Why Don't We Know What Blackness Looks Like Anymore?:Central Cee's Racial Reveal, Tyla & More.
Why Don't We Know What Blackness Looks Like Anymore?:Central Cee's Racial Reveal, Tyla & More.
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For the record, Americans need a new lesson on the difference between ethnicity/ culture/ color-race/ language… I am very glad you pointed this out! Let’s normalize knowing the difference:
Tyla is not a representation of BLACKNESS!
“ Topanga” was NEVER Black!
As much as I adore and am a fan of Corinne Bailey Rae, her latest song about “ kinked hair” etc. kind of bugs me. She doesn’t need to be Solange.., only herself, her biracial self. Again, if this is her true path to sing stuff like that, then ok I will admit to being wrong. But Corinne is biracial… nothing wrong with claiming two ethnicities/races and owning your unique beauty.
You keep saying we lost the plot but I don’t think there ever was one (in the states). e.i. Alex Tribec situation and the one drop rule history. That’s why I don’t argue with anyone when this foolishness comes up on twitter. People will forever stay out of their mind and I just have to put my time/views/money behind the representation I want to see. Not arguing with weirdos on twitter and giving the discourse I find stupid more views
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8:35 ong 😂 It’s so weird seeing twitter discourse and people are basically begging to make someone black. You don’t hear how you sound??😒
“Spicy white” 😂
I'd love to know your opinion on Creoles like myself in Louisiana and surrounding areas. We have all shades from super light skin/white passing to chocolate and all the ones I know, including myself, identify as Black racially. We have always claimed our Blackness no matter what our phenotype may come off as. What are your thoughts on this if you have any. Thanks!
Yes a million times, I wish I could give this video more likes!! Let's make the distinction, let's keep this going. There's nothing wrong with being mixed race or making the distinction between black, white, asian, and mixed. The looks I get when I refer to someone as biracial or mixed is like I killed someone.
The one drop rule still being upheld in the black community is INSANE to me, truly. 😵💫 I genuinely think black people think if someone has a slightly round nose or tan skin or curly hair, they're black. What?? It feels very "I don't value blackness and want it to look like something else". It's done so much damage.
And the amount of times I've explained to people that Latino and Hispanic is not a race and that they're ethnicities is way too many. There are black, white, mestizo, and other mixed race people hell probably even asian people there just like everywhere else.
We need to be real about what black actually looks like. Black comes in many shades. So? Every race does. That doesn't mean everyone is black.
you need to stop gatekeeping blackness its not that serious and any issues you have with it are created by yourself
Honey, loved your video till you said that people who are IN Africa are not automatically black.. What do you mean by IN Africa, why not directly say Africans? Because, yes, African descendant people aren’t automatically black. I’m a native Mediterranean North African woman from Morocco and I definitely am not black nor Arabian/Arab. Do not bring your American colonial mindset of “Africa = black”. However, I do have family from the south with a darker skin color. No need to obsess and the victimisation. You’re American. Black or not
Then what do you call horn african majority of them are light skin!
this reminds me of that tweet in which the poster praised Thandiwe Newton's ancestors something like "the ancestors are peaking through" just because Thandiwe's daughter has curly hair. Meanwhile that girl's mom is biracial and her dad is white but these days curly hair = black.
I feel like this problem only exist in the west. I’m from Haiti and biracials have their own racial group
Nikki is from Spain and I don’t care who get mad she is not black if she’s black Cardi is as well and I don’t want to her about her father he was not fully black or her mother and you can look at Nikki family and know damn well that girl is not black she is colourd
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It’s the one drop rule in the states that got us so twisted lol realistically we’re all technically mixed if u have parents/family from the US especially
Thank you. This is exactly what I was telling a lot of black people and they kept talking crap.
Why is it always dark skinned black WOMEN (only some not most) that are so obsessed with another person's skin tone??? WHO CARES??? Don't you have anything better to do??? It's 2024, there is so much more to worry about than this silliness. Need to worry about all of these illegals that keep entering our country. People worry about the wrong things sometimes and this is definitely one of them 😒
Beyoncé is probably the greatest example over the years it seems like whitefishes more and more. To the point where mama Tina was cursing people out online about people saying Beyoncé is bleaching
Finally! Somebody said it 4:30
I´m brazilian, my father is black. My skin is very light and I deserve to be prioritized too lol
Guyana was settled by the Dutch and is one of the colonies considered part of the "West Indies"… less than 0.5% of the population is white, the population is a mix of Indian, African, and Native American.
An ethnicity is a shared cultural and DNA ancestry. The focus on skin color is Racism: a belief system that divides the world by Race and determines a person's value based on that division. Stop focusing on Skin Color. Ethnicity is so much more than that – and every single ethnicity today is a mix of different historical people.
If you look at people who moved to Northern Cities like New York City – you point blank will see that Black Immigrants from the Caribbean were more educated, more successful, and became middle class, while Black Immigrants from the Deep South (Black Rednecks) were less educated, less successful, and more likely end up in multi-generational poverty.
