My great-grandfather was african american and everyone else in my family is white. Does that make me black enought to be considered african american?????? Please help me im cofused about my race??
i love this because this opens people up to realizing that your skin color does not reflect your heritage! Everyone here is beautiful :) xoxo from a Creole lady :)
You guys, stop feeling insecure! Not all mixed people are beautiful. I know a girl who is mixed with white and black, but she's ugly AF! Now that i think about it....i only know one beautiful mixed person. And trust me, i know plenty.
@JxReyn India is basically mixed with all the races for the last 5000 years and their population is close to two billion. So that's one third of humanity. That's what America will be looking like.
Okay... so? Is there some kind of achievement being 100% white? Society (at least in my country) is beyond that backwards way of thinking.
Pride is an over-exaggerated evaluation of oneself. How do you pride something you didn't achieve? You are simply born in white skin by chance.
I love my Danish culture. I admire my culture, but by no means is my culture better than anyone else's. Race needeth not attention for me to have dignity of my ancestors.
Hmm....I'm African (2nd generation). 100% Black..as in both my parents came from the same little village. And maybe I just don't get it, but you're celebrating being mixed race, so why are you using African music and African symbols...? Are you saying that they're a part of the African diaspora? Most of these people are barely Black...Why not just celebrate being mixed. I guess my question is why the African focus?
@brx345 Don't be a racist like that. The fact that these people are half African, they still Africans. Coloured people of South Africa are as African as you are, though they might have a more mixed background, they have the San people's blood which is Africa's oldest.
@amasonga I don't see how I was being racist... and technically they are not as "African as I am"...by virtue of being mixed. I'm not saying they arent African at all or that theres a problem with being mixed..maybe I just don't get the point of your video.
@brx345 They are still African in their ancestry, although they might also have European,Asian,etc... ancestry. You shouldn't be in the position of saying who's African and who's not! Especially if they have African blood in their veins, it's up to them to choose for themselves. Remember many of these mixed-people have relatives in and from Africa like myself.
@Lexarthur Well, because the majority of the "races" of people in this particular video are predominantly "white", with quarters, halves and 1/8ths African mixed in. Had a done a video of predominantly black people with portions of white mixed in it would be titled "Faces of Mixed European Ancestry"...
That is what the 'One-Drop Rule' means, yes, but genetically that is not true. Having direct black & white inheritances does not necessarily mean you're exactly 50/50 of each "race". DNA results on mulattoes indicate that one can be of predominantly European origin, or Vice Versa. The whole 'One-Drop Rule' is a man-made concept that does not coincide with science. So, no, it does not mean "you are black" unless of course you agree with the whole backwards ideology behind it.
@AKTIONxSKINS You got it wrong. If you are a "mulatto", that's 50/50 African and European genetically of course. Due to the fact that you receive chromosomes from both parents, right?However phenotypes(physical appearance) may vary from one person to another.
No. Being half black and white does not mean you are exactly 50% white and 50% black. A Mulatto can genetically inherit predominately white or black genetics. You have to be pretty stupid to argue this otherwise. In all cases one parent has more dominant genetic influence than the other. There is no equality in genetics.
@AKTIONxSKINS Again perhaps you need to attend a class on basic genetics in order for it to sink in. If you 50/50, you equally receive genes from your parents, because it takes both parents to make you. However there are genes that are more dominant than others known as recessive. Dominant ones will manifest more strongly in the phenotypes. You are pretty ignorant, moron!
@zzap999 Dominant and recessive genes could also be applied to an extent to human genetics too! In a way, red and blond hair genes are mostly recessive while brown and black hair genes are dominant in most cases too. Just one example.
@amasonga O.k, phenotypically speaking. But more so in the first generation. After that these recessive traits can pop up in later generations. Two white parents on a talk show for example showed a picture of their white kid with an afro. They found out later one parent had a black great great grandmother. However, both parents today where phenotypically white. Traits can never be detroyed, only suppressed phenotypically in one generation.
@zzap999 These recessive genes sure may pop-up later when that recessive gene hidden for generation meets up with another rcessive gene. For example in Scotland today 40% of the population carry the red-hair gene, but phenotypically about 13% show it. Do you get it?
@zzap999 I kind of agree with your statement, but in the 21st century we should be able to decide beyond physical appearances. This is due to the fact that physical appearance don't determine anything fully!
@amasonga Intelligence and I.Q is way overrated. Unless your illiterate or totally retarded, you pretty much can find some level of employment to feed yourself. If your talking about more higher fields such as medicine, law, science then yes if your I.Q is 190 and got a PH.D. That is only because really smart people are a minority like pretty people. Most employment is somewhere in the middle.
@zzap999 Most people I.Q. vary from 90 to about 120's. People with 190's are too few in most cases exceptional, even among doctors or scientists. Einstein's was about 160.
@AKTIONxSKINS However in the days of White supremacy in Western Europe and North America, it didn't matter whether you were half African or fully African. Only "pure" Whiteness was regarded as good. This "mulatto" class were later dropped as a category in the U.S., Black people had nothing to with it! It was White people who completely rejected their half-White cousins! Thus many mulattos embraced their Black identity.
