Being biracial in America is a weird Schrodinger's cat existence of being both black and white, and neither black or white at the same time. At least that's been my experience.

@fredleeland2464

Жыл бұрын

All about perception

@butchbottoms

Жыл бұрын

Being black and Mexican American has a similar effect of being doubled. I exist but I don't. I am black, native, and white but I am also none of those things according to how I'm perceived. Shit's made up.

@epicmarschmallow5049

Жыл бұрын

Uh so when I look at you, you become black or white and never change from then on? Taking the analogy to its logical conclusion

@dogsandyoga1743

Жыл бұрын

As someone who is not biracial, but living with a person who is (past 25 years) I will say that it can vary by upbringing. I know someone who is biracial (technically) but has always, to my understanding, identified as, lived as, and considers herself a 100% BW. To the point of being Hotep at times 😂. You can tell her she's otherwise at your own risk 😂

@willowvin6627

Жыл бұрын

this. However I will agree that it definitely varies on how you're socialized. For me, being mixed was brought up all the time because my school really wanted to push the "racism is no more" thing. I was brought up as "proof". However I was also not included in black groups (not black enough), and bullied in white groups (for obvious reasons, I'm light-skinned but still obviously brown).

”you are whatever the cops see you as” is acc such an interesting take. as an asian american, I got labelled as “white” on police records when I got a traffic ticket, and I have firsthand witnessed my mom turn on her confused innocent asian woman persona to talk herself out of a traffic ticket (she very much purposefully made that illegal left turn lol). yet i’ve also experienced an array of mistreatment, anything from people calling me “coronavirus” or “communist spy” to straight up criminal acts of ab**se/discrimination. it’s distinctly bizarre to be treated as “one of us” one second and as someone who is subhuman or a threat the next. to my experience, asian americans are a so-called model minority used as a talking point against other POC, and on the flip side a convenient geopolitical scapegoat. i’m a white-adjacent “good POC” until they need someone disposable to push blame onto🧐

@mistymoooooor

Жыл бұрын

hell no im not letting a cop tell me who i am

@yunglynda1326

Жыл бұрын

well said

@realSimoneCherie

Жыл бұрын

In practice, America only recognizes 2 colors: first is White- anyone who is white is considered white socially and occasionally on paper. If you possess enough western European features you are white-passing and likely also treated as a legitimate white (even if you have no European dna like most east Asians) Second is Black- black supposedly means that you possess a substantive amount of African dna , but actually in practice black just means visibly POC - so even if you have no African DNA (like most south Asian Americans) you are likely to go through some variety of fuckery socially, and occasionally on paper.

@shepglennon8760

Жыл бұрын

@@realSimoneCherie so out of these two options, where does her experience as an Asian American fit? 🙏

@thesisterversepod

Жыл бұрын

I saw someone say that how people are treated or prejudiced has less to do with their 'whiteness', but their 'proximity to blackness' in any circumstance.

I’m biracial as well. I identify as both a black and biracial. I’m not white passing and have VERY thick Afro hair that’s more in line with fully black people. I also grew up in a predominantly white area and have never been perceived as anything but Black by my peers and have dealt with. Something I think needs to be more talked about is the racism some biracial people deal with from their own white families. My father is a racist trump supporter who saw my mother as an exception when he met her. My mom had divorced him long ago but mistakenly assumed he couldn’t be racist because he was with her and let him have partial custody of us. The last time I saw him he called my brother a slur and then kicked me out for standing up for him. This is why I don’t care when someone says “I can’t be racist because I have black _____”. You absolutely can be and I tell people all the time to fully vet someone if you’re dating outside your race. Because you and your family will be subjected to that abuse if they are racist

@blghbeats6527

Жыл бұрын

yup true

@i.i1215

Жыл бұрын

You’re biracial not black you’re both

@luca.mayflowers

Жыл бұрын

Wow are you me? I mean I look more black than white but still mixed, but the family dynamic is highly relatable.

@calidawg510

11 ай бұрын

If you identify as black….don’t claim to be biracial.

@kingkobi99

10 ай бұрын

"racist Trump supporter". That's all I needed to know your dad probably isn't racist.

As a Nigerian, I find this discourse in the USA very fascinating. We don't struggle with this in most of sub-saharan Africa; if you have one parent of a different race you are considered mixed race. I think part of the issue in the US is the interchangeability of race and ethnicity, i.e. Black and African-American. In Nigeria if one of your parents is Igbo/Yoruba/Tiv/Itsekiri etc. you are 100% that, as well as 100% a part of your other parents culture too, not being "black" does not lead to you being disconnected or blocked (whatever the case) from your African culture and heritage. You belong, because you are one of us, especially if you were raised in the culture.

@Vhlathanosh

Жыл бұрын

Every time you see it brought up just think racism and you'll understand.

@kayade5305

Жыл бұрын

But in this case, imagine someone like Maria Carey being considered not white enough and they try to say she can claim Black...but can his his 25% white wife claim any part of whiteness?

@niquelove2074

Жыл бұрын

It's not tho only bi people trying to make it one when we tell them their simple truth that their mixed. Black really ain't worry about this. They are who they are and we are who we are and no darker colour can change that as if there's not 100& light sink people who was not raped because that what they like to say about light black people smh.

@ronalddeleon3991

Жыл бұрын

The complication is the one drop rule. There are people who the US government would label as black to keep whiteness pure. So that draws complication in identity. And since it hasn’t been law for years we as black Americans hold onto it since it’s been centuries. We as black people need to let it go

@Leticiapais_

Жыл бұрын

I think them being unable to process interchangeability is the legacy of segregation.

From my experience being mixed white and Asian, I find that a lot of people seem kind of offended by biracialness. Biracial people challenge their idea of how race/ethnicity works, but instead of realizing they need to change how they think about the concept, they decide it’s biracial people who are the problem for not following conventions correctly.

@LUX_8

Жыл бұрын

Question. How do you identify? And how does the "Asian" community, at-large, view you?

@nbv6975

Жыл бұрын

@@LUX_8 That’s a complex question. I guess I identify as a mixed/biracial person, and as a Japanese-American, but also as a white person. I’m more white looking than most fully white people, that is what I am, and that’s how the world treats me. But that doesn’t mean that my ethnicity isn’t my ethnicity, or the culture I was raised with isn’t my culture. I can’t really say how the “Asian” community at large views me, because that’s far too broad. It just depends on the person. But unless I tell people otherwise, most everyone always assume I’m fully white.

@camille3083

Жыл бұрын

@@nbv6975 I’m sure if you are fully white presenting then generally Asians love you. White/Asians usually are more accepting of each other, so I don’t see you having an issue like a black/white biracial. I am curious though to read about Asian/white people and their experiences with how they are perceived and if it’s more positive or negative.

@kiaracoleman3310

Жыл бұрын

this is why people are offended by “biracialness” because you guys choose not to see the deeper issue… that’s a multi faceted statement. a lot of you have this “you guys are just bitter” attitude towards shit and it’s annoying as fuck. like no. you know exactly what’s going on and that’s what makes people even more annoyed. monoracial people shouldn’t have to be categorized with biracial people because desirability politics (which is dehumanizing by the way) will always skew the representation of said group. like in 2022 we should not be having biracial women being portrayed as a character with two black parents. there’s millions of mono racial people out there to fill those roles. and then they also get to fill the roles of actually biracial people. then there’s whole demographic of people and we know who they are, who are excluded from the narrative and that’s fucked up and unfair. there’s more i could say but i’m tired

@beansfebreeze

Жыл бұрын

@@kiaracoleman3310 dawg you should really chill with the whole "you people" rhetoric and just say what you mean because rn you kinda sound like you're anti race mixing tbh. Just say colorism is a problem (valid argument) and that you think acting should be dictated by the exact genetic makeup of your parents (absolutely unhinged argument)

Your "female gaze" is just you looking disappointed in us lmao

@wajikay

Жыл бұрын

That’s most females in my life 😭

@Sevenpuddingsx

Жыл бұрын

@@wajikay RIP guy 😭

@yukiandkanamekuran

Жыл бұрын

honestly the female gaze thing confused me because its like. that guy in the tiktok looked like a serial killer.

@sunnyday274

Жыл бұрын

@@yukiandkanamekuran you know, I didn’t get it until you made this comment. I thought maybe I was being to judgmental because I’m lesbian and don’t personally understand what makes that guy so attractive but now I completely understand, straight ladies on tiktok loooooove serial killers.

@NoConsequenc3

Жыл бұрын

@@sunnyday274 can you explain why lesbians love Jerma985 though, it's a mystery to me

If you think the race thing is a mess in the US, you should see Brazil. Here, we have a 3rd race reserved for people with black heritage that don't want to call themselves or don't see themselves as black, which is "pardo" (it literally means something like tan or light brown). Brazil is EXTREMELY mixed to a point where lots and lots of people don't have any idea what their race is (including me). I have been called black, white, mixed, biracial, parda, mulatto, latina... And whenever i choose one of these to identify myself with, i get hate. Both of my parents are mixed. My mother's mother is biracial (black and white). My mother is biracial (black and white + turkish). My father's father is white. His mother is biracial (white and indigenous). There are so many different races in my family tree that the only way I can accurately describe myself is as a mixed person. I simultaneously look white, black, middle eastern and indigenous. And i look like none of those races, too. I have no idea what I am.

@tesmith47

Жыл бұрын

You can choose to be a human working for HUMAN JUSTICE

@rockyrobleedo3008

Жыл бұрын

@@tesmith47pizza rolls are better tho

@dontaskdonttell_

9 ай бұрын

Highly recommend a 23&me DNA test! ❤

@tawanagradybulgado9385

8 ай бұрын

I spent 2 weeks in Brazil (Rio). It was talked about and it's so sad

@ideac.

7 ай бұрын

As a pardo i also completely understand. Ive lived in the North, South and Southeast and in all of these places, many people have called me brown, white or simply mixed. And since i was a child, getting called black or white always felt off for me, i would always tell them that my parents had different skin colors therefore i couldnt be just one. But yeah in Brazil the race thing is even harder to know, and honestly, that can be seen as a good thing too. Perhaps we are at a level that skin color just shouldnt matter anymore since most of us are all mixed at its roots.

I've studied genetics, and one of the things they teach in an introductory human genetics class is that skin color is a multigenic trait, meaning that it's controlled by dozens of different genes that affect each other in different ways. There's very little way to predict a kid's exact shade based on the parents'shades alone without doing a genetic analysis. Just anecdotally, I grew up alongside a lot of mixed race kids with a white parent and an East Asian parent and very often these kids were darker than either parent, because genetics are super complicated and hard to predict.

@feliznavidad6958

Жыл бұрын

Skin color has next to nothing to to with race. They dont even use it in forensic anthropology. Hair texture and skull shape are used to determine race along with facial features. There are certain skin color alleles only found in specific populations but only place I saw those used were in a study done on Ethiopians who have light skin alleles found in Eurasians since they have been found to have around 40% Eurasian dna.

@electricay

Жыл бұрын

My dad ain't even light skin and I might be the lightest person I know lol

@59Gretsch

9 ай бұрын

Sure skin color varies for a number of reasons but the reality is Africans carry certain genetic traits and if you’re half African you’re going to carry some of those traits and there’s no mistaking them.