We have french Creole people from Louisiana (Beyonce's family is from there), and you find some very uncomfortable historical examples of black slave owners there. But you'll also find most "white" people from there average about 10% African-American ancestry. Just like there are other pockets of people in America with high mixed-race ancestry.
The USA also has incredibly successful recent immigrants from Nigeria.
The United States is super-divided along Ethnic lines, especially in large Metro Areas, but everyone pretends it doesn't exist, and it's really wild to see people live in such deep denial of it and pretend there is one unified "Black Culture".
Black is a designation created by what some may call white supremacy. Race was clearly a concept or idea created to replace class. Black is a color first and for most. The fact that the world is used to describe a people (inaccurately) is a red hairing in itself.
Black can place on those more specifically who don't have an identity. Black is seen as a skin physical appearance of what a particular human looks like. Although looks don't mean anything inthe scheme of things. So called black people have various looks to them.
Then there is the rule of Africa, which is just a land mass were people cultivated at and was named by colonisers.
White Surpremecy has turned the world completely upside down and has left death, chaos and confusion as a consequence. So called black people believe they are black based on what the system told them. Those who reject the system created by White Surpremacy refuse to be told who they are and as a result those who uphold the system of white Surpremacy criticise those who don't follow suit and identity with being called black.
We Africans know what Black people look like. We don't pretend that Tyla, Zendaya and the like are Black. But we also don't deny them their Black heritage if they have any.
As an african i have never understood why when there is a biracial person and half black is called black like how, where , how are you gonna erase the other parent.
Central Cee ambiguous?! How? On what planet?!! 😂😂😂
And Topenga?! Stahp
Part of the issue is the lack of definition of what is "black" bc as you mentioned there are definitely dark Indians but Indian is a nationality and there is a ton of colorism in India and the whole of Asia
No offence, some people dont know what it means it ACTUALLY be a black person smh
People seem to like seeing the idea of blackness on anyone but black people.
Dark skin is black and light skin is white some indian people is black because they have dark skin
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We’re doomed as a ppl man
I agree with your takes and analysis about the consequences of Blackness getting lighter and lighter. I think coming from the US context, this happens specifically because of the history of the one drop rule (as you acknowledged) and because race has always been very black and white here which was intentional during slavery. It didn’t matter how light you were in slavery if your mother was Black. This meant you had the experience of an enslaved person regardless of color/features, even if you might’ve had some special treatment. I also think race and ethnicity being tied together in the US for Black Americans (e.g. Black Americans just identifying as Black), that adds complexity to separating race from ethnicity. To call someone white because of phenotype who grew up with Black parents in a Black family essentially erases their ethnicity because they’re so entwined here. I don’t have answers to solve this problem, but I think it’s a little more complex (at least in the US) than you appreciate in this video.
To be clear, this isn’t to defend non-Black people benefiting from being perceived as Black. This is to add more nuance to the conversation about how people (specifically in the US) have to come to have complex views about appearance and race. I think a great example is Tina Knowles who is Creole and light skin, but isn’t biracial and has always been Black which is reflected in the way her name was completely disregarded and changed (Beyince to Beyonce) because of her being Black. Even within my own family, I have people that could fit into a racial ambiguity category, but have always identified as Black because that was how they were treated. I think this is true for a lot of Black Americans who can look at the diversity in their familiar and apply it to other people who that isn’t actually true for.
Finally someone spoke my mind, American one drop rule doesn't represent the whole world, let's call a spade a spade I think it innately comes from a strong desire to themselves in these racially ambiguous people, black is black, white is white and mixed is mixed…simple as that.
Also as Africans we always acknowledge our roots, if we’re biracial we say we are- but I do have to say it takes a special sense of victim complex to involve a literal African and challenge her blackness. This is why the logic of black Americans always fails- you make it about colour. Tyla is African, so what exactly is the argument? That she isn’t black enough to be African? Do you see why this hue argument is so ridiculous? You are so tied to colour you shall never be free. If people did a DNA test on Tyla she would probably have more African roots than people darker than her in the states- so this is a stupid discussion. Heal
Obama, Halle Berry, Zendaya, Kamala, and Drake are not Black people; yet Black people continue to claim them as Black. This is sad to say the least.
The collective of Black people are always trying to claim non-Black people as Black. Smh
People thinking Alex Trebec was black is wild!
Let’s be honest Mayowa the only people who confuse Eastern European as part black people are Americans. Those of us who live in Europe can very much distinguish between an Eastern European(spicy white as you called them) and a black person because we’ve been exposed to be them by virtue of our accessibility to those countries. Not once have I ever thought Rita etc was part black.
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semi-serious petition to talk about ethnicity over race because race is a relatively new concept and reveals little nuance in the understanding of an individual and the context in which they are from. like black is a hugeeeeeee category stop making the category even bigger and putting everyone who isn’t white in the abeg. we are full! thank you!
The u.s.a. had the one drop rule.
Black should be based on phynotype
White guy with Afro= black in America 😂
Central Cee definitely has black blood in him☝️
HE NEVER SAID THE N WORD LOL
This confusion is by design….Black , Afican American is not a nation ….These fictitious names or social construct s…….The diaspora must identify themselves with a nationality and not a color… Integration and race mixing is not good for the so-called black people …