I'm mixed too! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS. Basically, you've covered every issue I've had to deal with people who just don't understand mixed race issues. I feel the exact same way about being mixed, I was totally indifferent; race was never issue with my family. Also, a question to the people who ask us to chose between ethnicities; I am a Eurasian, but most people I meet assume I First Nations, does that make me so? What I look like has NOTHING to do with my identity.
BIRACIAL SOUND STUPID AS FUCK - IF YOU LOOK BLACK YOU ARE BLACK LIKE HALLE IF YOU HAVE BLACK IN YOU -YOU ARE BLACK IN AMERICA - WHAT IS BIRACIAL GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE
Please check out Youtube Video entitled," We're Black when Breaking the Law," By Lance Scurv. Scurvin Makes some very Valid points about Racial Classification.
@chsn09; am fully AWARE, that Tiny Tameka Coddles is Biracial! And BTW, I am not One dropping her; or making an Assumption! Many people are not aware that Tiny is Biracial! Folks, just ASSume that she is just a Black girl from the Hood/Ghetto! My point is; No Multiracial advocates are getting bent all OUT OF SHAPE; about Tiny; because she is NOT Beautiful NOR, is she Sophisitcated; like Halle Berry and Vanessa Williams! Tiny is as GHETTO/HOOD as they come!
And I have even seen folks get upset, that Vanessa Williams, identifies as Black. She has two Black Parents; there should be no one angry about what she identifies as! But, yet, I see posts... Where Multiracial groups are Seriously Angry about Vanessa Williams identifying as Black..... And now, some Multiracial groups are trying to "BLANKET," every Lighter skinned, ATTRACTIVE, African American as Mixed- Race..... That's Stretching it!!! This is truly a form of MANIPULATION!!!!
It is up to Halle to identify in what ever way she chooses; regardless of whether she is in the Public Eye or not! It is her own personal decision! It is amazing to me that people; are so Outraged, that Halle identifies as Black! What in the world! And people seem to get in heated debates over little Nalah!
I don't see any folks getting mad about Tiny Tameka Coddles identifying as Black! Tiny is actually Biracial; and I don't see anyone making videos in reference to her! Why is that? She is in thw Public Eye, also! You don't get angry about Tiny, because you think that she is Hood/ Ghetto! You just consider her a Black Girl! THE TRUTH HURTS! SMH!!!!!!
You consider yourself "too light to be taken seriously if you called yourself black".Is there anything like too light to be black? You may not be black but your ignorance about black people is appalling. There are very fair skinned black people who are not mixed. Are they also too light to be black?
How you identify yourself is 100% up to you, but how Halle identifies herself is also 100% up to her. You're mixed but that doesn't mean you can to choose how every other mixed person identifies.
I'm multi-racial and I'm proud of it. Very few people these days is of only one race, and I think the world will be a better place when we are all that way. I am sooo tired of people using race in the game of "I'm better than you".
i think halle has really strong black genes if shes half white for the baby to come out more like halle. The kid is cute no doubt though but i think the only thing she has in common with her dad is maybe the eyes?
Very interesting thoughts. I have come to know that most people of black & Caucasian mix tend to call themselves or are referred to as black. In some cases it isn't very obvious that they have mixed heritage. It shouldn't matter. I'd rather be concerned if the person is good or not. Thanks for uploading this video.
How does fringeelements define black in his racist rants? He mentions he is 1/16th black. Considering most ethnicities in America are a mixture, his arguments fall to pieces.
Part of the reason why people want to identify everyone else's ethnicity is because it is one of the master statuses. Those include age, gender, socieconomic class and race. Some people just classify others that way in their schema. Personally I don't care what a person is, in the end we all are just human. If I ever ask it's for mere curiosity. I think the kid should decide who she is, or view it however she is comfortable. Heck she could just settle with just being human.
So no mater how mixed i am and i can be paler than the walls, i will always consider myself black and native before white, I dont want to entertian them and their twisted way of thinking
Well white people seem to think anyone with light skin is white nowadays... and then take credit for the people's culture and claim it as apart of "white history and culture' just the many cultures they have... I went on topix and a white girl said "technically latinas are white and that means their culture is also ours because its white culture" what?? technically latinas are "mix raced" and there they go agian trying to steal another culture
@hinata4478 "Well white people seem to think anyone with light skin is white nowadays"
Oh? It's funny; you make several generalized assertions of behavior and thought on an entire group of people based solely on their ethnicity, which is defined as racism... and then, you accuse that very same group as being the ones with the "twisted way of thinking." Instead of assuming what all white people think, perhaps it would behoove you to judge people individually rather than on their recent ancestry.
@xxxThePeachxxx "making generalizations" doesn't qualify as racist- not by a long shot. Racism is the belief that one's race is superior to another - or equivalently, another's race is inferior to your own. Some technically racist statements are just facts, using this definition. For example, blacks have superior skin to whites in terms of UV protection - this is an accurate generalization and technically a racist statement against whites, but can never be taken to be insulting towards whites.
@hinata4478 A white person is a Caucasian. A Caucasian is basically someone who looks European - this includes people not only from Europe, but from North Africa, the middle East, and parts of Asia. True - most Latinos are Hispanic (of Spanish hertiage). Thus, Latinos are for the most part white to a degree because of Spanish (European) ancestry.
Great video! I do not agree with what Hallie said, nor do I think she knew about this, but she may have been trying to latch onto the idea of "dual consciousness." I have heard Harlem renaissance literature dealing with being able to be perceived half black or half white. People felt that at that time they had two identities, and that both were irreconcilable. I think Jean Toomer's book "Cane" deals with the issue. "Invisible Man" also touches in it, but from a different perspective.
I agree to what you are saying. our history shows that white people was slave lords, sure, but what about the ones that sold them to us! Thier own kind. They should be madd at them as much or more....
@xxxThePeachxxx "But if a white person plays a non-white character, all hell breaks loose. " More accurate to say that feathers are ruffled a little rather than hell breaks loose. Historically and today, when a white actor plays a nonwhite part, not many people have anything to say in comparison to when a nonwhite acts in a white role or a role that was originally played by a white person( The Honey Mooners, The WHiz, The Karate Kid, Back to school(b4 production end it) , Santa claus)
When has America not been ruled by White supremacy? If you say my statements are divisive, I ask when have we even been united? Classism and racism go hand and hand. If you don't think White supremacy controls and has always been the foundation of America you better wake up. And if you on the Obama tip you can't separate image from substance.
You say you don't care when someone ask you what you are? If it doesn't matter to you then why are you talking so in depth about it? Why study the ancestry thing? I can tell by your speech that you do care and not only do you care but it is a big issue. I think a greater understanding can be found here...from this woman in the video.
Does interracial children loose identity, culture, and/or heritage? Are their lives more difficult? Are they accepted by both races or rejected by both?
How come Halle Berry branded a racist? She clearly does not like white people, she even denies here white side by saying she is black. but clearly looking at her she is not a black woman. She has just as many white chromosomes as black. Why deny who she is? What about her white heritage,is it not good enough? hmm...if this were the other way around would she not be labeled a hater racist of the highest order?
Oh and does that mean slavery is ok because a black guy owned a slave way back then? Does it dismiss the several decades of segregation that favored whites and denied blacks, even further enforcing the one drop rule?
I get so frustrated at the multicultural movement. It completely ignores the history of white people and their enforcement of the one drop rule, the fact that most African Americans with slave ancestry are not pure "African", and that schools still do not teach anything about black people except that they were slaves and Martin Luther King, as if black people did nothing to contribute to this country. I have black grandmothers who are you skin tone and they proudly call themselves black.
AWESOME VIDEO-- thank you for making it! XD I especially like the fact that you touched up on how hypodescent also applied to Amerindian ancestry. There's certainly an unspoken reason as to why many mixed-"race" Latin Americans simply look "Indian" to many people in the U.S., and why there are many light-skinned, light-haired people living on Indian Reservations.
i'm referred to as white as well, i'm half algonquin indian, part black and irish. i have black hair, olive skin tone and blue eyes. But I have to say, that I find the term "Half Breed" a bit offensive and making that particular statement does is, feed into the filth of racisim and segragation; which is something that we have been trying to abolish as a people for many many years now. So why make a statement such as that; thus feeding into the hatred and stupidity. not saying you are stupid.
One drop theory? Aside from the fact that we're all African anyway, C0nc0rdance's "Genetic Bucket Chain" vids should make it really clear how much bull that is.
I'm of mixed racial heredity as well, Mostly native american with scotts irish and african. Most people assume I'm white, I do have blue eyes, now that I'm old my wife says my hair looks like an old black woman's hair, it's white and kinky but when it was just brown most people called it curly, race is an odd thing when you really give it some thought, no one can control who their parents are or who their parents were, sadly many still have to think in racial instead of human terms...