@mahrinui18

9 ай бұрын

@@59Gretsch To a certain extent that's true, but genetics is really complicated and people often don't look like you'd expect them to. For instance, the comedian Lukas Arnold is half-Black and looks completely white, no real trace of his African ancestry in his appearance.

@59Gretsch

9 ай бұрын

@@mahrinui18 Some of what you say is true but it depends on how far apart genetics are. I would bet lots of money that Lukas black parent, was in fact not very black. African genes are very dominant. If you blend an Arab with an English, the Phenotype will present its self but by the next generation, it would be less obvious.

100% with you on the child court system upholding the patriarchy. The patriarchal men think children should be cared for by their mothers and that men should be providing for the family. And then when they get divorced and the court says the mother should care for the children and the father should provide, they turn around say "wow look women have all the power!" without realizing they created and support the system that has to operate that way. For some reason it took me a long time to get this when I was sort of in this sphere, but once you see it it makes perfect sense.

@imanigordon6803

Жыл бұрын

FD literally describes how the whole of men didn’t create the system hence why it’s anti-men. However, for the redpill ytbers it’s extremely hypocritical.

@TheoCynical

Жыл бұрын

Thing is, the women's lib movement adjusted but the justice system didn't adjust with it taking into account of working women. So the system remains sexist but to the detriment of men. Trad men want want values that many contemporary women probably despise yet will take advantage of a system that benefits then like divorce and division of assets. SaHM is a job indeed. I'm just saying it hasn't adjusted for women's desire for Equality and when it actually does happen like for Adele or Hallie Berry, then ppl complain it's a man getting benefits from their higher earning woman counterpart. It sucks on both sides when it happens.

@miss_chelles1338

Жыл бұрын

Literally me.

@wesleywyndam-pryce5305

Жыл бұрын

@@TheoCynical traditional values are garbage values. no women are not "taking advantage of the system"

@LC-sc3en

Жыл бұрын

@@imanigordon6803 this is you agreeing with the comment above right? I consider "the patriarchal men" to be a subset of all men. And "red pill youtubers" to be a subset of "patriarchal men".

We’re about to experience the Little Joel-ification of FD, this should be fun.

@BrigitteEmpire

Жыл бұрын

We’re all booby champs now

@jortiz7920

Жыл бұрын

Ay what you mean by that? 😭

@GabrielRodriguez-vv6lb

Жыл бұрын

This is an artisan KZread Channel!!! He would never use TikTok's!!!

@kuromi8384

Жыл бұрын

omgggg i hope so

@hallehuckleberry

Жыл бұрын

@@BrigitteEmpire let’s get twisted

I'm black and Puerto Rican, but I'm fucking ambiguous as shit and I'm always so self conscious about not being seen as black to black people but still having to deal with the negative connotations of being black. it sucks being alienated from half of myself because my hair doesn't curl enough or because I missed out on like one niche part of having a "black childhood" it turns blackness into this performance that has to be mastered for those who don't look the part

@anothervictory2595

Жыл бұрын

That sounds terrible. Ppl need to think before creating mixed children.

@mardalfossen

7 ай бұрын

I’m black and Puerto Rican too but I look very black Caribbean so I was always seen as “ethnic” black and alienated by African Americans based on that despite by dark skin. Then with Puerto Ricans I was just african american despite us eating the same foods and sharing the culture. I’ve always felt alienated by everyone and it’s hard. I don’t consider myself biracial just black for race and Puerto Rican for ethnicity.

@martyrx3436

7 ай бұрын

That doesn’t make sense. Puerto Rican is a nationality. You can be a Black Puerto Rican…

@mardalfossen

7 ай бұрын

@@martyrx3436 that’s what I’m saying? Racist people don’t get that Puerto Rican is a nationality and ethnicity but not a race.

@user-cf8zs4up2b

7 ай бұрын

I'm biracial too and my parents helped me understand that Im not black. I'm definitely not a white person. No matter how society SEES me I'm BIRACIAL and that has helped move through the world confidently. My stomach turns at people who try to pressure biracial people into thinking they are black it's not biologically true bottom line.

I just want to know… when white peoples don’t consider biracial people as white, or another races don’t consider half black people as their respective race… why isn’t it an issue. Why are black people the only ones villainized for not considering biracial people who are half black as black, and viewing them as what they are… biracial. Most groups completely erase biracial people from their race and just call them black. Some Black people are simply considering biracial people exactly what they are and somehow that’s offensive. I don’t get it.

@toomuchinformation

Жыл бұрын

It's the one drop rule which BP insist on keeping, Lord knows why.

@anothervictory2595

Жыл бұрын

They love bullying us. Whenever I see full-blooded blk ppl go hard for biracial acceptance I know it's because they're planning on having a biracial child in the future. Otherwise, why else would they fight against their own interests?

@anothervictory2595

Жыл бұрын

@@toomuchinformation They're securing a spot for their biracial children atop the blk colorism hierarchy. They know that they won't be accepted by their yt side, so we become the dumping ground for the rejects.

@DarkAngel2512

6 ай бұрын

White people donnt view mixed race people as white OR black because theyre not. Theyre mixed. Its not that difficult.

@brydonthunder

5 ай бұрын

Jim Crow laws still have a strong influence on the peoples mind. Most of my American friends have trouble acknowledging anyone as being anything other than black that is mixed race. Anglo-African Asian-African Caribbean/ Black South American all = black

I found your thoughts on mixed race discourse really interesting. There’s a saying in indigenous communities in Australia (I am a white Australian) that relates to this “it doesn’t matter how much milk you add to tea, it’s still tea” The context behind this attitude is long and harrowing, for the full picture you should research “the stolen generation”. Basically, the federal government was actively trying to “breed out” blackness (indigenous Australian are also considered black, they are not African diaspora) they would kidnap pale black children, put them missionary schools and try to integrate them into white society (they would not have the same basic rights as their white neighbours) so that they could marry a white person and have children that would pass as white. This practice started in the early 1800s and “stoped” in the 1970s (black children are still being rehomed at not only a higher rate than white children but at higher rates than they were during the stolen generation, the 70s is just when explicit government policy changed) This is one of the many forms of genocide the government commuted against the indigenous peoples of Australia. However it has resulted in an extremely welcoming attitude to mixed race aboriginal people (hence the saying).

@trampoline11x

Жыл бұрын

Same exact thing in the US with the Native children as well, almost point by point. It was considered quit legal and moral to take children away from their "primitive and degenerative" families to be re-educated to forget all about their heritage. It was only in recent decades they managed to have laws passed to stop children from being taken away from their tribal families so instead they would be rehomed to someone of the same or similar heritage. And now this recent year there are people trying to overturn the whole thing all over again. Im not particularly connected to native American history, but I know several other people, including one lady who grew up from that initial stolen generation here, its really harrowing to know how much they are still trying to preserve what they still have.

@rahrahcamel

Жыл бұрын

Came here to say this too. My dad is indigenous and my mom is not. Because of blood quantum, if I have children with a non-native or even a mixed native from another tribal nation, my kid won't be legally enrolled in my nation.

@Cinnamoncupquake

Жыл бұрын

Well this isn't how we treat blackness in the usa and I dont see how it is relevant here.

@blaze14ZX

Жыл бұрын

That saying is awesome, the story behind it is tragic but you gotta appreciate the levity in the saying. Thank you for sharing this I've been meaning to research blackness in Australia.

@dueldab2117

Жыл бұрын

it doesn't matter how much tea you add to milk its still milk.

Love the vid FD, but I have to call out some misinfo with regard to child support and family courts. For context, I work in this field. Family courts don’t inherently favor women, they favor whatever outcome will end up with the state doling out the least amount of welfare possible. Courts WANT men involved because an involved father means the child is less likely to end up on assistance. Men that motion the court for custody/parenting time are almost ALWAYS granted at least partial custody, unless there is a documented history of abuse. The reality is that a lot of men never bother to petition for custody (for a variety of factors of course), and that is why women end up as custodial parents most of the time. As a society, we expect women to take on this labor, so they do. I have personally seen courts grant men sole legal and physical custody of their children after motioning the court due to the mother not following the court-ordered parenting time schedule. The idea that a mother can keep a father from their kids is a myth.

@toomuchinformation

Жыл бұрын

One which is very widespread. Hence "they take your kids away from you" trope in the manosphere.

@misslenorelee6322

Жыл бұрын

Im also watching the patriarchal view that it inherently wrong for the children to have their father kept away be weaponised. My cousins ex husband is on some pretty hard core drugs, physically abused her on multiple occasions even infront of the (very young kids). Shes out of it now but he still skips out on the time allocated to spend with his kids, and then calls the kids and tells them its her fault and "Mummy is keeping me away from you" (the kids are both under 10). I have told her on multiple occasions to just stop giving the kids the phone and get a no contact order, at least untill he sorts his stuff out; but the idea of denying him acces is unfathomable to her because she cant deprive the kids of their father (in her eyes)

@emily48

Жыл бұрын

@@toomuchinformation it’s a very common and very unfortunate myth. I personally think it’s self-fulfilling as well. Why would someone go through the trouble of filing a motion if they believe the system is inherently rigged against them?

@FDSignifire

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry I beg to differ. I know to many men being kept from their children by various means. I know men that had to do go fund me to get money for lawyers to get access to their children, men who hired private investigators to find their own children after mothers absconded with their kids. Is it as simple and overt as manosphere folks make it, no, but there are definitely biases and blinds pots that hinder men who can't afford lawyers and fight for access to their children.

@emily48

Жыл бұрын

@@FDSignifire Legal representation is very costly and definitely a legitimate barrier for a lot of folks. Although to be fair, assuming we’re talking about a contentious custody battle, the mother would be incurring expenses for legal representation as well. Part of my job requires me to review custody and child support court orders. It’s very rare, at least where I live, that men are awarded zero parenting time. Really the only cases I’ve seen this happen are situations of abuse or cases where the father was never involved and never developed a relationship with the child. (And usually visitation is ordered in those cases.) Uncooperative mothers can definitely make things difficult, but from what I’ve seen, that’s more so been a reflection of the mother’s unwillingness to comply with a court order than it has been a case of the court “keeping a man from his children.” Mostly what I was pushing back on in my original comment was this very prevalent myth that involved fathers are showing up in family court, begging for time with their kids, and then having a judge award them little to no parenting time. I just haven’t seen this happen. The system is not perfect by any means, but I have to push back on the notion that family courts always rule in favor of the mother and actively work to keep fathers from their children.

As a child of a teen mom growing up in poverty I have to say YES a dad should pay child support

@Raaaah__

Жыл бұрын

the fact that this even needs to be said is crazy 😭

@dontaskdonttell_

9 ай бұрын

or don’t do adult activities without expecting to do adult responsibilities that come along with it. coming from someone that was ripped away from a young teenage mother by a perv father well in his twenties that continuously chased her for her money when she had NOTHING. not even a HS diploma. can’t blame one side or feel bad for another without talking about all aspects of the situation. child support for most single parents is just a way to “get back” at the other parent. I’ve seen it way beyond personal experience. Parents need to stop becoming parents before marriage. Teenagers shouldn’t be parents to begin with. Child support should be spent ON THE CHILD. often times it isn’t and that’s why some people are against paying it. There’s so many layers to the issue❗️💔

As a biracial person I actually understand why some in the black community don’t see biracial ppl as black. I’m biracial ( white mother, black father) I don’t consider myself black, I don’t look black, I don’t really know my black side of my family, my experience has been that of a white girl. A decent amount of biracial kids in my HS didn’t identify with being black but my HS was mostly white so I guess some of them found it easier to lean more into their white side.

