Q1 - Female; Q2 - Both parents bi-racial; Q3 - Mother born in Jamaica/raised & Father born in Bahamas/ raised there; Q4 - Siblings yes 1 younger sister. I also have 5 half brothers and 4 half sisters. Q5 - 8 are older, 1 is younger; Q6 - Different complexions. Darker on the older end and lighter on younger end; Q7 - Experience - Half siblings called me names bcuz of my hair "good hair","Packie"; Q8 - Mother not white. Mother looks like me. Her mother was white. She has issues with her mother.
3.Mother was born in a small town outside of St.Louis. As for my father, he was born in St.Louis.
4.Yes 4 white and 2 biracial (all older, i'm the baby)
5.yes i'm normally lighter than my brother and sister. But not always. My sister and I are about the same skin shade. (it depends who has been out tanning lol and yes i do tan hahaha)
6.Being asked what race I liked more... it was like picking my mother over my father or father over mother.
you make it like being mixed is a trend,and if you chose to be that way.remember being
mixed does not make you rich.it just help you to get sex a whole lot quicker from white boys.so what if you are mixed.so is everybody else in america.nobody is 100% in america.you better be thankful to your father for some curves,and a tan.be grateful
Female, My mom is one-eighth Creole my father is black, and they grew up in Alabama.I have siblings but they are darker than me plus they're younger than me.The worse experience that I've had is at school. Someone spreaded a rumor that I wasn't mixed so basically I had to start my life completely over.
My mom is white and my dad is black. I have two older brothers so I'm the baby and the only daughter. My brothers are both about the same complexion and I'm probably the darker of the three. People never think I'm mixed these days though because my skin is dark with a bit of an orange tint to it and I keep my hair straight... They always think I'm hispanic >.< The only reason it was hard for me growing up with a white mother is because of my very curly hair lol otherwise I loved being mixed.
im male and the younger of two siblings my mother is mixed and my dad is Italian my older sister is actually lighter than me but she is an indoor person these days but she does have a darker complexion than i do and it would show if she went outside a bit more, im sort of the black sheep of the family excuse the expression, when i stand next to my mother i look like her, when i stand next to my father i look like him but in a family photo i look adopted lol
I am male. My father is half white and half black. My mother is mixed. I am an only child but I grew up with my mothers' two sons from their black father. One light-skinned and one brown skinned. His father was brown skinned and his mother was full-blooded Italian. We are from New Orleans, LA. I grew up in Los Angeles, CA. During the Watts riots the light-skinned people were jumped on. I try to stay more as not black to show respect for more full-blooded blacks; instead of always last.
The whole idea of race was invented to divide and conquer and it is clearly working. How are you biracial in the first place? Your parents are human beings, who are from other human beings. Our features are different because we needed kinky hair or straight hair to survive our environments. There is no difference between "races" outside of that. That's why we can have blood transfusions and organ donation because we are from the same species. Homo Sapiens. We aren't part lion and elephant.
I find it interesting that most bi racial people today their dads are black and the moms are white, but not too long ago...SLAVERY..the trend was the opposite...
Anywho my mom is really fair and biracial and my grandfather was a white french man and my grandmother was uhh idk black and something. My dad is a cooool west african. Sooooo that makes me BLACK!!! woooo yay black people
The confusion around the whole biracial issue makes me not want to have a biracial kid. I know for sure that kid would come out so white because of my skin tone and maybe she would be one of those girls who deny being Black to fit into the world and that would hurt to be denied by my own kid. Ive seen too many biracial kids say they are native ameri. instead of saying they are part black. this whole thing about mulatto is not big thing, just about every AA is mixed so what is the big deal?
omg! do the kids get lighter ? geeeezzz .... totally not true..... I am mixed... I have 3 brothers who are also mixed... I also have 5 mixed cousins... we are all different shades.... i am the second oldest and i am the lightest.
@likpit i´m fully mexican, and im white skinned, have brown hair and green eyes. Mexicans are racially diverse, they have indian and european blood. not just because someone is mexican means they have to turn out brown.
4.3{2 brothers,1sister all older} one of my brothers is darker and the others were the same color
5. well it was when i was about 10,11 me my mom and my bro and sister were at the store and some lady stopped my mom and told her your a nigger lover you should go to hell and this was a black women so it was a wow experience
hmm, these questions really trigger?garner up a lot of thoughts i either ignored or didnt pay too much attention too, until now. Esp the Quesstion about If ur Same Sex Parent does not / or does have the same skin color - how does that affect ur relationship
3. mom was raised in New York and dad was raised in Jamaica but later moved to New York
4. I have seven siblings, I am the fourth oldest and the first three are full white and the next four (me included) are mixed, I am the lightest, and have curly (not kinky hair) and mixed features and the youngest is lighter than me and is also mulatto but with nappy hair
2. I am multiracial but I call myself as biracial, my mom is white (german) but her grandfather was completely cherokee indian, and my father is black.
3. Both of my parents were born and raised in Virginia.
4. I have a younger brother and an older sister. I am the lightest skinned.
5. The worst experiences growing up were being called an oreo. Also, I was asked alot if I was hispanic because of my lighter skin but more ethnic features, which I didn't take as an insult.
She is her not a him. She has said over and over again that she sees her self as both black and white together. It's pretty pathetic to think a person can't love all of whom they are, or to think there is something wrong with doing so. And there is lots of biracial people that love both sides of themselves.
I am a female, my mom is white, my dad is assumed black. My mom was raped by a stranger, my biological father, and she said he looked black. I look about how you look as far as mixture goes. My mom had to put me up for adoption when my hair started to curl;she was married to a racist. It was 1960. I was raised by a black family and didn't know I was adopted until I was about 35. I found my mom, stepdad, and half-siblings (all white). I always felt the white-side of me as a child. Go figure.
O had a close friend a couple of years ago who was mixed. White Mom, Black Dad. She has three siblings, all younger, and they most definitely didn't get lighter. She seemed to be the lightest of the four as well as the oldest.
We talked about this issue and she was proud to be mixed.
I have to be black, even though if I go out of state, people can see that I look a little different. It kills me to be put in a box and be stereotyped on a daily basis. I have been told people think I am a stoner because of racial stereotypes. Being born with a wide perspective on life like most of us are, it's hard to live in such a close minded area.
My experience as a biracial girl in Utah is mostly annoying. I don't care about what race I am when I wake up in the morning. I am just me, and people with enlightened minds understand that. However living in a fairly homogenous area, I am not allowed to be biracial.
1) Female. 2) Mom is White, dad is African. 3) Mom is from Orem, UT, Dad is from Kinshasa, DRC. 4) 2 younger sisters one from a different dad, who is also Black, but from New Jersey. 5) Sister from the same dad is lighter than me. But has African features. I have Euro features.
why the fuck do people think biracial is just black and white? guess what? biracial means made of two races. that means: white+black black+puerto rican asian+white asian+back puerto rican+spanish educate yourselves. i guess i don't qualify for this questionnaire because i'm not black+white. oh well.
umm wait im multi ethnic my mother is puerto rican and native american and i was born in puerto rico! Puerto rican isnt a race i was born there in baymon you sound silly not to sound mean! but puerto rican we are of african slave taino native indian to the island and european influences, neither is spanish thats not a race spain in considerd european! so ya puerto rican and spanish arnt a race. puerto ricans come in all colors like in my family light with blue and green eye dark skin too etc!
ok but she asked black and white, are native american considered black or white? Being hispanic is a race but its sub races are western indian, spaniard, and african.
um, i wasnt trying to be sarcastic for your info, but since you want to go there:
the freaking title of the video is the MULATTO DIARIES, why? well if you refer to my previous post it means a person w/1 black parent & 1 white right? Well if she is 1/2 black, and 1/2 white, that would also make her biracial right?
so, mulattos ARE biracial, which allows her to use the term, but all biracials are not mulatto.
dont try to play me like im stupid, i know what im talking about thanks very much
you're right, finding a definition on the computer doesn't make someone smart. i already knew what it meant, that was for people like you who obviously misunderstood what the video was about because you're the one who completely ignored the title and skipped to her saying she was biracial, which she still is "smart one" . it's ok, don't get upset because i did what you said and educated myself, i was just trying to help out someone who didnt follow their own advice, sucks for you :(
@breebreebreebreee Spanish is not a race, Spain is In Europe meaning Spanish people are white. and also Puerto Rican is not a race either, they are mostly mixed native indians and european. so educate yourself as well. good day.
@breebreebreebreee What do you mean biracial can be black + puerto rican? LMFAO. Puerto Rican is a NATIONALITY lmao. That is like saying biracial can be someone that is black + American lmfao.
