Zoe Kravitz: " I've recently begun to identify more with my blackness"

[Soundbwoy]

The Hilarious Misadventures of the Tragic Mulatto.

No, but seriously, she's not black. She's mulatto, so it would make sense for her to identify with her white side. Theres nothing wrong with that. There is, however, something wrong with boiling down black culture to Tyler Perry, and hiphop. Shame on her for that ignorant quote.

both her parents are black tho

 

[Raptor]

both her parents are black tho

Theyre both half jews

 

[MikelArteta]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/zoë-kravitz-on-black-identity-and-the-role-she-was-too-urban-to-play_55a00cd0e4b05b1d029049d9?utm_hp_ref=black-voices

On her identity as the biracial daughter of stars Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz, the actress said she has only recently begun to identify more with her blackness. Growing up, she said attending a predominantly white school made her feel as though she was "just as white" as her classmates.

“I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in," she told Nylon. "I didn’t identify with black culture, like, I didn’t like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn’t into hip-hop music."

“Unfortunately that is what’s fed through the media. That’s what people see. That’s what I saw," Kravitz added. The actress says she has since gained more perspective on being black, and realizes that black culture is "so much deeper than that."

For Kravitz, introductions to important black actors and musicians helped change her perspective on black identity. "I got older and listened to A Tribe Called Quest and watched films with Sidney Poitier, and heard Billie Holiday and Nina Simone. I had to un-brainwash myself. It’s my mission, especially as an actress.”

i was the same i already ade a thread about it
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/grow...ulation-is-damaging-to-your-blackness.312988/

I grew up in white ass towns, surrounded by white people everywhere. I never even knew about black history, my culture nothing.

That old saying you are who you hang around, and all I hanged around was cacs, at one point it felt like a honor to be the token black male, like i was better than other black brehs and brehettes. In reality I was just a kewn azz nikka, I'm just finding myself now, my church is majority all black , at work now a bunch of minorities, its just refreshing to be amongst your people brehs.

if you never grew up in a all cac environment you dont know how it is

 

[Y2Dre]

both her parents are black tho

I almost forgot this fact lol

 

[StickStickly]

Is that why she has braids now



But good for her.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

The Hilarious Misadventures of the Tragic Mulatto.

No, but seriously, she's not black. She's mulatto, so it would make sense for her to identify with her white side. Theres nothing wrong with that. There is, however, something wrong with boiling down black culture to Tyler Perry, and hiphop. Shame on her for that ignorant quote.

I give her credit for stating she figured out being black was deeper than that. That's how cacs think.

Ironically, her mother was on "The Cosby Show", positive image of the black family.

 

[Elle Driver]

I like her. She's starting to understand it and really its her parents fault. They kept her away from that and she grew up privileged and so far removed from poverty and the black existence. Even though she is mulatto, she still has black lineage. Good for her. It's a struggle for biracial people.

 

[Elle Driver]

Is that why she has braids now



But good for her.

Is that why she has braids now



But good for her.

She looks so much better with them.

 

[HoloGraphic]

The fact she relates Tyler Perry movies to black culture

 

[Will2x]

The coli told me biracials cannot claim blackness. So she's speaking non sense.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Theyre both half jews

Jewish is a race now?

 

[Kano]

Lol she's looking at entertainers to figure out who she is, Sad.

 

[newworldafro]

The Hilarious Misadventures of the Tragic Mulatto.

No, but seriously, she's not black. She's mulatto, so it would make sense for her to identify with her white side. Theres nothing wrong with that. There is, however, something wrong with boiling down black culture to Tyler Perry, and hiphop. Shame on her for that ignorant quote.

Its funny, but these are soundbytes...as an actress she is pointing out those in her line of work

 

[Knuckles Red]

both her parents are black tho

 

[Dr. Acula]

oh thats nice..