Here in Europe the term "mulatto" has always been used to refer to a child of mixed descent. In Julius Cesar's notes about the Gauls he refers to liking the certain Roman soldier; noting that he was different because he was "mulatto".
mulâtre, mulat, Mulatti, etc. have its long lived history in europe.
@AKTIONxSKINS No need for that, I've lived in Europe for 8 years(Belgium,France,Germany,U.K.). Mullato in the modern context social referred to people of mixed Afro-European descent. However they still suffer from racism like regular Black folks, sometimes more!! In America they are Black!
@AKTIONxSKINS FYI. The term Mulatto/Mulatre(Francais) originally was a derogatory term comparing a person of a mixed race to a mule(horse-donkeymix). It also for this reason many knowledgeable people of mixed race and Black folks dropped that term. Please re-educate yourself, one of the founders of Black supremacy movements was of mixed-race! I can't recall his name right now, but I remember He was French.
@AKTIONxSKINS You might a mulatto with a fair skin, blond hair and blue eyes, that doesn't mean that Black genes aren't preent. However they are not dominant. Remember in the social context, as soon as people discover your African heritage, you'll be classified as such. Although this might not be correct.
@AKTIONxSKINS One drop laws during Jim Crow has still influence today because these were actual laws that every race had to live by over there. Quoting science may be truth but never beyond that.
@zzap999 That is understandable, but understand that because I am not American I speak from a more rational perspective on genetics when it comes to biracial individuals here in Europe.
@BabyAlofa The song is found on the 'Blood Diamond' soundtrack. I can't recall the title. Type in blood diamond soundtrack here on youtube and you'll find several videos with the song.
@prjibaro1 Your asking about races only. So, genetically, there are only four RACES - European, African, East Asian and American Indian. So there is no "race" that would combine black, white (mulatto) and Native American...
But there are common ethnic groups that mix the 3 races... A huge chunk of all modern-day Americans are historically mixed... and obviously a mix of shapes/colors as well.
Mexicans are usually mixed white and Amerindian, but usually have little to no black blood.
Mexicans are mestizos, so it is correct to call them mestizos despite them having a drop of black blood, because if it is so then a mulatto having some drop of amerindian can still be called mulatto.
@prjibaro1 Agreed. On a different note and in relation to my last posts, I think there should be a new word for "white" and "black" Americans... because a "white" American compared to a white European, and the same with black Americans and their African counterparts, are so different. In most cases, there's no such thing as a pure white/black American. Wish those outside the US realized that.
@OctoroonToYou " I think there should be a new word for "white" and "black" Americans... because a "white" American compared to a white European, and the same with black Americans and their African counterparts, are so different."
Hmm... I'm a "white European" with part Caribbean (Amerindian/African) heritage. It's not that easy to divide ! lol
@gsh73la Exactly... a "white" American is genetically not the same as a white European, as is the same with black Americans, and American Indians. We a nation of mixed humans over centuries.
@OctoroonToYou No disrespect, but the mexicans have more "black" blood than you'd think. I know plenty! Here's a famous one with black blood : George Lopez. Dont forget the slaves in Texas would run away to the south (Mexico), because going north wouldn't be an option...It would be too far a distance.
1. ) @gangstaboo62 George Lopez has a mere 4% sub-Saharan African LOL he doesn't even have enough in him to call himself " PART " Black . 4% Black would be equivalent to a great great great grand parent LOL it mid as well be 1% . When the percentage is drastically that low it's not even worth mentioning.
@BiracialGirl1977 Once you go down to 1/5 it's barely noticeable. I believe one of the past U.S presidents was in that category. So Obama is not the first black president.
2. ) @gangstaboo62 Theirs not much difference between 1% and 4 % being as how life started in Africa everyone has some fractional amount of Black in them but we dont all walk around saying we're Black , Black African, or even of African descent WHY ? because it would be ridiculous when the ancestry is THAT LOW it mid as well not even be there at all . If someone said they felt a connection to some 4 % or 1 % ancestry I wouldn't say they shouldn't But I would not take them seriously .
3. ) @gangstaboo62 4% means about as much as Tina Tuner's little itty bitty 1 % Native American Ancestry . It would be just as ridiculous for Whoopi Goldberg to run around talking about she's part White with her 4% European and 96% Sub-Saharan ancestry . George Lopez would look like a moron going around saying I'm Black, power to the people Just like Whoopi would look like a fool talking about she's biracial or mixed race cause that itty bitty 4 % White made it so . LOL.
@BiracialGirl1977 I agree, well said. George Lopez, on a different, just gets on my nerves. He talks about race so much yet seems SO ignorant. In this video I am the girl at 0:28 and 0:42 seconds (yes I'm both of those girls, age 5 and 20 in the photos lol) and I am 32% black.... waaaay more prominent than Lopez, so it made me laugh a bit when she shouted "I'm black!" during his DNA test.... pffffft.
@BiracialGirl1977 I disagree. Je ne pas d'accord! Different strokes, for different folks. If sum1wants to be proud of all the parts that they are, no matter how small the part, who are we to push our opinions & ideals on them, & tell them that they're stupid or ridiculous? I dont think thats right. Anywho, this whole "race" thing is nonexistent so, we can sit here & argue all day, but being that all life started in Africa, there is just one race,...the human race.