Please explain what you mean by saying a biracial that is mixed with black and Puerto Rican?
@TheRoyaldiamond Yeah. I know there are blacks in Puerto Rico, Italy, and many other places.
People seem to think that nationalities are races. So you end up having people that have two black parents but of different nationalities or cultures and they think they are interracial or biracial lmao
@breebreebreebreee true true .....but puerto rican is not a race in fact latinos are not a race we are an ethnic group made up of 3 races white, black and native. So if you are latino you are most likely biracial.
@breebreebreebreee Since when has Puerto Rican become a race? And aren't you aware that all Puerto Ricans are not the same "race" or color what have you...so that would not be a biracial identity lol u could be white puerto rican and marry white american or any other white, and have a white child, that child isnt biracial, bicultural if anything but race no. Or they can be both black etc
odiumct. I am tickled pink about "our" president...Barak. Barak realizes who he is first....A Black Man. He even chose a Black Woman for his wife...enough validation for me.
Essentialsbychana1....really? lol..so ignorant..First off the reason why there were slaves at all is because the Kings and queens of africa would sell Captured enemies of other tribes to europeans.. Nothing to do with mixed people..Just a quick history lesson.. and as far as special treatment..we don't need or want it.. MUST kill you to know our president is ACTUALLY mixed..
I just think most biracials that come across the way you do are full of themselves. Biracials or what ever you call yourself think you deserve special treatment because of your white side.
First off, I dont trust mullatos; they were the ones that turned on the black slaves. A mullatto is half so how can you fully trust one...U CAN'T!
omg i agree you know what biracial tiffany kinda look like many african americans today that are not biracial both parents are black.. i think you should identify with what you look like Tiffany is obviously black Vin deisl looks white
The slave trade is the ruling principle of my people. It is the source and the glory of their wealththe mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery King Gezo of Dahomey (now Benin)
Im a girl, my mom is many things but mostly half black and half white, my father is black but we could obviously see mixture in his family, one of my aunts has blue eyes and they are light. I have 3 siblings and Im the 2nd oldest and we got darker from each child. the blacks thought i talked white and the whites thought of me as the token black girl (grew up in white community). many ppl didnt think my mom was my mom cus she is very white
i wanted to know do you have to be black&white to respond to these questions ? i have some interesting stories . eh i probably sound dumb asking this o-O
I feel so lucky to have my parents. They're so open and will talk to me about anything without judging. I also feel lucky to have a non racist family. I get love from both sides, me and my siblings never feel awkward or out of place with any of em, even if I do look totally different, even from some of my mixed cousins. At school, its a different story. Im extremely shy and sensitive to some stuff people say. I usually just stick to my brother, we have been through everything together.
I wanna talk about experiences some more. Well, when I go places with my mom I sometimes get stared at, and I really shouldnt, but I feel very insecure about that. My mom says I should just ignore it though, shes really strong willed. I sometimes got teased at school for being mixed and being so pale which made me insecure about it a lot, and for a while I wouldnt wear shorts or sandals, but my dad would get mad at me and tell me to be proud of who I was and not listen to em.
I'm male, my mom is Black, and my father is White, my mom grew up in SC, while my dad is from Brooklyn. My birthplace is Manhattan. Me and my siblings are all really pale and some people dont believe my mom is my mom. Experiences, well some people think I take advantage of "looking white" because of how I act, which is totally untrue, my parents just raised us to act in a good way. I also get called a liar a lot, b/c I have blue eyes on top of pale skin, but my parents are my parents 100%.
Well, I'm half black and the rest white (English, Scottish, Irish, German-Jewish, French) and Native American (Choctaw, Cherokee) making me multiracial.
female, black African dad & white Scot mum, i have 6 siblings and the theory is rubbish as far as I'm concerned - the lightness and darkness is equally mixed among us... not getting lighter as you go down.
*i was always teased about beeing mix since i went to a school full of hispanics and being that it took me a while to learn enlish cos i was raised in the Dominican Republic from age 1-6. I am 15 and still get picked on or harrased about being mixed. i speak the most spanish in my school (more than the full hispanics), like i speak spanish better than english yet i am still looked upon as FULLY BLACK, and i cant really fit in with the blacks so i generally hang out with the hispanic kids.
*My mother is dominican with spanish decent, my father is black.
*My mother was born and raise din the Dominican Republic, my dad was born in Georgia yet raised in New Jersey.
*I have two brothers who are fully black from my father, an older brother who has the same mother and father as me (he is a bit darker than me) and i have a baby brother who has the same mother as me and an El Salvadorian father.
I am having the toughest time uploading a vid response to q&a. I've recorded one on my laptop and stored it in my vidz folder. It's also uploaded to myvideos in youtube but can't seem to upload it as a re: vid. . . . . . aaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
I am female and adopted. My biological parents from what the agency told me were Lithuanian (Eastern European) and African American. I was raised in Texas as a black child because my adopted parents are black. My husband is caucasian and our daughter that will be born in two months is considered a quadroon, which means she will be only 1/4th black. Throughout school and college I circled other for my race and I embrace both cultures and appreciate both.
The thing you said about siblings is really interesting. My parents would both be considered black but there is ancestry of different races in our background like Scottish, Indian, Irish etc., but looking at myself and my sibings that is the case. I'm the oldest and the darkest. There are four of us but you can see that my youngest sister is in fact the lightest of us all. Really interesting, I'd never thought about that before!
That is different for me and my sister, My sister is older and is lighter and looks like she is from India and I am darker and most people think that I am Ethiopian. My mother is half Mexican and a quarter Irish, an eigth German and an eigth Russian, My dad is half Tsalagi and half Afro-Cuban. He is the baby and he is the darkest, my mom is the youngest and she is darker. Maybe it is different for some people.
im male, and im half irish and half zimbabwean. my mum is white from co. antrim, ireland and my dad is black from harare, zimbabwe. Both were raised in their birthplaces till their 20s, then moved to wimbledon in england and met each other there. ive got 2 older sisters, same colour as me maybe slightly darker due to them using sunbeds sometimes and going on holiday a lot.
spent my youth here in greater london, never really encountered much racism from whites or blacks, maybe the odd comment in primary school. I get asked loads about where im from which gets repetitive, but mainly from asians as opposed to blacks or whites. Ive got no cousins on either side living in england, dont know my black ones, but i go to ireland to see my white ones every year. some people in ireland do stare a bit, but i reckon its due to lack of exposure rather than them being ignorant.
i know im a couple of months late with this but whatever, lol. my friend and i just started a little mulatto show so we'll fill in this questionaire with our answers soon!
not at all racist! i've always thought it was the other way around. or maybe the kids take the phenotype of their parent of the same gender, so that girls with white mom's look more white-boys with black dad's look more black, etc.
@stereosnuttan You may never see this because it was posted long ago. I've heard what your talking about. I've also heard that the male children often look more like the fathers race and the female, the mothers. I've heard about children getting lighter as they go from oldest to youngest. I've heard that children from white mother/black father backgrounds are more"off the hook" whilst white father/black mother children are calmer and do better in life. I've found no proof of any of it yet
@stereosnuttan I have to disagree. I am very fair skinned & my mother is white & my father is black. Genetically there are too many combinations & variables that impact one's phenotype. My father's family has been here mixing with mostly Irish since slave days. My mom's family is from Poland primarily (as in she's 1st generation American). Basically even though my dad is black he has a large number of white genes that are recessive. That's why I look the way I do. Genetics aren't so cut & dry.
Im biracial, [not black, not white but biracial]. My mom is white and my dad is black/asian mix. Nobody in my school see's my as black and on my birth record it says im white. But an expirience I had is recent. When Obama was choosen I was mad because there calling him the first black president when he's just like us. Biracial. I feel like he thinks he ashamed to be white. How do you feel and also its great to see theres other intelligent biracial people out there.
hey aaron, thanks for sharing that. i'm so intrigued by your birth certificate. i don't think obama is ashamed to be white. i think he's from a generation where there wasn't room for him to consider himself white and really where no good could come from identifying himself that way...
@Aaron816 aaron u have a choice to be blck or whit or wait u did'nt cos ur parent said white, but, obama has a choice it not even common to decide a child's race on a paper, but yea obama choose to be in the black cclan that his decition wtf did u expect them to say first biracial president? u either white or black or asian or arab,latin, he said am black, if u have the right to say am white why the fuck dose'nt he HAS to have that same right? ur not making sence
I hate when we'd walk into BJ's (a wholesale supermarket) they'd ask my dad if I'm with him. Or when we'd go to the hospital they'd ask if I was with my dad. But most people can see how I look like my dad though.
