[Jael]

Listen, the black people in my family are very proud of their negroid features. As they rightly should be. There isn't anything wrong with that, as you are implying. To look like your race isn't a bad thing and it isn't some kind of "sterotypical blue black" issue.

If you want to confine blacks who look black to that kind of language, go right ahead.

But there is nothing wrong with looking black, whether you like big lips, kinky hair or wide noses, or not.

That having been said, the fact remains, Halle Berry doesn't look black. Nothing about her looks black, or negroid, if you are refering to the race she uses for publicity and other things.

She wasn't raised black, and she couldn't even pass for black.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

GROAN.

[mhking]

She wasn't raised black, and she couldn't even pass for black.

Oh, please. Spare me. Then come back when you have a clue.

[mhking]

If you want to confine blacks who look black to that kind of language, go right ahead.

And by the way -- you were the one with the definitions, not I. As I tell the "soul patrol" regularly -- "No one else, least of all you, are in a position to tell me whether I'm black or not."

And quite frankly....no, on second thought, I'm not going to go down that path; I've got too much pride to wallow in the mud.

[mafree]

She wasn't raised black, and she couldn't even pass for black.

She was raised Black and she can pass for Black any day. To think otherwise indicates that you need to get out more often.