@gangstaboo62 Like I said, I wouldn't tell him he is ridiculous for wanting to claim or be proud of 4% I said I wouldn't take him seriously , I wouldn't call him ridiculous to his face but I would be laughing my ass off on the inside and be saying this guy has no idea . Him telling me " I'm Black cause i have 4 % Black in me " would go in one ear and out the other . He could even go as far as being very Afrocentric and I would just look at him as a wanna be that went and lost his damn mind .
@BiracialGirl1977 Like I said, We could sit here & argue about "race" all day, but since all races came out of Africa, it makes no sense....just sayin.
@gangstaboo62 But those original African ancestors wouldn't look like the black Africans today. The reason being is that the pure black populations today are the inbred ones from so many generations. The original ancestors look nothing like us.
@BiracialGirl1977 I look at it like this, that 4% = a black ancestor and every ancestor represents a chain, and if one chain was missing then the person now living wouldn't be here. So to say that the 4% doesn't amount to anything is like saying that that ancestor didn't exist. We are all that we are, every last percent of it.
@zuniga6412 THANK you! Right on!!!!! I like the way you think.....we should honor & appreciate all ancestors (nomatter how small the percentage), even more so the ones who went through so much strife so that we would have a better life.
@gangstaboo62 including the ones who raped your (African) ancestors to get you here? God, you people are sick, taking pride in the rapist part of your ancestry, pride in being the products of rape!
@HappyHooker83 in researching my family tree, none of my ancestors that i've found (so far) were the products of rape.....just secret love in the time of immense prejudice. Anyway, I am more proud of the ancestors who struggled so I could hav a betta life....Thats the point I was tryin 2 get across. u misunderstood me.
@gangstaboo62 Yeah, that whole everybody had to be raped to be mixed is way overblown. Sex is a natural act in the human race. The majority of sex is by consent.
@zzap999 True,Thanks for that. you r a voice of reason on this comments page. most folks dont research 4 themselves, only prefer 2 repeat hearsay. Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemmings' case for example, points at love, not rape. I mean, would u visit ur rapist's grave & clear weeds from it etc.? Highly doubtful.
@gangstaboo62 You really have to meet the biracial person and also take into account how they talk and act. It's like when you hear someone talk in an English British accent here in America. You just say he's british whatever color the person is. The accent is that telling.
@prjibaro1 Also, the "Metis" people are a dominantly Amerindian tribe with white and black ancestry. Similar to Louisiana Cajuns, except Cajuns don't have very much Amerindian ancestry. Do a search on the Metis tribes...
i already been through that stage in my life when i wanted to be something different than how i was raised.im 30 now and realize how much i love my black parents and how i appreciate the memories i have of going to black churches and when i see little black kids i see myself when i was younger,and me living in the streets of LA with all that whites armenians and mexicans against blacks only made stronger in knowing how black i am as well as brought me closer to Jesus.stay strong sis
Mulattos, octoroons, quadroons, blasians & all you multigenerational mulattos (aka black people), dont be ashamed, be proud of your African ancestry!!!
Thanks for the video. Mixed ethnicity has occurred for centuries in many parts of the world. One skin tone, hair texture or color, eye color or eye shape was not something people considered to be better or worse than another. It was acknowledged that there is variety, but whatever it was, it was.
im mixed black/criollo and on my black dads side his dad is mixed black/irish so my grandfather is brown/black and my dad is dark black because my grandmother is dark black my biological mother is spanish/french medditerranean ancestry when i was young i had straighter hair and sunburned easily as i got older my skin got darker and my hair got kinkier and im now a yellowish medium brown and consider myself black as i was raised with two black parents.some people dont think so but i know im black
@foundintranslation3 same with me my dad's irish and when i was younger i couls pass for fully white but about two years ago my hair started getting really curly and my skin looks more olive like
@foundintranslation3 I commend u 4 not thinking urself better than other black folks. plenty of bi-racials take on that ugly attitude & it's a shame. all blacks are mixed. They're multigenerational mulatto & are no different from these biracial ppl who almost catch a heart attack if u dare call them black. LOL...ridiculous
the girl at the end with africa on her face is so beaufitul..all these people are beautiful, but her eyes were so peircing..im glad to be biracial with diffrent races..hispanic native american and black and white ancestory..:)..we live in a beautiful world with many beautiful people
Very interesting video comprised of diverse and beautiful peoples. Most can say we (people of mixed African and White heritage) are part of the African Diaspora. I certainly consider myself part of it.
Nice pictures, in many cases the black drop is so hidden but something "exotic" still shines through ! I am an octoroon myself, unfortunately my black drop is gone and I look plane white...how boring ! :-))
@frauzebra too true... i am quadroon (1/4 black african) and i look italian/greek etc...but if i had to go and have a child with a pure white women my child will probably look plane white as you put it.
@shamvara my neighbor is 1/4 Nigerian, he is blond with light blue eyes, very scandinavian in the looks .I have a hard time believing this, I could see a single relatable feature.it is only when he invited me over that I saw his mixed mom and his african grand mother.I sorta had to apologize cos I thought he was trying to be "cool" with the 1/4blood thing.
