Comments on: Escalating threats to mixed 8th grader

By: whitechocolate

whitechocolate — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:46:51 +0000

I’m sure that at least some of the kids making these slurs knew this little girl was mixed w/ a white momma. She is mixed race which means she is perceived by different people in different ways regardless of how she perceives herself. However the bigger issue is that these little haters basically got away w/ doing this and Angelica was the one punished (once again) by having to leave her school and the school life she had there. So she is victimized not once but twice and the perpetrators get off scot-free. Sounds like a lot of people tap danced around the real problem of prejudice and fixing it. This sucks.

By: kiki

kiki — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:00:26 +0000

Mulatto what are you talking about saying ”yah but what you are saying is lighter skinned people are dark people in a lighter body we are not that ,we have own look and its mixed” You don’t have to be light skinned to be a biracial,I’m fully african american,and i used to be way lighter than Angelina Weimann,but it didnt make me biracial ,but im darker complexion now,my point is you can be dark as night or white as snow and be of mixed race,when I see Angelina I don’t see a white teen girl but
a black one or one of mixed race.

By: sarah

sarah — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:27:00 +0000

wowzers

By: yeah

yeah — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:03:07 +0000

mulatto does not want to deal with the social realities of American society. Regardless of one’s ethniic background or pheneotype, if you are perceived as black, you will face the racial discrimination that African-Americans have faced throughout history. The former NBA player, Charles Barkley has “light” skin, but I don’t think anyone would classify him as a mulatto. Both of his parents are black/black identified. Mulatto, and people like her/him are too color conscious. Not all African-Americans are actually black in color, or dark in color. Their “lightness,” if you will, does not negate their affinity for African-American culture thereby making them “black” identified.

By: sigrid

sigrid — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:45:32 +0000

The issue of skin color got handled well here but I’ll put in my two cents anyway.

I don’t like seeing mixed people putting limits on who can be in our group - that seems like such an un-mixed thing to do Growing up white/black mixed in the US I often felt rejected by both white and black people. That is bad enough, but being rejected by other mixed people is such a denial of identity.

An anecdote: People constantly tell me I look like Lisa Bonet (who may qualify as looking “typically” white/black mixed? I really don’t care but am telling this story to point out how ridiculous the notion is), as an insecure 12 year old in my middle school’s gym locker room a white girl compared me and another white/black mixed girl. The white girl decided that since the other mixed girl had straight hair and thinner lips than me eventhough she was darker (this really happened!) the white girl declared that the other mixed girl was mixed and I was black. I didn’t care what the white girl thought but the mixed girl agreed - it was horrible. Let’s not do this to this poor girl!

By: Lyonside

Lyonside — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:06:27 +0000

There are a lot of people who think the same as “mulatto” and use much higher language to disguise/confuse the issues. I’d rather put as much information and counterarguments out there as possible

By: Damie

Damie — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 02:38:46 +0000

“mulatto” has a obvious shortage of erudition.

By: Lyonside

Lyonside — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:57:57 +0000

>iam talking about lighter skined people not dark people.

So, you differentiate based on how the child looks as to whether you woudl call them mixed?

wow. I recommend looking up that link I posted earlier, and then looking into hair texture and color genetics as well. It’s not either/or and absolutes. There is no one mixed look, and that is what I most opbject to in your comments thus far (the ones I understand, anyway).

Enough about lighter/darker skins already!

By: mulatto

mulatto — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:12:55 +0000

iam talking about lighter skined people not dark people.

By: Lyonside

Lyonside — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:13:13 +0000

Mulatto:
>what you are saying is lighter skinned people are dark people in a lighter >body we are not that ,we have own look and its mixed

No, that is NOT what I am saying. But I also STRONGLY agree w/ Damie. “Mixed” people, and by that I’m assuming you only count first-generation white/black people in your comments, can and DO look like any variety of combinations.

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/lmexer5.htm

Sheesh. You need to meet more “mulattos.” We can look like either parent or neither parent, depending on the expression of the particular genotype. We do NOT all look alike or have the same features.