I'm white, and if I had a child with black woman and our child chose to call themselves only black, or if the mother insisted we identify the child as black, I think I might feel a little hurt by that. To me, it would be like they were denying to some extent my genetic contribution. I'd prefer my child refer to him/herself as bi- or multi-racial. I know it's the child's decision how they identify themself, and I'd ultimately stand by them, but I think my feelings might still be hurt.
I think multi-racial is beautiful, it's like mixing PB&J :D
and as much as your hair is probably a trial sometimes, I think it's gorgeous ^_^
there is a part of me that is saddened by the thought of ethnic lines becoming less distinct, because each ethnicity is beautiful in it's own unique way, but it's hard to be too sad about it when time and time again ethnic mixes turn out to be so damn beautiful :)
Its funny one drop theory wont get you reperations. Anyway I think people born to parents of different ethnicities are presured to pick one much like bi sexuals who are told to pick one. Halle has a caucasion mother she doesnt have to deny this just to suit some other peoples hangups.
I've heard Slash call himself Bluish, which I think is pretty cool. Ms. Berry sounds like my cracker ass redneck uncle, in color negative. It's a load of horse shit anyway my monkey cousins, because as the professor says, "We are all Africans, African apes as a matter of FACT".
If John Mcain had a DNA test and he was found to have some sub Saharan African ancestry could he call himself black? He's of Scots,Irish (and probably some other white Euro/English) but black people were in Britain a long time ago. The Romans had black Africans as paid soldiers, builders among other things in Britain thousands of years ago. Its likely that these Africans would of had sex with the Native Britons, its not impossible.
@xxxThePeachxxx :wassup girl?.I'm African not African Americain,and I live in France,I was born there,and I grew up in this country.Personally I DO AGREE with Halle Berry and the choice she made for her daughter.I believe in the ONE DROP RULE,because I believe that racism is still there,and if you child refuse to accept that he's BLACk because he got a BLACK grandparent,the society is going to remember him or her,and in this case,it motherfucking hella hurt!
Given my surname, I'm apparently descended from a slave-owner, a slave that adopted the name upon abolition, or both. I tend to leave the race/ethnicity blanks empty, or write in "human" if I can. That's all I'd be in Middle-Earth where there's other races of humanoids to compare us to. If neanderthals had survived beyond the traces in everyone outside of sub-Saharan Africa, then the term 'race' could be biologically valid in the real world too.
@xxxThePeachxxx i think when u said " you couldnt care less what other half breeds choose to call themselves,mixed,bi-racial,multi-racial, half breeds etc "
u phrased it improperly and i think it could mislead or confuse people who will misuse the word. Since half breed and bi-racial mean only being of 2 ethnicities and they cant say they are multiracial coz it would make it seem like they are 3 or more or at least more than 2 which she isnt. But good video i think she has identity issues
Some great examples here, and excellent points made. But black people are gonna hate on mixed white and black people for having white in them. And to a lesser extent (in most liberal places in the western world atleast) white people might have a problem with the black side. The media and our culture spins this black makes you cool, strong or whatever so mixed race people often cling to a black identity. Its wrong to deny any of your blood and to have to exaggerate the "cool" part to feel good.
@parrotcar You are clueless and this is quite an ignorant post. A blind man can see that clearly it is the WHITE people that are "gonna hate on mixed white and black people" and THAT is _PRECISELY_ why MOST "mixed race" people simply say "I'm BLACK!" Black people naturally come in all possible hues and types. Most African Americans ARE in fact mixed to varying degrees. MOST "mixed race" people have suffered isolation and discrimination from the WHITE side of their family and RESENT it!
@Bullseye2012 There's a lot of blacks that discriminate against mixed-race people. Blacks as a whole might b more accepting towards mixed-race people but those blacks who accept the race-mixed person usually frowns on the bi-racial person who claims and represents both sides of his or her ancestry.
Shes didnt say that she didnt care what HAlle BERRY calls herself, she said she didnt care what other mixed people call themselves. but its different because halle is famous and she kind of , in a way represents us as a whole (mixed kids)
Respond to this video... ok, here it is: ii don't like the terms "black" (devoid of color when in actuality, speaking of matter and not light, encompasses all colors), "mulatto" (esp bc it means donkey in Italian), "half-breed" (what the hell does that truly mean since we all are half-breeds by way of a MAN and WOMAN - there's your "half)), "mixed" (that's a nut), "hybrid" (that's a plant), "mutt" (that's a dog) ... but since African is the DOMINANT in all, Miss Berry is right!!!
Incredibly intelligent, insightful, and articulate video. I have watched some of your other work too and am quite impressed with your clarity of thought -- subbed.
Here in Europe biracial is considered a race of its own. The most common word used to refer to biracial individuals is the word "mulatto". An American told me that mulatto is an offensive word towards a person of black/white heritage, but here in Europe its not used as an insult. I have never heard a biracial person call themselves black here in Europe... so it was a huge discussion when Obama was elected "the first black president".
The beautiful girl in this video has more ethics and moral high ground than over half of America lol. Biracials who claim one biological and genetic side of themselves can do so all they want, that doesn't and will never change the fact that they are still BIRACIAL.
If you don't care, then why'd you make the vid..? Let Halle feel how she wants to feel.. What happen to the time when Half-Blacks were treated the same as Full ones, were equally and inhesitantly referred to as a Nigger?? All of a sudden, we're doing something big, they want to put so much emphasis on the fact that we aren't FULLY Black.. Like Halle said, she was forced to choose, I'm a 'Half-Breed' but when people look at me, they see..Black, so be it, I don't mind..I love it, actually..
@JZLuver99 "If you don't care, then why'd you make the vid..?"
I think I made myself clear when I stated that I don't care what she chooses to call herself. Halle cited the "one-drop rule" as her reason, as if such an abomination of biology is legitimate. She is also passing this nonsense onto her young daughter, thereby perpetuating this fallacy. Giving any kind of legitimacy to an incredibly racist ideology was the point of this video, which obviously went straight over your head.
@xxxThePeachxxx I'm not saying that I totally agree with how Halle is handling this racial thing.. I'm just saying that she shouldn't be criticized for what she calls 'herself' What race you are doesn't only have to do with what your parents are, but also what you consider yourself, it's more of a social thing and I put it in that category, because I personally don't think it should matter as much as it does.. She shouldn't be going on like this, I agree with you, but Halle is Halle..
@JZLuver99 "I'm just saying that she shouldn't be criticized for what she calls 'herself'"
I didn't.
"What race you are doesn't only have to do with what your parents are, but also what you consider yourself"
We are all the same race; it doesn't matter what "you consider yourself." People seem to be forgetting that. I use the term "half-breed" in jest, because, in reality, there's no such thing as a human half-breed. We are the only animals that have only one species among us.
@xxxThePeachxxx We're all human beings, I know.. but human beings that think differently, look different, speak differently, we're all different in so many ways. We all have are own opinions on how how life is supposed to be.. Hey, some people don't even think people of color should exist and tend to feel omnipotent because they lack melanin, but that's just them. As long as everything about the world is antithetic, there will be racism and opposing theories and belifes, gotta live with it..
@xxxThePe Got you with that bull, when racism is truly dead thats when I will say we are on race. But as long as I we are Dark, Light, I am and we are black people. My cousin is the same color as Halle, and has to chocolate toned Parents. How. Simply because two black people can produce lighter, almost white children. So its not always what you call yourself, its i the end of the day what will you truly identify yourself. When you can produce a black child 2 white people then we are all the same
@sambam2694 We are all the same race. The color of your skin which is dictated by the amount of melanin your cells produce is a phenotypical difference between your cells & those of white people. Is that the basis you use to identify yourself? No. It's the social connotations that have risen throughout history attributed to blacks in America. Halle's promotion of the one drop rule worsens that problem & she probably doesn't know the origin of the "rule". That is what this woman was pointing out.
@yarealpoof No see your trying to get scientific. I am simply basing this off of how African Americans are treated. Are you an African American, then why speak on something that sounds as stupid as " we are all the same race". Have you not been living, racism is still around, and thriving Maybe 100 years down the line races will be removed, but I highly doubt it. Keep living that dream, but for now come back the planet earth. How the hell is she promoting it.
@sambam2694 Since you asked (and not that it matters) I am White Black and Native American. I don't think you understood me because if you did, you'd realize I agree with you in some sense. The way Black people are treated in this country and the hardships they've endured are the product of many past historical events. Halle says she believes in a "rule" set up by racist white people meant to further subjugate anyone of black descent. She therefore is contributing to the problem & is ignorant.