@anothervictory2595

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. It takes guts to go against the popular narrative.

@miabrown4679

Жыл бұрын

I never looked black either but my father and his side of the family very literally told me I was "mulatto" my whole life. I have drawings I did as a child me and my dad would have brown skin and my mom had peach. I was much closer with my dads family than my mothers and even now (most people assume I'm Puerto Rican) I feel uncomfortable saying I'm white because it feels like I'm denying my dads side of the family and how they wanted me to be proud of being "black" but also looking the way I look its I'm clearly not. It was hard to understand.

@alexblaze1040

Жыл бұрын

I'm biracial but raised in a black family. I don't identify with my white side at all. Didn't meet them until I was an adult. I'm biracial but I'm black.

@niquelove2074

Жыл бұрын

Thank you telling the real truth❣

@niquelove2074

Жыл бұрын

@@alexblaze1040 yes your black and whatever your other side is. The way your grow up don't change your genes.

Being a biracial guy as very clearly not white but not black either I definitely had the a black experience of fetishisation and otherness as a kid but I was also gatekept from blackness and the black community from my dark skin peers until I was 17 and spent more time in a city, it’s a very complex issue and every biracial kids experience is different depending on their complexion and where they live. My main hope is that we give these people a community they can go which will let them learn both their cultures and they’re not gate kept from communities as that can be really damaging when forming identity.

@KeeperOfSecrets-42069

Жыл бұрын

Being a mixed dude I’ve been in this boat myself

@brian_Austin27

Жыл бұрын

I just don't care about it anymore its all stupid but their are reasons why they both do that. White people use biracials to go against black people, and black people feel like since a lot of biracial people cling to whiteness for benift and then go to black communities for their benefits when their angry at white people. But biracial people do this but its nuanced and depends on where and the parents they grew up with in a way its kinda like being bisexual where ur constantly used for others protection(like gay men saying their bisexual to escape harm🤦🏾‍♂️)but hated for not fully being what others want u to be. Its either white or black. Gay or straight. I don't see a problem with people being biracial u just have to understand how ur going to be perceived and work around it. I like biracial people u have a unique look on race but u have to see both sides similarly how i see both sides in the straight and gay communities. Yes biracials and bisexuals have differences but have similarities especially the bi in their titles lol. Just know that blk people have distrusts of biracial people and white people don't really see biracial people not as fully or pure white. I can relate to an extent with bisexuality and being biracial but also having our differences

@amdman4you

Жыл бұрын

Lol what both culture is just race .. like u acting like both race don't play football

@BoooHooo

Жыл бұрын

Mix people need to form their own identity and stop trying to be white or black because truly y'all are neither and it is very disrespectful for mixed race people to identify as black.

@ciaomamabella

Жыл бұрын

Love this perspective!👏 My son is biracial. For me as his “white mom”, I always tell him that because he is both, he is the true peacemaker; able to hold true peace in both because HE IS BOTH and ALLOWED to be both. For biracial or multi racial children, they have a unique ability to have THEIR OWN culture! Which, I think is one of the coolest things ever! The people on one side of the race or the other, make their skin color about culture, and respectfully, that’s always what it’s been about; recognizing their history. But multi racial kids/adults are now forming their OWN WITH BOTH 🎉 Fun fact-America and the world as a whole has had a masssive rise in bi/multi racial kids in GenZ. I’ve met so many genzers who completely understand and accept race SO MUCH MORE than previous ones. So, going forward, I think it will be really cool to see how humans evolve with this ideology ♥️

FD really is on some GOAT shit. His leftovers better than 90% of KZreadrs’ best crafted, hardest worked on shit

@AyeGameBae

Жыл бұрын

Names? ☕👀👀👀

@rileynornes2379

Жыл бұрын

Can confirm 👍

@shettywap

Жыл бұрын

Stop lying to this man. 😆 acting like he the kendrick of b sides.

@alext399

Жыл бұрын

he’s like Lebron

@ronjaj.addams-ramstedt1023

Жыл бұрын

Came into the comments to say this, not surprised that you beat me to it.

I find the “biracial people aren’t black” argument really funny, personally. I’m biracial, but I’m half South Asian, not white. Some people seem to forget that there’s more than one way to be biracial. So, I get a lot of people saying “no, not you. You’re black. I mean half-white biracial people.” The line is so arbitrary. Also, here in the uk, we don’t really use terms like “coloured” or “mulatto” to describe biracial people. It is much more established, though. Saying that: again, there’s a lack of understanding that biracial people don’t have to be mixed with white. On forms, it’s like “white and black”, “white and Asian” “mixed other”

@MK_ULTRA420

Жыл бұрын

I'll save you a bunch of time and tell you that society doesn't care about hapas unless they're female or tall pretty boys.

@chidiogoikeh4550

Жыл бұрын

A lot of people in the uk don’t see biracial people as black though. That’s just one drop ruling. I agree with you though. There are many different ways to be biracial

@afckajjansi

Жыл бұрын

All biracial is mixed race but not all mixed race is biracial. And biracial or mixed race is not black. Go argue with biology.

@andthatsshannii

Жыл бұрын

@@afckajjansi pretty stupid thing to say considering “black” isn’t a biological term.

@andthatsshannii

Жыл бұрын

@Leah the idea of blackness is a social construct, therefore gatekeeping who counts as black is also social and not “biology” as that idiot claimed. The one drop rule is rooted in racism. However, denying people blackness when they have been treated as black and identify with a culture from the diaspora is absolutely ridiculous

The other weird mixed discourse on tiktok is Black mom vs Black dad

"This'll be a casual kinda video, nothing too heavy" 28.5 minutes later "It is a STUPID STUPID THING DONE BY STUPID CHILDREN" I'm applauding, though.

biracial experience is real. i’ve had people think i’m lying about having a black father…i’ve had white people be like oh i thought you were italian or greek. black ppl usually think i’m latino. EYE personally think i have african features. it’s my lineage and antiblackness deeply offends me in a way anti whiteness never can. my skin is light but my hair has some curl to it and i have full lips. when i call out white ppl for being racist, they think i’m being irrational because they don’t direct it towards me. they say things around me they’d never say to an unambiguously black person.

@the-based-jew6872

Жыл бұрын

There is no such thing as racism. Only tribalism. My tribe a Marxist man coined that term.

@bampo8436

Жыл бұрын

This is interesting

@julianellison5347

Жыл бұрын

Bro people thinking I'm lying about having a black dad is INSANE

@angel127_

Жыл бұрын

i thought i was the only one who wasn’t even thought as biracial i don’t have the typical “look”💀 ppl think i’m north african or middle eastern

@adalheidisofadamahcaptaino18

Жыл бұрын

I remember the first time I argued with someone about my grandfather being Black, I pulled up every verification I could have and still, the person I was arguing with refused to agree. It was then and there I realised, some people will go as far to be irrational to reject Mixed people's backgrounds. How do you see all of that proof and go as far to borderline say that I must have been born from a miracle like Jesus because there is no way that's my relative. Some people are weird as hell.

i think this has put my opinions on the "biracial not black" conversation into words perfectly. i'm biracial and its weird asl that we are made to either change what we identify ourselves with depending on other people's feelings. its tiring and most of the time not based on anything other than a misguided attempted to use race science as a means of being more accepted by whiteness.

@hillarysudeikis2264

Жыл бұрын

Lord Jesus Christ is coming back everyone, please don’t worship celebrities and entertainment, focus on Him alone. I promise there’s more to life than money, partying, homosexuality and music. Hell is real, repent from sinning confess your sins and ask God to forgive you, I know He will if you’re sincere. Hell is very hot, people please repent! In the mighty name of Lord Jesus Christ, Amen 🙏💪✝💜❤✝! Idolatry such as, Islam, Catholicism, Sangomaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Racism, Santa Clausism, Confucianism, New Age, Science, Evolution, halloweenism, Harry Potterism, Politics, Donald Trumpism, Easter Bunnyism and other religions/faiths that are outside Biblical Christianity lead to hell! Don’t believe them, believe the Almighty God the Father of Lord Jesus Christ, who begot Him. Our Creator, The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is mighty, He doesn’t need a woman to beget a son, He is God. I choose to put my faith in a God who can do anything and everything, a God who has unlimited and infinite power to beget! So, it’s time to confess that Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord and to believe that He died and rose from the grave after three days and you shall be saved if you only obey Him by praying, worshipping, praising, reading the Bible and living holy and righteously according to the Bible. You have to endure until the end, carry your cross daily and build your relationship with God by following Lord Jesus daily until the end. You must never renounce your faith in The Lord Jesus Christ, there’s hell awaiting those who reject/deny Lord Jesus Christ and those who continue living sinfully, even the Christians who don’t want to repent will face the same fate, so please repent beloved people, in Lord Jesus Christ’s mighty and precious Name, Amen.

@martyrx3436

7 ай бұрын

I’ll put it simply: mixed people aren’t Black if they are 50% another race lol. If you are 50% Black, you aren’t Black. If you are 75% Black, you are Black…

@user-cf8zs4up2b

7 ай бұрын

Lol fr. I get almost ZERO pressure to identify as white even though I look more white. But black people want to argue up and down that I'm black....it's just not biologically true. I'm BIRACIAL no one can confuse me about it & I will never have an emotional take on this. I'm biracial. Honestly black people need to gatekeep more and be more proud and protective over their race/identity like everyone else.

@martyrx3436

7 ай бұрын

@@user-cf8zs4up2b Thank you. Mixed people aren’t Black lol. I’ve been saying that all over this comment section…

@skatebordstephen

6 ай бұрын

​@user-cf8zs4up2b As a Black man, I totally agree. One drop ruling mixed people into blackness undermines blackness.

Biracial is half black when u have one black parent. What's with the mental gymnastics? The experiences are even different , especially if ur a black woman. I know Cynthia g is no one's favorite but watch her fox soul interview on if biracial women are black and that should answer ur question

@misterkgb1

Жыл бұрын

💯 people make this biracial topic complicated and it's really simple. Black parent+white parent = biracial child.

@GreenBanana675

11 ай бұрын

Black women that have lived in this country for decades/families for generations are mixed race but I see society in USA is too mentally ill to understand.

@Sandrinarhonda

5 ай бұрын

@@misterkgb1PERIODDD

@Sandrinarhonda

5 ай бұрын

Exactly sis

@domenickbrown451

4 ай бұрын

@@misterkgb1so Malcom x,Rosa parks,president Obama aren’t black then.

I always find mixed race discourse hilarious because people always assume biracial people are light skinned and ambiguous, meanwhile my ex boyfriend is half Chinese and very unambiguously black. like, people are shocked when he tells them he's not 100%.

@cryptbeast3222

Жыл бұрын

It also ignores black communities that have been pale for generations. We have only known being black, but people will argue we have to be something else because we look funny.

@drewberriesandcream

Жыл бұрын

@@cryptbeast3222 i’ve wondered how albino black people are treated within the community.

@cryptbeast3222

Жыл бұрын

@@drewberriesandcream I'm not albino myself but have several albino cousins. They were picked on a lot when younger, but the hostility when they're older is typically tied to facial features. If their features look more African than their race isn't denied. If their features seem more European or Asian they can get excluded too.