My mom was born in Ecuador and her dad was Dominican(mixed).Her mom was black.
My dad was born in Nicaragua and he is a Spanish descendant.lol actually..I have a little sister.She's lighter than me. And her hair is thinner and softer than mine. But...I have a deep tan and always stayed out when I was little(I live in Fl,miami...the sunshine state) and my sister is only 6 so she has "kid hair".I look like the black version of my dad lol.
I don't know how these comments are all mixed up!!! It makes it hard to figure out what someone is responding to. I was referring to the response you made to TheWorldIsYours09??
As mentioned before - Male, father black from former British Guyana, mother white from Ireland Dublin, had an older half brother who was white, all of the above now sadly no longer alive, I am the only one left in my immediate family unit.
Re- "darker to lighter theory"- Genetically I see no reason why that would be the case so I think it's a myth, however, we can all change complexion slightly throughout our life due to various environmental factors etc.
my dad's grandmom is white he never says it my grandmother told me,i have a feelin my dad dislikes white people in a a way but w.e my mom is jamaican,spanish,white&native but she is dark skin she has curly hair & a nose dats str8 itook her nose & i have a in between complexion,my dad is caramel colored my little sister is darker then me with thicker hair,i got alot of my moms genes the only i dont like is ppl always say o your dominican or a dark p.r
My mom is half Panamanian and half black and my dad is half native american and half black. I'm the oldest and the light of a younger bro and sis. It's interesting because I'm the only one out of both my siblings that has green eyes and brown hair with a red tint. And apparently freckles. And as a baby I had blue eyes and red hair up until I was almost 2.
My mom is from California, I don't know my real dad but my step dad[also white] is from WV I have an older brother[hes 18] and he is darker then me so i guess the theory is true
and for an exprience, just last year when i was in 7th grade, this girl named Alexia told me I wasnt fully blessed because i wasnt a pure race and that my momma had sinned becvause she had sex with a white man, what she said really pissed me off
predominately black/arab/ mixed race influential area. I used to find it difficult to find hair product that was suited to biracial hair as many may have experience themselves the problems with products for both black & white people. Now use Mixed Chicks, Curls, Jessicurl and Blended Beauty.
Should've done a video response but I can't seem to find the cables right now.
Always noticed a difference in my race to others, I was born white and it took a long while for me to get to the colour I am now. I always thought my mum was black and my dad was white (didn't know my Jamaican grandparent) and always thought my other grandad was just black. At school I found that the Black kids would try and convert me by trying to force me to listen to more urban music I'm very similar to KhaosChild when it comes to music choices even though I grew up in a ...
Mum - Mixed Native American, Indian, Black St. Lucian/Caribbean (can pass as black)
Dad - Mixed Irish, Jamaican/Caribbean (can pass as white)
Only child but have four half siblings but refer to them as full blood relatives.
1 sister - 22 darker then me (we can both pass as black), brothers, 18, 16, 11 are all of similar complexion to that of Rachel True. Only grew up with the youngest so consider myself to be the eldest, grew up in London.
My mother is african american with some native american ancestry and my father is a afro-cuban among other things. Look, no one cares ok, you all are letting white people brainwash you with that one drop theory they introduced after the civil war. Thats why till this day you come on here confuse. The sooner we all unite against them the sooner we can take this country!!!!!!! Besides whites are going to become a minority pretty soon. We need to worry about the immigrants that keep coming here.
3. Mum- Ghanaian (africa) Dad- English and Scottish
4. 2 siblings; 1 mixed brother, 19yrs and 1 half brother, 10yrs (full black). My mixed brother is darker than i am.
5. Am the oldest.
6. I grew up in Ghana as well as London and got both perspectives. When i was younger, i was oblivious to the fact that my parents were of different races. To me, they were just my parents. When i came back to London was when the differences stood out for me.
-Lyk when I go out with my daddy's side of the family I usually get alot of looks (mainly from white ppl), cuz lyk I have lyk a caramel complexion and lyk a spiral-curly kinda hair.
-EXPERIENCE:Um well lyk my papa(daddy's father) is lyk racist. But lyk its not really his fault cuz he lyk gets it from his mom. So lyk we dont really talk much or lyk interact or anything.
-Lyk I think I'm a girl cuz lyk I was the last time I checked...
-My mama is black and my daddy is white, they were born and raised in Alabama
-2 siblings, both mixed:1 half sister, 10yrs old and 1 half brother, 4 yrs old
-Um my lil sister is a lil lighter than me and she has lyk softer and curlier hair than I do. My lil brother is way lighter than me and has like silky hair with big curls.
- Mom: Carriebean Dad: Antiguan/Native American/ English
- 3 Brother, ages , 22, 15 & 2 yrs old
- im second to youngest
- All my brothers look mixed raced, when i look more black. I dont know how others see me, some people have said i dont look straight up black , but i dont look as if im mixed raced like my brothers. When my brothers appear lighter i think i look the colour i am. Black with one dropp of white. Rather than 50/50.
I dont understand why just because one of your parents are black that makes ou all black when if your other parent is white or asian or whatever you really are only 50%. Why is mandatory to say that you are black and you can't just say like i am black and white. WHy would you consider yourself a black woman. When your features clearly show that genetically speaking you are a combination. Do you consider yourself part of the black culture because you were raised by your mom? IS this what you mean
To ange1uv if you look black which most bi-racial people then they'll consider you black just because.If you don't want them to then acknowledge it then.
- When I was younger, I was completely oblivious to the fact that I was a bit different because I lived in Minnesota until I was five and race mixing is VERY common there. Since moving to where I am now (a very small town) I've had to deal with ignorant (white) people and their comments, usually about my hair or my skin color (even though I have green-brown eyes and light skin). Can't wait to leave!
- I have a white mother. It wasn't hard. Race wise, I don't really look like either of my parents. I don't look white, and I don't necessarily look black either. But when I was younger I never thought of it that way. She was just my 'mother'. I didn't think of her as "white", and I didn't think of my Dad as "black". That wasn't really brought to my attention until I got a bit older and other kids my age started commenting on that fact that I don't look "black" or "white".
As an aside, does anyone else find it interesting that white people can say they're Irish, Dutch, French and German and no one questions it. Why are black people not allowed to do that?
Hi! Thanks so much for sharing! I think that if you claim mixed and include black in the mix then you aren't denying anything. That's just my opinion tho :)
* Mum - Mixed St Lucian & English Father - Mixed St Lucian & European(german/austrian)
raised in the England.. Ive been raised In London
* My father has a number of children.. i never grew up with.. My Mum had my little brother with a different man. but all my siblings are about the same complextion as i am.. (Kelis brown lol).
* had a few experiances with fitting in with black & some mixed people because they wanted to call me black or 1/4 cast.. had a few issues out of London.
#1 when i started secondary school i had a mixed girl in my class & she came to me at the lunch break & was like ''i should have wavey/curly hair like you because im mixed & your black'' i was like ''im what?'' she was like ''your black so you shouldnt hav hair like that, i should'' i was just standing there smiling like wow i cant believe shes sayin this to me.. then i said.. 'well guess what.. im mixed' smiled & walked away . for over a year she was determined to tell me that i was black
2. Dad - Welsh and French Creole (Black) ::: Mom - Black, East Indian and Warao (Venezuelan Indian)
3. Trinidad
4. I have 4 older siblings
5. LOL @ the theory. 3 of us are slight variations of caramel complexion and the sister right before me can pass for white.
Even though the other 4 of us are about the same complexion the one that is like 1/20 shade darker always used to talk about how she is the darkest one and has nappy hair and she has a complex.
Growing up in Trinidad I didn't have any issues with being mixed because the majority of the population is mixed anyway. I remember not checking African American on a survey in my U.S. university and having some African American girls sitting next to me making nasty comments about how I am black and why am I writing Caribbean Islander and not African American.
This is a big thing for me because I identify with all of my ethnicities but I'm not American. African American does not equal Black.
great point and tough situation, i'm sure. it's difficult to be accused of denying something or being ashamed and trying to hide when you're simply being true to your self!!
Can relate to this one. I grew up on Guyana and I've never been able to understand how race is defined in America. I know the history, but so much of it makes so little sense. Strangely, I don't remember having to think about it growing up. No one asked what you were. People knew your parents and it was decided depending on that. Here, I don't dare even bring the subject up. It seems taboo to even acknowledge any other part of your ancestry, especially if your skin is not light.
i think ive gone about 4 or 5 times already (im 15 by the way) i havent gone in about 4 years though. i have a lot of family there.. lots of cousins, aunts, uncles and my grandma. i used to be able to speak dutch really well when i was younger but i forgot it all by the time i was 5.