I'm half a breed, half irish and half english and I dont have a problem... Whats your problem? oh I see..... Its early and all but I'll go there. Your problem is not that you're a half breed. Your problem is that you're half black or what ever. Thats somehow suppossed to be important to anyone but you? I don't get it...Its funny how people make up problems for themselves even when there is no problem.. Get over it, life is to short to be a victim of something you can't change.
@middy444 I clearly wrote right there "I don't get it"... I dont get it how people have nothing better to do than feel sorry for themselves... i love your accent. i think if American blacks sounded as educated as you they would get along better. Sadly too bad any black Americans love their victim roll in life.
@markstarr66 ....You have it all wrong, I wouldn't be suprised if you were white.. Yeah, you're half black, but you don't get it at all. You can't sit there an just generalize a whole race of people, it makes you sound biased and anything, but impartial.. And don't say 'Blacks' it sounds wrong..
@markstarr66 "I'm half a breed, half irish and half english and I dont have a problem... Whats your problem?"
Nothing. Why do you ask?
"Your problem is that you're half black or what ever."
And just what do you base that upon? I believe I stated very clearly and concisely in my video that my ethnicity has never meant anything to me other than an occasional curiosity, at best.. meaningless in all other aspects of my life. So the question becomes, what is the problem with your ears?
@xxxThePeachxxx oh well, it seemed to me that you were a lil angry of Ms.Berry because she didn't see herself the same way that you see yourself.. i guess i dont know. i just think people should just GET OVER IT.
@markstarr66 You're probably white, you aren't bi-racial, hence, you aren't a half-breed.. ie. I'm half Afro-Panamanian and Half Middle Eastern, so I would be considered 'Light-skinned black' (Half-Breed)
@JZLuver99 Ask the irish if they are the same race as the english, many would say that they are not(ASK THE JAPANESE IF THEY ARE THE SAME RACE AS THE CHINESE).. im glad that you're bi racial what ever you are...but if it rules your life or has anything to do with how you make decisions, you are suffering needlessly(IMO)....hense the GET OVER IT...GOOD DAY LUV....
@markstarr66 First off, We're all apart of the "HUMAN RACE" Irish and English are both considered to be Caucasoids, is what I'm saying. The both look considerably similar..straight hair, white skin, light eyes. You'd basically be considered white, just as the English. I'm not suffering(Anymore) cuz of the way look, just needless racism, and being that, a little harder for me to get a job than you, but I'll be fine.. And Japanese and Chinese are both Mongoloids, whether they like it or not...
@JZLuver99 Wow you're treading on thin ice there, lol do they even teach kids such things anymore?... As far as getting a job,,, in America you could walk into any corporation with the qualifying education and you would be hired regardless of your pigment because you speak the queens english clearly...i'm off to the auction,,, CATTLE USA .COM
@markstarr66 ..It's technically proven actually, the glass ceiling theory.. That's why we're considered to be in a patriarchy.. Though a woman may be just as qualified as a man, the man is more likely to be chosen, it's backwards tradtion, it's the same for a person of color, the same goes for a person who is considered to have a "Ghetto name" There are certain companies out there who are looking for a certain 'image' and sometimes a splash of color isn't apart of the picture. It still happens..
This stupid one drop rule makes it difficult for some biracial to have a since of their identities because other people are trying to make the decision for them ( like when people just assume a biracial person is black)...and that's why I can understand why Halle would say something like that., in her mind she is trying to be "loyal"
Yes black history month is insulting:)...I think Halle's statement was poorly articulated to say the least....O_o but I agree with the spirit of what she was saying, If her daugther is "passing" I think she doesn't want her daughter to reject her african ancestry...Yes i agree, if someone is biracial they should be able to identify as biracial not just black, but currently society will not treat you as such if you look black:( I do think that's fucked up but,
Well if things were EQUAL we wouldn't have to have a black history, Please, let's be real, often often do they talk about black people in American History that isn't MLK Jr. or slavery?
If i remember rightly, When she won an award for a James Bond film, she went on and on about how wonderfull it is being the first black woman to get the award, but never mentioned how her white mother raised her alone.
I am a "mixed" man, my mother is fully black, and my fathers mother was also negroid, I pretty much look black than anything else, but I WILL NEVER consider my self a black, I will always honour my forefathers, my forefathers were white men from Spain, I hope to marry a Spanish woman and rub out this embarrassment in my family's history that I was a part of, I believe everyone should honour their forefathers and Y chromosome which essentially only matters, mothers DNA is useless.
@JZLuver99 People consider themselves their race based on their forefathers, fact. I don't know a single person (male) who has passed off their race as their maternal side, it's idiotic. My forefathers were Spanish so I am, I may look like a nigger, but my kids won't and their kids even less (hopefully). Y is dominant in males and is passed on from male to male, mothers DNA is traced through Mito-chondrial DNA.
@Cerbethys You're a fucking idiot, the mitochonodria, you get is from your mother, you get NONE from your father, that being the reason your mother has ability to give almost every Sex-linked disease known to man-kind. You get, but 75 genes from ur dad, you get over 2000 from your mother's X. The Y of a man isn't even a Y, it's an X missing a limb, all the X has the ability to do is give you a dick and some sperm. The Y chromosome barely ever gets passed on, and it barely has any information..
@Cerbethys The Y chrmomsome is dissapearing(Shrinking) and Scientists fear the End Of Men, in a few thousand years. There are even several species of rodent and lizard that already started reproducing without the help of semen. Y chromosome is becoming useless as we speak, even bees and ants can make other bees and ants without sperm, they only use it when they wanna make a male. Even in a male, the Y only makes up 2% of the total DNA. The X makes up 2.5% And you're a fucking blockheaded racist.
@mikesomething Look it up dummy and most of the genetics, your DNA contains comes from your mother.. You only get the motochondria you have from your mother.. The Y chromosome doesn't do much read up. Go on Wiki, google it.. it's everywhere and yes, the Y chromosome is significantly smaller than the woman's X and it's not even a 'Y' it's X that's missing a limb.. The Y chromosome is shrinking. Everything I wrote was true..
Perhaps Hallie Berry should have gone the fantasy route, and told her daughter she was born of the sun and the moon, shortly there after being touched by Midus... Well, maybe not touched, but there is a golden spoon that she will be eating off of the next 18 years, which might make her just as entitled as her mother.
Huh, I didn't know that about Slash, but yeah. I really hope that Halle Berry's belief in the One Drop "Theory" is rooted in ignorance, I don't think I could ever take her seriously again if it wasn't.
biracial people accept the 1 drop rule but dont wanna apply it to themselves. i mean there are "pure blacks" that r less black than biracials. all traditonal black americans r mixed. there r people with 2 black parents that are lighter and have look whiter than u and no one ever ? their blackness. i think america esp. blacks gotta b real w/ themselves and black americans must accept they're mulatos and biracial must accept they more white than black unless the black is 4rm from rencent africans
I'm like Popeye who said," I yam what I yam and thats all that I yam!" I'm not 100% white but nobody can tell it by looking and theres nothing I can do about the body I inhabit anyway. I don't even think about it. Lets get on with our lives and enjoy what time we have here on this speck of dust circling the sun in a far off galaxy. Dust your body is and to dust it shall return but you are still you.
I'll tell you what you are, you are human. Thumbs up on your video. I think black history months is racisme, it does no good in the fight against racisme to replace one form of it with another. As for race yes there are a few medical problems that are differnt depending on your racial background, gens aswell as the amount of Vitamin D gained from sunlight, or how fast your skin takes damage from the sun. Apart from that who cares what skin color a person is, it is silly. Thumbs up
Assuming that evolution is true, and that the one drop rule is true...that would mean everyone is black, because our ancestors from Africa were all black. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) This would also mean that would me we're also all Homo Habilis, Homo Georgicus, Homo Erectus, Homo Ergaster, Homo Gautengensis, Homo Antecessor, Homo Heidelbergensis, Homo Neanderthalensis, and Homo Floresiensis.
In other words. watered down NIGGAS like this peach here constantly think they're superior over any other blacks living on this planet just because she thinks she is special like that. A self hating racist if you will. yeah. I pretty much summed up the entire video.
but yeah, you clearly won't have the balls to come and respond back regardless anyway cuz you know damn well you're beyond finished in this regard. But you'll probably reply back anyway just in spite to prove me wrong. So in the end i win either way.
@CUTWEST You are not her and don't have her brain, so you can't possibly have anyway of knowing what she thinks without her saying it. It doesn't matter what you believe she thinks, because what you believe she thinks is completely inconsistent with everything she's said. She said that she considers her black ancestry to be irrelevant to who she is. This suggests that she thinks that race can't make you superior because race only defines who you are if you let it define who you are.
so what the fuck do we call her than? an IT? that would be more disrespectful than just to END the confusion and just call her black.