@the2ndcoming135

Жыл бұрын

Right. Chances are if you’re really light skinned your dark skinned parent very likely has substantial non-Black genetics. Can be butthurt all they want. But, that’s what it is.

@monkasmerp6614

Жыл бұрын

You’re ex is definitely not Chinese and even though he’s so black he still isn’t since he doesn’t have two black parents he’s mixed

The Biracial discourse on TikTok reminds me of the similar discourse from a few years back (from TikTok too) of "Segregation wasnt THAT bad of an idea in theory" and its like: You only think this because the American history class you have yet to finish aren't gonna go into detail about how just bad it was

@ryanevans3719

Жыл бұрын

Even MLK wasn't sure about segregation

@nanyuanliang4399

Жыл бұрын

@@ryanevans3719 MLK felt like he integrated his people into a burning house. What folks fought for was the same resources they didn't need to be Integrated. Integration is assimilation and that means ⚰ to cultural norms.

@dahliar410

Жыл бұрын

@@nanyuanliang4399 they fought to take black wealth because whites did not live as well as black people. That was what integration was for. The white to continue to survive.

@belkyhernandez8281

Жыл бұрын

Don't know what you mean. History class taught segregation as bad when I was growing up in the 80s. Are younger people more conservative?

im black and hispanic and a senior in high school. i have mostly afro features, im just lightskin. growing up in ny, black people mostly just treated me as black, if only making lighthearted jokes abt me being lightskin. they never treated me as less black because i was mixed, which i definitely experienced a lot of when i moved to the south. i had never questioned my blackness before then, but a lot of other black people would ask if i was really black and would even be adamant i wasn’t. on the other hand, i experienced a lot more exclusion from my hispanic peers in ny due to the racism that’s very prevalent in the hispanic community (including my family). when i moved to the south they were more welcoming and said the n word slightly less so i guess an improvement lol.

@dr.shlomosands1096

6 күн бұрын

There is a DIFFERENCE between LIGHT SKINNED BLACK and biracial

@d0gb0y__79

6 күн бұрын

@@dr.shlomosands1096 ok? i’m biracial and lightskin

I think olisunvia's video on being asian american is very informative.If I remember correctly she discusses the idea that poc raised in NA define their race more by superficial experiences and activities such as AAV and music genres. I always got a bit of shit for being mixed in the form of microagressions at the hairdresser and stuff but the online space was when it hit me like a wave and I think that is because I was exposed to North Americans online. It really grinds my gears when someone on the internet who does not live in my country or knows me tells me I experience "racism lite". Like how can you accuse someone of that you've never met? Some people get highkey eugenicsy with it too. Or when I saw people saying "I hate mixed people they just want to say the N word" which is so delusional because nobody was scheming as an embryo who their parents would be so they could go round starting discourse

this is the equivalent of an fd signifier jumpscare

@the2ndcoming135

Жыл бұрын

Heads up! Incoming triggered non-mixed people feeling some type of way about your identity😂

As a biracial person, I am just that! Biracial, I’m both black and white!! It’s not a hard concept and I won’t force myself to one side. Idk why people can’t accept this

@Waters..

Жыл бұрын

You’re literally the smartest person ever idc what anybody says. People make the shit so hard when the work is already done for them. Being bi/multiracial, the definition itself is what you are. Everybody else that’s one race, we follow that concept, so how is it any different for a mixed person? I mean literally we make shit so hard. Glad you’re one of the bright ones ✊🏾

@nilsasalgado2777

Жыл бұрын

He's not saying that biracial isn't an identity. He's saying that biracial isn't an institutionalized racial category in the U.S. A mixed raced person is both AND, not 50/50. You are two races, not half of each - does that make sense? In the US the historical context surrounding race means that you culturally belong with the racialized part of your identity.

@RachelLondon

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you. People are out here acting wild, forcing one on the other. You're mixed-race/ biracial. The US has not had a black president yet. The foolishness of some people.

@daniella8400

Жыл бұрын

@@nilsasalgado2777 no I’m half of each because that’s how DNA works.

@destinylove1673

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! It’s really not a hard concept to understand. I think it’s hella rude to expect a biracial or mixed person to only identify as black bc of the “one drop rule” it’s really weird and giving gatekeeper.

It's interesting hearing the way you guys discuss the biracial thing in the EUA, because for me, as a black brazilian man, there's no black person here who isn't biracial to some extent (except the elites who never really view themselves as brazilians). As a country that's gone trought a process of "whitening" between the late XIX century and the XX, that created the mith of a "racial democracy" where racism doesn't exist, the debate around here is rarely two sided (as to like FD said, black vs not black) and the greatest issue revolves around people realizing that they are in fact black, and that we are a racist country

Love this quick casual format. would love to see more like this in between the long form work you do 🔥

yep, he lost it

@ZachTheHuman

Жыл бұрын

_gasp_ a wild miacole! how lucky we are to see such a reclusive part of nature, as you can see she rarely ever leaves her bedroom so to see such a majestic creature out in the world is truly extraordinary.

@Dash-dd1ro

Жыл бұрын

Who? Fd sig?

@ivymuncher

Жыл бұрын

we all did a while ago

@OLD.GREASE

Жыл бұрын

Were it not for the algorithm I'd dislike this as a joke. As a joke. There but for the grace of KZread go I.

@FDSignifire

Жыл бұрын

90 min Mia Cole video about geo political issues dropping this Friday yall

Man y'all go to Nebula to watch the extended cut where AJ throw the mic 🤣🤣

@Yupthatsme_7D

Жыл бұрын

Running over there now 😂

@feykingjulian

Жыл бұрын

lolll thanks for the tip

@misslenorelee6322

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the heads up it was sorth jumping to a platform I pay for to support the principle then immidiately forget exists

@Yupthatsme_7D

Жыл бұрын

@@misslenorelee6322 same

@ronjaj.addams-ramstedt1023

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Will drag hubby there next.

As a mixed race man, no I am not black. I am mixed race 😂. But what would I know.

@Sandrinarhonda

5 ай бұрын

PREACHH

@isaiah6032

2 ай бұрын

This is absolutely cringe. Some of the biggest black figures historically were “mixed“ Rosa, Parks, Bob Marley, Malcolm, X, Frederick, Douglass, and many more.

When someone has two black parents they’re black PERIOD.

@Sandrinarhonda

5 ай бұрын

Exactly

@Whoknows688

4 ай бұрын

This is why I identify the way I do: As black. Genetically speaking...I'm less than 40% African and that's with me adding in the African Caribbean results. It's not something that people question me on because I appear to be mostly black "and something". My husband is Brazilian, but his "and something" is loud as hell lol so people look at him a little funny when he tells them he identifies as black Brazilian

@domenickbrown451

4 ай бұрын

@@Sandrinarhondaso do keep the same energy for Obama,Rosa Parks,and Malcom x

@Sandrinarhonda

4 ай бұрын

@@domenickbrown451 I do keep the same energy. Obama is BIRACIAL, Rosa Parks was MIXED (the white man was taking care of her btw ), & Malcolm X was mixed .

@KINGPHANTOMw85

11 күн бұрын

@@domenickbrown451 Dont nobody give af about them

I am a biracial male (white and black) and it has definitely been a struggle in NA. My skin color is pretty close to white, but my facial features and hair are definitely phenotypically black. My father is quite dark skinned and grew up in Alabama in the 50s and 60s. I have always identified as black...but it has been a ride. White kids when I was growing up loved to mock me for having "big lips" or like to ask to touch my hair. They figured it wasn't racist because I wasn't "really black". Most black people (and in my experience all police) consider me black, but I do run into the occasional five percenter who likes to tell me that I'm not "really black". The most annoying is the subset of black people that see or meet my parents and k me if my father is my real father. Being biracial in America is...a ride.

@Izathel1

Жыл бұрын

@Kaci I can't know the minds of kids, especially in hindsight, but I'd say they felt like it was safe to make racist jokes/commentary because I was also white and that made it, in their minds, "not racist". I think they definitely saw me as black, and certainly as "other", but figured it was a "loophole" to be racist without repercussions.

@Izathel1

Жыл бұрын

@Kaci I had another reply but I deleted it because I realized I was being defensive and uncharitable. What conclusion are you attempting to draw? I think being black in America gets you treated as black by the white supremacist system even when you are mixed.

@whym6438

Жыл бұрын

I'm a Jewish guy, and while that definitely isn't the same as being biracial, I very much know what being white and not white at the same time feels like. Solidarity.

@adeola_63

Жыл бұрын

it's so stressful lmao

@meeeeeeeeeeeep

Жыл бұрын

​@@Izathel1 I'm also biracial who has gone through very similar experiences like you have. It's so weird and hurtful to hear some Black people try to erase my Blackness by saying I'm "not Black." Sometimes I've shown them pictures of my Dad and his family and then they retaliate with, "But you're not Black, you're biracial!" For me, it's hurtful because I am so proud of who I am and where I've come from. I see Black as beautiful in such an intimate and deep way that to have some try to deny that part of who I am when all I want to do is embrace my Blackness has been difficult to navigate in the past. My dad grew up in Mississippi in the 50s/60s picking cotton and I'm SO PROUD of him and my relatives on his side of the family. Before my Dad passed away, he spent our entire lives teaching my sisters and I about who we are and where we've come from since we were very little and it's made us love ourselves that much more. I'm so grateful to have had him. He knew it was critical for us to understand these things before society tried to get us to hate who we were simply for being Black. Unfortunately, some, especially in the Black community, will say things like, I'm "not Black" which has been very hurtful and exhausting to hear my entire life. I now try my best not to let it get to me, but like you said, it's a ride for sure. Obviously since I'm also white, there's privileges in that which I would never deny. Also, I've seen many horror stories from biracial people with white mothers who tried to dismiss the Blackness in their biracial children but our mom has always been the opposite of that. Of course I learned about my mom's side of the family as well but I never felt like she was trying to negate our Blackness in any capacity, which sadly many biracial people can't say about their white mothers. Anyway like you said, being biracial is certainly a wild ride 😂

you know, that thing about women weaponizing patriarchy rly resonated with me. im nonbinary and often perceived as a woman, and when i do things people dont perceive as within the correct gender role they will let me know and try to change me in similar ways (see my mother talking down to me/being embarrassed of me for not wearing a bra). women do this just as often as men, sometimes more bc they perceive me as being a fellow woman and are uncomfortable with how im challenging something theyre comfortable with. that being said, i think there's an important piece that doesnt get discussed much. that is, that i think some (many?) women are doing this weaponization of patriarchy out of a sense of bitterness and resentment. after your whole life is ruined or controlled by patriarchy and youre constantly expected to perform certain gender norms, when you see a man not "uphold his end of the deal" if you will (expecting men to be providers, to not have feelings, etc) it can feel like a betrayal. like "im doing all this suffering and playing the patriarchy game bc [thats what you wanted from me, thats what you find attractive or expect, thats what other men have forced me to be, thats the only way i can feel safe in this society, etc] and then you turn around and are a full person with needs on top of it?? you want ME to comfort YOU, a MAN, when i dont get to have any needs or support around this gender shit??? [eg no one comforts me about being sexually harassed form a young age, i get blamed for being raped, i dont have bodily autonomy/abortion rights in my country, im expected to do all the shadow work without complaint]" idk, just a thought on some of the possible dynamics. i in no way mean to be defending this sort of horrible behavior. i fully agree with everything FD has said in the video. my relationship with a man has been so so strengthened by our ability to see each other as beings outside all this nonsense and treat each other with tender loving care and to accept one another's vulnerability with gratitude.