I went to a mostly black school but even I had a girl in my 3rd grade class that looked so much like me that people asked if we were twins; she was mixed and her mother is white and dad's black. In 5th grade I moved to Maryland and found another girl who looks a lot like me and she's mixed too with a white mother and black dad.
I just thought that was interesting and wanted to share.
Thank you so much for sharing that!! Were you friends with those little girls? I think I'd have loved to have had a mixed friend before I finally found one in college :-)
Yes, very good friends. I didn't speak to the 3rd grade friend because sadly after she moved from Georgia to Alabama we had a big fight and stopped all contact. I would call and try and make up but unfortunately it is too late. She has moved again and I no longer have her phone numbers. The 5th grade girl I still speak to now, we been best friends for almost 7 years.
Q1 - Female; Q2 - Both parents bi-racial; Q3 - Mother born in Jamaica/raised & Father born in Bahamas/ raised there; Q4 - Siblings yes 1 younger sister. I also have 5 half brothers and 4 half sisters. Q5 - 8 are older, 1 is younger; Q6 - Different complexions. Darker on the older end and lighter on younger end; Q7 - Experience - Half siblings called me names bcuz of my hair "good hair","Packie"; Q8 - Mother not white. Mother looks like me. Her mother was white. She has issues with her mother.
2009TalkingHead 4 months ago
Oh shut up, 95% of blacks are Mulattoes so It's not a exclusive thing. Mulatto is a person(s) of "African" and "White" Ancestry.
Bladeboy05 9 months ago
1.Male
2.Mom is white and Dad is Black.
3.Mother was born in a small town outside of St.Louis. As for my father, he was born in St.Louis.
4.Yes 4 white and 2 biracial (all older, i'm the baby)
5.yes i'm normally lighter than my brother and sister. But not always. My sister and I are about the same skin shade. (it depends who has been out tanning lol and yes i do tan hahaha)
6.Being asked what race I liked more... it was like picking my mother over my father or father over mother.
kiddboo128 10 months ago
I'm gonna do a response to this. Thanks Tiff.
middy444 11 months ago
you make it like being mixed is a trend,and if you chose to be that way.remember being
mixed does not make you rich.it just help you to get sex a whole lot quicker from white boys.so what if you are mixed.so is everybody else in america.nobody is 100% in america.you better be thankful to your father for some curves,and a tan.be grateful
mvac41 1 year ago
@mvac41 be quiet. You sound so bitter.
middy444 11 months ago
Female, My mom is one-eighth Creole my father is black, and they grew up in Alabama.I have siblings but they are darker than me plus they're younger than me.The worse experience that I've had is at school. Someone spreaded a rumor that I wasn't mixed so basically I had to start my life completely over.
Browny9616 1 year ago
Actually, my sisters and I are all mixed. I'm the oldest, and the lightest....my youngest sister is just a tad darker, but not by much:)
redsonya7137 1 year ago
Actually, my sisters and I are all mixed. I'm the oldest, and the lightest....my youngest sister is just a tad darker, but not by much:)
redsonya7137 1 year ago
My mom is white and my dad is black. I have two older brothers so I'm the baby and the only daughter. My brothers are both about the same complexion and I'm probably the darker of the three. People never think I'm mixed these days though because my skin is dark with a bit of an orange tint to it and I keep my hair straight... They always think I'm hispanic >.< The only reason it was hard for me growing up with a white mother is because of my very curly hair lol otherwise I loved being mixed.
WhoaLexxi 1 year ago
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chsn09 1 year ago
im male and the younger of two siblings my mother is mixed and my dad is Italian my older sister is actually lighter than me but she is an indoor person these days but she does have a darker complexion than i do and it would show if she went outside a bit more, im sort of the black sheep of the family excuse the expression, when i stand next to my mother i look like her, when i stand next to my father i look like him but in a family photo i look adopted lol
cjhmmp 1 year ago
I am male. My father is half white and half black. My mother is mixed. I am an only child but I grew up with my mothers' two sons from their black father. One light-skinned and one brown skinned. His father was brown skinned and his mother was full-blooded Italian. We are from New Orleans, LA. I grew up in Los Angeles, CA. During the Watts riots the light-skinned people were jumped on. I try to stay more as not black to show respect for more full-blooded blacks; instead of always last.
CornellNava 1 year ago
The whole idea of race was invented to divide and conquer and it is clearly working. How are you biracial in the first place? Your parents are human beings, who are from other human beings. Our features are different because we needed kinky hair or straight hair to survive our environments. There is no difference between "races" outside of that. That's why we can have blood transfusions and organ donation because we are from the same species. Homo Sapiens. We aren't part lion and elephant.
Mpirefilms 1 year ago
yo this is a wild subject and I think your cool. You should wright a book..
Anthony1234552 1 year ago
I find it interesting that most bi racial people today their dads are black and the moms are white, but not too long ago...SLAVERY..the trend was the opposite...
Anywho my mom is really fair and biracial and my grandfather was a white french man and my grandmother was uhh idk black and something. My dad is a cooool west african. Sooooo that makes me BLACK!!! woooo yay black people
SoYahYah 1 year ago
The confusion around the whole biracial issue makes me not want to have a biracial kid. I know for sure that kid would come out so white because of my skin tone and maybe she would be one of those girls who deny being Black to fit into the world and that would hurt to be denied by my own kid. Ive seen too many biracial kids say they are native ameri. instead of saying they are part black. this whole thing about mulatto is not big thing, just about every AA is mixed so what is the big deal?
khalilahinjapan 1 year ago
1. Female
2. I am not exactly Bi- racial more mixed
but i am African- American
Native Indian
And i am not sure but maybe some Irish
3. My dad- Ohio/Michigan My mom- California
4. I have 4 siblings they are all older + we didn't get lighter
5. No people probably assume i am full african-american because of my indian blood
6. N/A
This was fun, bye!! :)
twiloverforever 1 year ago
omg! do the kids get lighter ? geeeezzz .... totally not true..... I am mixed... I have 3 brothers who are also mixed... I also have 5 mixed cousins... we are all different shades.... i am the second oldest and i am the lightest.
malteselovers04 1 year ago
i have a mixed race mexican but i am more white looking my brother ended up with blonde hair my sister ended up with green eyes its so random ? o.o
likpit 1 year ago
@likpit i´m fully mexican, and im white skinned, have brown hair and green eyes. Mexicans are racially diverse, they have indian and european blood. not just because someone is mexican means they have to turn out brown.
tokeburns 1 year ago
1. female
2.mom{puerto rican}dad{black}
3.mom{ohio}dad{ohio}
4.3{2 brothers,1sister all older} one of my brothers is darker and the others were the same color
5. well it was when i was about 10,11 me my mom and my bro and sister were at the store and some lady stopped my mom and told her your a nigger lover you should go to hell and this was a black women so it was a wow experience
superrangers1070 1 year ago
hmm, these questions really trigger?garner up a lot of thoughts i either ignored or didnt pay too much attention too, until now. Esp the Quesstion about If ur Same Sex Parent does not / or does have the same skin color - how does that affect ur relationship
heymaria123 2 years ago
wow that is an interesting theory...this is my first time hearing about that! ---wow
heymaria123 2 years ago
1. male
2. mother (white) father (black)
3. mom was raised in New York and dad was raised in Jamaica but later moved to New York
4. I have seven siblings, I am the fourth oldest and the first three are full white and the next four (me included) are mixed, I am the lightest, and have curly (not kinky hair) and mixed features and the youngest is lighter than me and is also mulatto but with nappy hair
5. I don't look like either of my parents
gatheringleaves 2 years ago
1. I am a female.
2. I am multiracial but I call myself as biracial, my mom is white (german) but her grandfather was completely cherokee indian, and my father is black.
3. Both of my parents were born and raised in Virginia.
4. I have a younger brother and an older sister. I am the lightest skinned.
5. The worst experiences growing up were being called an oreo. Also, I was asked alot if I was hispanic because of my lighter skin but more ethnic features, which I didn't take as an insult.
RetroMinds 2 years ago 2
1. Female
2. Mom is white (irish, italian, swedish) Dad is black (west african and somewhat native american)
3. Mom and Dad are both from Alabama
4. I have one younger brother, i have lighter skin but we have the same hair color. i have more euro features ( wavy soft hair, etc)
5. i dont look like either of my parents. some people have even mistaken me for hispanic & people automatically think im adopted
MaddyWasHere0709 2 years ago
I realy think u Tiffany is retarded, Are you like the only Biracial who dosent consider himself black
Ahmed587326 2 years ago
She is her not a him. She has said over and over again that she sees her self as both black and white together. It's pretty pathetic to think a person can't love all of whom they are, or to think there is something wrong with doing so. And there is lots of biracial people that love both sides of themselves.
