There is actually a difference between mixed & biracial. But Should light skinned Black people start their own race? Light skin vs dark skin.
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So this might seem like a very weird title for a video.
But believe it or not there are groups of people that believe that light skinned Black people should not be classed as Black. They believe that they should start their own race.
In this video I will also break down the differences between being biracial & being mixed, as there is a difference.
“Division”
Some people may believe that this is a form of division or even a reactionary response to colorism. As we have seen how the media uses light skin women to represent the image of Black women.
All over the internet you can see examples of light skin vs dark skin.
“Confusion”
Confusion is definitely a huge problem for many people.
There is also huge confusions on the differences between culture, nationality, ethnicity & race. So many people mix up nationalities with race.
This leads people to believing that you can be half nationality & half race. Here’s an example: Someone could say they are half white & half Swedish. For those of you with knowledge of this, you will realise that this doesn’t make sense, because you can be white & Swedish.
Check out this video & comment your thoughts below.
It’s a helluva struggle, baby. All the way around, we going through something.
I thought you were gonna use that clip of Godfrey making fun of Dominicans and Puerto Ricans saying “I’m no black” lol
But either way this is a real thing I’ve seen growing up and it’s nothing other than ignorance and division.
This is a very complex topic.
I’m a black Colombian woman, and have always identified as such. The thing is I’m brown skinned. My dad is brown skinned, darker than me, and my mom is so mixed that she sometimes passes as white, her mom had my complexion and her dad was a dark skinned man, and don’t get me started on her grandparents. Although I come from a very diverse background, most of my family is black, at least that’s how I perceive it.
I get your point, being light skinned doesn’t make you any less black, the concept of ‘racial purity’ is delusional, and race and ethnicity are two different things. But I understand why some people, black skinned people in particular, want to separate light skinned people from dark skinned ones. Many light skinned people identify as black when it’s convenient for them, but when they could actually use their status to speak up about discrimination, colorism, and other issues within the black community, all of a sudden they’re not black anymore, they are biracial/mixed. They take pride in being black when it gives them an advantage, sometimes without being aware of that. I see it all the time in the afrocolombian community, many light skinned brothers and sisters deny their blackness and prefer to identify themselves as ‘morenos’ which doesn’t make sense, because the literal translation is ‘brunettes’. But, when one of them achieves something, they become the face of the black community. This is very problematic. We, as light skinned people, have more privileges than we’d actually want to accept, and perhaps this is why some black skinned people don’t want us.
Personally, I have always felt like I don’t belong anywhere, dark skinned people don’t want me because I’m too light and most light skinned ones don’t identify as blacks and find it surprising that I do. They’ve even corrected me telling me that I’m actually ‘morena’. Like bruh, that’s not even a race!
Anyway, I think my comment is unrelated to this video, so I’m sorry. I just felt like posting it.
I absolutely love your content!
My native tongue is Spanish so I apologize for my bad English.
Oh, brother you snapped at 11:03! Amazing and informative video!!!
Crissy on Youtube is one of those black “purists.” I am one of those black people with dark skin and type 4 hair and a white passing mother from Trinidad. My siblings are all different complexions and hair textures. According to her, my sisters and mom are not black but I am. It’s so stupid and illogical.
I grew up with the offspring of Black/white couples. The children were BLACK! End of conversation!
🔥During that period the white parent actively and clearly taught the children they were Black. End of conversation again!🔥
Later in the 1980’s & 1990’s white women specifically started going hard with calling their children “Mixed”.
Calling the children MIXED lessens the Black, and Black men in large just allowed it!
👉🏾You can’t find this in books, you have to have lived it to know.
I completely understand where you’re going with this angel. But where do we draw the line? White passing? Less than 25% black? Less than 35%?
Also I have one chinese/japanese 3x great maternal grandmother and her daughter (great great grandmother) married what seems like a white great great grandfather. My great grandmother was black and my grandmother could be identified as mixed race (loose curls and medium brown skin).
My father can be identified as black and his mother (I don’t remember her much) also. However, her father was east indian.
I can also be identified as black (tightly curled hair, medium brown skin as well). Can I identify as a mixed race, black girl? I have mostly black features with “Asian eyes”. Ik identifying as mixed race or one particular race is subjective but the majority of the mixed race community more than likely won’t accept me as such, while some are black when its convenient. So, do people identify as the race that is more dominant and add the mixed aspect beforehand so that it is understood that they are not just their dominant race?
This is so true and hilarious 🤣😂
Wait a minute, my father is a fully Black Dominican man, and my mother is a tri-racial (black, white, and Native American) Panamanian woman. So am I not black?