Your type of mentality only increases the divisiveness that CREATES the prejudices and lack of understanding between groups, problems that this site was set up to counter.

Arguing that “Mulattoes” have been socialised against their interests, with the obvious implication that they should let go of their blackness as it is “holding them back”, just buys into the whole racial hierarchy that discriminates against anyone who is NOT WHITE, including YOU.

You are selfish and racist and deluded if you think creating a little faux category for yourself just one step up from “blackness” is going to make you more acceptable to white society. In my experience, black people and other people of color have been the most accepting of the reality of my mixed roots. Most white people have been all too keen to pigeonhole me as just another “ethnic”.

YOU are the one that needs to find their self.

I can say that I can’t recall every dreaming about becoming white or wishing I were white. In fact for me it was sort of the opposite. I use to wish my hair was kinky so that I could look like the other girls in my neighborhood. My mother always wanted me to wear my hair down, but I wanted to wear it in braids!! I got my hair done in braids once, but my hair was “too straight” and so my braids didn’t keep.

Still even if she had more people of color around her or whatever, she wouldn’t necessarily have escaped the tyranny of white standards of beauty, lol. For sure plenty of “black” girls growing up in the “black community” alone pick up on some form of that I-want-to-be-a-white-girl thing too. I’d venture to say likewise for some other communities of color.

I didn’t say all Egyptians look like Halle Berry. It’s a country of 70 million people. I said that Egypt is filled with people that look like her, which I don’t think is a controversial statement. And the DR is filled with people that look like her too (in terms of sharing features that are a combination of european/white and african/black).

And the DR being a country of several million of course “not all Dominicans would accept her”. That’s true of any group of several million people at any point in time anywhere.

As for me becoming so “very irritating” that I shouldn’t post to MMW comments, I’ll leave that judgment to JC and CVK. They have complete power to choose whether or not each submitted comment I write ends up showing up here. If you don’t like the comments they choose to approve, perhaps it would be better for you to take your very irritated self somewhere else. *shrug*

Not all Egyptians look like Halle, and plenty would be offended if you suggested such. Dominicians come in a varity of skin tones, facial features, and hair textures. Not all Dominicians would except Halle. I know, I’m Dominican myself. Why don’t you take your ‘middle phenotype, brown power’ rant somewhere else. You’re becoming very irritating.

http://www.mulatto.org a website for folks mixed with european and african, black and white, family, friends, and supporters.

http://www.mulatto.org

Although it just may be a
“falling along the color lines” phenomenon, so that mixed-ness doesn’t matter. Didn’t Whoopi GOldberg have an early skit about being a young girl and similating “white” hair with a towel?

When I was little, I didn’t want to be white per se. Probably because people couldn’t tell at first glance what group I looked like, and I’ve never been noted for my looks ;). I do remember, though, just wishing that I looked more like my mother, who is white. I remember the feeling not necessarily being about skin, but in a general way because she was my main parent and I was sick of people not KNOWING that she was my mom.