Reginastar28 2 years ago 3
@ahmed she DOES consider herself blackk duhhrr
sarahisthebomb123 1 year ago
I am a female, my mom is white, my dad is assumed black. My mom was raped by a stranger, my biological father, and she said he looked black. I look about how you look as far as mixture goes. My mom had to put me up for adoption when my hair started to curl;she was married to a racist. It was 1960. I was raised by a black family and didn't know I was adopted until I was about 35. I found my mom, stepdad, and half-siblings (all white). I always felt the white-side of me as a child. Go figure.
logandetroit 2 years ago
Guess I'm triracial. But I can identify with biracial as well.
Female. Mom's outwardly white. Father was outwardly black.
My features aren't really white or black or even Indian. They're all of those things, morphed. So maybe they're just ambiguous.
NolitaDenise 2 years ago
O had a close friend a couple of years ago who was mixed. White Mom, Black Dad. She has three siblings, all younger, and they most definitely didn't get lighter. She seemed to be the lightest of the four as well as the oldest.
We talked about this issue and she was proud to be mixed.
jimdog1964 2 years ago
it's only skin deep! We are all one race.
edrubangura 2 years ago
I couldnt answer your question since you seem to think biracial means black and white. hmm NEXT
peoplegetittogether 2 years ago
I have to be black, even though if I go out of state, people can see that I look a little different. It kills me to be put in a box and be stereotyped on a daily basis. I have been told people think I am a stoner because of racial stereotypes. Being born with a wide perspective on life like most of us are, it's hard to live in such a close minded area.
kmayangi 2 years ago
My experience as a biracial girl in Utah is mostly annoying. I don't care about what race I am when I wake up in the morning. I am just me, and people with enlightened minds understand that. However living in a fairly homogenous area, I am not allowed to be biracial.
kmayangi 2 years ago
1) Female. 2) Mom is White, dad is African. 3) Mom is from Orem, UT, Dad is from Kinshasa, DRC. 4) 2 younger sisters one from a different dad, who is also Black, but from New Jersey. 5) Sister from the same dad is lighter than me. But has African features. I have Euro features.
kmayangi 2 years ago
love this! I will post a video reply soon :)
AMC2208 2 years ago
is hating the white part of me right? identity crisis, or common at first? i am lost
jaquestrap74 2 years ago
breebreebreebreee 2 years ago 13
XD i was about to do this but then she asked which of your parents is black and which is white.... im half white and indian
dandandannoooful 2 years ago 12
umm wait im multi ethnic my mother is puerto rican and native american and i was born in puerto rico! Puerto rican isnt a race i was born there in baymon you sound silly not to sound mean! but puerto rican we are of african slave taino native indian to the island and european influences, neither is spanish thats not a race spain in considerd european! so ya puerto rican and spanish arnt a race. puerto ricans come in all colors like in my family light with blue and green eye dark skin too etc!
jacquelinescellist 2 years ago
1. calm yourself.
2. i was born in luquillo, my father is native american and black.
3. "puerto rican and spanish arnt a race" wait...who's the one that sounds silly here?
4. thank you for (trying to) educating me, dear. i think it's cute. :]
breebreebreebreee 2 years ago 2
ok but she asked black and white, are native american considered black or white? Being hispanic is a race but its sub races are western indian, spaniard, and african.
peoplegetittogether 2 years ago
i think thats why this is called the mulatto diaries:
mu⋅lat⋅to /məˈlætoʊ, -ˈlɑtoʊ, myu-/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [muh-lat-oh, -lah-toh, myoo-] Show IPA noun, plural -toes, adjective
noun 1. the offspring of one white parent and one black parent: not in technical use.
snookie89 2 years ago
have you watched the video?
she says 'biracial' multiple times.
next time you try to be smart, get your facts straight.
breebreebreebreee 2 years ago
um, i wasnt trying to be sarcastic for your info, but since you want to go there:
the freaking title of the video is the MULATTO DIARIES, why? well if you refer to my previous post it means a person w/1 black parent & 1 white right? Well if she is 1/2 black, and 1/2 white, that would also make her biracial right?
so, mulattos ARE biracial, which allows her to use the term, but all biracials are not mulatto.
dont try to play me like im stupid, i know what im talking about thanks very much
snookie89 2 years ago
i don't play people...i don't even know what that means.
i play sports, the piano, and monopoly...but not people.
finding a definition on the computer does not make you smart, it means you know how to type a word into a search engine. congratulations on that...
also: i never said sarcastic, i said smart. which is quite blatantly what you are not.
breebreebreebreee 2 years ago
you're right, finding a definition on the computer doesn't make someone smart. i already knew what it meant, that was for people like you who obviously misunderstood what the video was about because you're the one who completely ignored the title and skipped to her saying she was biracial, which she still is "smart one" . it's ok, don't get upset because i did what you said and educated myself, i was just trying to help out someone who didnt follow their own advice, sucks for you :(
snookie89 2 years ago
@breebreebreebreee Spanish is not a race, Spain is In Europe meaning Spanish people are white. and also Puerto Rican is not a race either, they are mostly mixed native indians and european. so educate yourself as well. good day.
rvggarcon 1 year ago
@breebreebreebreee What do you mean biracial can be black + puerto rican? LMFAO. Puerto Rican is a NATIONALITY lmao. That is like saying biracial can be someone that is black + American lmfao.
Please explain what you mean by saying a biracial that is mixed with black and Puerto Rican?
chsn09 1 year ago
@chsn09 some ppl think am biaracial when i say am black italian uneducated fools indeed
TheRoyaldiamond 1 year ago
@TheRoyaldiamond Yeah. I know there are blacks in Puerto Rico, Italy, and many other places.
People seem to think that nationalities are races. So you end up having people that have two black parents but of different nationalities or cultures and they think they are interracial or biracial lmao
chsn09 1 year ago
@chsn09 funny right loool
TheRoyaldiamond 1 year ago
@TheRoyaldiamond LMFAO. yess
chsn09 1 year ago
@breebreebreebreee I really don't think that was her intention sweetie.
middy444 11 months ago
@middy444 lol what? i'm sorry, i wrote these comments a year ago, and have no idea of the context...
breebreebreebreee 11 months ago
@breebreebreebreee true true .....but puerto rican is not a race in fact latinos are not a race we are an ethnic group made up of 3 races white, black and native. So if you are latino you are most likely biracial.
Guatorican15 3 months ago
@breebreebreebreee Since when has Puerto Rican become a race? And aren't you aware that all Puerto Ricans are not the same "race" or color what have you...so that would not be a biracial identity lol u could be white puerto rican and marry white american or any other white, and have a white child, that child isnt biracial, bicultural if anything but race no. Or they can be both black etc
CamilaRox11 1 week ago
odiumct. I am tickled pink about "our" president...Barak. Barak realizes who he is first....A Black Man. He even chose a Black Woman for his wife...enough validation for me.
essentialsbychana1 2 years ago
omfg.
did you seriously just just spell Barack without a "c".
you're shit.
breebreebreebreee 2 years ago
Essentialsbychana1....really? lol..so ignorant..First off the reason why there were slaves at all is because the Kings and queens of africa would sell Captured enemies of other tribes to europeans.. Nothing to do with mixed people..Just a quick history lesson.. and as far as special treatment..we don't need or want it.. MUST kill you to know our president is ACTUALLY mixed..
odiumct 2 years ago 3
stupid theory. i'm not bi racial but pretty light...and the oldest.
saphiredewdrop 2 years ago
I just think most biracials that come across the way you do are full of themselves. Biracials or what ever you call yourself think you deserve special treatment because of your white side.
First off, I dont trust mullatos; they were the ones that turned on the black slaves. A mullatto is half so how can you fully trust one...U CAN'T!
essentialsbychana1 2 years ago
omg i agree you know what biracial tiffany kinda look like many african americans today that are not biracial both parents are black.. i think you should identify with what you look like Tiffany is obviously black Vin deisl looks white
jianniestrong 2 years ago
The slave trade is the ruling principle of my people. It is the source and the glory of their wealththe mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery King Gezo of Dahomey (now Benin)
Guess what...not a mulatto.