@evi6629

Жыл бұрын

Oooh yeah as a cis woman there's definitely a... how do i say it, like there's a promise of sorts? The patriarchy markets itself to women by telling them that if they just endure everything, don't complain, don't talk back, don't step above your "station" that you get to have a "good man" who will protect you from harm. Like, you see this all over these days with conservatives trying to promote stay at home gf and wives as the ideal fantasy to women being crushed under the boot of patriarchy. It's the idea that one individual rich masculine "good" man can protect you from the dangers of sexism. And for most of history, women's only way of advancing the social ladder was through their husbands. And so women who buy into that, who "submit", can absolutely get this sense of betrayal if a man that they've given up everything to "get" doesn't end up fullfilling that promise. Now that can be really dangerous for the woman if the way they break that promise is by being abusive, violent, not respecting their autonomy and consent etc. And in that case they usually don't have the power or safety to express any frustration. (Which in this case is obviously more than righteous) But if that "betrayal" comes not through abuse, but through any gender-nonconforming behaviour? Any behaviour that is in itself not harmful but can be seen as the man not holding up his end of the "deal"? That can get ugly. The real problem being, of course, that the deal was dehumanizing and horrible to begin with and gender roles need to be abolished.

@eyjayy

Жыл бұрын

@@evi6629 thanks for weighing in! this is exactly what i was trying to describe

@bearysweetgyu2774

Жыл бұрын

I feel like this is very true! In a similar vein, I feel like sometimes people have the tendency to weaponize the oppression they face against other people like them or more oppressed than them if they feel they are out of line because they already feel dis-empowered and want to punch down or maintain what power they have. It can really make it difficult for people to view others as equals and people

@yoginella

Жыл бұрын

@@bearysweetgyu2774 Absolutely agree. What you describe is called internalized sexism.

@blackpanthro

Жыл бұрын

We are actively re-negotiating what it means to be human.

Mixed people are MIXED!

@misterkgb1

Жыл бұрын

💯 no matter if people like it or not bm/bw=black child anything other than that is biracial.

@Cindy99765

6 ай бұрын

Exactly

@TubeCritic

4 ай бұрын

What is considered mixed people? Because in reality majority of “black” people in America/North America have European ancestry mixed in them. So what constitutes being mixed ?

@GDL364

4 ай бұрын

@@TubeCritic having parents of different races

@Cindy99765

4 ай бұрын

@@TubeCritic Being biracial or something similar.

In the UK, we do t say colored or mullato. We just say mixed race and we know that being mixed is more than just white and black. It's a whole mix bag of other types lol

My thing about the whole biracial argument is that I’ve noticed ppl only care about you being biracial when you are exceptional or famous, when youre a drug a drug addict, alcoholic, or criminal in any capacity ppl have no argument with you being called black, but as soon as you excel you hear, “well theyre not ALL black, they’re biracial “ and my contention is “who will claim you when youre at youre worst” because in my experience black ppl claim our ppl good, bad, or indifferent. They might clown you for this or that or for the antics you performed but they never take away youre blackness… even the phrase “getting ur blk card revoked” is tongue in cheek, never literal, even when it comes to candance owens or condolezza or the like.

@incognitonegress3453

Жыл бұрын

👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

@niquelove2074

Жыл бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏 they mixed and it's a matter of genes & that's really it.

@jays-move8803

Жыл бұрын

@@niquelove2074 Did you know every black person with an American origin is mixed? Did you know tons of Africans are mixed? (Including West Africans, and including Nigerians.) My question is always this. Why do you blame US for what OUR PARENTS chose to do? Why do we have to live with that blame?

@niquelove2074

Жыл бұрын

@@jays-move8803 not every black person mixed 😂 the next lie that's told about black people no more simply not ture we not all you.we don't have to be mixed to come different shades or hair texture not being just telling the truth . How do black people/ me blame anybody wow... telling you truth is not blaming it's simply facts. maybe it you all parents is at fault here for allowing to disconnect with how you truly are and not being considered something you're not. The question here is why aren't you glad to be mix my dear? You are who you are and that's OK love your ture self. Or forever look to fit in fully in the wrong place when you fit in with those you do from all the places you are apart of simply not one or the others.

@saphire9823

Жыл бұрын

Exactly

As much as I appreciate the highly researched, emotional, and longer form content, your general rhetorical style and more casual commentary are so entertaining I'll always watch what you put up. It's probably why your livestreams are so entertaining. Have a good holiday!

I just wanna say that I just recently found your channel and I wish that I did 5 years ago, I’ve rarely ever felt as heard and validated for things that I’ve experienced as a young biracial (black/white) man in modern day North America. God bless you! Keep doing your thing!

I'm so glad to see someone like you addressing this issue. I am biracial. 1/4 black, 1/4 chinese, 1/2 Central American(1/4 native american, and 1/4 spanish european). I grew up with a Half Black Half Chinese Mother and a Full black Step Father. I don't know any of my biological fathers side of the family and probably saw them last when I was about 4/5 years old. My bio father passed when I was really young and my mom was already remarried. I grew up in a black neighborhood and most of my friends and family are black. When I am around hispanics I don't feel like I fit in because I don't speak spanish and I usually at some point feel like an outsider. I also don't fit in with asians because I am too dark. I have found that the most accepting race is my black side. But I do often feel insecure because I feel like I'm not black enough. If you were to see me I look fairly hispanic/polynesian with curly hair. Sometimes its hard because I really don't know how to identify myself because I am literally 1/4 of 4 different races. Not really enough of anything to claim anything.

@Sandrinarhonda

5 ай бұрын

You’re multiracial just like Tyla & you are able to claim all parts of you which is a good thing . Celebrate all of your cultures.

I've always rocked with my biracial-ness being like a racial qualifier that doesn't necessarily supersede black/white. I am black and I am white but being both has altered the meaning of both as I'll never be seen as solely one or the other but I'd still never call myself JUST biracial because that term on its own doesn't adequately describe me

@whiro8945

Жыл бұрын

Yeah because racial categories are social constructs that weren't invented to include bi/multiracial people, just like western gender never thought of non-binary people. Biracial and non-binary people challenge race and gender as a whole, whereas Black and trans men/women fight the system from within it. Both are needed and neither of them get in the way of each other.

@jays-move8803

Жыл бұрын

I agree with this. It is not an identity, as much as it is a descriptive term. It's like, are you white, or are you a red-head?? It's two different categories that are being discussed when you ask someone are they black OR biracial. You should really be asking, are you mixed or not mixed? Are you one race, or are you the child of an interracial couple?

@215ariley

Жыл бұрын

i this part of the reason when people ask i tell them im black and i have a white dad or vice versa. saying is the other way is always fun bc i can see the confusion in their eyes before i say the black momma part.

@queennanny4792

Жыл бұрын

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

@DustyBanditRepellant

Жыл бұрын

But why tho?

Great video but I'm biracial in England and ive only been called 'mulatto' once by someone Italian and that didn't go down well. It's offensive to me, and not used widely in the UK, at least in my experience/to my face. 'Half-caste' or sometimes even 'half-made' in older generations are common, which I find offensive too. But most people use mixed-race or bi-racial.

@Kohanman

Жыл бұрын

Half-caste by John Agard Excuse me Standing on one leg I'm half-caste Explain yuself Wha yu mean When yu say half-caste Yu mean when picasso Mix red an green Is a half-caste canvas? Explain yuself Wha u mean When yu say half-caste Yu mean when light an shadow Mix in de sky Is a half-caste weather?? Well in dat case England weather Nearly always half-caste In fact some o dem cloud Half-caste till dem overcast So spiteful dem dont want de sun pass Ah rass Explain yuself Wha yu mean When yu say half-caste? Yu mean tchaikovsky Sit down at dah piano An mix a black key Wid a white key Is a half-caste symphony?

@tazisayshi

Жыл бұрын

Wow I've lived in the Caribbean, and in Bolivia, and I've been called Mulatto many times. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being called a Mulatto, it's actually quite common in Latin America, and it just means you are mixed from African and European descent. I've never heard of someone getting offended over this word. Really weird.

@kee4712

Жыл бұрын

@@tazisayshi Hi, I guess it's because I've only ever heard or seen mulatto in a slavery context, along with other words to describe people based on their how much black ancestory/blood they have (vs. how much white ancestory/blood mostly) and therefore value/position in society etc. So it gets my back up. But thank you for sharing your experience, I've learn from it!

@JLDReactions

Жыл бұрын

@@tazisayshi Agreed. I'm from Louisiana which was a French colony, and the term mulato is not offensive in the least. The mulato families here use it as a term of pride.

@sjbrooksy45

Жыл бұрын

Come on, ya'll got to give us something cooler than that. Like some GoT type verbiage, like my blood is alloyed from the two great houses from betwixt it flows.

It’s important to make the distinction between mixed race and black because we aren’t perceived the same within society and the issues we face collectively are different.

@SeperatePiece

11 ай бұрын

This

@niathomas184

11 ай бұрын

Exactlyyyy like it’s not rocket science

@wordsbymaribeja1470

11 ай бұрын

Do you have any concept of how you see yourself? Because you teach others how they treat you, just like black americans have co-opted biraciality and taught everyone that biracials are black. This is new in US history, before the civil rights movement, biracials would not have tolerated being classified with blacks.

@chadtheafricanbullfrog418

10 ай бұрын

absolutely but at the same time you can’t fully put all mixed race people into one category. being mixed race is a varying experience depending on a lot of factors like if they’re white passing or not. bc of that to classify all mixed race people as the same is doing the same mistake as not making a distinction between black and mixed race. imo it’s fine to say that mixed race ppl are different but depending on the person their life experience can have similarities to a black persons and to outright exclude them from being black bc they’re mixed is erasing ppls experiences

@SeperatePiece

10 ай бұрын

@@chadtheafricanbullfrog418 Damn you gave me some new perspective. You make a very good point.

You deserve a nice easy video to end the year. Thank you so much for all the well researched thought provoking content.

I appreciate the bi-racial discussion. I'm in that weird group that, if people look at me they don't always know what category to put me in. I would generally tell people that I'm half black and half white but that's just because my father looks very clearly black and my mother looks very clearly white. I've actually "come out" as being part black to people who had no idea who I've talked to for months and could tell they saw my different after that, or at least couldn't stop thinking about it. I've had people think that I was Hispanic, Native American, white, or black. When a cop sees me, I'm honestly not sure what they think. I'd love to see a further discussion on this issue from someone who is in a similar circumstance as my as I can't really talk to too many people besides my sister about it. I lived in a predominantly white neighborhood my whole life too so I don't even have many other black people to talk to about it. It's all just so weird and arbitrary.

@jimjam8653

Жыл бұрын

I relate to you a lot. I'm biracial (half black and half white) and I am very racially ambiguous. I can pass as basically any race if I wanted lol (not full of course). It's very hard to know how people view me because it's always a different answer. It's even hard for me to view myself when I look in the mirror. Some people don't even believe me when I say my actual race's. Tbh I don't even care what anyone says about me anymore, I'm proud to be black, white and biracial. But ya I totally understand you. It can even be hard to relate to other biracial people sometimes cuz I experience race different from them. race can be a weird and confusing experience when people don't even know what you are.

