[Under the Radar]

Hollywood actresses dribble bunk such as this because it makes the women who purchase those rags in the checkout stand feel better about themselves. "Gee, Halle Berry thinks she is ugly, too! She is just like me!"

I also wonder how the blonde, blue-eyed woman (who raised Halle Berry alone from the time that her black father abandoned her as a young child) feels every time Halle talks about how hard it is to be "black." Funny, I didn't see her daddy at the Acadamy Awards, only some WASP-ish looking woman beaming with pride. If being black is such a hardship, why does it give Ms. Berry such "street cred"?

[Windcatcher]

(shrug) Maybe she's ashamed of her father (God knows, I would) and this is a reaction? Maybe she's afraid to show that she's ashamed of him? Maybe she's reacting to the fact that he was black as well (even though that probably has no bearing on anything)? Who knows? Like someone else said, she's one screwed up young lady and should get counseling. I still submit that she needs to get out of Hollywood. Maybe move back to Ohio and live near her mother. For that matter, does she have any other extended family she can go to for moral support? Old (non-Hollywood) friends?

[cyborg]

Her mother raised her to think of herself as half white at home but out in the world she's black. Although I bet with Tiger Woods, Mariah Carey, and other multiracial people not taking this attitude she's changing her mind I'm sure. The healthiest way of raised mixed race children to present their heritage as both, instead of this schizophrenia her mom induced. Also, I've learned it doesn't matter what other people think about my so-called race, and if you base your identity on what other people think well I feel sorry for my friend. That's what I would say to a lot of people,esp. Halle Berry. But this is HOLLYWOOD where you sometimes base your life on what people think about you. I would not want that kind of life.