@cannoir thats the thing with mixed heritage....my young sister looks western european whilst i came out more meditaranean looking whilst my eldset sister looks more middle eastern than anything else. Your neighbour is exactly like me i.e. mixed mom and black african grandmother! however none of my siblings have blonde hair, we all came out with pitch black hair. my two sisters have blue eyes whilst mine are hazel/green. my eldest sister is very bronze in colour and im olive.other sister is pale
I feel like crying when I see the faces of these beautiful people. The unspoken voices tell many stories of riches and poverty, of confusion and rejection. Faces who speak of unity and being one as mankind.
@inspiredinlife1 including the ones who raped your (African) ancestors to get you here? God, you people are sick, taking pride in the rapist part of your ancestry, pride in being the products of rape!
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My great-grandfather was african american and everyone else in my family is white. Does that make me black enought to be considered african american?????? Please help me im cofused about my race??
sockjockid 3 weeks ago
i love this because this opens people up to realizing that your skin color does not reflect your heritage! Everyone here is beautiful :) xoxo from a Creole lady :)
phoenixmoon3 3 months ago
song = blood diamond soundtrack.
ossi43 3 months ago
You guys, stop feeling insecure! Not all mixed people are beautiful. I know a girl who is mixed with white and black, but she's ugly AF! Now that i think about it....i only know one beautiful mixed person. And trust me, i know plenty.
2010LoveStories 4 months ago
@2010LoveStories That's because both parents were ugly.
zzap999 1 month ago
is it some kind of achievement to be biracial? im white 100% and proud
lili77944 4 months ago
@lili77944 Not really an achievement for someone personally but...
Think about it, if the whole world was mixed than there wouldn't be as much racist people or racial ignorance everywhere.
Its cool to see how many different kind of people make up the world whether its white,black, Indian,Latino and every mix in between.
Whatever someone is they should be proud just as you said you're 100% proud.
JxReyn 2 months ago
@JxReyn India is basically mixed with all the races for the last 5000 years and their population is close to two billion. So that's one third of humanity. That's what America will be looking like.
zzap999 1 month ago
@lili77944
Okay... so? Is there some kind of achievement being 100% white? Society (at least in my country) is beyond that backwards way of thinking.
Pride is an over-exaggerated evaluation of oneself. How do you pride something you didn't achieve? You are simply born in white skin by chance.
I love my Danish culture. I admire my culture, but by no means is my culture better than anyone else's. Race needeth not attention for me to have dignity of my ancestors.
pride = arrogance.
AKTIONxSKINS 2 months ago
the only real creole i saw was madame levou lol this is bs most of them where some other race
jamie201120 4 months ago
both my ass your a negro to white folks period they can think they mixed all they want too like that will make a difference
jamie201120 4 months ago
Hmm....I'm African (2nd generation). 100% Black..as in both my parents came from the same little village. And maybe I just don't get it, but you're celebrating being mixed race, so why are you using African music and African symbols...? Are you saying that they're a part of the African diaspora? Most of these people are barely Black...Why not just celebrate being mixed. I guess my question is why the African focus?
brx345 5 months ago
@brx345 Don't be a racist like that. The fact that these people are half African, they still Africans. Coloured people of South Africa are as African as you are, though they might have a more mixed background, they have the San people's blood which is Africa's oldest.
amasonga 1 month ago
@amasonga Your reasoning is more based on the "One drop Theory" that led to the one drop laws during Jim Crow. That's more cultural than actual.
zzap999 1 month ago
@amasonga I don't see how I was being racist... and technically they are not as "African as I am"...by virtue of being mixed. I'm not saying they arent African at all or that theres a problem with being mixed..maybe I just don't get the point of your video.
brx345 1 month ago
@brx345 They are still African in their ancestry, although they might also have European,Asian,etc... ancestry. You shouldn't be in the position of saying who's African and who's not! Especially if they have African blood in their veins, it's up to them to choose for themselves. Remember many of these mixed-people have relatives in and from Africa like myself.
amasonga 1 month ago
i wish i was mixed..
DragonStr323 8 months ago
Nor Black Nor White. Just mixed races. Two heritages. Why do you focus in the "african" heritage only.
Lexarthur 9 months ago 6
@Lexarthur Well, because the majority of the "races" of people in this particular video are predominantly "white", with quarters, halves and 1/8ths African mixed in. Had a done a video of predominantly black people with portions of white mixed in it would be titled "Faces of Mixed European Ancestry"...
OctoroonToYou 9 months ago 7
@OctoroonToYou one drop of black blood means you are black
StarStarChild 4 months ago
@StarStarChild
That is what the 'One-Drop Rule' means, yes, but genetically that is not true. Having direct black & white inheritances does not necessarily mean you're exactly 50/50 of each "race". DNA results on mulattoes indicate that one can be of predominantly European origin, or Vice Versa. The whole 'One-Drop Rule' is a man-made concept that does not coincide with science. So, no, it does not mean "you are black" unless of course you agree with the whole backwards ideology behind it.
AKTIONxSKINS 2 months ago
@AKTIONxSKINS You got it wrong. If you are a "mulatto", that's 50/50 African and European genetically of course. Due to the fact that you receive chromosomes from both parents, right?However phenotypes(physical appearance) may vary from one person to another.
amasonga 1 month ago
@amasonga
No. Being half black and white does not mean you are exactly 50% white and 50% black. A Mulatto can genetically inherit predominately white or black genetics. You have to be pretty stupid to argue this otherwise. In all cases one parent has more dominant genetic influence than the other. There is no equality in genetics.