Averyofthemain 2 years ago
Im a girl, my mom is many things but mostly half black and half white, my father is black but we could obviously see mixture in his family, one of my aunts has blue eyes and they are light. I have 3 siblings and Im the 2nd oldest and we got darker from each child. the blacks thought i talked white and the whites thought of me as the token black girl (grew up in white community). many ppl didnt think my mom was my mom cus she is very white
bahamabean13 2 years ago
i wanted to know do you have to be black&white to respond to these questions ? i have some interesting stories . eh i probably sound dumb asking this o-O
RastaJexx 2 years ago
I would love to hear your stories!
Crazzzybabie 2 years ago
The Only Question I Got Is
Why Do We All Look So Damnn Good?
XXXXXMintYCQyz 2 years ago
I feel so lucky to have my parents. They're so open and will talk to me about anything without judging. I also feel lucky to have a non racist family. I get love from both sides, me and my siblings never feel awkward or out of place with any of em, even if I do look totally different, even from some of my mixed cousins. At school, its a different story. Im extremely shy and sensitive to some stuff people say. I usually just stick to my brother, we have been through everything together.
chaznewyork 2 years ago
I wanna talk about experiences some more. Well, when I go places with my mom I sometimes get stared at, and I really shouldnt, but I feel very insecure about that. My mom says I should just ignore it though, shes really strong willed. I sometimes got teased at school for being mixed and being so pale which made me insecure about it a lot, and for a while I wouldnt wear shorts or sandals, but my dad would get mad at me and tell me to be proud of who I was and not listen to em.
chaznewyork 2 years ago
I'm male, my mom is Black, and my father is White, my mom grew up in SC, while my dad is from Brooklyn. My birthplace is Manhattan. Me and my siblings are all really pale and some people dont believe my mom is my mom. Experiences, well some people think I take advantage of "looking white" because of how I act, which is totally untrue, my parents just raised us to act in a good way. I also get called a liar a lot, b/c I have blue eyes on top of pale skin, but my parents are my parents 100%.
chaznewyork 2 years ago
I still may make a video response to this, Im just so nervous to b/c its my 1st video and I feel sorta strange doing it lol.
GrayAnthony 2 years ago
Im male
My mom is Native American and Black, shes from Kentucky. My dad is White, either from NYC or Indy.
That light to dark thing isnt true, Im the middle child, and the lightest. lol, I have 7 siblings.
Childhood experiences, well I never really felt like I fit in, not only b/c I was mixed, it was b/c of how I acted too.
haha I have a funny experience. An old man walked up to me in a store last year and said "Hey you look like that young man running for president." lol
GrayAnthony 2 years ago
Well, I'm half black and the rest white (English, Scottish, Irish, German-Jewish, French) and Native American (Choctaw, Cherokee) making me multiracial.
FK4SD 2 years ago
MIXED PRIDE ALL THE WAY!
FK4SD 2 years ago
Male
Both "Mixed"
AL, Spain
Yes,brother and sister
1older 1 younger, stupid theory
Compelxion close to the same
I consider my self Black not mixed
The only Race is the Human Race
lightnstrike 2 years ago
female, black African dad & white Scot mum, i have 6 siblings and the theory is rubbish as far as I'm concerned - the lightness and darkness is equally mixed among us... not getting lighter as you go down.
rockdiva1983 2 years ago
my mother and i look sooo much alike and act exactly the same...when we walk in the streets together people think that we are sisters.
fLaCaLoCa174 2 years ago
*i was always teased about beeing mix since i went to a school full of hispanics and being that it took me a while to learn enlish cos i was raised in the Dominican Republic from age 1-6. I am 15 and still get picked on or harrased about being mixed. i speak the most spanish in my school (more than the full hispanics), like i speak spanish better than english yet i am still looked upon as FULLY BLACK, and i cant really fit in with the blacks so i generally hang out with the hispanic kids.
fLaCaLoCa174 2 years ago
*Im a female.
*My mother is dominican with spanish decent, my father is black.
*My mother was born and raise din the Dominican Republic, my dad was born in Georgia yet raised in New Jersey.
*I have two brothers who are fully black from my father, an older brother who has the same mother and father as me (he is a bit darker than me) and i have a baby brother who has the same mother as me and an El Salvadorian father.
fLaCaLoCa174 2 years ago
dominicana is not a race
DurtyDominican 2 years ago
i know that...she knows what i meant
fLaCaLoCa174 2 years ago
ur hair flatters u more when its straight!
ChocoMMs 2 years ago
you probably dont want to hear this from a girl but, you are beautiful
BiracialDyke 2 years ago
I am having the toughest time uploading a vid response to q&a. I've recorded one on my laptop and stored it in my vidz folder. It's also uploaded to myvideos in youtube but can't seem to upload it as a re: vid. . . . . . aaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
woodie62 2 years ago
Well, I guess it's working now. . yeah!!!!!!
woodie62 2 years ago
I am female and adopted. My biological parents from what the agency told me were Lithuanian (Eastern European) and African American. I was raised in Texas as a black child because my adopted parents are black. My husband is caucasian and our daughter that will be born in two months is considered a quadroon, which means she will be only 1/4th black. Throughout school and college I circled other for my race and I embrace both cultures and appreciate both.
JessIsSuka13 2 years ago
omg i can't wait to reply to this one...except i'm going to put all five of us on here...myself, and 3 sisters and baby brother!
coronaqueen221 2 years ago
have u made the video already? i wud like to see...lemme know asap pls =]
blaquecherry419 2 years ago
so what is your personal preference in interpersonal relationships?
26dorene26 3 years ago
The thing you said about siblings is really interesting. My parents would both be considered black but there is ancestry of different races in our background like Scottish, Indian, Irish etc., but looking at myself and my sibings that is the case. I'm the oldest and the darkest. There are four of us but you can see that my youngest sister is in fact the lightest of us all. Really interesting, I'd never thought about that before!
jojojam29 3 years ago
That is different for me and my sister, My sister is older and is lighter and looks like she is from India and I am darker and most people think that I am Ethiopian. My mother is half Mexican and a quarter Irish, an eigth German and an eigth Russian, My dad is half Tsalagi and half Afro-Cuban. He is the baby and he is the darkest, my mom is the youngest and she is darker. Maybe it is different for some people.
Pitamami 3 years ago
When I came to norway I was considered
white, as it says on my birth certificate, but noticable my hair is curly, dark,
my eyes are dark, slightly darker skin tone (but I get lighter and lighter up in here)
and by the form of my nose and size of my lips, there is also a diffrence. I am used to
associate with black people and I love african culture and food, I'm not so
into norwegian traditions and food but I don't reject the fact that I'm half white.
MulattoBwoy 3 years ago
About my biracial experiences I grew up from I was 3 years til I was 7 in
Bronx, New York. In the hood there was many black people, cawz of the
skin tone I had they used to beat me to see how I'd look. This was when I was
6 til I was 7 years I experienced this.
MulattoBwoy 3 years ago
I also have a dead little sister that died
22/may/2008, my mama and daddy got back together and they still are.
I'm expecting a brother around the 25th of may this year(2009) that will
have the same father as me( another mulatto :D ). I grew up with my brothers,
and see them as my brothers. I'm a male and my dad is the black parent,
but both me and my sister had the same skin tone when we were born.
MulattoBwoy 3 years ago
I'm a male. My daddy is black (Nigerian), my mama is white (Norwegian).
My moma was raised at the westcoast of norway(rogaland)
and in sweden(sala). My daddy was born in Nigeria, raised up in Sudan but
lived most of his life after the age of 15 in Nigeria.
They both met 16 years old in Jamaica and had me when they was 17.
I have 2 half brothers, both younger then me, the oldest has both norwegian parents
the youngest has a Tunisian daddy.
MulattoBwoy 3 years ago
im male, and im half irish and half zimbabwean. my mum is white from co. antrim, ireland and my dad is black from harare, zimbabwe. Both were raised in their birthplaces till their 20s, then moved to wimbledon in england and met each other there. ive got 2 older sisters, same colour as me maybe slightly darker due to them using sunbeds sometimes and going on holiday a lot.
kutama15 3 years ago
spent my youth here in greater london, never really encountered much racism from whites or blacks, maybe the odd comment in primary school. I get asked loads about where im from which gets repetitive, but mainly from asians as opposed to blacks or whites. Ive got no cousins on either side living in england, dont know my black ones, but i go to ireland to see my white ones every year. some people in ireland do stare a bit, but i reckon its due to lack of exposure rather than them being ignorant.
kutama15 3 years ago
i know im a couple of months late with this but whatever, lol. my friend and i just started a little mulatto show so we'll fill in this questionaire with our answers soon!
