LOL! How true. Beautiful woman who unfortunately is stone-cold crazy. And a lousy actress to boot!
Posted on 02/24/2011 6:14:06 AM PST by flowerplough
Halle Berry's recent comments in Ebony magazine have brought up the complex subject of racial identity, which still seems to confuse many Americans. Asked if her daughter, Nahla, is African American, the Oscar-winning actress answered, "I feel like she's black. I'm black and I'm her mother, and I believe in the one-drop theory."
Blogs raged, and suddenly everyone was an expert on dissecting the social construction of race. Even many black websites roared that Nahla wasn't black. It was as if a chapter from an Alex Haley book had come to life on the Web.
Berry has never used the words "mixed" or "biracial" to describe her racial identity. She identifies as a black woman. Similarly, President Barack Obama, Faith Evans, Jasmine Guy and even the late, great Bob Marley all embraced having a white parent -- but didn't identify by degree of blackness. Apparently, they subscribe to the belief that either you are black -- or you are not.
In 2011, black is no longer praised as beautiful; everyone wants to be "multi." People proudly run through their race, ethnicity and nationality as if it's a résumé. "Mixed," "multiethnic," even the deeply offensive word "mulatto," are resurging as the hottest labels around. Here's another new term I recently heard: "double-raced."
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LOL! How true. Beautiful woman who unfortunately is stone-cold crazy. And a lousy actress to boot!
I DON’T believe in the “one drop” theory.
My religion says that we are all descent from the same two parents. If all it takes is one drop, we are definitely all black.
As opposed to "Uncle Tom" or "Oreo" which is used by African-Americans to define another African-American's "Blackness".
Yeah me too - Jeter killed us in the '96 playoffs and has been doing it ever since.
Leads me to believe I'm not 100%. :)
An interesting non sequitur, perhaps, but were it not for racial laws in Louisiana which put mixed race creoles into the same Jim Crow category as blacks who descended from slaves, then, jazz as we know it might not exist.
At least that is what I take away from Ken Burns’ docu Jazz.
Interesting stuff, really. Not an argument about social policy, just an observation.
She proves the saying once again, "Celebrities, first they seek fame, then they seek relevance, only to fail at the latter."
See Joe Hicks on www.pjtv.com. The video title is “A Message to Halle Berry: Drop-Kick the One-Drop Rule”. Excellent!
Your post brought back a story my grandfather told me about WW2. Toward the end of the war his unit that had fought up through Italy and in France found a very young German officer who was critically wounded. He said the kid looked about 16 y.o. At that point in the war they were recruiting younger and younger men.
My grandfather spoke German so he was the translator. As they started to give him a transfusion he looked alarmed and asked what they were putting into his arm. My grandfather’s reply to him, “This is blood, good Jewish blood from New York City.” The kid looked up and said, “Macht nichts.”
You do know there were thousands of black slave owners in the South, don't you? Some were even slave breeders who sold their own children into slavery.
My grandmother came to America from Sicily.
If you saw her picture, you might wonder where she {and most very dark} Sicilians got that head of tight curls, since Sicily was captured by many African countries over the centuries.
I don't know if we have African blood in our lineage, I'd say the odds are in favor of it, but so what?
I'm second generation American, not Italian-American, not Italian-African-Chech-American.
Being American is special enough for me, and I am so thankful to God and my parents for having me in this country.
Gee, I wonder if barry is one of my cousins?
rofl.
I had a friend in junior high and high school who was mulatto. The most grief he received was from black students because he “acted white.” What did the black students mean by this? He once asked them. Their response was that he was an “oreo” because he worked his butt off in school and took advanced instruction. His response was that he was only doing what he expected of himself.
Regarding the article’s remark including Obama among those who “embrace” having a white parent...All one needs to do is read Obama’s book, “Dreams From My Father”, to be enlightened as to his feelings about whites. One cannot read his words and believe he is anything but a whites-hating racist. He repeatedly denegrates and vilifies whites, and vehemently resents that he’s half white. To say he “embraces” whiteness in himself is ludicrous. Call me what you like - facts are facts. Read the book.
Yeah, I’m blonde and blue eyed, but according to Halle I am also African American. Many Jews have some African genes and I do — one of my blood types (hla) is an African one, found only in Africans and some Jews.
Can my kids get scholarships now?
What I don’t get is those who are abandoned by the black parent, and raised by the white parent who identify with the parent who abandoned with them.
So we should just forget that DNA stuff and go with a performance test? LOL! That standard definitely puts me in the slow WASP category...
That’s a great story. Blood is blood.
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