AKTIONxSKINS 1 month ago
@AKTIONxSKINS Again perhaps you need to attend a class on basic genetics in order for it to sink in. If you 50/50, you equally receive genes from your parents, because it takes both parents to make you. However there are genes that are more dominant than others known as recessive. Dominant ones will manifest more strongly in the phenotypes. You are pretty ignorant, moron!
amasonga 1 month ago
@amasonga ah idiocy. seek further education.
AKTIONxSKINS 1 month ago
@amasonga Human genetics is more complicated. "Dominant" and "Recessive" was more applicable to pea plants which was the first genetic experiment.
zzap999 1 month ago
@zzap999 Dominant and recessive genes could also be applied to an extent to human genetics too! In a way, red and blond hair genes are mostly recessive while brown and black hair genes are dominant in most cases too. Just one example.
amasonga 1 month ago
@amasonga O.k, phenotypically speaking. But more so in the first generation. After that these recessive traits can pop up in later generations. Two white parents on a talk show for example showed a picture of their white kid with an afro. They found out later one parent had a black great great grandmother. However, both parents today where phenotypically white. Traits can never be detroyed, only suppressed phenotypically in one generation.
zzap999 1 month ago
@zzap999 These recessive genes sure may pop-up later when that recessive gene hidden for generation meets up with another rcessive gene. For example in Scotland today 40% of the population carry the red-hair gene, but phenotypically about 13% show it. Do you get it?
amasonga 1 month ago
@amasonga Physical appearances are usually the deciding factor in terms of attraction and treatment. Thus the roots of racism.
zzap999 1 month ago
@zzap999 I kind of agree with your statement, but in the 21st century we should be able to decide beyond physical appearances. This is due to the fact that physical appearance don't determine anything fully!
amasonga 1 month ago
@amasonga Intelligence and I.Q is way overrated. Unless your illiterate or totally retarded, you pretty much can find some level of employment to feed yourself. If your talking about more higher fields such as medicine, law, science then yes if your I.Q is 190 and got a PH.D. That is only because really smart people are a minority like pretty people. Most employment is somewhere in the middle.
zzap999 1 month ago
@zzap999 Most people I.Q. vary from 90 to about 120's. People with 190's are too few in most cases exceptional, even among doctors or scientists. Einstein's was about 160.
amasonga 1 month ago
@AKTIONxSKINS However in the days of White supremacy in Western Europe and North America, it didn't matter whether you were half African or fully African. Only "pure" Whiteness was regarded as good. This "mulatto" class were later dropped as a category in the U.S., Black people had nothing to with it! It was White people who completely rejected their half-White cousins! Thus many mulattos embraced their Black identity.
amasonga 1 month ago
@amasonga
Here in Europe the term "mulatto" has always been used to refer to a child of mixed descent. In Julius Cesar's notes about the Gauls he refers to liking the certain Roman soldier; noting that he was different because he was "mulatto".
mulâtre, mulat, Mulatti, etc. have its long lived history in europe.
AKTIONxSKINS 1 month ago
@AKTIONxSKINS No need for that, I've lived in Europe for 8 years(Belgium,France,Germany,U.K.). Mullato in the modern context social referred to people of mixed Afro-European descent. However they still suffer from racism like regular Black folks, sometimes more!! In America they are Black!
amasonga 1 month ago
@amasonga incorrect.
AKTIONxSKINS 1 month ago
@AKTIONxSKINS FYI. The term Mulatto/Mulatre(Francais) originally was a derogatory term comparing a person of a mixed race to a mule(horse-donkeymix). It also for this reason many knowledgeable people of mixed race and Black folks dropped that term. Please re-educate yourself, one of the founders of Black supremacy movements was of mixed-race! I can't recall his name right now, but I remember He was French.
amasonga 1 month ago
@amasonga all built up in your head.
AKTIONxSKINS 1 month ago
@AKTIONxSKINS You might a mulatto with a fair skin, blond hair and blue eyes, that doesn't mean that Black genes aren't preent. However they are not dominant. Remember in the social context, as soon as people discover your African heritage, you'll be classified as such. Although this might not be correct.
amasonga 1 month ago
@AKTIONxSKINS One drop laws during Jim Crow has still influence today because these were actual laws that every race had to live by over there. Quoting science may be truth but never beyond that.
zzap999 1 month ago
@zzap999 That is understandable, but understand that because I am not American I speak from a more rational perspective on genetics when it comes to biracial individuals here in Europe.
AKTIONxSKINS 1 month ago
@StarStarChild According to the one drop laws during Jim Crow in the South.
zzap999 1 month ago
@Lexarthur It don't have to be two heritages. I'm mixed and not multicultural at all.
dangar45 1 month ago
Fo' sho, Im mixed and am proud of it EVERYDAY
mixedgirlzrock14 9 months ago 2
@mixedgirlzrock14 don't be too proud, or you're racist to pure bloods like africans and whites. Remember that whites are people too.