@christinaspencer8388

Жыл бұрын

This is me! I’m Black and white, but consider myself Black. But I’m pretty racially ambiguous and many people think I’m Hispanic.

@user.421

Жыл бұрын

same. my mom is lighter skinned and hispanic. hispanics (regardless of race) and pocs see her as white, although non-hispanic whites would never consider her white. my dad is “definitively” black (as in no one of any racial or ethnic background would question his race). i genuinely don’t know what people see me as. throughout elementary i was fs the token black kid in my classes among almost exclusively white and white hispanic kids. I’ve also been friends with people who after months of knowing me were surprised to find out i had a black parent bc they thought I was “hispanic,” and in the past people have assumed that i speak spanish on sight, although it rarely happens now. thematically it’s seemed like black people have been last to recognize my blackness, but even that’s changed in recent years. idek anymore- the only consistency with others’ (and my own) perception of my race is it’s not white ☠️

@ktozy2149

Жыл бұрын

The biracial experience is personally unique yet ubiquitous to every single one of us. How we are perceived comes down to how our genetics shake out, but many of us aren’t fully accepted into either side of our heritage. We get blamed for how our parents raised us. We get told we get to “choose” how to be perceived, when the opposite is true. So many of us have to “earn” our place in our communities, yet the moment we become successful we suddenly get an identity. Barack Obama, Bob Marley, Eartha Kitt, Alexandre Dumas, Key and Peele, and so many others- all mixed. There’s a lot of nuance to the greater discussion, like how the one-drop rule impacted how mixed people are recognized in the US, the role of colorism, how cultural identity is defined and how it differs from genetics, the history of colonialism, the politics of gatekeeping race vs acceptance, fetishization and other toxic attitudes, the anxiety around culture erasure, etc. I’d love to see a panel of speakers have a conversation about the biracial or mixed experience. JD Signifier got the right takes, I think he could help make it happen.

@shettywap

Жыл бұрын

My dude, I'm sorry that the categories even exist to begin with. The invention of race has made what you are (a human being) into a need to belong to a group based on a variation of color. Here's to us finding our way out of that cess pool.

Omg. My bf wasn't emotionally intelligent at first. He had a lot of emotions but he didn't necessarily know if he could express them. So I told him to express his feelings. Omg I did not know it was that much. I had to sit back and just listen. At first it was really hard to do because I've never met a man that could talk so much. But after a while (a short while) it started Good conversations, good discussions, we literally talk about everything, and we never really get angry with each other because we understand each person's point of view or how we think for the most part.

I love long form content from this channel. I can listen to this all day.

Even your "lazy" videos are so good. I'd love to see more of these if you feel inclined.

With regards to the biracial/mixed race discourse, I think it's important for us as black people to stop always viewing ourselves through the eyes of prejudiced white people (e.g. cops). We need to accept that biracial people are both black and white (or whatever race they are mixed with). But also not black and not white (or whatever other race) - they are both. Two things can be true at the same time; life is full of contradictions. As a (Yoruba) Nigerian, though, biracial people are *not* seen as black. They are often called "oyinbo", meaning white. And these are African people viewing themselves and each other through a *black African* lense.

@JulianSteve

Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU FOR COMMENTING THIS😭🙌🏾‼️I think the same way too and I talked about it in one of my videos back in October. I go in-depth on the topic, but it’s U.S.A. base mainly, so good to know✊🏾‼️

@ayo2015

Жыл бұрын

@@JulianSteve thank you, I am about to watch your video now

@pisceanbeauty2503

Жыл бұрын

I think it makes sense for people in Africa to see things how they do, but I also think it makes sense for people in the US to see things the way they do as well. Imo there is space for different definitions of race based on history and culture.

@ayo2015

Жыл бұрын

@@pisceanbeauty2503 yes I definitely agree with that but often the explanation for unequivocally categorising mixed race (I am from the UK) people as black is that "white people will always see them as black" and I am suggesting that we stop always framing ourselves how white people see us. However, I do acknowledge that a fully black person is more likely to look "mixed" than a fully white person.

@JulianSteve

Жыл бұрын

@@ayo2015 Thank you so much :)

i’d like to think that with how far this channel has come. A 30 minute video from F.D Signifier, is like this channel’s contribution to youtube shorts

Fd I want to say thank you so much for the time and energy you put into your content!

Biracial actually isn’t black. A person can be biracial & yes even multiracial and not have any black in them…

I remember seeing if "you lightskin/biracial you ain't black" tiktoks, it honestly hurt my feelings lol. Because I remember growing up never really felt "black" and my lightskin didn't come from having a white parent so I didn't identify as "white" either. Kinda just felt like an alien as a kid (my gen z experience lol)

@InLisa_UTrust

Жыл бұрын

Same❤

@kid-ava

Жыл бұрын

damn I kinda relate to this too

@kirakira3737

Жыл бұрын

@@katlynnbell Hey what was that reply to somebody or to yourself? Jus wondering 🤔

@kirakira3737

Жыл бұрын

@@katlynnbell To respond to your reply, I identify as a lightskin black girl. Not biracial. (I decided to cut out the extra lol)

@tonisharday8777

Жыл бұрын

Not you playing the victim or colorism and truth. Nah, biracial isn’t black and I’m sticking to it, you lost me here my man. This is why black people aren’t getting roles. Because they think forcing Dave’s like Zendaya, a white AND black woman, not a black woman, is good enough. Full black women can be black women. Biracial women are biracial.

I'm a black brazilian man ( non-ambiguously black, some would call me mulato or whatever depending where they from). In my country, due to the whitening of society attempt that we suffered "in the past", it is utterly difficult to deal with the concept of blackness if you are ambiguously black. there are people trying to disassociate with their blackness and others who embrace it. it is crazy tho, because a Vin Diesel would mostly be seen as a non black person for a lot of us. I have seen white people with afros here... which somewhere else would probably make them black... as i said, crazy and complex. There are cases which brazilians who have claimed to be white for decades, have a reality check when traveling abroad and realizing that europeans perceive them as negroes, another common phenomenon here is people who find out they are black after their 20s or 30s, shit, even 40s. Anyway, I really appreciate your videos, keep it up brother

@LQC13

Жыл бұрын

@@nezahuatez word! On Brazil's status quo, is said a lot of Far-fetched ideas, such as that we live in a country racially democratic, or every one is a litle bit black therefore racism is not real, some say " yeah but it is worse in the US" as if it made things easier here...some just literally deny racism, and say that those who want to acknowledge its existence are big cry babies... It is messed up, very messed up

@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl

Жыл бұрын

Being black is made up you know that?

@sjbrooksy45

Жыл бұрын

I read an article years ago that talked about Brazil and how people there see themselves and how often their actual genetics tell a different story.

@yeet-xm1nu

Жыл бұрын

This actually so true i only realized i was biracial when i completed 18 years because i'm always perceived as a white person. my skin its kinda yellowish pale, but i have coily afro hair and black features, and ever since i was a kid i suffered with microaggressions towards my hair but never towards my skin and because im always perceived as white i only learned how to take care of my hair when i completed 18 years

@LQC13

Жыл бұрын

@@yeet-xm1nu where u from fam?

As a lightskin Native American it can sometimes feel like this mentality is much more accepted in native politics . I know why it is because genocide and some tribes are completely whitewashed but at the same time like I have both native parents and I was raised in the Rez how does that make me any less native?

Always love your takes. You would make a great lecturer.

We love to see you mailing it in. Bless. Edit: can't believe he called this a lazy video. So much well articulated insight.

The bi-racial conversation still has me feeling a certain type of way, but I do think it's me and my feelings missing the forest for the trees. As Kahdija would say I am hooked, I am activated 🤣

I'm Black and Polynesian and went through a pretty big identity crises in school. I can still remember the first time I questioned my blackness after a classmate told me that I wasn't *BLACK* Black because of my hair and because I was light skinned. I never even questioned it until then. I had a knee jerk reaction to that and said that I could grow an afro. Smh It didn't help that my dad is unquestionably Black and growing up fit that tough Black dad misogynistic role to a tee (Though I will say he's grown a lot over the past couple of years. And we have had some really tough conversations lately that lead to it). Shit like that got worse going into middle school and my friend groups started becoming more diverse. Low-key felt pushed away from a few of my black friends from elementary and we drifted apart. Even had a little animosity towards each other by the time we were teenagers. I started feeling alienated from the Black community a bit back then ngl. I'm a bit thankful in a way because in the end it helped me find my true self, and I met the best friends I've ever had as a result. I'm proud of my Black heritage, but I also don't sweep my Polynesian heritage under the rug like I did as a kid just to fit in with my peers. It helped me explore things I would have never looked at otherwise, and allowed me to meet a lot of dope people. At the end of the day the real ones stood by me. My closest friends are Black and biracial to this day. I've accepted that I'm black depending on the given context when it comes to daily interactions. Sometimes I'm seen as Black, other times mixed, other times Arab, or people just don't even know and straight up ask me.😂 So many damn interactions where people ask what my ethnicity is.🙄 But it is what it is at the end of the day.🤷🏾‍♂️

I'm French and I've never seen a single biracial person call themself black. We have a word for biracial (métis) and that's the word biracial people use to describe themself. Not saying you're wrong, but it's a very American point of view, and others cultures might have a different take on the subject. It's a bit strange to me to see Meghan Markle and Alexandre Dumas being called black by American when their skin are quite light in tone.

@rejectionisprotection4448

8 ай бұрын

It's the legacy of the One Drop Rule.

@kev2034

7 ай бұрын

Same in Portuguese, I'd just say I'm brown (moreno) or mixed (misto). In English I will mostly default to mixed but I've had white English people "correct" me and say I'm black instead so you can't win no matter what, it's weird.

@Sandrinarhonda

5 ай бұрын

It’s not all of us in America, it’s only the slow individuals. We have 2 or more races on Job applications and etc so some of us get it . But I do agree with you on the rest .

@Sandrinarhonda

5 ай бұрын

@@kev2034 shoutout to Portugual and France (other countries as well) for doing this .

@Tsuferg

2 ай бұрын

And because it is a very American POV it is sufficient to say it is off.. people need to practice having more open dialogues/discussions especially since we got wide audiences with new technology like social media. I think thats ideal.

23:26 this has always been my thing too. People like J. Cole is looked at as black while people like Logic will more likely be treated as white. It doesn't mean they aren't biracial, but people don't see your family when they look at you but your phenotype/physical characteristics

@iateyursandwiches

Жыл бұрын

Which is fair because that is how you will be perceived and treated by the police and prejudiced people. Whatever you look like is what you are, unfortunately. However, that only makes sense when we consider the nature of race and what it means.

Sometimes it’s worth it to appreciate the little things. FD brought a genuinely trademark grade energy here. The elf shirt, the crown ornament on the tree, the way he was laughing and having fun. All the points were casual and accessible but backed up by his more focused videos. Takes were good and persuasive, great videos aren’t only the video essays, if FD only did videos like this I don’t think I’d like that but it has its place and I really enjoyed it. Good video (:

I think if someone wants to yell from here to high noon that they aren't black, then let them have it.