" She said that she considers her black ancestry to be irrelevant" Thats because she is ashamed of her black ancestry. HINTS! why i SAID she's a self hating racist. So yeah. Thanks for proving my point.
@CUTWEST You can call her an atheist, a person, a woman, a human, or a rationalist. Those are all traits which define her thoughts, actions, and opinions far more than her race does.
There is a big difference between being ashamed and not caring. I'm like 1/4 Native American, but I think it's irrelevant to who I am because it doesn't effect my personality or thoughts. That doesn't mean I hate being Native American, I think they have a beautiful culture and have very attractive features.
My mother was born in Finland, I'm a finnish citizen, born in Australia, to an Australian father traced back to the colonisation of this bigass mostly empty nation, so I'm also an Australian citnzen, I am most certainly mixed race, the mitochondrial DNA paths of both of my parents are sig nignificanlty distinct, and do not meet up with a common ancestor until you go back a good 20, maybe 30 thousand years.
I'm as biracial as Haley, but without the oscar, or the ridiclous insecurity in my DNA
you say we should look on our ethnicity with indifference, and I disagree
a man (or woman) should be proud of their heritage and the culture of their ancestors, they just shouldn't assume it makes them superior or that people automatically think of them as inferior (persecution complex)
maybe I'm talking more about cultural heritage, but my point still stands
@KomradKlaus I don't see it. Most of my ancestors were scottish, but I've never eaten a haggis or played a bagpipe or even worn a kilt. I don't speak scotts gaelic. The closest I've come to scotland was heathrow airport on a connecting flight. I've never really thought of myself as anything other than australian. Why should I be proud of events I took no part in, a culture I don't share or that I'm distantly related to people I've never met?
I guess it's not so much being proud of your ancestors' heritage and more being proud of that you most closely identify with
I identify with my German heritage because I feel it represents a part of me and my family's history
if you do not identify with your Scottish heritage, then it doesn't represent how you feel about yourself and you have no need to feel any pride for it
I guess it's not so much an obligation as it is a choice, so long as it doesn't lead to bigotry
I truly enjoy your message. There is, less than a .012% DNA variable, that reads as pretty insignificant, between ANY two Human races on this planet. I have two sons who are Half Pacific Islander mystly half European and 1/32, true Native American. I may be biased but they are truly handsome and striking!
Let people call themselves what they want and be who they are. Allow them the choice, don't force what you Feel or Think on them. Again to reitterate (?) I like your message! You, Go!
I truly enjoy your message. There is, less than a .012% DNA variable, that reads as pretty insignificant, between ANY two Human races on this planet. I have two sons who are Half Pacific Islander mystly half European and 1/32, true Native American. I may be biased but they are truly handsome and striking!
Let people call themselves what they want and be who they are. Allow them the choice, don't force what you Feel or Think on them. Again to reitterate (?) I like your message! You, Go!
I truly enjoy your message. There is, less than a .012% DNA variable, that reads as pretty insignificant, between ANY two Human races on this planet. I have two sons who are Half Pacific Islander mystly half European and 1/32, true Native American. I may be biased but they are truly handsome and striking!
Let people call themselves what they want and be who they are. Allow them the choice, don't force what you Feel or Think on them. Again to reitterate (?) I like your message! You, Go!
I quite agree with your views ThePeach. I would go farther, we should erase demographics from forms, documents, etc., unless there is a specific reason for it, for example a scientific paper. We should heed Martin Luther King: "...little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Its time we started taking concrete steps towards that goal instead of maintaining the walls that divide us.
Hey Peach, you should address Oreowriter. What do you think of her? She's on YT.
EngineerMinded 6 days ago
I'm mixed too! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS. Basically, you've covered every issue I've had to deal with people who just don't understand mixed race issues. I feel the exact same way about being mixed, I was totally indifferent; race was never issue with my family. Also, a question to the people who ask us to chose between ethnicities; I am a Eurasian, but most people I meet assume I First Nations, does that make me so? What I look like has NOTHING to do with my identity.
manateeofdoom 6 days ago
This video was made by a stupid person.
takitheterrible 1 week ago
ALL WHITE PEOPLE
HAVE NATIVE AMERICAN ANCESTRY
WHY DONT PEOPLE SAY IT
yamchu100 1 week ago
yamchu100 1 week ago
Please check out Youtube Video entitled," We're Black when Breaking the Law," By Lance Scurv. Scurvin Makes some very Valid points about Racial Classification.
ThePumpernickel29 2 weeks ago
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@chsn09; am fully AWARE, that Tiny Tameka Coddles is Biracial! And BTW, I am not One dropping her; or making an Assumption! Many people are not aware that Tiny is Biracial! Folks, just ASSume that she is just a Black girl from the Hood/Ghetto! My point is; No Multiracial advocates are getting bent all OUT OF SHAPE; about Tiny; because she is NOT Beautiful NOR, is she Sophisitcated; like Halle Berry and Vanessa Williams! Tiny is as GHETTO/HOOD as they come!
ThePumpernickel29 2 weeks ago
Such HYPOCRACY! Very HUMOROUS!
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ThePumpernickel29 2 weeks ago
You are gorgeous girl, your hair is soo beautiful.
However, I think your brains are the sexiest thing going on in this video!
DoctorDorian13 2 weeks ago
For you being mixed has never been an issue. That is not the case for everyone. Maybe your just lucky.
angellover02171 2 weeks ago
@ThePumpernickel29 Tina Tameka Coddles is BIRACIAL, not black! Why are you one dropping her!? It's not good to make ASSumptions btw!
chsn09 2 weeks ago
And I have even seen folks get upset, that Vanessa Williams, identifies as Black. She has two Black Parents; there should be no one angry about what she identifies as! But, yet, I see posts... Where Multiracial groups are Seriously Angry about Vanessa Williams identifying as Black..... And now, some Multiracial groups are trying to "BLANKET," every Lighter skinned, ATTRACTIVE, African American as Mixed- Race..... That's Stretching it!!! This is truly a form of MANIPULATION!!!!
ThePumpernickel29 2 weeks ago
It is up to Halle to identify in what ever way she chooses; regardless of whether she is in the Public Eye or not! It is her own personal decision! It is amazing to me that people; are so Outraged, that Halle identifies as Black! What in the world! And people seem to get in heated debates over little Nalah!
ThePumpernickel29 2 weeks ago
I don't see any folks getting mad about Tiny Tameka Coddles identifying as Black! Tiny is actually Biracial; and I don't see anyone making videos in reference to her! Why is that? She is in thw Public Eye, also! You don't get angry about Tiny, because you think that she is Hood/ Ghetto! You just consider her a Black Girl! THE TRUTH HURTS! SMH!!!!!!
ThePumpernickel29 2 weeks ago
You consider yourself "too light to be taken seriously if you called yourself black".Is there anything like too light to be black? You may not be black but your ignorance about black people is appalling. There are very fair skinned black people who are not mixed. Are they also too light to be black?
How you identify yourself is 100% up to you, but how Halle identifies herself is also 100% up to her. You're mixed but that doesn't mean you can to choose how every other mixed person identifies.
fckingkim 1 month ago
I rather like to think of myself as a 'Terran'.
CryptSphinx 1 month ago
I'm multi-racial and I'm proud of it. Very few people these days is of only one race, and I think the world will be a better place when we are all that way. I am sooo tired of people using race in the game of "I'm better than you".
ctg9905 1 month ago
Right on, Peach!
kasponya 1 month ago
us hybrids are the fucking best.
i wouldnt give you a thank you for a white or a black..(apart from janet jackson)
brazilian women is the way forward!
halle berry all day long!
apmirkin 1 month ago
i think halle has really strong black genes if shes half white for the baby to come out more like halle. The kid is cute no doubt though but i think the only thing she has in common with her dad is maybe the eyes?
RaccoltaDeAgony 1 month ago
Very interesting thoughts. I have come to know that most people of black & Caucasian mix tend to call themselves or are referred to as black. In some cases it isn't very obvious that they have mixed heritage. It shouldn't matter. I'd rather be concerned if the person is good or not. Thanks for uploading this video.
countroshculla 2 months ago
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How does fringeelements define black in his racist rants? He mentions he is 1/16th black. Considering most ethnicities in America are a mixture, his arguments fall to pieces.