CoreyStudios2000 8 months ago
@CoreyStudios2000 Then I dont care
mixedgirlzrock14 8 months ago
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87ironlion 10 months ago
@87ironlion Thank you! Keep on going :)
OctoroonToYou 10 months ago
Beautiful video!
chsn09 11 months ago
I really love that song and the video.
HaliThomas1 11 months ago
Mariah Carey is mulata
amistosa2007 1 year ago
WHAT is this music? can someone please tell me!!!
BabyAlofa 1 year ago
@BabyAlofa The song is found on the 'Blood Diamond' soundtrack. I can't recall the title. Type in blood diamond soundtrack here on youtube and you'll find several videos with the song.
OctoroonToYou 1 year ago
my grandson is half african and swedish scottish english german sicilian,handsome smart as a whip. i could not love him any more than i do
BigBishop1 1 year ago
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BlakeBarbieFan 1 year ago
Hey, that little boy @ 0:22 looks like a kid i've seen who is African American, Mexican, Norwegian, Gaerman & Native American.
gangstaboo62 1 year ago
How do a "mulatto"with some Amerindian ancestry be called?
prjibaro1 1 year ago
@prjibaro1 Puerto Rican..:)
gangstaboo62 1 year ago
@gangstaboo62
That is a nationality, not a race. ;)
prjibaro1 1 year ago
@prjibaro1 lol ^_^
gangstaboo62 1 year ago
@prjibaro1 Your asking about races only. So, genetically, there are only four RACES - European, African, East Asian and American Indian. So there is no "race" that would combine black, white (mulatto) and Native American...
But there are common ethnic groups that mix the 3 races... A huge chunk of all modern-day Americans are historically mixed... and obviously a mix of shapes/colors as well.
Mexicans are usually mixed white and Amerindian, but usually have little to no black blood.
OctoroonToYou 1 year ago
@OctoroonToYou
Mexicans are mestizos, so it is correct to call them mestizos despite them having a drop of black blood, because if it is so then a mulatto having some drop of amerindian can still be called mulatto.
prjibaro1 1 year ago
@prjibaro1 Agreed. On a different note and in relation to my last posts, I think there should be a new word for "white" and "black" Americans... because a "white" American compared to a white European, and the same with black Americans and their African counterparts, are so different. In most cases, there's no such thing as a pure white/black American. Wish those outside the US realized that.
OctoroonToYou 1 year ago
@OctoroonToYou
I do know there are mixture on the "white" and "black" populations on America, because we have it in PR on our "white" and "black"population also.
prjibaro1 1 year ago
@OctoroonToYou " I think there should be a new word for "white" and "black" Americans... because a "white" American compared to a white European, and the same with black Americans and their African counterparts, are so different."
Hmm... I'm a "white European" with part Caribbean (Amerindian/African) heritage. It's not that easy to divide ! lol
gsh73la 1 year ago
@gsh73la Exactly... a "white" American is genetically not the same as a white European, as is the same with black Americans, and American Indians. We a nation of mixed humans over centuries.
OctoroonToYou 11 months ago
@OctoroonToYou No disrespect, but the mexicans have more "black" blood than you'd think. I know plenty! Here's a famous one with black blood : George Lopez. Dont forget the slaves in Texas would run away to the south (Mexico), because going north wouldn't be an option...It would be too far a distance.
gangstaboo62 1 year ago
1. ) @gangstaboo62 George Lopez has a mere 4% sub-Saharan African LOL he doesn't even have enough in him to call himself " PART " Black . 4% Black would be equivalent to a great great great grand parent LOL it mid as well be 1% . When the percentage is drastically that low it's not even worth mentioning.
BiracialGirl1977 1 year ago
@BiracialGirl1977 Once you go down to 1/5 it's barely noticeable. I believe one of the past U.S presidents was in that category. So Obama is not the first black president.
zzap999 1 month ago
2. ) @gangstaboo62 Theirs not much difference between 1% and 4 % being as how life started in Africa everyone has some fractional amount of Black in them but we dont all walk around saying we're Black , Black African, or even of African descent WHY ? because it would be ridiculous when the ancestry is THAT LOW it mid as well not even be there at all . If someone said they felt a connection to some 4 % or 1 % ancestry I wouldn't say they shouldn't But I would not take them seriously .
BiracialGirl1977 1 year ago
@BiracialGirl1977 So you admit it's about appearance or phenotype.
zzap999 1 month ago
3. ) @gangstaboo62 4% means about as much as Tina Tuner's little itty bitty 1 % Native American Ancestry . It would be just as ridiculous for Whoopi Goldberg to run around talking about she's part White with her 4% European and 96% Sub-Saharan ancestry . George Lopez would look like a moron going around saying I'm Black, power to the people Just like Whoopi would look like a fool talking about she's biracial or mixed race cause that itty bitty 4 % White made it so . LOL.
BiracialGirl1977 1 year ago
@BiracialGirl1977 I agree, well said. George Lopez, on a different, just gets on my nerves. He talks about race so much yet seems SO ignorant. In this video I am the girl at 0:28 and 0:42 seconds (yes I'm both of those girls, age 5 and 20 in the photos lol) and I am 32% black.... waaaay more prominent than Lopez, so it made me laugh a bit when she shouted "I'm black!" during his DNA test.... pffffft.
