In America, Light Skin Blacks are Black not "Mixed Race"

Exactly Are you American? They don't understand how upset these people would get if you inferred they were mixed race and not black!

Read what you said.
Beyonces mother is essentially half white and half black. This means her mothervis mixed race.
This means beyonce is 1/4 white. That is mixed race. Her mother is not a light skin black as you put it. She is mixed race.
Mixed race is a race. So one race plus another is mixed.
Beyonce may identift herself as black and culturally she may be. Ethnically she is not.

Difference between mixed race and mixed blood. A person can be 1/32 chinese it neans they have mixed ancestry not a mixed race.


Tell me what race is obama?
You seem to be an advocate of the one drop rule. Mixed race is not light skin black

You can't apply European ideals to a broader more diverse American society! By your definition there are no ethnic black people in America which obviously isn't the case!

I wouldn't go up to someone that was light skinned and assume they would want to be called mixed race. Being mixed race is simply to do with your parentage and how you were raised.
My mother is black, but my father is white.
I also grew up in a mostly white community.
I would call myself "mixed race" to acknowledge both my white and black heritage, but I'd assume that somebody would ask me that themselves rather than assuming I would want to be called something.

But to be honest, it's not the kind of thing you just go up to people and talk about.
"Oh, hey, are you black or mixed race?"
Because it doesn't matter as we're all humans.
That's silly.

Has America even been around for 400 years


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Still waiting for someone to explain how a person from a 90% White European country trys to apply their ideals of race to the much larger and far more diverse America. There are more Black people in America than pretty much every European country except Russia, France, Germany, UK, Italy at 50 million.

OP, I myself am an American living in the UK, and so can understand what you are saying. However, to an extent I disagree with some of it. I'm 1/4 black and 3/4 white, but I look white, I have green eyes, I'm really pale and I don't look black. Back home people always assumed I was white, and if I told anyone I had black grandparents they'd just laugh and wouldn't believe me. To them, I was white. Same applies here in the UK.

The problem is what you look like. If you look black, you're black. If you look white, you're white.

What you're saying about Beyonce and Chris Brown. They have black parents so they're black. Even in the UK they would be called black. Mixed race is a term used to describe people who are half white/half black. NOT light skinned black people

I'd like to add, despite what you've said about the UK not being multicultural, it is. Most people here live in cities (1/8 of the country lives in London alone) and the cities are where you have different races. The reason 90% of the country is white is because there is a lot of immigration from other white countries in Europe.

In terms of "mixed race" I personally hate the word. It means 2 races, but especially here in the UK, there are a lot of different combos of 2 races. Half white half chinese, half white half indian, half indian half black...the list goes on. If "mixed race" only applies to half white and half black, then wtf do you call everyone else of two 2 races?

In terms of the one-drop-rule, I do think it's stupid, but it is understandable. People keep bringing up Obama so let's talk about him. The fact that he is quite dark for a biracial person, has a black wife, has black children and associates himself with black people means that he is viewed as black. He may only be half black, but he effectively has no white family and relations (all dead) so he IS black.

Blacks in Europe are isolated to capital cities London, Paris, Berlin etc...

You couldn't be more wrong.

Well done writing your point off in the second paragraph of a stupidly long post (relative to the point to were trying to make). Also, the ugly, meaningless photos at the end... Why? Pathetic.

Op's light arent on upstairs

The purpose of the thread is to say that Europeans are clueless about Race in America and most things in general! All of the photos I posted were taken at Black Colleges in America and as expected someone on here claimed half of them were not black LOL I would love for you to visit America and tell these people they are not black.....