LOL thats what i was tryna explain to the other BLACK POWER girl. To be proud to be black, means I'm shunning the fact that I'm hispanic? I'm proud of my Brown Skin..well cuz it's mine lol, but I also LOVE that I grew up with bachata salsa and meregue, all my neighbors LOOK different but we all balance each other out. ( yeah, people here in FL, think I'm lying when I tell them haitians can be light LMAO so I went on facebook and pointed out like 20 that I knew smh) ....now in NY I did throw a lot of people my age for a loop, like they expected me to be dominican or something LMAO I even had people tell me I was too dark to be hispanic and ESPECIALLY cuban...but the adults...they'd been around enough diversity to know that "my kind" was possible LMAO
Quoting momandher8:
maybe because I am from Brooklyn NY and live around people of all backgrounds, cultures, religions, etc... I mean we really enjoy each other. White people from Jamacia, a female whose father is a chinese man with a trinadadian accent, haitian woman who were lighter than me, black familes such as myself that come from mixed unions... so we living in New York really do not deal with each other based on color.. its about relating with each other.. spanish, white, blacks.. it really never came to question
Quoting GoddessNDaRuff:
lol what time period did all that occur in?
Quoting momandher8:
Quoting JakesMom712:
Whaaaaaaat tf is going on today?You know I watched black. white. last night into this morning about race relations here in america and it really intrigued me... why does there have to be a label.. what happened to us being people and belonging to the human race.. what happen to just loving what you get and who you are with no matter what the color is...
There are people of all races that will not like a certain race for a certain reason but I find that there are a majority of us that do not look at race and love each other.
Diversity is beautiful...lol
I have met soooo many different people and because of my exposure it didn't shock me, rather it just added to me being intrigued and blessed to have had that opportunity... like I met a male from Charleston SC with a carribean accent.. and that right there always made me pause, when he used terms that I only thought to be heard from people from the islands I was tickled and did research on him and found that he was part of the Gullah people of SC... However living in NY we rarely had to notice color, we did address differences, but I worked with Jewish people that encouraged me to participate with them an learn their culture, almost to the point where my kids protested..lol.. and the intergration of different cultures here in NY... and we share in the experience, so that's why I don't see color like that.. I see human and treat those as such.
Quoting MandiFuego:
LOL thats what i was tryna explain to the other BLACK POWER girl. To be proud to be black, means I'm shunning the fact that I'm hispanic? I'm proud of my Brown Skin..well cuz it's mine lol, but I also LOVE that I grew up with bachata salsa and meregue, all my neighbors LOOK different but we all balance each other out. ( yeah, people here in FL, think I'm lying when I tell them haitians can be light LMAO so I went on facebook and pointed out like 20 that I knew smh) ....now in NY I did throw a lot of people my age for a loop, like they expected me to be dominican or something LMAO I even had people tell me I was too dark to be hispanic and ESPECIALLY cuban...but the adults...they'd been around enough diversity to know that "my kind" was possible LMAO
Quoting momandher8:
maybe because I am from Brooklyn NY and live around people of all backgrounds, cultures, religions, etc... I mean we really enjoy each other. White people from Jamacia, a female whose father is a chinese man with a trinadadian accent, haitian woman who were lighter than me, black familes such as myself that come from mixed unions... so we living in New York really do not deal with each other based on color.. its about relating with each other.. spanish, white, blacks.. it really never came to question
Quoting GoddessNDaRuff:
lol what time period did all that occur in?
Quoting momandher8:
Quoting JakesMom712:
Whaaaaaaat tf is going on today?You know I watched black. white. last night into this morning about race relations here in america and it really intrigued me... why does there have to be a label.. what happened to us being people and belonging to the human race.. what happen to just loving what you get and who you are with no matter what the color is...
There are people of all races that will not like a certain race for a certain reason but I find that there are a majority of us that do not look at race and love each other.
Quoting MandiFuego:LOL thats what i was tryna explain to the other BLACK POWER girl. To be proud to be black, means I'm shunning the fact that I'm hispanic? I'm proud of my Brown Skin..well cuz it's mine lol, but I also LOVE that I grew up with bachata salsa and meregue, all my neighbors LOOK different but we all balance each other out. ( yeah, people here in FL, think I'm lying when I tell them haitians can be light LMAO so I went on facebook and pointed out like 20 that I knew smh) ....now in NY I did throw a lot of people my age for a loop, like they expected me to be dominican or something LMAO I even had people tell me I was too dark to be hispanic and ESPECIALLY cuban...but the adults...they'd been around enough diversity to know that "my kind" was possible LMAO
Quoting momandher8:
maybe because I am from Brooklyn NY and live around people of all backgrounds, cultures, religions, etc... I mean we really enjoy each other. White people from Jamacia, a female whose father is a chinese man with a trinadadian accent, haitian woman who were lighter than me, black familes such as myself that come from mixed unions... so we living in New York really do not deal with each other based on color.. its about relating with each other.. spanish, white, blacks.. it really never came to question
Quoting GoddessNDaRuff:
lol what time period did all that occur in?
Quoting momandher8:
Quoting JakesMom712:
Whaaaaaaat tf is going on today?
You know I watched black. white. last night into this morning about race relations here in america and it really intrigued me... why does there have to be a label.. what happened to us being people and belonging to the human race.. what happen to just loving what you get and who you are with no matter what the color is...
There are people of all races that will not like a certain race for a certain reason but I find that there are a majority of us that do not look at race and love each other.
Quoting MyJaidon:
Category: Thing
C__N BUFF__NERY
"Pat I would like to buy a vowel, an 'O'."
Sorry I like game shows.
Quoting JakesMom712:
Whaaaaaaat tf is going on today?
I'm totally, dead ass serious when I ask how pro black IS you w/a handle like Pocahontas? That's a strong native American woman's name, not black!
Quoting MyJaidon:
Category: Thing
C__N BUFF__NERY
"Pat I would like to buy a vowel, an 'O'."
Sorry I like game shows.
Quoting JakesMom712:
Whaaaaaaat tf is going on today?
Quoting Bunsmommy:
I'm mad at myself bc I sat here trying to figure this out. Then I saw you ask Pat for an O and was like "yes, yes!".
I'm totally, dead ass serious when I ask how pro black IS you w/a handle like Pocahontas? That's a strong native American woman's name, not black!Quoting MyJaidon:
Category: Thing
C__N BUFF__NERY
"Pat I would like to buy a vowel, an 'O'."
Sorry I like game shows.
Quoting JakesMom712:
Whaaaaaaat tf is going on today?
Power to the people Revolution! (holds up power fist)
LOL No really I don't know. But I did learn something this week about colorism issues in africa, how hip hop has influenced and has been morphed to mean something in other countries, and why you shouldn't inject yourself with melanin killing products or use skin lightening creams so it hasn't been a complete waste. I'm sure I've missed what I was supposed to be learning from it all but hey.
Quoting nikabear:
I have been in this group for a mighty long time and I have never seen so many racial charged posts! What are yall trying to prove really? Who left the damn gate open cause this ish right here is a mess.....
Like If You Know Who She Is
- PocahontasPrtty
on May. 3, 2012 at 6:19 PM