OctoroonToYou 1 year ago
@BiracialGirl1977 I disagree. Je ne pas d'accord! Different strokes, for different folks. If sum1wants to be proud of all the parts that they are, no matter how small the part, who are we to push our opinions & ideals on them, & tell them that they're stupid or ridiculous? I dont think thats right. Anywho, this whole "race" thing is nonexistent so, we can sit here & argue all day, but being that all life started in Africa, there is just one race,...the human race.
gangstaboo62 1 year ago
@gangstaboo62 Like I said, I wouldn't tell him he is ridiculous for wanting to claim or be proud of 4% I said I wouldn't take him seriously , I wouldn't call him ridiculous to his face but I would be laughing my ass off on the inside and be saying this guy has no idea . Him telling me " I'm Black cause i have 4 % Black in me " would go in one ear and out the other . He could even go as far as being very Afrocentric and I would just look at him as a wanna be that went and lost his damn mind .
BiracialGirl1977 1 year ago
@BiracialGirl1977 Like I said, We could sit here & argue about "race" all day, but since all races came out of Africa, it makes no sense....just sayin.
gangstaboo62 1 year ago
@gangstaboo62 But those original African ancestors wouldn't look like the black Africans today. The reason being is that the pure black populations today are the inbred ones from so many generations. The original ancestors look nothing like us.
zzap999 1 month ago
@BiracialGirl1977 I look at it like this, that 4% = a black ancestor and every ancestor represents a chain, and if one chain was missing then the person now living wouldn't be here. So to say that the 4% doesn't amount to anything is like saying that that ancestor didn't exist. We are all that we are, every last percent of it.
zuniga6412 9 months ago
@zuniga6412 THANK you! Right on!!!!! I like the way you think.....we should honor & appreciate all ancestors (nomatter how small the percentage), even more so the ones who went through so much strife so that we would have a better life.
gangstaboo62 9 months ago
@gangstaboo62 including the ones who raped your (African) ancestors to get you here? God, you people are sick, taking pride in the rapist part of your ancestry, pride in being the products of rape!
HappyHooker83 8 months ago
@HappyHooker83 in researching my family tree, none of my ancestors that i've found (so far) were the products of rape.....just secret love in the time of immense prejudice. Anyway, I am more proud of the ancestors who struggled so I could hav a betta life....Thats the point I was tryin 2 get across. u misunderstood me.
gangstaboo62 8 months ago
@gangstaboo62 Yeah, that whole everybody had to be raped to be mixed is way overblown. Sex is a natural act in the human race. The majority of sex is by consent.
zzap999 1 month ago
@zzap999 True,Thanks for that. you r a voice of reason on this comments page. most folks dont research 4 themselves, only prefer 2 repeat hearsay. Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemmings' case for example, points at love, not rape. I mean, would u visit ur rapist's grave & clear weeds from it etc.? Highly doubtful.
gangstaboo62 1 month ago
@HappyHooker83 That maybe your opinion. However, the blacks today that descended from George Washington would disagree. They even look like the guy.
zzap999 1 month ago
@gangstaboo62 Sorry about that, i meant to send the message to gangstaboo62 i guessed i got all riled up!
zuniga6412 9 months ago
@gangstaboo62 You really have to meet the biracial person and also take into account how they talk and act. It's like when you hear someone talk in an English British accent here in America. You just say he's british whatever color the person is. The accent is that telling.
zzap999 1 month ago
@prjibaro1 Also, the "Metis" people are a dominantly Amerindian tribe with white and black ancestry. Similar to Louisiana Cajuns, except Cajuns don't have very much Amerindian ancestry. Do a search on the Metis tribes...
OctoroonToYou 1 year ago
arent you blessed.
foundintranslation3 1 year ago
i already been through that stage in my life when i wanted to be something different than how i was raised.im 30 now and realize how much i love my black parents and how i appreciate the memories i have of going to black churches and when i see little black kids i see myself when i was younger,and me living in the streets of LA with all that whites armenians and mexicans against blacks only made stronger in knowing how black i am as well as brought me closer to Jesus.stay strong sis
foundintranslation3 1 year ago
Mulattos, octoroons, quadroons, blasians & all you multigenerational mulattos (aka black people), dont be ashamed, be proud of your African ancestry!!!
gangstaboo62 1 year ago
@gangstaboo62 say that.
The7MISSFITS 1 year ago
The song together with the images was...well, it just made for a phenomenal experience!!!! Great job!
gangstaboo62 1 year ago
@gangstaboo62 Thanks brother/sister. :)
OctoroonToYou 1 year ago
@OctoroonToYou No doubt! (from a sister) ^_^ lol
gangstaboo62 1 year ago
Thanks for the video. Mixed ethnicity has occurred for centuries in many parts of the world. One skin tone, hair texture or color, eye color or eye shape was not something people considered to be better or worse than another. It was acknowledged that there is variety, but whatever it was, it was.
RuthTheServant 1 year ago
beautiful Baby
avamilan 1 year ago
We are ALL mixed...color is nothing, but, well, a color.
BlakeBarbieDoll 1 year ago
@BlakeBarbieDoll AMEN!!!!!!
gangstaboo62 1 year ago
Yeah baby!!
