Lisa Bonet’s Daughter Explains Why She Couldn’t Connect With Being Black

[True Religion BuddhaMan]

Actually yes. The Huxtables were basically a perfect family and somehow didn't have any extended family that even showed a contrast between their excellence and the fact that most are getting by or just trying to find a place. They lived in 80s Brooklyn and couldn't even touch on the crack epidemic affecting anyone they knew. They more or less existed in a bubble.

Despite the satire of a 6'5" nikka in a dress there are more Madeas than Claires. Despite the formulaic nature of his films they show black people of different socioeconomic levels and touch on the "successful child/cousin syndrome" even some 6 cert-6 figure-my own boss Coli posters experience. His shows on OWN get away from the stuff we deem stereotypical or lowbrow.

The Cosby Show clearly has its place in Black culture and shows A depiction of a Black American family. But it's a lofty and uncommon one.

The fact that she referenced Tyler Perry over the show that gave her the resources to even be amongst those privileged kids at school is telling though.

 

[Shadow King]

The fact that she referenced Tyler Perry over the show that gave her the resources to even be amongst those privileged kids at school is telling though.

Tyler Perry blew up when she was coming of age and was/is a big deal. It's her contemporary or real-time experience. The same as someone born in the mid-70s growing up on the Cosby Show or The Fresh Prince.

 

[R=G]

20 some things are pretty wack in their thinking in general..music choices, dressing white basically, getting called N1GGER to their faces, etc. No surprise. And it isnt just Hollywood..its just everywhere..

 

[supertrekker]

She should hang out with the Kardashians. They know what it's like to be blacked.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Creole people are black and some of us are on here, that buffer class didn't last long, mixed slaves had to work.
Most female manumittees, placagists, and most black slave owners (overlap here) weren't mixed at all...they were less of a threat than a man, making beds warm, and were treated/promoted accordingly.

So would you agree or disagree that “Mulatto” was a classification of people and used at a racia level? Creole is used in the manner people would use the name of a tribe, they are a sub group of the overall African american ethnic group .
I have people who are pretty much family that are from Lousiana that are creole who are Black, but all because you are Creole doesnt mean you are black, the same way Drake is Jewish but he aint white (One is Jewish by mother), he is biracial. With the Creole example at this stage in history most them folks are black now but 100 yrs ago many were mulatto or octaroon (spellcheck)

I got biracial cousins and them mofos aint black even though we are of the same tribe (due to us having a patrilineal culture). Dont means I hate em but they aint black.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

So would you agree or disagree that “Mulatto” was a classification of people and used at a racia level? Creole is used in the manner people would use the name of a tribe, they are a sub group of the overall African american ethnic group .
I have people who are pretty much family that are from Lousiana that are creole who are Black, but all because you are Creole doesnt mean you are black, the same way Drake is Jewish but he aint white (One is Jewish by mother), he is biracial. With the Creole example at this stage in history most them folks are black now but 100 yrs ago many were mulatto or octaroon (spellcheck)

I got biracial cousins and them mofos aint black even though we are of the same tribe (due to us having a patrilineal culture). Dont means I hate em but they aint black.

For an EXTREMELY short amount of time.
Many of us have mixed parents, grandparents, great grandparents, etc.
We are also mixed with every tribe and nationality that comes from West Africa to here.
Are you AA?
If not, stop speculating, and worry about your own people.

 

[Sccit]

IM SHOCKED

 

[Take It In Blood]

I hate how she keeps up popping up in films, with her non acting ass

If only she started popping up in the type of films we really want to see her in

 

[Cabbage Patch]

She obviously identifies as Jewish, not white. Same with Rashida Jones and Rain Pryor. Rashida and Rain both strongly identify with their mothers. Rain at least married black.

As for her agent not seeking roles based on her race, funny how she ends up the only colored girl in the group. she is one of the go-to we need a black girl actresses hire zoe (kravitz or saldana? depends on genre) so she really thinks shes hired color blind and there being no other black girls on the set is a coincidence. Whatever.

She's a Jew. That opens doors which should have been shut.

 

[Geek Nasty]

This is something people raising black kids in the suburbs need to be aware of. You’re constantly battling the influence of the media and all your children’s friends and their parents’ fake smiles.

 

[Apollo Creed]

For an EXTREMELY short amount of time.
Many of us have mixed parents, grandparents, great grandparents, etc.
We are also mixed with every tribe and nationality that comes from West Africa to here.
Are you AA?
If not, stop speculating, and worry about your own people.

 

[Geek Nasty]

[QUOTE="Nintendough, post: 31931729, member: 954”]The other one lost her job getting smutted out by a cac in a bed covered in blood.[/QUOTE]
just stop man, angelheart was a great movie.

 

[Easy-E]

Being black isn't about DNA.

She isn't black. He got like one black grandparent.

 

[Nintendough]

[QUOTE="Nintendough, post: 31931729, member: 954”]The other one lost her job getting smutted out by a cac in a bed covered in blood.

just stop man, angelheart was a great movie.[/QUOTE]



Go away white boy we talking nikka business right now

 

[Apollo Creed]

She obviously identifies as Jewish, not white. Same with Rashida Jones and Rain Pryor. Rashida and Rain both strongly identify with their mothers. Rain at least married black.

As for her agent not seeking roles based on her race, funny how she ends up the only colored girl in the group. she is one of the go-to we need a black girl actresses hire zoe (kravitz or saldana? depends on genre) so she really thinks shes hired color blind and there being no other black girls on the set is a coincidence. Whatever.

She's a Jew. That opens doors which should have been shut.

“Jew” isnt a race.