/watch?v=s1c1IUCcJlk 0:40
DayTimes121 2 months ago
Part of the reason why people want to identify everyone else's ethnicity is because it is one of the master statuses. Those include age, gender, socieconomic class and race. Some people just classify others that way in their schema. Personally I don't care what a person is, in the end we all are just human. If I ever ask it's for mere curiosity. I think the kid should decide who she is, or view it however she is comfortable. Heck she could just settle with just being human.
demonqueenzeo 2 months ago
So no mater how mixed i am and i can be paler than the walls, i will always consider myself black and native before white, I dont want to entertian them and their twisted way of thinking
hinata4478 3 months ago
Well white people seem to think anyone with light skin is white nowadays... and then take credit for the people's culture and claim it as apart of "white history and culture' just the many cultures they have... I went on topix and a white girl said "technically latinas are white and that means their culture is also ours because its white culture" what?? technically latinas are "mix raced" and there they go agian trying to steal another culture
hinata4478 3 months ago
@hinata4478 "Well white people seem to think anyone with light skin is white nowadays"
Oh? It's funny; you make several generalized assertions of behavior and thought on an entire group of people based solely on their ethnicity, which is defined as racism... and then, you accuse that very same group as being the ones with the "twisted way of thinking." Instead of assuming what all white people think, perhaps it would behoove you to judge people individually rather than on their recent ancestry.
xxxThePeachxxx 3 months ago
@xxxThePeachxxx "making generalizations" doesn't qualify as racist- not by a long shot. Racism is the belief that one's race is superior to another - or equivalently, another's race is inferior to your own. Some technically racist statements are just facts, using this definition. For example, blacks have superior skin to whites in terms of UV protection - this is an accurate generalization and technically a racist statement against whites, but can never be taken to be insulting towards whites.
TheUltimateCynic 1 month ago
@xxxThePeachxxx white people are soo ignorant!
its true! they think that light skin is white! pmsl!
they think i'm white and then i get my black cock out and then they know the deal!
apmirkin 1 month ago
@hinata4478 A white person is a Caucasian. A Caucasian is basically someone who looks European - this includes people not only from Europe, but from North Africa, the middle East, and parts of Asia. True - most Latinos are Hispanic (of Spanish hertiage). Thus, Latinos are for the most part white to a degree because of Spanish (European) ancestry.
TheUltimateCynic 1 month ago
the chick is black :/ once you mix white paint with black paint it doesnt go back to white. sorry
hinata4478 3 months ago
Great video! I do not agree with what Hallie said, nor do I think she knew about this, but she may have been trying to latch onto the idea of "dual consciousness." I have heard Harlem renaissance literature dealing with being able to be perceived half black or half white. People felt that at that time they had two identities, and that both were irreconcilable. I think Jean Toomer's book "Cane" deals with the issue. "Invisible Man" also touches in it, but from a different perspective.
quixoticskeptic 3 months ago
I think u need to get off your high horse and stop pretending u donnt understand exactly how she feels.
Ethioness 3 months ago
I agree to what you are saying. our history shows that white people was slave lords, sure, but what about the ones that sold them to us! Thier own kind. They should be madd at them as much or more....
kaylomroberts 3 months ago
I agree slavery was wrong.
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xxxthepeachxxx= Slash's long lost little sister.
Pentazoid111 4 months ago
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@xxxThePeachxxx "But if a white person plays a non-white character, all hell breaks loose. " More accurate to say that feathers are ruffled a little rather than hell breaks loose. Historically and today, when a white actor plays a nonwhite part, not many people have anything to say in comparison to when a nonwhite acts in a white role or a role that was originally played by a white person( The Honey Mooners, The WHiz, The Karate Kid, Back to school(b4 production end it) , Santa claus)
Pentazoid111 4 months ago
When has America not been ruled by White supremacy? If you say my statements are divisive, I ask when have we even been united? Classism and racism go hand and hand. If you don't think White supremacy controls and has always been the foundation of America you better wake up. And if you on the Obama tip you can't separate image from substance.
travelingjohn69 4 months ago
You say you don't care when someone ask you what you are? If it doesn't matter to you then why are you talking so in depth about it? Why study the ancestry thing? I can tell by your speech that you do care and not only do you care but it is a big issue. I think a greater understanding can be found here...from this woman in the video.
MrBuster128 4 months ago
Does interracial children loose identity, culture, and/or heritage? Are their lives more difficult? Are they accepted by both races or rejected by both?
MrBuster128 4 months ago
How come Halle Berry branded a racist? She clearly does not like white people, she even denies here white side by saying she is black. but clearly looking at her she is not a black woman. She has just as many white chromosomes as black. Why deny who she is? What about her white heritage,is it not good enough? hmm...if this were the other way around would she not be labeled a hater racist of the highest order?
MrBuster128 4 months ago
Oh and does that mean slavery is ok because a black guy owned a slave way back then? Does it dismiss the several decades of segregation that favored whites and denied blacks, even further enforcing the one drop rule?
Dorche76 4 months ago
@DrunkenCorby Exactly.
Dorche76 4 months ago
I get so frustrated at the multicultural movement. It completely ignores the history of white people and their enforcement of the one drop rule, the fact that most African Americans with slave ancestry are not pure "African", and that schools still do not teach anything about black people except that they were slaves and Martin Luther King, as if black people did nothing to contribute to this country. I have black grandmothers who are you skin tone and they proudly call themselves black.
Dorche76 4 months ago
AWESOME VIDEO-- thank you for making it! XD I especially like the fact that you touched up on how hypodescent also applied to Amerindian ancestry. There's certainly an unspoken reason as to why many mixed-"race" Latin Americans simply look "Indian" to many people in the U.S., and why there are many light-skinned, light-haired people living on Indian Reservations.
NotSoPhotogenic 4 months ago
peace "half-sista" lol
Nomorehataz 4 months ago
halle berry has all the room in the world to complain about whatever she wants whenever she wants and its totally fine,,, the end.
xd1rtx 4 months ago
Look at that smug sneering grin on her face.. she is so pleased with herself..
I take it that smug arrogance is from her 50% black side
babyturtlefilms 4 months ago
I did never care about race... but i DU like beautiful women... especially if they are as witted as you!!
Hymeteron 4 months ago
i'm referred to as white as well, i'm half algonquin indian, part black and irish. i have black hair, olive skin tone and blue eyes. But I have to say, that I find the term "Half Breed" a bit offensive and making that particular statement does is, feed into the filth of racisim and segragation; which is something that we have been trying to abolish as a people for many many years now. So why make a statement such as that; thus feeding into the hatred and stupidity. not saying you are stupid.
MsAngelsrage40 4 months ago
One drop theory? Aside from the fact that we're all African anyway, C0nc0rdance's "Genetic Bucket Chain" vids should make it really clear how much bull that is.
leet3lite 4 months ago
I'm of mixed racial heredity as well, Mostly native american with scotts irish and african. Most people assume I'm white, I do have blue eyes, now that I'm old my wife says my hair looks like an old black woman's hair, it's white and kinky but when it was just brown most people called it curly, race is an odd thing when you really give it some thought, no one can control who their parents are or who their parents were, sadly many still have to think in racial instead of human terms...
Moontanman 4 months ago
Anyone else just fall in love?
peepnklown 4 months ago
@peepnklown Guilty.
NeverContactMe 4 months ago
@peepnklown each and every time she posts a video
Atheistprimate 4 months ago
I freaking LOVE you! Your intelligence is absolutely beautiful, and is all about truth and not hate...LOVE IT!
hellokittycutie2003 4 months ago
I'm white, and if I had a child with black woman and our child chose to call themselves only black, or if the mother insisted we identify the child as black, I think I might feel a little hurt by that. To me, it would be like they were denying to some extent my genetic contribution. I'd prefer my child refer to him/herself as bi- or multi-racial. I know it's the child's decision how they identify themself, and I'd ultimately stand by them, but I think my feelings might still be hurt.
ThirdRAILKink 4 months ago
Since there is nothing to disagree about in the content of the video and I am in a disagreeable mood this morning...
You call "Troy" an "awesomely bad movie" but Halle Berry's movies just "leave much to be desired"?
UNACCEPTABLE!
PeterK1984 5 months ago
I think multi-racial is beautiful, it's like mixing PB&J :D
and as much as your hair is probably a trial sometimes, I think it's gorgeous ^_^
there is a part of me that is saddened by the thought of ethnic lines becoming less distinct, because each ethnicity is beautiful in it's own unique way, but it's hard to be too sad about it when time and time again ethnic mixes turn out to be so damn beautiful :)
NicholasKreuz 5 months ago
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Its funny one drop theory wont get you reperations. Anyway I think people born to parents of different ethnicities are presured to pick one much like bi sexuals who are told to pick one. Halle has a caucasion mother she doesnt have to deny this just to suit some other peoples hangups.
cynt123able 5 months ago
I am who I am, im Pop Eye the sailor man. toot toot
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I've heard Slash call himself Bluish, which I think is pretty cool. Ms. Berry sounds like my cracker ass redneck uncle, in color negative. It's a load of horse shit anyway my monkey cousins, because as the professor says, "We are all Africans, African apes as a matter of FACT".
rldickie 6 months ago
i moms growing up was the only really faired skin person in her family. a lot of people would ask her if she was related to them
TheCarterKane 6 months ago
GIRL! I LOVE YOU AND I LOVE THIS VIDEO! i wrote a post on tumblr and that's how i found this post.
scylla 6 months ago
LOL! "The filth of black sludge..."