KristinaMonte 1 year ago
im mixed black/criollo and on my black dads side his dad is mixed black/irish so my grandfather is brown/black and my dad is dark black because my grandmother is dark black my biological mother is spanish/french medditerranean ancestry when i was young i had straighter hair and sunburned easily as i got older my skin got darker and my hair got kinkier and im now a yellowish medium brown and consider myself black as i was raised with two black parents.some people dont think so but i know im black
foundintranslation3 1 year ago
@foundintranslation3 same with me my dad's irish and when i was younger i couls pass for fully white but about two years ago my hair started getting really curly and my skin looks more olive like
roxxce345 1 year ago
@foundintranslation3 I commend u 4 not thinking urself better than other black folks. plenty of bi-racials take on that ugly attitude & it's a shame. all blacks are mixed. They're multigenerational mulatto & are no different from these biracial ppl who almost catch a heart attack if u dare call them black. LOL...ridiculous
gangstaboo62 1 year ago
this is the future race
besmart78 1 year ago 3
Great video
mzlangston20 1 year ago
im from panama all mi people is mulato
poncheras69 1 year ago
@screwface1011 africa isnt a country its a continent soo they there different type, shades, colors of people who live there
wardetrackstar 1 year ago
Mixed women are hot!
Tompson957 1 year ago 8
@Tompson957 Thank you
Libradiaries 1 year ago
@Tompson957 I agree
Darkangel4880 3 months ago
I am in love with the last picture. So striking!
itsxnotxaxsmallworld 1 year ago
the girl at the end with africa on her face is so beaufitul..all these people are beautiful, but her eyes were so peircing..im glad to be biracial with diffrent races..hispanic native american and black and white ancestory..:)..we live in a beautiful world with many beautiful people
skullheadt 1 year ago
Very interesting video comprised of diverse and beautiful peoples. Most can say we (people of mixed African and White heritage) are part of the African Diaspora. I certainly consider myself part of it.
RETROGEMS 1 year ago 4
nicee.. =)
CutieHoni 1 year ago
@OctoroonToYou i have seened that kid before :23 he's puerto rican/cuban,somewhere in some kids tv contest but that was a while back.
Stooop69 1 year ago
Nice video!!!!
chsn09 1 year ago
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sadly I bet not even 50% of these people identify with AFRICA itself or are interested in it. Black = African...
"You can't hate the the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate your ORIGIN and not end up hating yourself" Malcolm X
SwirleyMurdock 1 year ago
Beautiful video.
cynicaloptimist999 1 year ago 2
@EbonyNewsChannel If that were the case why isn't Africa a continent of Mulattos?
prepschoolkid 1 year ago
@prepschoolkid Black is a come one come all club..because they authentic original chosen peoples...
Rockstafeller 1 year ago
@Rockstafeller Chosen? I don't think so, original ok.
prepschoolkid 1 year ago
@prepschoolkid it obviously was sarcasm
Rockstafeller 1 year ago
@Rockstafeller hahaha
prepschoolkid 1 year ago
this is cool, my grandma is creole, but i came out chocolatey brown lol
achqueen 1 year ago
LOVE IT......<3
afrolatinadamien 1 year ago 2
Nice pictures, in many cases the black drop is so hidden but something "exotic" still shines through ! I am an octoroon myself, unfortunately my black drop is gone and I look plane white...how boring ! :-))
frauzebra 1 year ago
@frauzebra too true... i am quadroon (1/4 black african) and i look italian/greek etc...but if i had to go and have a child with a pure white women my child will probably look plane white as you put it.
shamvara 1 year ago
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frauzebra 1 year ago
@shamvara my neighbor is 1/4 Nigerian, he is blond with light blue eyes, very scandinavian in the looks .I have a hard time believing this, I could see a single relatable feature.it is only when he invited me over that I saw his mixed mom and his african grand mother.I sorta had to apologize cos I thought he was trying to be "cool" with the 1/4blood thing.
cannoir 1 year ago
@cannoir thats the thing with mixed heritage....my young sister looks western european whilst i came out more meditaranean looking whilst my eldset sister looks more middle eastern than anything else. Your neighbour is exactly like me i.e. mixed mom and black african grandmother! however none of my siblings have blonde hair, we all came out with pitch black hair. my two sisters have blue eyes whilst mine are hazel/green. my eldest sister is very bronze in colour and im olive.other sister is pale
shamvara 1 year ago
I feel like crying when I see the faces of these beautiful people. The unspoken voices tell many stories of riches and poverty, of confusion and rejection. Faces who speak of unity and being one as mankind.
inspiredinlife1 1 year ago 29
@inspiredinlife1 including the ones who raped your (African) ancestors to get you here? God, you people are sick, taking pride in the rapist part of your ancestry, pride in being the products of rape!
HappyHooker83 8 months ago
Awesome, people that look like me
chronicebonics 1 year ago 5
hybrids
macadamien11 1 year ago 5
why couldn't I come out as cute as other mixed people? LOL
leswatchingvideos 1 year ago 4
What lovely people.
Cryptykk 1 year ago 2
Such beautiful people!
vtoodler 1 year ago 31
awesome awesome awesome!!!
nnnnnsssssssssllllln 1 year ago 5
lovely!
tiffdjones 2 years ago 6