a European country so it even makes "sense" to lean more on that side, education and opportunities-wise. But those who do manage to strike a balance and get both of both worlds, I can only

damn thats pretty cool.

I was raised by moms in inner-city philly. single moms, on EBt, struggling but she dided when i was in high school.

i learned about college and started hanging with cacs in college and never looked back

im also -- too white for black people and too black for white people.

double edged sword bc i cant get the pawgiest pawgs

 

[Lavish]

100% black here parents came from ghana. went back as far as I could go, roughly 5 generations...all negro

I dunno how id feel, if I had slavemaster cac in my ancestory...

 

[Lavish]

black and italian

my families are polar opposites -- ratchet black people and educated cacs

im stuck in between

which parent is CAC?

 

[Sad Bunny]

which parent is CAC?

My dad ... but he might as well have been black ... b/c he was a dead beat

 

[KingHelga]

the little photo of that dark skinned woman is messed up. i'm sure she never claimed that and some african american searched for the darkest girl they could find just to attach a line to make fun of her for being that dark. with such rich treatment i can't imagine why someone wouldn't want to identify with you

 

[Sinnerman]

100% black here parents came from ghana. went back as far as I could go, roughly 5 generations...all negro

I dunno how id feel, if I had slavemaster cac in my ancestory...

my brotha from Ghana!

that championship we won yesterday was for y'all as well

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[Hovsta]

Knowledge of bloodline is weak in my fam. My mother was born in Haiti from a dark mother and a mulatto father (so she looks like a redbone). She thinks it may be French, Spanish lineage on her father's side or whatever cac foreigner settled in Haiti to make him so light.

My father is a regular typical Haitian.

I came out a Nick Cannon look a like with an extra 40 lbs.

So I don't claim to be mixed.

bro bro that hella similar to be just make your mom a afro dominican and shyt we would damn near be the same she also had a dark skinned mother and half cac father and my dad is a normal ass haitian

 

[Lavish]

my brotha from Ghana!

that championship we won yesterday was for y'all as well

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you guys did well

 

[Lavish]

My dad ... but he might as well have been black ... b/c he was a dead beat

@Anothergirl

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[$lim]

Native american as far as I know

My mom has an old black and white photo of my great great great (I don't know how many greats) grandmother. She looks like a real indian with long gray and black hair. Wish I could've met her.