SunZen 6 months ago
I like the way you talk
ugasziz 7 months ago
If John Mcain had a DNA test and he was found to have some sub Saharan African ancestry could he call himself black? He's of Scots,Irish (and probably some other white Euro/English) but black people were in Britain a long time ago. The Romans had black Africans as paid soldiers, builders among other things in Britain thousands of years ago. Its likely that these Africans would of had sex with the Native Britons, its not impossible.
parrotcar 7 months ago
@parrotcar "If John Mcain had a DNA test and he was found to have some sub Saharan African ancestry could he call himself black?"
What do you mean, "if?" Of course, John McCain has African ancestry. Everyone does. Need I remind you that humanity was born in Africa?
xxxThePeachxxx 7 months ago
@xxxThePeachxxx :wassup girl?.I'm African not African Americain,and I live in France,I was born there,and I grew up in this country.Personally I DO AGREE with Halle Berry and the choice she made for her daughter.I believe in the ONE DROP RULE,because I believe that racism is still there,and if you child refuse to accept that he's BLACk because he got a BLACK grandparent,the society is going to remember him or her,and in this case,it motherfucking hella hurt!
figh4true 6 months ago
@figh4true how can you believe in the ODR, when the ODR was a RACIST 'law', and has NO BASIS in Science.
middy444 5 months ago
Given my surname, I'm apparently descended from a slave-owner, a slave that adopted the name upon abolition, or both. I tend to leave the race/ethnicity blanks empty, or write in "human" if I can. That's all I'd be in Middle-Earth where there's other races of humanoids to compare us to. If neanderthals had survived beyond the traces in everyone outside of sub-Saharan Africa, then the term 'race' could be biologically valid in the real world too.
We're all cousins from Africa, anyway. :)
Keovar 4 months ago
@xxxThePeachxxx i think when u said " you couldnt care less what other half breeds choose to call themselves,mixed,bi-racial,multi-racial, half breeds etc "
u phrased it improperly and i think it could mislead or confuse people who will misuse the word. Since half breed and bi-racial mean only being of 2 ethnicities and they cant say they are multiracial coz it would make it seem like they are 3 or more or at least more than 2 which she isnt. But good video i think she has identity issues
RaccoltaDeAgony 1 month ago
Some great examples here, and excellent points made. But black people are gonna hate on mixed white and black people for having white in them. And to a lesser extent (in most liberal places in the western world atleast) white people might have a problem with the black side. The media and our culture spins this black makes you cool, strong or whatever so mixed race people often cling to a black identity. Its wrong to deny any of your blood and to have to exaggerate the "cool" part to feel good.
parrotcar 7 months ago
@parrotcar You are clueless and this is quite an ignorant post. A blind man can see that clearly it is the WHITE people that are "gonna hate on mixed white and black people" and THAT is _PRECISELY_ why MOST "mixed race" people simply say "I'm BLACK!" Black people naturally come in all possible hues and types. Most African Americans ARE in fact mixed to varying degrees. MOST "mixed race" people have suffered isolation and discrimination from the WHITE side of their family and RESENT it!
Bullseye2012 6 months ago
@Bullseye2012 There's a lot of blacks that discriminate against mixed-race people. Blacks as a whole might b more accepting towards mixed-race people but those blacks who accept the race-mixed person usually frowns on the bi-racial person who claims and represents both sides of his or her ancestry.
playmistics 5 months ago
@Bullseye2012 so.....?
middy444 5 months ago
Shes didnt say that she didnt care what HAlle BERRY calls herself, she said she didnt care what other mixed people call themselves. but its different because halle is famous and she kind of , in a way represents us as a whole (mixed kids)
taye10198 7 months ago
@taye10198 "Shes didnt say that she didnt care what HAlle BERRY calls herself"
Yes I did. But I also said that her using a racist ideology as a reason for what she chooses to call herself and her daughter is shameful.
xxxThePeachxxx 7 months ago
@taye10198 what a joke!
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Respond to this video... ok, here it is: ii don't like the terms "black" (devoid of color when in actuality, speaking of matter and not light, encompasses all colors), "mulatto" (esp bc it means donkey in Italian), "half-breed" (what the hell does that truly mean since we all are half-breeds by way of a MAN and WOMAN - there's your "half)), "mixed" (that's a nut), "hybrid" (that's a plant), "mutt" (that's a dog) ... but since African is the DOMINANT in all, Miss Berry is right!!!
HandKraftedArtStudio 5 months ago
Incredibly intelligent, insightful, and articulate video. I have watched some of your other work too and am quite impressed with your clarity of thought -- subbed.
odinsraven1000 7 months ago
I ENJOYED OUR CONVERSATION JZLOVER, THANKS FOR YOUR INSIGHT. YOU WILL GO FAR IN THIS LIFE REGARDLESS...
markstarr66 8 months ago
Here in Europe biracial is considered a race of its own. The most common word used to refer to biracial individuals is the word "mulatto". An American told me that mulatto is an offensive word towards a person of black/white heritage, but here in Europe its not used as an insult. I have never heard a biracial person call themselves black here in Europe... so it was a huge discussion when Obama was elected "the first black president".
RedSkyNord 8 months ago
Your views were thought out and articulated very well.
Larjo15 8 months ago
The beautiful girl in this video has more ethics and moral high ground than over half of America lol. Biracials who claim one biological and genetic side of themselves can do so all they want, that doesn't and will never change the fact that they are still BIRACIAL.
ManOfBamboo 8 months ago
I really, really, really like this video.
middy444 8 months ago
If you don't care, then why'd you make the vid..? Let Halle feel how she wants to feel.. What happen to the time when Half-Blacks were treated the same as Full ones, were equally and inhesitantly referred to as a Nigger?? All of a sudden, we're doing something big, they want to put so much emphasis on the fact that we aren't FULLY Black.. Like Halle said, she was forced to choose, I'm a 'Half-Breed' but when people look at me, they see..Black, so be it, I don't mind..I love it, actually..
JZLuver99 8 months ago
@JZLuver99 a video as clear as this, and you STILL don't get it?
middy444 8 months ago
@middy444 I get it, I just don't think it's that much of a big deal..
JZLuver99 8 months ago
@JZLuver99 "If you don't care, then why'd you make the vid..?"
I think I made myself clear when I stated that I don't care what she chooses to call herself. Halle cited the "one-drop rule" as her reason, as if such an abomination of biology is legitimate. She is also passing this nonsense onto her young daughter, thereby perpetuating this fallacy. Giving any kind of legitimacy to an incredibly racist ideology was the point of this video, which obviously went straight over your head.
xxxThePeachxxx 8 months ago
@xxxThePeachxxx I'm not saying that I totally agree with how Halle is handling this racial thing.. I'm just saying that she shouldn't be criticized for what she calls 'herself' What race you are doesn't only have to do with what your parents are, but also what you consider yourself, it's more of a social thing and I put it in that category, because I personally don't think it should matter as much as it does.. She shouldn't be going on like this, I agree with you, but Halle is Halle..
JZLuver99 8 months ago
@JZLuver99 "I'm just saying that she shouldn't be criticized for what she calls 'herself'"
I didn't.
"What race you are doesn't only have to do with what your parents are, but also what you consider yourself"
We are all the same race; it doesn't matter what "you consider yourself." People seem to be forgetting that. I use the term "half-breed" in jest, because, in reality, there's no such thing as a human half-breed. We are the only animals that have only one species among us.
xxxThePeachxxx 8 months ago
@xxxThePeachxxx We're all human beings, I know.. but human beings that think differently, look different, speak differently, we're all different in so many ways. We all have are own opinions on how how life is supposed to be.. Hey, some people don't even think people of color should exist and tend to feel omnipotent because they lack melanin, but that's just them. As long as everything about the world is antithetic, there will be racism and opposing theories and belifes, gotta live with it..
JZLuver99 8 months ago
@xxxThePe Got you with that bull, when racism is truly dead thats when I will say we are on race. But as long as I we are Dark, Light, I am and we are black people. My cousin is the same color as Halle, and has to chocolate toned Parents. How. Simply because two black people can produce lighter, almost white children. So its not always what you call yourself, its i the end of the day what will you truly identify yourself. When you can produce a black child 2 white people then we are all the same
sambam2694 8 months ago
@sambam2694 We are all the same race. The color of your skin which is dictated by the amount of melanin your cells produce is a phenotypical difference between your cells & those of white people. Is that the basis you use to identify yourself? No. It's the social connotations that have risen throughout history attributed to blacks in America. Halle's promotion of the one drop rule worsens that problem & she probably doesn't know the origin of the "rule". That is what this woman was pointing out.
yarealpoof 8 months ago
@yarealpoof No see your trying to get scientific. I am simply basing this off of how African Americans are treated. Are you an African American, then why speak on something that sounds as stupid as " we are all the same race". Have you not been living, racism is still around, and thriving Maybe 100 years down the line races will be removed, but I highly doubt it. Keep living that dream, but for now come back the planet earth. How the hell is she promoting it.
