http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYoRROEMnxQ



wow! the quest for identity is a mugg...

This is a PERFECT example of Dysfunctional Acceptance. Although I haven't heard this video in its entirety....the complaint is the same from those who are light skin Blacks. If a dark skin black has problems with ethnicity and you can SEE that he/she is black...then the problems with those who are "mixed" or who are considered mulatto or more politically correct "biracial" are 3 or more times as huge. Especially for young people. It starts at home. Identity. If blacks are still playing that color card...then you are gonna have young people like this "girl" confused, angry and uncertain as to who she really is. This is an old traditional twisted brainwashing phenomena that affects black folks ALL over the world, including those in the Islands and those in America-especially those who feels that any form of light skin makes them better than the average dark skin black. They are the MAIN ones who have some form of mental dysfunction cuz as they grow up in the real world, they SOON discover that it takes MORE than having just light skin and "dog" hair [which many blacks consider good hair]....to survive. I have seen children mock their parents' behavior in this area. "I'm not gonna play with you cuz your hair is nappy." Where did she get that from? Not from me. So....we, as black people, will ALWAYS have the issue regarding the color of one's skin until we are accepting to who we as a rainbow culture...otherwise....this issue of self-identity will continue to be a tragic reminder of how we SEE OURSELVES as a people especially when it comes to Black children's self image as in this case. We need to EDUCATE our children as to WHAT IT MEANS to be black, and teach them Black History...the whole ugly beautiful story of what happpened to us and WHY. Having said that....what I've seen so far in this video [which may be valid] is very young minded....and extremely immature...to say the least.

"...Because I'm not gonna go by half of someone's race", she says. What is -that half, exactly?

Then turn around and say:

"Ignorant people brings out MY irish rage". As if being irish makes them predisposed to rage.

...But she's "not ignorant".

Well alright.

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this issue of self-identity will continue to be a tragic reminder of how we SEE OURSELVES as a people especially when it comes to Black children's self image as in this case. We need to EDUCATE our children as to WHAT IT MEANS to be black, and teach them Black History...the whole ugly beautiful story of what happpened to us and WHY.

Yes.

Good points Koco...

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Originally posted by Kocolicious:
Especially for young people. It starts at home. Identity.

I'm starting to think that any of those kids that are suffering from this "limbo" problem, are only there because their Black parent dropped the ball.

In my opinion, in a family built that way, the Black parent is the quarterback on that team regarding all things racial. If the quarterback fumbles the snap, there's a huge chance of a blown play. All Black children need to be raised with at least the basic understanding of the social, political, and economic ramifications of being Black... and it's irresponsible of any Black man or woman to sit back and assume that their child having a White parent is going to let them opt out of "Black Life".

However, I can't be critical of this girl. She's obviously a teenager... and what teenager isn't confused as all hell and swimming in a sea of self-identity issues? What teenager doesn't use broken logic to justify their anger, frustration, and pain?

Like I've said before (God knows how many times)... There's nothing special about being mixed. We're all mixed. She's a Black kid just like any other.

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"I would've been in the house drinkin' lemonade"

She's clearly NOT dealing with her Black side....AT ALL!!!
THIS has to do with her upbringing.

petty sidenote: the irish 'side'/half of her family, needs to get her some braces.

Who cares, if she says she isn't Black then she isn't. I was not raised to consider mulattoes Black so I suppose I agree with to a certain extent. No disrespect to anyone mixed but I'm annoyed that white folk get to decide who is in my race. Never have they seen them as white but since we Black folk are so desperate , so without standards we accept anyone. I have to call nonesense. Let mullatoes be mulattoes and Blacks be Blacks, it isn't as if we have exactly had a great relationship anyway.

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Originally posted by Afro Saxon:
Who cares, if she says she isn't Black then she isn't. I was not raised to consider mulattoes Black so I suppose I agree with to a certain extent. No disrespect to anyone mixed but I'm annoyed that white folk get to decide who is in my race. Never have they seen them as white but since we Black folk are so desperate , so without standards we accept anyone. I have to call nonesense. Let mullatoes be mulattoes and Blacks be Blacks, it isn't as if we have exactly had a great relationship anyway.

But here lies the problem. When a mixed person identifies himself/herself as a "mulatto," rather than "black," that's dysfunctional. Why? Because mulatto is Spanish slang for "donkey" or mule. So if a mixed person is calling herself a mulatto, she's LITERALLY calling herself a jackass. IMO, mulatto is somewhat worse than the N-word, because there's something really deranged when a person, prefers to identify himself as a farm animal, than a human being of color, particularly one of African descent. So if she wants to identify herself as a farm animal, er, mulatto, (i.e. jackass), then let her be a jackass. She just can't get mad at the connotation/definition, because she can't benefit from it. Gotta take the good with the bad.

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--Albert Einstein

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Originally posted by Black Viking:
Good points Koco...

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Originally posted by Kocolicious:
Especially for young people. It starts at home. Identity.

I'm starting to think that any of those kids that are suffering from this "limbo" problem, are only there because their Black parent dropped the ball.

In my opinion, in a family built that way, the Black parent is the quarterback on that team regarding all things racial. If the quarterback fumbles the snap, there's a huge chance of a blown play. All Black children need to be raised with at least the basic understanding of the social, political, and economic ramifications of being Black... and it's irresponsible of any Black man or woman to sit back and assume that their child having a White parent is going to let them opt out of "Black Life".

However, I can't be critical of this girl. She's obviously a teenager... and what teenager isn't confused as all hell and swimming in a sea of self-identity issues? What teenager doesn't use broken logic to justify their anger, frustration, and pain?

Like I've said before (God knows how many times)... There's nothing special about being mixed. We're all mixed. She's a Black kid just like any other.

I agree.

A major part of this problem is based in the 'Children and Youth' agencies operated by the State.

There is a truism at work in our society which says basically that any home is better than no home.

The Children and Youth agencies 'tag' these children as 'black'...which in the hegemony of our society means the child is of the group of Americans who are of 'unknown African ancestry'.

These children are often, if not mostly, placed in homes of European Americans.

They adoptive parents don't know how to teach these children who they are.

Many such parents don't even try thinking that to not teach them who they are is to the child's ultimate benefit.

It is a sad situation...for them..., and for us.

PEACE

Jim Chester