How come someone who only has 25% African ancestry is called black?

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: DefDC
Heh.. I always found "X-American" to be a stupid way of labeling people.

White guy from South Africa get's his US citizenship = African American
White Russian get his = Asian-American
ETC.

When in college, the ACTUAL Joe Clark from "Lean on Me" fame came to speak. He said he hated the term "African-American".

You aren't clever with the "African American" remark, give it a rest. The African in "African American" refers to ethnicity, not countries.

so i should go around calling myself an Italian American then because im of italian decent?

 

[0roo0roo]

its the liberal media hitler standard. pure aryan or ur black.

 

[bignateyk]

It's about skin color, not race. Black != African American

 

[0roo0roo]

nope, some of those mixed blacks are whiter than some asians.

so its not about skin color.

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: DefDC
Heh.. I always found "X-American" to be a stupid way of labeling people.

White guy from South Africa get's his US citizenship = African American
White Russian get his = Asian-American
ETC.

When in college, the ACTUAL Joe Clark from "Lean on Me" fame came to speak. He said he hated the term "African-American".

You aren't clever with the "African American" remark, give it a rest. The African in "African American" refers to ethnicity, not countries.

so i should go around calling myself an Italian American then because im of italian decent?

Aren't you already classified as Italian American? If someone asks you about your ethnicity, you'll say you're Italian American or Italian won't you? I don't see what the big deal is.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Throckmorton

Originally posted by: DefDC
Heh.. I always found "X-American" to be a stupid way of labeling people.

White guy from South Africa get's his US citizenship = African American
White Russian get his = Asian-American
ETC.

When in college, the ACTUAL Joe Clark from "Lean on Me" fame came to speak. He said he hated the term "African-American".

You aren't clever with the "African American" remark, give it a rest. The African in "African American" refers to ethnicity, not countries.

so i should go around calling myself an Italian American then because im of italian decent?

Aren't you already classified as Italian American? If someone asks you about your ethnicity, you'll say you're Italian American or Italian won't you? I don't see what the big deal is.

no i answer with im americian, my great grandfather was the first in his family born in the US and he never refered to himself as an Italian American, he was just an Americian

 

[Pacfanweb]

Originally posted by: QueBert

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
Oddly enough, in a book I read years ago it seems that in Africa, unless you're a full-blooded black, you are considered "colored". That means many US blacks would be considered colored in Africa, and IIRC sort of looked down upon not only by the whites but by the blacks there as well.

I've always thought it was funny that stars like Halle Berry and Alicia Keys, who both have one white parent, were considered black. Especially funny is Alicia Keys, who fakes a ghetto accent in interviews, but I remember seeing a show about her getting ready for an awards show with her mom there, and around her mom she spoke plain English. Guess she uses whatever she needs when it's convenient.

I also have two nieces that are 1/2 black, but consider themselves white. (white mom, black crackhead dad) But they get some college assistance because of being minorities. Can't really blame them, though....the mom is poor and couldn't send them to school otherwise, and they're really good kids.

Um Alicia grew up in the ghetto, but not all ghetto people speak "ghetto" 24/7. She grew up in the slums of Brooklyn I doubt the accent you're questioning is fake. Maybe she just speaks proper around her mother because it's her mother? I went to school in the ghetto and hung out with "ghetto" people, but around my parents and family I speak much like you do, ghetto doesn't = ignorant person who's unable to speak properly. If anything Alicia speaks very eloquently in the interviews I've seen, I've love to see you link me to a video of her speaking ghetto like.

Look for it yourself. I know what I saw, and don't care if you saw it or not....bottom line is, she knows how to speak English; I've seen her do it. If she knows how she's SUPPOSED to speak, and does it around her mother or anywhere else, then starts using the ghetto accent elsewhere, that is FAKE all the way.

No different than Madonna's fake British accent she's acquired. At least hers is somewhat understandable since she lives there.

Just like Garth Brook's fake voice he uses to sing country music with. Listen to him talk, listen to the songs he's recorded in his REAL voice, and it sounds nothing like his country albums. Go find his cover of the old KISS song, "Hard Luck Woman"...that's his real voice.

 

[lokiju]

Repost?

 

[zinfamous]

b/c once you go black, you don't never go back?