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

[#1 pick]

Can't say I blame her but when you are melanated in America you can say your white all you want you will always get that wake up call.

Shame on Lenny and Lisa for not putting her up on game.

That's what happen to her. She doesn't think of herself as Black but the power that be do and she just can't understand it but she has accepted it in her own way

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

Being a slave doesnt make you black. And there were numerous biracial people pre 1865 who were not slaves and actually served as a buffer class between blacks and whites in many states. Look at places like Louisiana

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.

 

[I Really Mean It]

She's not black, so why should she worry about identifying as black? What she should concern herself with is why the white executives who cast for these roles refuse to view her through race netrual lens when it comes to casting for roles. She should also ask her white female contemporaries, the actresses she considers her friends and with whom she can be seen partying on occasion, why they aren't more vocal on her behalf when it comes to being denied roles because of her "race." She strikes me a very confused mullato.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

She wasn't given knowledge of self, alt-blacks don't do that...
Oh, and the black punk community is full of c00ns who think intersectionality is a shortcut in. White people who fukk with it sure do get cookout invites.
Suburban blavity types make careers out of it. She's simply one of many.
PS: fukk "Dope" aka "we ain't like them nikkas over there, we's good negros who got in a lil trouble" : the movie.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

The main "mixed people ain't black" crowd are immigrants, btw.
Their opinions are irrelevant and they should worry about fixing, OH THAT'S RIGHT, YOUR COUNTRY IS A WRAP SO YOU IN THE VIDEO WITH US NOW. BE AN EXTRA, YOU NOT DIRECTING shyt, SIT DOWN. We been here for a good 3 to 5 hunna, do we tell y'all how to make fufu?
No.
Do we tell y'all how to do anything?
No.
Worry about your own mono identity, ours is a bit more complicated.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

nikkas wanted to give me heat when I said that

Suburb nikkas are like Eminem fans.
When they see their corny, watered down, looking in from the outside of EVERYTHING asses on screen, they fight for it just like cacinem fans fight for him. That movie is the coming of age story for newblacks.

 

[Knicksman20]

She got her nikka wake up call when she got curved for that role in Dark Knight. Still doesn’t change that she yearns for white acceptance. Look at her dating history & that should tell you everything

 

[Shadow King]

Tyler Perry is tho?

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.

 

[NoirDynosaur]

This my whole problem with their stance.

They themselves relegate blackness to being something evil or bad....

That's due to social conditioning. If anything, it's the total opposite. We're pretty much soulful people with an edge.

 

[Elle Driver]

Zoe just wants to be white.

 

[#1 pick]

Zoe just wants to be white.

In treatment and privilege. She don't want the Black experience. It's not a mindset or communication, its simply your pigmentation and how America works

 

[Serious]

She's not black, so why should she worry about identifying as black? What she should concern herself with is why the white executives who cast for these roles refuse to view her through race netrual lens when it comes to casting for roles. She should also ask her white female contemporaries, the actresses she considers her friends and with whom she can be seen partying on occasion, why they aren't more vocal on her behalf when it comes to being denied roles because of her "race." She strikes me a very confused mullato.

@Magic Mulatto

 

[ultraflexed]

Neil Young is a cac performing black culture, as the daughter of a black rock artist, she should have known.
Tyler Perry is "ratchet-gay" type black SUBculture...all the excuses are odd and

#the excuses

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Lisa Bonet's father was a Texas AA and Roxie Roker was AA & Bahamian

thought that nkka was haitian or something. You got it

The main "mixed people ain't black" crowd are immigrants, btw.
Their opinions are irrelevant and they should worry about fixing, OH THAT'S RIGHT, YOUR COUNTRY IS A WRAP SO YOU IN THE VIDEO WITH US NOW. BE AN EXTRA, YOU NOT DIRECTING shyt, SIT DOWN. We been here for a good 3 to 5 hunna, do we tell y'all how to make fufu?
No.
Do we tell y'all how to do anything?
No.
Worry about your own mono identity, ours is a bit more complicated.

im using this

 

[African Peasant]

Neither could her parents, which is why I could not understand the praise they received from black audiences. They relate blackness to stereotypes. They do not categorize themselves as black, yet take black roles and fill black spaces.

Being black = a fashion statement.