What are you mixed with? Instant c00n status?

[Pineal Gland]

Can I call my coworkers c00ns?

"Girrrlll come look at his hair. PG, what you mixed with?"

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

Can I call my coworkers c00ns?

"Girrrlll come look at his hair. PG, what you mixed with?"

Yes. It's probably true.

 

[KravenMorehead™]

I used to feel the same way about being asked "where are you from?" by other black people

...like they're trying to figure out what box to put you in so they can decide what opinion to have. Like nikka you don't even know what my character's about yet

It could be harmless if it's in the flow of the convo. At different jobs I've asked asian coworkers if they were asian or latina, and latina coworkers if they were latina or asian, so it might not be a race thing. They might've been raised in a diverse environment. Miscegenation and c00ning go hand in hand though, so you're right when it comes right down to it...


Who the fukk asks "what are you?" tho that's such a fukk ass question

 

[TEH]

I never got asked this question. I'm dark brown so some people would ask about my parents being light and dark though.

 

[MalikX]

It's c00nish. It's one of the things I hate being asked.

I kinda get where beautiful women are coming from because after the 10,000th time being asked something you're sick of it.

 

[Mastamimd]

Lol hell no thank God

 

[Trapperman Dave]

Seems like an inappropriate question to ask a complete stranger. I find it usually comes after a compliment like "You are beautiful. Are you mixed?" Followed by "Yes you are!" As if you can't be attractive and be Black. I've even had people get angry for "lying" about being mixed.

Most people think I am Ethiopian but I don't "looked mixed" in my opinion. I have a medium skin tone with locs. I am clearly Black.

Soo you are fine? Can i dine you?

 

[Gravity]

If one of the first things someone asks you, even before your name, is "What are you mixed with?" or "What are you?" does it make them an instant c00n, especially when you're not mixed?

How far back can you trace your family tree?

 

[A1aaa]

I already know that it's not a reasonable first question

on the real, i'm surprised nikkas are this emboldened to ask this still.

usually light-brites/mixed chicks get this question so often, i always assumed it was a turn off for them. my past two exes were mixed and light-skinned () and i never asked this until i had already gotten with them. a lot of mixed chicks seems to go through a tragic mulatto phase so its best to just not even touch the topic... lest the think you're "fetishizing" their features.

if she looks good, she looks good

 

[RAX 010]

I don't think it's c00nish...I personally believe we shouldn't be so sensitive and look for reasons to be upset.
I'm from Jersey City NJ it's a very diverse city with a multitude of different cultures so usually if I asked a young lady is she mixed then she usually was . It's not that serious to me but then again I'm not a black woman and can't quite see things from her perspective

 

[Nymbus]

A lot of older black women tend to ask me this because of my "good hair"

 

[O.T.I.S.]

My barber hit me with that the other day

 

[3rdWorld]

To me its a indication of how mixed Black America is..but yeah it's c00n status..

 

[Neuromancer]

I can see where it's a little c00nish. Some people may actually think they're complimenting you by asking you that ( which in it self means there is something wrong with them.) It surely Is a disrespectful first question to ask.

 

[The M.I.C.]

I don't ask because I got tortured as a kid when asked about some of my features. My grandmother used to let my hair grow out and it was apparently fascinating to her friends and other family members to see a black kid with with curly hair, defined eyebrows, long eyelashes with "china" eyes as they'd say back then in Charlotte.

The constant "Stella, he got them pretty white features like you." statements got tiring after awhile. My experiences would have me lean towards the shyt being c00nish tbh.