I don't get it. What irks me the most is Beautiful Black sisters claiming to be EVERYTHING under the rainbow to dilute their blackness. Ain't no part of you Irish.
How do you think we got names like McGee and O'Neal, then?
Every DNA study ever taken has said that most Black people in America are about 20% of European descent. To act as if most Black people don't have SOME white in them is might naive. Unless you live in Africa, chances are, you're diluted in some way. We all are.
Did you see Skip Gate's "African American Lives"? There wasn't one Black celebrity, whether it was Chris Rock, Oprah, Quincy Jones, Don Cheadle, Morgan Freeman, or anybody else who was 100% African.
If you don't understand the system that dominates black people then you will continuosly raise such questions. The classification "Black" is a political statement. Black people were told by the white people that practice racism/white supremacy that they are black and that they belong to a race. The system of dominance is not a capitalist, socialist or democratic system. It is a system of racism/white supremacy. This system is also maintained by setting up an environment that black people will automatically hate other black people including themselves and that is a given. The system can't function if "black love" exists. We have to replace racism/white supremacy with justice to have what you'all would call "black love". Love can not exist in a system dominated by injustice. oNE!!!
Yup, they don't even get that we are Black BECAUSE White folks told us we were. The one-drop rule was INVENTED BY WHITES!!! Don't get me wrong. I've spent my whole life subscribing to it, but it's getting harder and harder to look at scientific research from Blacks, Whites, Asians, and everybody else and hate on somebody who's technically correct in that they are of African descent and also of another descent, when it's racism that's forced us to cling to "Blackness" in the first place.
Was her father Puerto Rican?
It doesn't really matter. Puerto Rican is a Nationality not a race. It's like saying American.
Yall niggas kill me. Down a chick for having perms and weaves but the same niggas will down a man for having natural Black hairstyles like braids and dreads. I like chicks with all hairtypes as long as they look good. Natural or not. All women who get perms and weaves dont do it to be white. Some do it for ease of styling it and some just look better with it.
That's because you are a logical human being and the way most people should be.
The Original Poster is asking the wrong fucking QUESTION?
Before you ask whether Blacks are "scared to be Black", first you need to DEFINE "being BLACK"!
I challenge the Original Poster to ASK, "WHY are Black People scared to be GREAT AMERICANS"?
For all of America's EVIL PAST, and for all of America's FLAWS, it is still be best place on the PLANET with the greatest amount of Individual Freedoms that will allow a Person to achieve whatever they can dream.
People of Color from other places, many much darker than the avg. African-American can come to America and take advantage of the Educational System and perform on par with "WHITES" from the wealthiest neighborhoods and most elite Private Schools, yet we as Black Americans still don't take education as seriously as we should.
So rather than the original poster asking why are we sacred to be "Black", he should be asking WHY are we scared to be GREAT AMERICANS.
Once we become "better Americans" like other People of Color that come to America, then 99% of our "so-called problems" WILL BE SOLVED.
How can you be a "better American" than Black people? Other than building this country and letting it enslave us for 400 years, what else could we give? We've fought in every war this country's ever had, even with The South in the Civil War. We fought WITH the people who wanted to keep us slaves. We are 33 percent of the military, yet only 12% of the population.
We've invented countless inventions that have driven the American economy. We've won gold medals for America, even when we couldn't eat in the same restaurants and weren't considered complete human beings.
We've done everything a people can do for a society.
This is why people don't take you seriously on here. Your coondom is just staggering.
WHY ARE MOST NEGROES COLOR STRUCK? MOST BLACK PEOPLE(MAN AND WOMAN) PREFER A LIGHTBRIGHT. WTF?
Says who? Most Black male sex symbols, Denzel Washington, Michael Jordan, 2pac, Tyson Beckford, Djimon Hounsou and everybody else is chocolate or dark-skinned. Now, the women are a different story, but Janet Jackson, Ciara, Whitney Houston and Naomi Campbell have been in plenty of Black Men's fantasies.