|
|
Post by Planet Asia on Jan 24, 2006 15:50:56 GMT -5
Ask anything about African-Americans, of course in good taste.
|
|
Atreyu
Junior Member
I am Atreyu with the Plains people who hunt the purple buffalo
Posts: 79
|
Post by Atreyu on Jan 24, 2006 15:54:25 GMT -5
Are you lonley?
|
|
|
|
Post by Planet Asia on Jan 24, 2006 16:00:57 GMT -5
What does this have to do with AAs? Thats a personal question I'm not answering. |
|
Atreyu
Junior Member
I am Atreyu with the Plains people who hunt the purple buffalo
Posts: 79
|
Post by Atreyu on Jan 24, 2006 16:03:25 GMT -5
What does this have to do with AAs? Thats a personal question I'm not answering. "Ask an African-American anything" How many hours do you think you spend on the interenet on one day? how about in a week? |
|
|
|
Post by Agrippa on Jan 24, 2006 16:18:50 GMT -5
Do you think there are still AA around which would prefer segregation and own administration in their areas - with clear borders for all racial groups and autonomy for them. Not to forget that at the moment many AA areas are economically and socially dominated by other ethnoracial groups and the decrease of White America will just push them at the end as well, not bringing them in a much better situation with individual exceptions...
Serious question.
Furthermore dont feel many AA that Halle Berry is simply stupid if crying for "her 1st black success" when she has a Swedish mother?
Such concepts of "Black" are idiotic. Obviously defining an ethnic or political unity (aka "African American") can be something different not depending on racial purity...
|
|
|
|
Post by alaina on Jan 24, 2006 16:22:51 GMT -5
Furthermore dont feel many AA that Halle Berry is simply stupid if crying for "her 1st black success" when she has a Swedish mother? No. Black American identity is different than your conception. |
|
|
|
Post by Agrippa on Jan 24, 2006 16:25:57 GMT -5
Furthermore dont feel many AA that Halle Berry is simply stupid if crying for "her 1st black success" when she has a Swedish mother? No. Black American identity is different than your conception. Well, if thats the case its the result of the one drop rule ideology and mixed people have a problem with their Caucasoid part-identity. I mean things are relatively clear from 1/4 other admixture and even more so if lower, but being half of one racial type and still doing so like being "African" is strange. However, social constructs, ethnic identity and political unity are something different oftentimes - not just in the AA case. |
|
|
|
Post by Educate Me on Jan 24, 2006 16:26:32 GMT -5
Why are mulatos considered black in the USA when they are actually as white as black?
|
|
Atreyu
Junior Member
I am Atreyu with the Plains people who hunt the purple buffalo
Posts: 79
|
Post by Atreyu on Jan 24, 2006 16:27:38 GMT -5
Halle Berry in jim crow days would be black.She isnt black black as in genetics but no one is going to mistake her for a white women any time soon.
|
|
Atreyu
Junior Member
I am Atreyu with the Plains people who hunt the purple buffalo
Posts: 79
|
Post by Atreyu on Jan 24, 2006 16:33:49 GMT -5
Why are mulatos considered black in the USA when they are actually as white as black? Most of them look black. |
|
|
|
Post by Agrippa on Jan 24, 2006 16:35:11 GMT -5
Another self-appointed expert.  How would you know the basis of the complex identity of AA's? Are you going to school me? No need to, but I might just speak about my perspective and you might see some things different - or not. Everytime people speak of complex realities they usually try to avoid facing reality. Its not the same if speaking about scientific problems oftentimes, but its the case in most "human questions". Furthermore most people finally function in a similar-same way, just some accents and levels are different, group dynamics, psychology and human ethology explain many things better than reading 10 books about a historical problem in most of the cases, things just repeating itself. That doesnt mean that reading the historical works is dispensable, even on the contrary, but for real explanations and solutions many works "which try to impress by complexity" are finally dispensable. Furthermore if I raise my opinion I might be right or wrong, expert or not. Does it fit reality, thats what counts. |
|
|
|
Post by oubit on Jan 24, 2006 16:37:31 GMT -5
Are there many African-Americans, who think they *automatically* know a lot about traditional African culture just because they look (more or less) like people from this continent?
|
|
|
|
Post by annienormanna on Jan 24, 2006 16:46:51 GMT -5
Why are mulatos considered black in the USA when they are actually as white as black? Slavery. The written proof is in the original articles of the Constitution of the United States. The laws to enforce Slave Identity were based on Slave States claims on runaway slaves who left those states. They required classification systems based on "admixture." When you create Hell it doesn't go away. |
|
|
|
Post by ndrthl on Jan 24, 2006 17:00:48 GMT -5
How is it to live like a black man in the US society? Social interactions, frequency of explicit and implicit racial discrimination, etc.
|
|
|
|
Post by eastanglian on Jan 24, 2006 19:00:01 GMT -5
English mother actually ;D
|
|
How would you know the basis of the complex identity of AA's? Are you going to school me?
