Comments on: Holy crap! I’m black!

By: Jim Morrill

Jim Morrill — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:15:05 +0000

Thanks for reading the story CVK, but I think your reaction was a little over the top. The sentiments I wrote about were those of some of my family members, and they reflected the era and their heritage. I think it should say something that I, and my generation, don’t share their reaction and in fact embrace a diverse heritage. I think understanding their reactions to race is a big part of understanding who they were, and who I am.

You didn’t quote the part about me finding all this out long after I lived and worked in Africa for three years.

By: Charlette

Charlette — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:03:45 +0000

well he didn’t say that his life now was going to be forced to associate with black people so what he’s black all of the world came from Africa and Asia after millions of years mixing on just those two continents. Get a grip people we are of the same race.

By: Tony Magee

Tony Magee — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 09:51:01 +0000

Realize I’m months late for this, but I just found the site.
I had to comment on this…I thought the “Holy Crap! I’m Black” was a referance to the cartoon Family Guy.

And I must comment that not all those revelations lead to some huge attitude shifts.
My mother found out she had black cousins (not technically ancestors) and didn’t go through some huge personality shift.

Then again she had already married my black father and had Multi-racial me…so I guess in terms of scale it was a minor thing.

By: Carmen Van Kerckhove

Carmen Van Kerckhove — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:47:10 +0000

Ms. Powell,

Thanks for your feedback, but you’re preaching to the choir here.

I never criticized the author. I was merely making fun of his family members’ one-droppish reactions to learning about their black heritage. And judging from their horror, clearly they still considered it “the most shameful of ancestries.”

Thanks for reading!

CVK

By: A. Powell

A. Powell — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:21:06 +0000

This “Holy crap! I’m black!” comment from mixedmediawatch is
offensive. The author of this article from the Charlotte Observer
did not call himself black, nor did he endorse the “one drop” myth,
which the “Holy crap! I’m black!” comment seems to do. He was
relating some irrational remarks made by some members of his family,
but he did not endorse those remarks.

I would ask why this “one drop” myth is promoted as social gospel
when Hispanics and Arabs are nearly all part-black. If the “one
drop” myth was half as unversal as its advocates claim, then the
Hispanic and Arab-American populations would be forced to call
themselves “black.”

Now that we see more whites openly acknowledging what used to be
the most shameful of ancestries, we can only conclude that this
stigma is gradually being lifted. Why is that not a good thing?