Biracial What it Means

A documentary on being bi-racial by 2nd year Video Production student, William Ford-Conway.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• ViDCAST
• Springside School
• Chestnut Hill Academy
• Video Production

[WhereYaBoss]

I'm American and I have a white family and a black family. What's the big deal? I have two best friends, one is black and one is white. What is the big deal? We are all multiracial. If you can trace your roots back to the 17-1800's in the USA your probably multiracial. So, what is the big deal? It's not a phenomenon. People are just making it a phenomenon. It was a phenomenon probably... in the early

1800's.

[DaMostEnigmatic]

I think all of these labels like black, white, asian, native, aboriginal etc are the reasons why racism is still a problem. If we do away with these stupid labels we just might be able to kill racism.

Racism is still alive because of these labels like black and white, the best way to end it is to stop talking about it

[kikigirlxox]

the guy at 2:10 sounds just like Taylor Lautner lol

[tiderson1]

Biracials are nothing more than a lower form of humanity

[dontrustwhiteyever1]

Why is it mixed people all ways end up whith all those white people problems???

[DaMostEnigmatic]

@mddarch and ethnicities are apart of the reason these labels exist in the first place

[DaMostEnigmatic]

@mddarch okay, the problem are the stereotypes that become attached to these ethnicities that many use to justify their hate for that group. You gotta acknowledge the bad side to diversity, which are the stereotypes many form to judge an entire group either for no reason or from bad experiences from that group. I can clearly SEE that we look different from one another but that isn't the first thing that enters my head when meeting someone nor is it something I dwell on.

[49jubilee]

This is really unimportant, but, it depends on your phenotype on what you 'are'. My daughter is half black, but she looks like an unmixed phillipino. Even the black girls thinks shes phillipino, until they see me, and i look black. i have two black parents

[TheMidnightBell07]

@DaMostEnigmatic Hey, it's not the label but the manufacture. You can't blame the design but you can get mad when it doesn't fit just right. The label just describes the material just like color on a rose; the only difference is people aren't stupid enough to reject a rose that isn't red. They don't look for the rose to smell different or to be inferior. People just aren't as smart about people as they are about roses.

[TheMidnightBell07]

@anderdorm Hey, I hope you don't mind me asking but what was their mix? A lot of people assume when you say mixed you mean Black and White but mixed can be Hispanic/Latino and White (even if the the main race is White on the Latino Hispanic side). Some people can have polynesian, Native American and/or Asian but when people say the Black/White one than it's different somehow. I don't understand it myself but people seem to feel the Black is always there. You can mix out everything but the Black

[Beauty2Beauty]

I'm Italian/german and Haitian and I am proud; I'm actually one of those who had the best of both world. My father side of the family accept my mother I guess it because she's caribbean I don't know, but I have been called an oreo in the past, but I never really care.

[sharpezor]

native american girl is pretty cute