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yarealpoof 8 months ago
@sambam2694 Since you asked (and not that it matters) I am White Black and Native American. I don't think you understood me because if you did, you'd realize I agree with you in some sense. The way Black people are treated in this country and the hardships they've endured are the product of many past historical events. Halle says she believes in a "rule" set up by racist white people meant to further subjugate anyone of black descent. She therefore is contributing to the problem & is ignorant.
yarealpoof 8 months ago
I'm half a breed, half irish and half english and I dont have a problem... Whats your problem? oh I see..... Its early and all but I'll go there. Your problem is not that you're a half breed. Your problem is that you're half black or what ever. Thats somehow suppossed to be important to anyone but you? I don't get it...Its funny how people make up problems for themselves even when there is no problem.. Get over it, life is to short to be a victim of something you can't change.
markstarr66 8 months ago
@markstarr66 and you don't get it either.
middy444 8 months ago
@middy444 I clearly wrote right there "I don't get it"... I dont get it how people have nothing better to do than feel sorry for themselves... i love your accent. i think if American blacks sounded as educated as you they would get along better. Sadly too bad any black Americans love their victim roll in life.
markstarr66 8 months ago
@markstarr66 ....You have it all wrong, I wouldn't be suprised if you were white.. Yeah, you're half black, but you don't get it at all. You can't sit there an just generalize a whole race of people, it makes you sound biased and anything, but impartial.. And don't say 'Blacks' it sounds wrong..
JZLuver99 8 months ago
@markstarr66 "I'm half a breed, half irish and half english and I dont have a problem... Whats your problem?"
Nothing. Why do you ask?
"Your problem is that you're half black or what ever."
And just what do you base that upon? I believe I stated very clearly and concisely in my video that my ethnicity has never meant anything to me other than an occasional curiosity, at best.. meaningless in all other aspects of my life. So the question becomes, what is the problem with your ears?
xxxThePeachxxx 8 months ago
@xxxThePeachxxx oh well, it seemed to me that you were a lil angry of Ms.Berry because she didn't see herself the same way that you see yourself.. i guess i dont know. i just think people should just GET OVER IT.
markstarr66 8 months ago
@xxxThePeachxxx SWEET,,, I WASN'T TRYING TO OFFEND...HAVE A GREAT DAY...
markstarr66 8 months ago
@markstarr66 You're probably white, you aren't bi-racial, hence, you aren't a half-breed.. ie. I'm half Afro-Panamanian and Half Middle Eastern, so I would be considered 'Light-skinned black' (Half-Breed)
JZLuver99 8 months ago
@JZLuver99 i would beg to differ. ask the irish if they are the same as the english...
markstarr66 8 months ago
@JZLuver99 Ask the irish if they are the same race as the english, many would say that they are not(ASK THE JAPANESE IF THEY ARE THE SAME RACE AS THE CHINESE).. im glad that you're bi racial what ever you are...but if it rules your life or has anything to do with how you make decisions, you are suffering needlessly(IMO)....hense the GET OVER IT...GOOD DAY LUV....
markstarr66 8 months ago
@markstarr66 First off, We're all apart of the "HUMAN RACE" Irish and English are both considered to be Caucasoids, is what I'm saying. The both look considerably similar..straight hair, white skin, light eyes. You'd basically be considered white, just as the English. I'm not suffering(Anymore) cuz of the way look, just needless racism, and being that, a little harder for me to get a job than you, but I'll be fine.. And Japanese and Chinese are both Mongoloids, whether they like it or not...
JZLuver99 8 months ago
@JZLuver99 Wow you're treading on thin ice there, lol do they even teach kids such things anymore?... As far as getting a job,,, in America you could walk into any corporation with the qualifying education and you would be hired regardless of your pigment because you speak the queens english clearly...i'm off to the auction,,, CATTLE USA .COM
markstarr66 8 months ago
@markstarr66 ..It's technically proven actually, the glass ceiling theory.. That's why we're considered to be in a patriarchy.. Though a woman may be just as qualified as a man, the man is more likely to be chosen, it's backwards tradtion, it's the same for a person of color, the same goes for a person who is considered to have a "Ghetto name" There are certain companies out there who are looking for a certain 'image' and sometimes a splash of color isn't apart of the picture. It still happens..
JZLuver99 8 months ago
Wait, only 2.49 % are mixed race?
yay i feel special rofl
Charlie1821 8 months ago
I think your just as hott as halle berry
pungadoo 8 months ago
This stupid one drop rule makes it difficult for some biracial to have a since of their identities because other people are trying to make the decision for them ( like when people just assume a biracial person is black)...and that's why I can understand why Halle would say something like that., in her mind she is trying to be "loyal"
SandySweet575 8 months ago
Yes black history month is insulting:)...I think Halle's statement was poorly articulated to say the least....O_o but I agree with the spirit of what she was saying, If her daugther is "passing" I think she doesn't want her daughter to reject her african ancestry...Yes i agree, if someone is biracial they should be able to identify as biracial not just black, but currently society will not treat you as such if you look black:( I do think that's fucked up but,
SandySweet575 8 months ago
@SandySweet575
Well if things were EQUAL we wouldn't have to have a black history, Please, let's be real, often often do they talk about black people in American History that isn't MLK Jr. or slavery?
Nastradumas 8 months ago
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this issue.
Szmirka 8 months ago
If i remember rightly, When she won an award for a James Bond film, she went on and on about how wonderfull it is being the first black woman to get the award, but never mentioned how her white mother raised her alone.
rodden1953 8 months ago
I am a "mixed" man, my mother is fully black, and my fathers mother was also negroid, I pretty much look black than anything else, but I WILL NEVER consider my self a black, I will always honour my forefathers, my forefathers were white men from Spain, I hope to marry a Spanish woman and rub out this embarrassment in my family's history that I was a part of, I believe everyone should honour their forefathers and Y chromosome which essentially only matters, mothers DNA is useless.
Cerbethys 8 months ago
@Cerbethys You're an idiot... Y chromosome has borderline no genetics, reason being when their looking for a DNA, they run to the mother..
JZLuver99 8 months ago
@JZLuver99 People consider themselves their race based on their forefathers, fact. I don't know a single person (male) who has passed off their race as their maternal side, it's idiotic. My forefathers were Spanish so I am, I may look like a nigger, but my kids won't and their kids even less (hopefully). Y is dominant in males and is passed on from male to male, mothers DNA is traced through Mito-chondrial DNA.
Cerbethys 8 months ago
@Cerbethys You're a fucking idiot, the mitochonodria, you get is from your mother, you get NONE from your father, that being the reason your mother has ability to give almost every Sex-linked disease known to man-kind. You get, but 75 genes from ur dad, you get over 2000 from your mother's X. The Y of a man isn't even a Y, it's an X missing a limb, all the X has the ability to do is give you a dick and some sperm. The Y chromosome barely ever gets passed on, and it barely has any information..
JZLuver99 8 months ago
@Cerbethys You're an idiot...
ManOfBamboo 8 months ago
@Cerbethys The Y chrmomsome is dissapearing(Shrinking) and Scientists fear the End Of Men, in a few thousand years. There are even several species of rodent and lizard that already started reproducing without the help of semen. Y chromosome is becoming useless as we speak, even bees and ants can make other bees and ants without sperm, they only use it when they wanna make a male. Even in a male, the Y only makes up 2% of the total DNA. The X makes up 2.5% And you're a fucking blockheaded racist.
JZLuver99 8 months ago
@JZLuver99 this is so untrue ........
and either way kids get, and need many things from both parents. immunity for example.
mikesomething 8 months ago
@mikesomething Look it up dummy and most of the genetics, your DNA contains comes from your mother.. You only get the motochondria you have from your mother.. The Y chromosome doesn't do much read up. Go on Wiki, google it.. it's everywhere and yes, the Y chromosome is significantly smaller than the woman's X and it's not even a 'Y' it's X that's missing a limb.. The Y chromosome is shrinking. Everything I wrote was true..
JZLuver99 8 months ago
@JZLuver99 retard special needs
mikesomething 8 months ago
@mikesomething Smfh... Look it up, you stupid fucking idiotic racist..