Here because of the discourse around Tyla. Love your work, Unc!

For the whole biracial section if anyone is curious there's a section on it I believe in WHY ARE ALL THE BLACK KIDS SITTING TOGETHER... I think for men being biracial is neutral but for women it can be a whole other ballpark because of being young and "competing" for men. Not to mention high school is peak colorism to me.

@PrincessWhatsername

Жыл бұрын

As a biracial black woman, I have to agree based on personal experience. All throughout my childhood every adult in my life always told me I was "pretty", and yet I grew up so insecure about being mixed and not fitting in as I got bullied A LOT, particularly from other young black girls and women up until even my mid 20s. Actually had one black coworker actually admit to me that she didn't wanna be too nice to me because she thought "mixed girls usually think their sh*t don't stink, but I see now you're cool I guess." And maybe that's been her experience, I don't wanna take that away from her, but it certainly opened my eyes up to why many black girls and women always treated me the way they did...competition and insecurity, with colorism obviously being at the root of that. Sadly, I think that's why I ended up with a lot more white friends in school tbh. They were nicer to me 🤷🏽‍♀️

@beansfebreeze

Жыл бұрын

The biracial aspect for men is really weird depending on the circles you run around in. Some 100% treat it as a neutral topic and, but I was basically shunned by the grown black dudes around me when I was a kid because I wasn't black *enough*. It was the weirdest form of colorism cause I didn't hold much social capital since I didn't look like the actors/musicians/athletes the people around me looked up to.

@dinkyboss

Жыл бұрын

@@PrincessWhatsernamengl a lot of my experience dealing with biracial women is that they go out of their way to lean into their “privileged” position as being assumed to be more attractive. That makes it genuinely difficult to befriend them because they do say colorist stuff and while I’m not dark skinned I’m still not comfortable being around that. So typically my friendships with biracials go south…

@PrincessWhatsername

Жыл бұрын

@kaci719 ummm...no, I don't think that's correct lol. I think I can make a better judgement about my friendships and relationships over my lifetime than a stranger on the internet, as I am the one actually living my life lol. Some of my white friends were low-key racist and saw me as the token POC and we are no longer friends. Others (and not JUST white people, if I have to explicitly say it) have been friends for nearly a lifetime and it's because there's not weird politics or competiton, and because, you know, we just love each other and vibe as friends do. And I get along with black women much better as an adult than I did as a kid, probably just due to being an elder millennial and both myself and my peers have just grown out of that mess. And with all due respect, I will never tell a dark-skinned black woman (or someone from any other marginalized group) whether or not their lived experiences are valid because that's never going to be my experience, so I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't tell me what it's like to grow up as a mixed girl, thanks 🙂

@PrincessWhatsername

Жыл бұрын

@@dinkyboss that's totally valid and understandable. I always thought I was kinda ugly as a kid (not that I WAS ugly, but based on 90s/00s beauty standards) cuz I have black features, type 4 hair, etc, but on a lighter complexion...very "high contrast" if you will, combined with a stick straight scrawny-skinny body type, not curvy like the other black girls whom I thought were prettier than me (but I also didn't feel conventionally "white girl" pretty either), and it wasn't honestly til I was in my late 20s that I genuinely felt "pretty" and like I had grown into myself. But I think some of it depends where you grow up, family dynamics, etc. I'm fully aware of the stereotypes that surround how mixed girls act based on societal perceptions and colorism (and there's always a little bit of truth behind many stereotypes...to be fair, I definitely knew some stuck up mixed girls in school...I suppose being mixed myself I just didn't see them any differently that stuck up white, black, or Hispanic girls 🤷🏽‍♀️). My struggle I'd say was that I was NOT that stereotype, but was often treated certain ways because people just assumed that's how I was, when I was literally just a shy kid who desperately wanted friends who didn't treat me one way or another based on things like race and features 🤷🏽‍♀️ (because my extended family is very multicultural...black, white, Asian, Hispanic, we got it all lol so that was a stark contrast to how people perceive and act upon the dynamics of race outside of tha diverse family bubble I grew up in).

I'd just like to remind some confused people that " Lighskin" is a description of the tone of your skin. Its not a race or ethnicity. You can be fully black ( two black parents ) or biracial and be lightskin. Not all fully black people have darkskin as we come in all kinds of shades and not all Biracial people have lightskin.

@cryptbeast3222

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. I wish this didn't need to be said.

@Sandrinarhonda

5 ай бұрын

Amen

@dr.shlomosands1096

6 күн бұрын

Light skinned was for light skinned blacks not biracials!!! There is z DIFFERENCE between light skinned black and biracial

Hey man just wanted to say this video has no joke brought me peace in some way. Keep fighting the good fight dude these videos are crazy helpful

I can't remember if I commented already, because this was posted RIGHT before our family took a long KZread break (much needed for the holiday) but this was a good one. Insightful as always!

LOL the "whatever the police think you are" got me. I am Blackipino and I f*x with all the sentiments/points you laid out. Last year, I got pulled over for literally nothing (like the court sent a letter telling me my case was thrown out) and I remember seeing the traffic ticket this cop gave me and under race it said "Black" So ye iykyk

@underestimated1171

Жыл бұрын

The police line is played out.

@nightmarilyn

Жыл бұрын

@@underestimated1171 maybe when it stops being accurate we can stop saying it 💀

@chidiogoikeh4550

Жыл бұрын

@@underestimated1171 very much so. As if all black people are being pulled over by the cops with a gun to their head🙄 not all black people live in America. And even in America it’s not always a reality

@anothervictory2595

Жыл бұрын

You sound corny. You let a low IQ cop tell you who you are?

@Ksgr867

Жыл бұрын

@@nightmarilyn it's actually a very dangerous stereotypes and proves that u guys can only relate to the black experience under superficial pretenses

We as Black Americans will never escape the shackles of the one drop rule and biracial debate

@giav878

Жыл бұрын

Because the foundation of the conversation is really white supremacy and patriarchy, two forms of domination. So until we are living in a world where that is eradicated, the conversation will continue to be circular.

@martonyomchale342

Жыл бұрын

No we escaped it. The new generation going forward isn't counting biracials as Black.

@angelganggirl

Жыл бұрын

nope

@giav878

Жыл бұрын

@@martonyomchale342 that literally proves my point. Excluding biracial Black from the collective Black community is literally a symptom of white supremacy. It’s the inability to develop class consciousness because the community is divided in experiences based on colorism, which again came from white supremacy. All that “moving forward no biracials are Black” only weakens the community and leaves us more disenfranchised.

@martonyomchale342

Жыл бұрын

@@giav878 It doesn't disenfranchise us. Most biracials are not poor so I don't know how you are talking about class consciousness when our top 10% wealthiest Black Americans are Black immigrants, Biracials, ppl who married outside their race, Black boomers and those hooked to them, and Black celebrities. So we got our class consciousness. We are a race of working class African Americans with two African American parents. No y'all are too obsessed with light skin, good hair, and biracial women. We are going to raise a psychologically healthy race of ppl going forward. By allowing Biracial people to exist in our group you all, and predominantly Black men will put it on a pedestal. We got 29% of Black men married and 20% if that is to biracials and non Black women. Then the other half of them are married to light skin women. No we have a problem you all aren't providing a solution for. Who is going to marry the Unambiguous dark skin Black women? The solution is to tell them to marry out, and the then produces more mixed ppl and eventually more White ppl. And that still doesn't address Black men refusing to marry dark skin women. No y'all got no solution besides accept the biracials.

Imagine the level of ignorance where a random cops defines a person’s racial heritage and parentage. I’m glad I don’t think at such a ridiculous level.

Lately I've noticed how messy race classification and internalized prejudice is for Latinos. We're mostly mixed race technically, so everyone judges based on how light or dark your skin color is rather than your genetic makeup. I've recently come across this other sentiment by Latinos in Latin countries "disowning" Latin Americans and saying they're NOT Latino because they were born in English-first countries, namely America. Like they say Latinos born in the US are entirely White. It's just bizarre to me

On tik tok the conversation around is biracial black is the worst I’ve ever seen it. In my whole 23 years of life my blackness was not questioned around other black ppl. I said a take on a video in the comments about Rue from euphoria’s relationship with her mom. The creators narrative was that the mom did not act like a black mom. From my personal experience (I do have a black mom) and through media I find that black children have dealt with abuse being normalized in the community. A whooping being seen as the default punishment. Media especially loves to portray the working class black family with the abusive strict parents ( ex. Everybody hates chris). In contrast you had Malcom in the middle a white working class family where the parents were strict but violence was never the solution. Anyways, I commented on the video that I don’t want rues mom to be portrayed as the abusive stereotype. Ppl came for my NECK. Black and white thinking is rampant on that app. They immediately told me that I am the one who is stereotyping black moms. Despite everyone acting like the black experience is one experience. The creator of the video also did not put much of a joking tone to her take. Ppl also would say I must be white with out looking at my page, even calling me racist. They also especially said that I must have a white mom. The icing on the cake is that the creator replied to my comment with a video publicly. She said that I must be speaking from personal experience here and I’m the one saying stereotypes. Exactly…. I am speaking from personal experience. But despite that awareness there was no empathy. Because I wasn’t seen as black enough to join the conversation by her group, her followers. I never in my life have I ever felt the “im not black enough for the black kids” experience. Because half of me is Jamaican I’m first generation. I relate to the black immigrant experience. I also think I have a good head on my shoulders. My mom always reminded me of my privilege. I don’t intersect into conversations that I don’t relate to or understand. I am never acting like I know the full black experience as a half white have black person. Colorism has really messed up the black community. I feel people wanting to shut down anyone with privilege if what they say doesn’t match up 100%. It’s weird, because white supremacy wants that. It wants a minority group to beef with each other. Overall it’s a complex conversation with many nuances we know this. But I’d be lying if I said that experience in the tik tok comments didn’t hurt me. Because it showed me there are too many people who can’t see outside themselves. Can’t put themselves in other ppl shoes. Which leads to little change. The conversations on tik tok although chronically online have reached too many damn ppl.

@the2ndcoming135

Жыл бұрын

Idk man. I was specifically told by Germans that I’m German royalty. They didn’t have to tell me that even tho I’m not 100% German🤣

@feliznavidad6958

Жыл бұрын

White supremacy lives on in the one drop rule and when people use "white passing". Mixed people can just be mixed. It obviously isnt the same as being black..

@wekselbaum

Жыл бұрын

Huh, I see why they came for you. It could be unintentional but you seem to have conflated their comments about the character not acting “black” with your opinion that you don’t want her to be an “abusive black parent stereotype”. I feel like a lot of biracial people fall into a trap of thinking they’re rejected because of their identity when it could be the things you say and the way they’re said. Malcolm in the Middle’s parents were abusive af. I think they took issue with the assumption that her not acting black means acting black = abuse.

