Comments on: Links worth checking out http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/03/15/links-worth-checking-out-2/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:02:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Yeah... http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/03/15/links-worth-checking-out-2/#comment-5760 Yeah... Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:24:23 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/03/15/links-worth-checking-out-2/#comment-5760 The study almost seems to suggest that African-Americans don't matter. If you die and are of African-American descent your survivng spouse will get along fine without you...but if you are white and die, your survivng spouse will be so overwhelmed with grief and loss that they won't survive that long with out you. So does my being "mixed" lapse the time of surviviorship? Dumb study. The study almost seems to suggest that African-Americans don’t matter. If you die and are of African-American descent your survivng spouse will get along fine without you…but if you are white and die, your survivng spouse will be so overwhelmed with grief and loss that they won’t survive that long with out you. So does my being “mixed” lapse the time of surviviorship?

Dumb study.

]]> By: Bukie http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/03/15/links-worth-checking-out-2/#comment-5757 Bukie Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:58:57 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/03/15/links-worth-checking-out-2/#comment-5757 I don't understand the positive contribution that this study would have on society. What possible good can it do to know how your spouse's race will affect you after their death? Is it supposed to help you decide who you should marry? To me, studies like this are just perpertuating the racial view we have of society, maybe it's time to look for other correlations other than those racial. I mean, how are we supposed to move past the race problem if we keep talking about seemingly inconsequential things that only exacerbate and delineate the divides in inter-marriage. I mean, who really cares? I don’t understand the positive contribution that this study would have on society. What possible good can it do to know how your spouse’s race will affect you after their death? Is it supposed to help you decide who you should marry? To me, studies like this are just perpertuating the racial view we have of society, maybe it’s time to look for other correlations other than those racial. I mean, how are we supposed to move past the race problem if we keep talking about seemingly inconsequential things that only exacerbate and delineate the divides in inter-marriage. I mean, who really cares?

]]> By: Dave http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/03/15/links-worth-checking-out-2/#comment-5726 Dave Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:34:50 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/03/15/links-worth-checking-out-2/#comment-5726 "Oh Please", I don't think the membership of mulatto.org is any more or less "close to becoming neo-nazis" than the membership of eurasiannation.com, migente.com, or a variety of other positive affinity websites. And all 3 of these sites, and many others like them, are great, positive spaces for people of color and supporters, in my opinion. It's clear that you have a different opinion. I think the best recourse is for readers of MMW to judge mulatto.org for themselves. Like our 100+ members, I think that more than a few MMW readers will find a positive and supportive website community in our website and message board. :) “Oh Please”, I don’t think the membership of mulatto.org is any more or less “close to becoming neo-nazis” than the membership of eurasiannation.com, migente.com, or a variety of other positive affinity websites. And all 3 of these sites, and many others like them, are great, positive spaces for people of color and supporters, in my opinion. It’s clear that you have a different opinion. I think the best recourse is for readers of MMW to judge mulatto.org for themselves. Like our 100+ members, I think that more than a few MMW readers will find a positive and supportive website community in our website and message board. :)

]]> By: Oh please! http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/03/15/links-worth-checking-out-2/#comment-5719 Oh please! Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:23:40 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/03/15/links-worth-checking-out-2/#comment-5719 Okay, for a self-proclaimed "law student" you obviously don't know how to read. I didn't say positive representations of "mulattos" HAVE to be at the expense of African-Americans, I said that your "community" of "mulattos" aims to promote "positive" representations of "mulattos" AT THE EXPENSE OF BLACK PEOPLE. Some, not all, but some of the members and moderators of your board are THIS close to becoming neo-nazis, "mixie" style. As a person of mixed ancestry I find your web site and many of the comments posted there highly offensive and a tragic reminder of just how incidious racism is. Now go get some self-esteem! Okay, for a self-proclaimed “law student” you obviously don’t know how to read. I didn’t say positive representations of “mulattos” HAVE to be at the expense of African-Americans, I said that your “community” of “mulattos” aims to promote “positive” representations of “mulattos” AT THE EXPENSE OF BLACK PEOPLE. Some, not all, but some of the members and moderators of your board are THIS close to becoming neo-nazis, “mixie” style. As a person of mixed ancestry I find your web site and many of the comments posted there highly offensive and a tragic reminder of just how incidious racism is. Now go get some self-esteem!

]]> By: Dave http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/03/15/links-worth-checking-out-2/#comment-5713 Dave Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:09:56 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/03/15/links-worth-checking-out-2/#comment-5713 To "Oh Please!" Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I encourage readers of mixedmediawatch to check out www.mulatto.org and form their own. Needless to say, I disagree with your assessment of our website community, and I believe it is filled with falsehoods. And a positive identity for mulattos doesn't have to be at the expense of "blacks" any more than a positive identity for eurasians has to be at the expense of asians. To “Oh Please!” Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I encourage readers of mixedmediawatch to check out http://www.mulatto.org and form their own. Needless to say, I disagree with your assessment of our website community, and I believe it is filled with falsehoods. And a positive identity for mulattos doesn’t have to be at the expense of “blacks” any more than a positive identity for eurasians has to be at the expense of asians.

]]> By: Oh please! http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/03/15/links-worth-checking-out-2/#comment-5698 Oh please! Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:50:48 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/03/15/links-worth-checking-out-2/#comment-5698 Dave, will you please stop with you shameless advertising!!! I have been to your site and there is nothing really positive about it...just a bunch of self-proclaimed "mulattos" whinning about how "blacks" have done them wrong and how "mulattos" should sympathize with the likes of men like Osama Bin Laden, Chavez, and Saddam because, in your words, "mulattos" have simliar "pheneotypes" to the above mentioned men. Give me a break!! You and your "fellow mulattos" are confused, color conscious fools who have nothing better to do than post pictures and obsess over persons of "middle phenotype" (translation: "mulattos"). You claim to promote positive representations of "mulattos" but it is at expense of "blacks" whom you and your group commonly refer to as the "soul patrol." How cute. Dave, will you please stop with you shameless advertising!!! I have been to your site and there is nothing really positive about it…just a bunch of self-proclaimed “mulattos” whinning about how “blacks” have done them wrong and how “mulattos” should sympathize with the likes of men like Osama Bin Laden, Chavez, and Saddam because, in your words, “mulattos” have simliar “pheneotypes” to the above mentioned men. Give me a break!! You and your “fellow mulattos” are confused, color conscious fools who have nothing better to do than post pictures and obsess over persons of “middle phenotype” (translation: “mulattos”). You claim to promote positive representations of “mulattos” but it is at expense of “blacks” whom you and your group commonly refer to as the “soul patrol.” How cute.

]]> By: Dave http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/03/15/links-worth-checking-out-2/#comment-5681 Dave Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:53:22 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/03/15/links-worth-checking-out-2/#comment-5681 Here's my thought on the 3rd article/abstract. With over 1 million people identifying as having both black and white heritage on the 2000 census, I don't think it's appropriate any longer for studies to discuss monoracial blacks and monoracial whites without out also including discussion and study of white/black biracial people. For a positive internet community of people with european and african, black and white heritage, family, friends, and supporters, with over 100 active members, please visit http://www.mulatto.org Here’s my thought on the 3rd article/abstract. With over 1 million people identifying as having both black and white heritage on the 2000 census, I don’t think it’s appropriate any longer for studies to discuss monoracial blacks and monoracial whites without out also including discussion and study of white/black biracial people.

For a positive internet community of people with european and african, black and white heritage, family, friends, and supporters, with over 100 active members, please visit http://www.mulatto.org

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