:)
keep doing what you do!
jewlzz718 3 years ago
thanks! i will! looking forward to seeing you guys!
tiffdjones 3 years ago
Im biracial, Nigerian and Indian.
Lov3sponge 3 years ago
One thing i´ve seem to have noticed is
Black dad /white mum the kids are darker then if it is
White dad /black mum is there anyone who sees my point ? i hope it did´nt sound racist or anything cause i am curious ?
stereosnuttan 3 years ago
not at all racist! i've always thought it was the other way around. or maybe the kids take the phenotype of their parent of the same gender, so that girls with white mom's look more white-boys with black dad's look more black, etc.
tiffdjones 3 years ago
@stereosnuttan You may never see this because it was posted long ago. I've heard what your talking about. I've also heard that the male children often look more like the fathers race and the female, the mothers. I've heard about children getting lighter as they go from oldest to youngest. I've heard that children from white mother/black father backgrounds are more"off the hook" whilst white father/black mother children are calmer and do better in life. I've found no proof of any of it yet
SaffronSugar 1 year ago
@stereosnuttan I have to disagree. I am very fair skinned & my mother is white & my father is black. Genetically there are too many combinations & variables that impact one's phenotype. My father's family has been here mixing with mostly Irish since slave days. My mom's family is from Poland primarily (as in she's 1st generation American). Basically even though my dad is black he has a large number of white genes that are recessive. That's why I look the way I do. Genetics aren't so cut & dry.
mwtwyman 1 year ago
Im biracial, [not black, not white but biracial]. My mom is white and my dad is black/asian mix. Nobody in my school see's my as black and on my birth record it says im white. But an expirience I had is recent. When Obama was choosen I was mad because there calling him the first black president when he's just like us. Biracial. I feel like he thinks he ashamed to be white. How do you feel and also its great to see theres other intelligent biracial people out there.
Aaron816 3 years ago
hey aaron, thanks for sharing that. i'm so intrigued by your birth certificate. i don't think obama is ashamed to be white. i think he's from a generation where there wasn't room for him to consider himself white and really where no good could come from identifying himself that way...
tiffdjones 3 years ago
@tiffdjones did u ask him? did he tell you that? dont make eceptions for someone when u dont even know them personaly tiff
TheRoyaldiamond 1 year ago
@Aaron816 aaron u have a choice to be blck or whit or wait u did'nt cos ur parent said white, but, obama has a choice it not even common to decide a child's race on a paper, but yea obama choose to be in the black cclan that his decition wtf did u expect them to say first biracial president? u either white or black or asian or arab,latin, he said am black, if u have the right to say am white why the fuck dose'nt he HAS to have that same right? ur not making sence
TheRoyaldiamond 1 year ago
This response (below)was for KrazieKris. I don't know how it got all the way up here...tsk-tsk (smh)
blackcherryblitz 3 years ago
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I hate when we'd walk into BJ's (a wholesale supermarket) they'd ask my dad if I'm with him. Or when we'd go to the hospital they'd ask if I was with my dad. But most people can see how I look like my dad though.
Toya123 3 years ago
i can totally relate to that one. even tho i'm a girl :)
tiffdjones 3 years ago
Male.
Mom is a black hispanic.
Dad is a white hispanic.
My mom was born in Ecuador and her dad was Dominican(mixed).Her mom was black.
My dad was born in Nicaragua and he is a Spanish descendant.lol actually..I have a little sister.She's lighter than me. And her hair is thinner and softer than mine. But...I have a deep tan and always stayed out when I was little(I live in Fl,miami...the sunshine state) and my sister is only 6 so she has "kid hair".I look like the black version of my dad lol.
Toya123 3 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
so obamas children are biracial or black-- GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE--BLACK GENES ARE DOMINANT TO WHITES which are recessive-- coffee + water = coffee
Theworldisyourz09 3 years ago
Nope.
Coffee plus Vanilla(or milk) = Mocha/Caramel.
stfu.
Toya123 3 years ago 3
hahaha....good comeback,Toya. I luv it!
blackcherryblitz 3 years ago
lol what do you mean?
Toya123 3 years ago
I don't know how these comments are all mixed up!!! It makes it hard to figure out what someone is responding to. I was referring to the response you made to TheWorldIsYours09??
blackcherryblitz 3 years ago
Oh I see what you meant by comeback.
thanks lol.
I'm the biggest sarcastic smartass.
So if you ever see my comments...expect something with puns and sarcasm lol.
Toya123 3 years ago
As mentioned before - Male, father black from former British Guyana, mother white from Ireland Dublin, had an older half brother who was white, all of the above now sadly no longer alive, I am the only one left in my immediate family unit.
Re- "darker to lighter theory"- Genetically I see no reason why that would be the case so I think it's a myth, however, we can all change complexion slightly throughout our life due to various environmental factors etc.
proff180 3 years ago
o yeah & im a chica =]
MixedBean 3 years ago
ok both of my parents were born in jamaica
my dad's grandmom is white he never says it my grandmother told me,i have a feelin my dad dislikes white people in a a way but w.e my mom is jamaican,spanish,white&native but she is dark skin she has curly hair & a nose dats str8 itook her nose & i have a in between complexion,my dad is caramel colored my little sister is darker then me with thicker hair,i got alot of my moms genes the only i dont like is ppl always say o your dominican or a dark p.r
MixedBean 3 years ago
My mom is half Panamanian and half black and my dad is half native american and half black. I'm the oldest and the light of a younger bro and sis. It's interesting because I'm the only one out of both my siblings that has green eyes and brown hair with a red tint. And apparently freckles. And as a baby I had blue eyes and red hair up until I was almost 2.
LilAnimeRockstar 3 years ago
lol i lived in detroit michigan
drzfinest313 3 years ago
hmmm.. your very cute tiffany. I just had to say that :-)
drzfinest313 3 years ago
I'm a girl My mom is black my dad is white
My mom is from California, I don't know my real dad but my step dad[also white] is from WV I have an older brother[hes 18] and he is darker then me so i guess the theory is true
and for an exprience, just last year when i was in 7th grade, this girl named Alexia told me I wasnt fully blessed because i wasnt a pure race and that my momma had sinned becvause she had sex with a white man, what she said really pissed me off
jazyjaz 3 years ago 2
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predominately black/arab/ mixed race influential area. I used to find it difficult to find hair product that was suited to biracial hair as many may have experience themselves the problems with products for both black & white people. Now use Mixed Chicks, Curls, Jessicurl and Blended Beauty.
Should've done a video response but I can't seem to find the cables right now.
lilbenoit 3 years ago
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Always noticed a difference in my race to others, I was born white and it took a long while for me to get to the colour I am now. I always thought my mum was black and my dad was white (didn't know my Jamaican grandparent) and always thought my other grandad was just black. At school I found that the Black kids would try and convert me by trying to force me to listen to more urban music I'm very similar to KhaosChild when it comes to music choices even though I grew up in a ...
lilbenoit 3 years ago
I'm female - 21
Mum - Mixed Native American, Indian, Black St. Lucian/Caribbean (can pass as black)
Dad - Mixed Irish, Jamaican/Caribbean (can pass as white)
Only child but have four half siblings but refer to them as full blood relatives.
1 sister - 22 darker then me (we can both pass as black), brothers, 18, 16, 11 are all of similar complexion to that of Rachel True. Only grew up with the youngest so consider myself to be the eldest, grew up in London.
lilbenoit 3 years ago
My mother is african american with some native american ancestry and my father is a afro-cuban among other things. Look, no one cares ok, you all are letting white people brainwash you with that one drop theory they introduced after the civil war. Thats why till this day you come on here confuse. The sooner we all unite against them the sooner we can take this country!!!!!!! Besides whites are going to become a minority pretty soon. We need to worry about the immigrants that keep coming here.
Mstevens811 3 years ago
1. female, 22yrs old
2. Mum- black Dad- white
3. Mum- Ghanaian (africa) Dad- English and Scottish
4. 2 siblings; 1 mixed brother, 19yrs and 1 half brother, 10yrs (full black). My mixed brother is darker than i am.
5. Am the oldest.
6. I grew up in Ghana as well as London and got both perspectives. When i was younger, i was oblivious to the fact that my parents were of different races. To me, they were just my parents. When i came back to London was when the differences stood out for me.
nurseB86 3 years ago
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-Lyk when I go out with my daddy's side of the family I usually get alot of looks (mainly from white ppl), cuz lyk I have lyk a caramel complexion and lyk a spiral-curly kinda hair.
-EXPERIENCE:Um well lyk my papa(daddy's father) is lyk racist. But lyk its not really his fault cuz he lyk gets it from his mom. So lyk we dont really talk much or lyk interact or anything.