@herpinderp18

Жыл бұрын

@@wekselbaum There was no assumption. Ppl in the comments left and right said “yeah if she was a black mom she’d be whooping rue”. Or “I’d be locked up for days if her mom was black she wouldn’t have a chance to do drugs”. Something I see in the black community a lot is people joking about their parents displaying certain behaviors that are at the end of the day abusive. It’s a problem. People coming for my neck saying I’m perpetuating a stereotype, but in the same breath expressing abusive behaviors is a problem. Maybe I should have clarified that part. It is also a problem that people in these conversations jump to denouncing someone’s blackness instead of doing empathy. like I said I never had questioned my blackness or felt insecure of where I stand with the community. I speak where I have experience. I am a emotionally intelligent person with a life experience. The media loves portraying black parents as abusive period. Malcom in the middles parents didn’t beat their children. White media stopped referencing beating their kids a long time ago. But there around the same time had everybody hates Chris. In that show they repeatedly referenced him getting his ass beat by his dad for comedy. Im not making this up. I think some of you just don’t let yourself see it bc of cultural experience.

@herpinderp18

Жыл бұрын

@Leah I don’t know what you’re talking about. You honestly seem a little upset. I identify as a mixed BLACK person, and speak when my experiences aline with the conversation. Ppl were coming for me (even white people which was weird) bc it didn’t completely align with their opinion of how rue’s mother should have acted as a black mom. If you haven’t seen euphoria then maybe we can talk when you have.

I enjoyed the energy of this. Its almost Christmas, let’s just chill and talk about some tiktoks. Exactly how I wanted unwind today. Thank you!

Came for the lesson, hooked after hearing the fantano beat. Your editing is top tier.

Merry christmas! Thanks for all that effort in your other videos but also love how chill this video is tho

I've got 45 years of biracial experience. At no point in that 45 years have I been treated as anything other than black. Colorism obviously has been at play and I recognize the privileges lighter skin grants but I've been pulled over for driving while black enough to know how the power structure sees me. Even if I did not want to be black that's not a choice I would be able to make.

@bunnywavyxx9524

Жыл бұрын

that doesn't matter

@iateyursandwiches

Жыл бұрын

@bunnywavy xx it literally does. If they look black, they're black. If they look white, theyre white. If they look asian, theyre Asian. End of story. That is the point of recognizing race in the first place. Not because of pride, but because your unchangable physical features can and often does dictate how you will be treated. That's why when people say I'm color blind it's not only a lie, but offensive.

@Ksgr867

Жыл бұрын

@@iateyursandwiches according to who? Why are y'all allowing your experiences to define u? U may experience what bp experience based on your ability to pass black we literally do not have the same experiences. And most of your experiences are based on stereotypes and superficial stuff such as phenotypes and how you're treated by whites and the police. Black ppl don't have that ability so the experiences are different and that's olay

@calidawg510

11 ай бұрын

thats why segregation is better

@hammerandthewrench7924

10 ай бұрын

@@bunnywavyxx9524it does tho. Stay mad

"Her videos have this surrealist tone to them... but she does not break character." If she's serious this is a great read.

You definitely have put a lot of time and effort into ur channel and ur videos are very well researched and very interesting and about important topics so I think u should be super proud of urself for doing a good job and I look forward to another year of watching ur content!!

Thanks for the reading suggestion. I've read Hookes before and she has some very good things to say and think about. Looking forward to reading this work.

I have a friend that’s biracial with a black mom and white dad. He is absolutely not white passing since his mom is dark skinned, but so many other black people don’t consider him black still. He ended up joining more vague “multicultural” communities because he was treated so poorly by both black and white people. The whole thing is ridiculous

@HillLuvJump999

Жыл бұрын

As a fellow black mom with white dad kid, the struggle to relate to either communities is so real.

@BabyGirlTiny

Жыл бұрын

But he’s not black. His dad is white so that means he’s not black. It sucks that he’s treated badly but he shouldn’t be treated like he’s black by black people when he’s not black

@KateCat420

Жыл бұрын

@@BabyGirlTiny This is such bullsh*t. He faces the same discrimination as black people, and hypocrites like you make it hard for anyone to accept him. Get over yourself and stop going out of your way to be hateful.

@JLDReactions

Жыл бұрын

@horgshulk7345 He's mixed.

@bunnywavyxx9524

Жыл бұрын

he is not black or white and that is what biracials grapple with the most: the truth of their literal identities. why would he fit in with either one? no one really expects whites to accompany and accept mixed people. Black americans have had their own culture for 100 years they have a sense of community and homogeneity too.

Vin Diesel made a short film in the 90s about being mixed where he goes to auditions for 4 different races

You can absolutely do reacts. Especially if it allows you to have content while you take a mental break or work on something else. I personally love the react/edu videos

Appreciate the vid man. I'm going through all your old content.

My related experience to the "You're a man. You're so supposed to be able to take it" video came around when I was 12 years old from my mom. I can't remember exactly what happened with the situation happen 14 years ago, but I distinctly remember arguing with my mom and sister. My Ma then quoted the bible saying, "It's better to live in an attic that endure a nagging wife". For a long time hearing that made me feel like I should always be silent and any form of standing up for myself would be me nagging at whoever did me wrong. To be frank, I never really saw it as emasculation, but it felt like people saw me to be much more valuable being obedient and silent rather than having any sense of skepticism.

@BigHenFor

Жыл бұрын

I think I understand where you're coming from, because you have to choose your battles. People tend to hear what they want, or expect to hear, and won't clarify anything by asking questions. The emotions take over, and you can progress away from an argument to a discussion where you are really listened to, you can freely speak your mind, and listen to them.

@imanigordon6803

Жыл бұрын

Remember when I had my first experience with a girl I was talking to and going out on dates with and she had problems at work consistently and would talk about committing violent acts upon the managers. I felt uncomfortable so I told her that although I understand her pain it gave me negative vibes and I would want to avoid those ways of talking. She told me I was acting like a girl and it was unattractive… first experience of the weight of patriarchy being placed on me directly by a woman I wanted to date.

@PaintedHoundie

Жыл бұрын

my mom used to say a lot of stuff like that to me. it always confused that people talk like "youre acting like a woman" especially when its a woman saying it. because did you just insult yourself to make a value judgement about me? she would say things like "what kind of man argues with a woman". she had very low expectations for me and anytime i wasnt doing beat for beat what she wanted me to do, she'd talk to me like i was the worst thing that ever happened to her.

@BrownLoafah

Жыл бұрын

@@PaintedHoundie And retrospectively, that's what really baffles me. Both sides end up perpetuating a demonization of femininity even when the argument has nothing to do with gender contextually. Moreover standing up for yourself isn't even a gendered concept, it just what people do.

@BrownLoafah

Жыл бұрын

@@imanigordon6803 I experienced something very similar during the ninth grade with a girl I liked. The ever lingering need for you to indulge in violence for a woman you like. When you don't there's then a response of, "why didn't you do anything". It's still a perpetuation of a patriarchal role.

Haha I’m glad you feel you can make a chill video. Break well earned 🤘🏻

Wow. When you said “ pretty for a dark skinned girl “, I actually shuddered. It still stings. Damn

thank you so much for your input on the biracial discourse unc. the whole time I was growing up people would call me anti black slurs to my face for being half black but now that being black equates to "cool" I'm "not black enough." In my experience, the people who seem to dictate a lot of this discourse are whites and latinos so it's generally pretty easy to ignore.

@tiahnarodriguez3809

Жыл бұрын

I’m my experience it’s black propel who dictate when biracials and mixed race people are seen as black. Notice how Zendaya is called black or biracial depending on how people feel about her at any given time, but Rihanna, Halle Barry, Beyoncé, etc are seen as black despite being biracial or mixed race.

This thumbnail is an absolute banger.

As a biracial black/italian woman who looks predominantly Italian I agree 100% with your breakdown, I've experienced many instances of biracial 'racism' for lack of a better term where I was often bullied by other black kids and accused of not being black to the point I had to bring them to my house and show them my mom just so they would believe me, in my defense I was a dumb kid at the time but thats just how bad it was that I felt I had to prove my blackness in the first place which is so unfair and really shows how biracial ppl are unfairly treated just because they dont measure up to other ppls perception of what a true black or any other race one is mixed with should be. Truthfully speaking I was raised by my single mother and only ever been involved with my black family and raised in a majority black city, so truthfully Im more black than I am Italian from my upbringing and enviroment but nobody would ever believe that because they only see one thing and dont care about anything else. Its also unfair how biracial ppl are often forced to choose which side they identify with as if we're supposed to pick a side? we're both, we have two different race of parents, us being like 'yea Im black' doesnt erase the fact that we're mixed with somethin else, we'll always be biracial, we'll always share traits and genetics of that other race, forcing us to choose is basically telling us to deny half of who we are.

@bunnywavyxx9524

Жыл бұрын

well you aren't black. half white half asians who look white don't get to identify as white yet, a half black person regardless of what they look like get to identify as black. you don't expect the italians to accept you but black people are the negative ones for not doing it? You aren't apart of their community. Humans naturally group and associate with those most like them, they can tell you're not and that's why they don't accept you. You never say "yeah I'm white." You never assert that to the white community. They didn't even bully you they just told you, as people of their community that you aren't in theirs and us black people can't even tell people that now lol. Why is blackness accessible in a way that any other race isn't, and black people are the bad ones for having a communal sense that every other race has? The entitlement is grappling and erasure. So unfair.

@rightweaponry908

Жыл бұрын

I am Black and Italian too and same, i was raised mostly with my Black family and grow up in a black neighborhood, none of my Italian family was particularly cultural or ethnically Italian so i didn't get much culture or feeling of identity from them. It was much later on in life that i learned about my Italian family and taught myself about the culture and the history. Though i am now proud to be both, i will always regard being Italian through the lens of being Black. Being 50/50 dna wise doesn't mean we are all automatically 50/50 culturally or socially ...i'm not sure why people refuse to understand that because it doesn't seem confusing at all.

@DarkAngel2512

6 ай бұрын

To be fair if you said "Im black" then obviously they'll disagree with you if youre mixed.

@JoaquinTazabi

4 ай бұрын

​@@rightweaponry908What both of you are saying is exactly what I have to explain to people, I might have a Latino name and look Latino, but I'm not part of the culture. The only culture I was raised in was Black culture. Seems simple to me, but people have so much trouble with the concept.

@rightweaponry908

4 ай бұрын

@@JoaquinTazabi people really feel soo emboldened to tell you who you are these days like they know better than you do😂it's weird.

Fantastic lighting and very comfy atmosphere in this video, feels like a friend teaching me about some stuff he gets annoyed with.

Absolutely love this video style!! Do anything you want with your content, the amount of effort you put into your videos has been SO INSAAANE. You totally deserve to make whatever kind of content you want!!!!

Every video i learn something new and every video i come out thinking i will be able to do my job a little better because of you thx. On biracial stuff a story from school : Me and two child arguing about who's more black and who's less black and who's better for the color. Our teacher got out of the room and looked at us for a few second and then said "Y'all are so dumb , you think it matter for someone racist ? To them all of you are black , you better support each other." That shut that shit up in my mind forever. And going around in europe i realized only people that aren't racist care about the shade i have , racist just see me black end of the story.

This was great dawg, I really appreciate this. I feel the lens on biracial-ness in terms of discourse is more emphasized on people who are part white and part more so than in comparison to being a mixed as a double minority

They are mixed point period

Thank you for this discourse. Being light skin and Black is a difference. There are plenty of differences in our Black experiences. Our experiences being different doesn't mean they are distinctively non-Black. That said. My empathy and solidarity stays with our darker skin fam who are consistently harmed by colorism. It is important for those of us who benefit from colorism to hold space and frankly give grace when needed as we would want ourselves.