JZLuver99 8 months ago
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@JZLuver99 you are the racist
mikesomething 8 months ago
There's also APL of Black eyed Peas. The Filipinos love him due to his Filipina mother...lol
mad8london247 8 months ago
Knowledge all up in this bitch.
Perhaps Hallie Berry should have gone the fantasy route, and told her daughter she was born of the sun and the moon, shortly there after being touched by Midus... Well, maybe not touched, but there is a golden spoon that she will be eating off of the next 18 years, which might make her just as entitled as her mother.
markofthemany 8 months ago
@markofthemany lmao
middy444 8 months ago
Huh, I didn't know that about Slash, but yeah. I really hope that Halle Berry's belief in the One Drop "Theory" is rooted in ignorance, I don't think I could ever take her seriously again if it wasn't.
supermanlypunch 9 months ago
biracial people accept the 1 drop rule but dont wanna apply it to themselves. i mean there are "pure blacks" that r less black than biracials. all traditonal black americans r mixed. there r people with 2 black parents that are lighter and have look whiter than u and no one ever ? their blackness. i think america esp. blacks gotta b real w/ themselves and black americans must accept they're mulatos and biracial must accept they more white than black unless the black is 4rm from rencent africans
mykole84 9 months ago
What you are is a thoughtful intelligent woman, who happens yo be beautiful
oldcomic1 9 months ago
I'm like Popeye who said," I yam what I yam and thats all that I yam!" I'm not 100% white but nobody can tell it by looking and theres nothing I can do about the body I inhabit anyway. I don't even think about it. Lets get on with our lives and enjoy what time we have here on this speck of dust circling the sun in a far off galaxy. Dust your body is and to dust it shall return but you are still you.
horseman528 9 months ago
I'll tell you what you are, you are human. Thumbs up on your video. I think black history months is racisme, it does no good in the fight against racisme to replace one form of it with another. As for race yes there are a few medical problems that are differnt depending on your racial background, gens aswell as the amount of Vitamin D gained from sunlight, or how fast your skin takes damage from the sun. Apart from that who cares what skin color a person is, it is silly. Thumbs up
TheRenekruse 9 months ago
Assuming that evolution is true, and that the one drop rule is true...that would mean everyone is black, because our ancestors from Africa were all black. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) This would also mean that would me we're also all Homo Habilis, Homo Georgicus, Homo Erectus, Homo Ergaster, Homo Gautengensis, Homo Antecessor, Homo Heidelbergensis, Homo Neanderthalensis, and Homo Floresiensis.
zippythewildone 9 months ago
I found this so interesting peach, it explains a lot.
Abu7929 9 months ago
In other words. watered down NIGGAS like this peach here constantly think they're superior over any other blacks living on this planet just because she thinks she is special like that. A self hating racist if you will. yeah. I pretty much summed up the entire video.
CUTWEST 9 months ago
@CUTWEST Name me something she said that made her seem "superior" or "special", or hell, anything that resembled anything racist.
doublebassbeatdown 9 months ago
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CUTWEST 9 months ago
but yeah, you clearly won't have the balls to come and respond back regardless anyway cuz you know damn well you're beyond finished in this regard. But you'll probably reply back anyway just in spite to prove me wrong. So in the end i win either way.
CUTWEST 9 months ago
@doublebassbeatdown
Notice how i said that she "THINKS". I never said that she "SAID" any of those things now did I?
learn how to read thoroughly before you open your mouth about the first thing that pops out of your ass.
But hey, feel special. You've just proved how dumb the average viewer of The Peach really is. Putting fakes in their place is becoming too easy.
NEXT!
CUTWEST 9 months ago
@CUTWEST You are not her and don't have her brain, so you can't possibly have anyway of knowing what she thinks without her saying it. It doesn't matter what you believe she thinks, because what you believe she thinks is completely inconsistent with everything she's said. She said that she considers her black ancestry to be irrelevant to who she is. This suggests that she thinks that race can't make you superior because race only defines who you are if you let it define who you are.
zippythewildone 9 months ago
@zippythewildone
so what the fuck do we call her than? an IT? that would be more disrespectful than just to END the confusion and just call her black.
" She said that she considers her black ancestry to be irrelevant" Thats because she is ashamed of her black ancestry. HINTS! why i SAID she's a self hating racist. So yeah. Thanks for proving my point.
sigh....once again....NEXT!
CUTWEST 9 months ago
@CUTWEST You can call her an atheist, a person, a woman, a human, or a rationalist. Those are all traits which define her thoughts, actions, and opinions far more than her race does.
There is a big difference between being ashamed and not caring. I'm like 1/4 Native American, but I think it's irrelevant to who I am because it doesn't effect my personality or thoughts. That doesn't mean I hate being Native American, I think they have a beautiful culture and have very attractive features.
zippythewildone 9 months ago
@CUTWEST oh shut UP.
middy444 8 months ago
@CUTWEST you,my friend,are a dumbass.
RayDandy 8 months ago
Last time somone asked me what Race i am, i simply told them I am Human... What are you?
CenturysSamurai 10 months ago
@CenturysSamurai Nice answer.
randomsonnet 10 months ago
@randomsonnet Thank You! :D
lol
CenturysSamurai 10 months ago
My mother was born in Finland, I'm a finnish citizen, born in Australia, to an Australian father traced back to the colonisation of this bigass mostly empty nation, so I'm also an Australian citnzen, I am most certainly mixed race, the mitochondrial DNA paths of both of my parents are sig nignificanlty distinct, and do not meet up with a common ancestor until you go back a good 20, maybe 30 thousand years.
I'm as biracial as Haley, but without the oscar, or the ridiclous insecurity in my DNA
GraeHall 10 months ago
WTF did I get an advert about prophecies in the book of revelations at the beginning of this video...
Danoftouni 10 months ago
nice vid, disagree on one thing
you say we should look on our ethnicity with indifference, and I disagree
a man (or woman) should be proud of their heritage and the culture of their ancestors, they just shouldn't assume it makes them superior or that people automatically think of them as inferior (persecution complex)
maybe I'm talking more about cultural heritage, but my point still stands
KomradKlaus 10 months ago
@KomradKlaus I don't see it. Most of my ancestors were scottish, but I've never eaten a haggis or played a bagpipe or even worn a kilt. I don't speak scotts gaelic. The closest I've come to scotland was heathrow airport on a connecting flight. I've never really thought of myself as anything other than australian. Why should I be proud of events I took no part in, a culture I don't share or that I'm distantly related to people I've never met?
randomsonnet 10 months ago
@randomsonnet
I guess it's not so much being proud of your ancestors' heritage and more being proud of that you most closely identify with
I identify with my German heritage because I feel it represents a part of me and my family's history
if you do not identify with your Scottish heritage, then it doesn't represent how you feel about yourself and you have no need to feel any pride for it
I guess it's not so much an obligation as it is a choice, so long as it doesn't lead to bigotry
KomradKlaus 10 months ago
it's hard to believe that halle berry said this. she just didn't strike me as the type to hold this type of an opinion.
FuckUtube4Life2010 10 months ago
Halle Berry Plays White Racist Southerner ... Featured Video ---> (lulz)
adamx20 10 months ago
I truly enjoy your message. There is, less than a .012% DNA variable, that reads as pretty insignificant, between ANY two Human races on this planet. I have two sons who are Half Pacific Islander mystly half European and 1/32, true Native American. I may be biased but they are truly handsome and striking!
Let people call themselves what they want and be who they are. Allow them the choice, don't force what you Feel or Think on them. Again to reitterate (?) I like your message! You, Go!
ROBOTLAW 10 months ago
I truly enjoy your message. There is, less than a .012% DNA variable, that reads as pretty insignificant, between ANY two Human races on this planet. I have two sons who are Half Pacific Islander mystly half European and 1/32, true Native American. I may be biased but they are truly handsome and striking!
Let people call themselves what they want and be who they are. Allow them the choice, don't force what you Feel or Think on them. Again to reitterate (?) I like your message! You, Go!
ROBOTLAW 10 months ago
I truly enjoy your message. There is, less than a .012% DNA variable, that reads as pretty insignificant, between ANY two Human races on this planet. I have two sons who are Half Pacific Islander mystly half European and 1/32, true Native American. I may be biased but they are truly handsome and striking!
Let people call themselves what they want and be who they are. Allow them the choice, don't force what you Feel or Think on them. Again to reitterate (?) I like your message! You, Go!
ROBOTLAW 10 months ago
I quite agree with your views ThePeach. I would go farther, we should erase demographics from forms, documents, etc., unless there is a specific reason for it, for example a scientific paper. We should heed Martin Luther King: "...little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Its time we started taking concrete steps towards that goal instead of maintaining the walls that divide us.
EDITHFIVE 10 months ago
@EidSeimmoc why are you so angry?
RayDandy 10 months ago