Xxxnarutofan4xxX 3 years ago
-My name's Kaitlin, 14 yrs old
-Lyk I think I'm a girl cuz lyk I was the last time I checked...
-My mama is black and my daddy is white, they were born and raised in Alabama
-2 siblings, both mixed:1 half sister, 10yrs old and 1 half brother, 4 yrs old
-Um my lil sister is a lil lighter than me and she has lyk softer and curlier hair than I do. My lil brother is way lighter than me and has like silky hair with big curls.
Xxxnarutofan4xxX 3 years ago
- Im Female, 14 yrs of age
-Mom: black Dad: Mixed raced
- Mom: Carriebean Dad: Antiguan/Native American/ English
- 3 Brother, ages , 22, 15 & 2 yrs old
- im second to youngest
- All my brothers look mixed raced, when i look more black. I dont know how others see me, some people have said i dont look straight up black , but i dont look as if im mixed raced like my brothers. When my brothers appear lighter i think i look the colour i am. Black with one dropp of white. Rather than 50/50.
xtellitlikeitisbabyx 3 years ago
will do a video responseee!!!! :D
itsNataly 3 years ago
I dont understand why just because one of your parents are black that makes ou all black when if your other parent is white or asian or whatever you really are only 50%. Why is mandatory to say that you are black and you can't just say like i am black and white. WHy would you consider yourself a black woman. When your features clearly show that genetically speaking you are a combination. Do you consider yourself part of the black culture because you were raised by your mom? IS this what you mean
ange1uv 3 years ago
To ange1uv if you look black which most bi-racial people then they'll consider you black just because.If you don't want them to then acknowledge it then.
illnana1234 3 years ago
- I'm female.
- Mom: black, dad: white
- Mom: mostly Colorado, dad: Minnesota
- Only child
- When I was younger, I was completely oblivious to the fact that I was a bit different because I lived in Minnesota until I was five and race mixing is VERY common there. Since moving to where I am now (a very small town) I've had to deal with ignorant (white) people and their comments, usually about my hair or my skin color (even though I have green-brown eyes and light skin). Can't wait to leave!
SummertimeLvr427 3 years ago
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- I have a white mother. It wasn't hard. Race wise, I don't really look like either of my parents. I don't look white, and I don't necessarily look black either. But when I was younger I never thought of it that way. She was just my 'mother'. I didn't think of her as "white", and I didn't think of my Dad as "black". That wasn't really brought to my attention until I got a bit older and other kids my age started commenting on that fact that I don't look "black" or "white".
angelwng370 3 years ago
thanks so much for sharing :)
tiffdjones 3 years ago
- female.
- My Mom's white and my Dad's black.
- Both raised in the Bay Area, CA.
- I'm the third oldest our of 7 kids. 2 older bothers, 3 younger brothers and a younger sister.
- We're all around the same complexion. Except for one of my younger bros, number 5, he's a bit darker than the rest of us.
angelwng370 3 years ago
7!!! omg! sounds fun!
tiffdjones 3 years ago
yeah thats true for me, im the darkest, my middle bro is a tiny bit lighter than me and my little bro is pretty much white
Liquidshift 3 years ago
As an aside, does anyone else find it interesting that white people can say they're Irish, Dutch, French and German and no one questions it. Why are black people not allowed to do that?
NapturallyHappy 3 years ago
I wanted to make a video, but I'm too shy. So here goes:
1.female
2. Mom:Hispanic-Black/White
Dad Black-Porto Rican/Native American
3. Mom-raised in Panama Dad-Texas
4. 1 full younger sister, 2 older half- sisters and 1 half brother
5. I'm # 4 born and I'm the lightest complextion and the only one that inherited some "native american" hair"
At times I don't know what to consider myself. If I'm black, am I disowning my other races? If I'm mixed, am I denying that I'm black?
marna52 3 years ago
Hi! Thanks so much for sharing! I think that if you claim mixed and include black in the mix then you aren't denying anything. That's just my opinion tho :)
tiffdjones 3 years ago
* Female
* Mum - Mixed St Lucian & English Father - Mixed St Lucian & European(german/austrian)
raised in the England.. Ive been raised In London
* My father has a number of children.. i never grew up with.. My Mum had my little brother with a different man. but all my siblings are about the same complextion as i am.. (Kelis brown lol).
* had a few experiances with fitting in with black & some mixed people because they wanted to call me black or 1/4 cast.. had a few issues out of London.
vanoob 3 years ago
Hey! Thanks for the great messages and this info! lol at "kelis brown" :) i love hearing about the experiences of biracial people outside of the US!
tiffdjones 3 years ago
#1 when i started secondary school i had a mixed girl in my class & she came to me at the lunch break & was like ''i should have wavey/curly hair like you because im mixed & your black'' i was like ''im what?'' she was like ''your black so you shouldnt hav hair like that, i should'' i was just standing there smiling like wow i cant believe shes sayin this to me.. then i said.. 'well guess what.. im mixed' smiled & walked away . for over a year she was determined to tell me that i was black
vanoob 3 years ago
1. Female
2. Dad - Welsh and French Creole (Black) ::: Mom - Black, East Indian and Warao (Venezuelan Indian)
3. Trinidad
4. I have 4 older siblings
5. LOL @ the theory. 3 of us are slight variations of caramel complexion and the sister right before me can pass for white.
Even though the other 4 of us are about the same complexion the one that is like 1/20 shade darker always used to talk about how she is the darkest one and has nappy hair and she has a complex.
Tr1n1Lyr1k 3 years ago
Growing up in Trinidad I didn't have any issues with being mixed because the majority of the population is mixed anyway. I remember not checking African American on a survey in my U.S. university and having some African American girls sitting next to me making nasty comments about how I am black and why am I writing Caribbean Islander and not African American.
This is a big thing for me because I identify with all of my ethnicities but I'm not American. African American does not equal Black.
Tr1n1Lyr1k 3 years ago
great point and tough situation, i'm sure. it's difficult to be accused of denying something or being ashamed and trying to hide when you're simply being true to your self!!
tiffdjones 3 years ago
Can relate to this one. I grew up on Guyana and I've never been able to understand how race is defined in America. I know the history, but so much of it makes so little sense. Strangely, I don't remember having to think about it growing up. No one asked what you were. People knew your parents and it was decided depending on that. Here, I don't dare even bring the subject up. It seems taboo to even acknowledge any other part of your ancestry, especially if your skin is not light.
NapturallyHappy 3 years ago
thanks for sharing all of this!! I think the theory has officially been disproved :-D
very interesting that your sister developed a complex being just a tiny shade darker.
tiffdjones 3 years ago
1 Male
2 black mom , dutch dad
3 my dad grew up in holland, with my mom its a long story
4: ive got a little brother. im actually lighter than him though.
newtkrad 3 years ago
cool! do you travel to holland often? do you have family there?
tiffdjones 3 years ago
i think ive gone about 4 or 5 times already (im 15 by the way) i havent gone in about 4 years though. i have a lot of family there.. lots of cousins, aunts, uncles and my grandma. i used to be able to speak dutch really well when i was younger but i forgot it all by the time i was 5.
newtkrad 3 years ago
I went to a mostly black school but even I had a girl in my 3rd grade class that looked so much like me that people asked if we were twins; she was mixed and her mother is white and dad's black. In 5th grade I moved to Maryland and found another girl who looks a lot like me and she's mixed too with a white mother and black dad.
I just thought that was interesting and wanted to share.
music4ever373 3 years ago
Thank you so much for sharing that!! Were you friends with those little girls? I think I'd have loved to have had a mixed friend before I finally found one in college :-)
tiffdjones 3 years ago
Yes, very good friends. I didn't speak to the 3rd grade friend because sadly after she moved from Georgia to Alabama we had a big fight and stopped all contact. I would call and try and make up but unfortunately it is too late. She has moved again and I no longer have her phone numbers. The 5th grade girl I still speak to now, we been best friends for almost 7 years.
music4ever373 3 years ago
sorry you lost touch with one. have you looked on myspace or facebook for her? it's great that you have a mixed best friend!!!
tiffdjones 3 years ago
I'm glad I found this youtube video, thanks for shareing. :)
1: Female
2: Mom is Italian and dad is black. I'm about your (tiffdjones) skin color and I have curly/wavy hair that is down to my butt.
3: Mom is from Georgia (U.S), Dad is from Mississippi.
4: No siblings :( but my mother has a brother and my dad has 9 siblings
5. My mother did things that most consider black like; listen to rap and R&B, she always had more black friends than any other race.
music4ever373 3 years ago