Re: mulatto diaries #66 etymology

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[thompsonbalt]

WE ARE ALL BIRACIAL WHATS THE BIG POINT,MOST ALL BLACK PEOPLE FROM AMERICAN ALL BLACK WHITE AND INDIAN, WHETHER THY HAVE BLACK AND WHITE PARENTS OR NOT,AND MOST BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA ARE DARK AS CAN BE 85% OR MORE INDIAN AND STILL THEY JUST BLACK

[thompsonbalt]

WE ARE ALL BIRACIAL WHATS THE BIG POINT,MOST ALL BLACK PEOPLE FROM AMERICAN ALL BLACK WHITE AND INDIAN, WHETHER THY HAVE BLACK AND WHITE PARENTS OR NOT,AND MOST PLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA ARE DARK AS CAN BE 85% OR MORE INDIAN AND STILLTHEY JUST BLACK

[msmelody1960]

wow hun i really hope that bi-racial tiffany reponds to this video,because i agee that she dose seem to generalize black & white culture too much.like you said black & white are just skin complexions it does not define the way a person behaves or thier liks and dislikes.im mixed race although both of my perants indentify as black & i listen to rock,jazz,hip-hop & country music and so does many white people i know.our genral character has nothing to do with our so-called race.

[ScorpiusCentaurus]

Black is not a culture. Black is a colour. A black person who grows up in a mostly white suburb is not going to be the same culturally as a black person who grows up in a predominately black inner city neighbourhood. They may have the same skin tone, but their culture would be completely different.

[woodie62]

@RoxStew5 : Nice reply, lovely! Yes, you can call everyone the same in that region. I don't know that I would call them African. But hey, it's all good! Didn't mean to sound disingenuine. I was simply making the point that the country isn't what makes the individual nor does the culture. Too much emphasis is placed on externals. But some will continue to do it. PEACE!!

[RoxStew5]

@woodie62 East African "Blacks" tend to be from Semitic-Hamitic tribes which look like a hybrid of middle eastern/Jewish and black such as the Fulani and Berber. But yeah, if you just want to simplify everything, just call everybody black, or negro. I can't be bothered to get into that whole thing day to day

[RoxStew5]

@woodie62 The correct term is Congoliod. Negro comes from the latin "niger" which means "black." (negro is the Spanish and Portuguese). Anthropologists argued that while 2 out of the 3 fundamental racial classifications were named from their region of origin: Mongoloid (Mongolia), Caucasoid (the Caucus Mountains), Negroid however is named after the black skin color. The origins of the black people we know today is the Congo and western regions of sub-saharan Africa. (Continued...)

[woodie62]

@dtalaidback My God, you are dead on point! Asians don't call themselves "Yyellows" or Native Americans, "Reds". The term referred to Blacks in scientific circles has always been "Negro", as "Caucasian is with "Whites". I think it's "Mongoloids" with Asians but pardon me if I am wrong. Unfortunately, I don't remember what terms are given to other races than the ones mentioned. Will do more study!! ;)

[woodie62]

@RoxStew5 What you say in this vid about culture is very true. Edward James Olmos said something elementary but so profound: we are all the same just cultured differently. We can all love the same music and yet be from different parts of the world. And that's the whole thing in a nutshell. We don't listen to the same thing b/c we are cultured differently. That is seemingly changing for what I personally believe to be over a variety of different reasons. But that's for another argument.

[woodie62]

@RoxStew5 Well, that Capetown resident would be an African. . . a White African! If he/she came to America, that would make that person an African America, even though he/she were White. If blacks migrated to Scandinavia, they would be African Scandinavians! No, Africa is not a race. But Negro is, even though PC has scared anyone from saying so.