Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 4:34
Jasmine Guy Said " Black People Will Be Mad" At Her For Saying This— But I’m Not Mad and Here’s Why😀
Some people are multiracial. Why would they just embrace one side of themselves? Now, I can understand how that can happen if you have a mixed race person that lives around black people a lot. They do black music, quote unquote, black music. So, like Drake. Drake could be considered black identified, but he comes from the womb of a woman who was non black, so why would he just embrace one side of himself?
Angela Kaye
@AnngieKaye · 4:15
So at first they put her in a trio for gospel music because she fits the gospel aesthetic. But then eventually, I don't know, she broke out of that or negotiated to be r b star and sing what she really wants to sing. So I just say all that to say the industry makes people who they tell you who to be
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 4:29
Just this mentality that you can only be one race is just crazy. You can only have one ethnicity. It's just crazy. It really is. If people really did a deep dive back and did like an ancestry DNA or one, two, three, andme or whatever it's called. If people did that stuff, they would realize that there's more in their background than what they think it is. You know what I mean?
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 1:56
Not to say that Alicia Keys was not talented, because I think they were both on the same level, in my opinion. So Alicia Keys definitely have the talent. So that wasn't the issue. It was more of colorism because it played a part there, too. And she won an award that Andrea was supposed to get as. So, yeah, colorism definitely plays a role. Alicia Keys was seen as the, I guess, the cuter or safer black woman
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 4:04
Because black people, for so many centuries, we've been called everything from ugly to animal. Our hair is very hard and unattractive. Our skin is unattractive. Everything about us for centuries have been seen as unattractive. This is not to say that other cultures have not experienced some form of prejudice, but the reason why black people are so protective and possessive of those with quote unquote, good hair and such is because they were the ones that were also. They call each other
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 2:42
However, my husband is white and I'm black, and then their dad is white, and I was black, so I don't have a problem with black man or a white man. I've married a black man. I've married white men. So I think that love is love, and people are people, and they should be okay with themselves. Thank you
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 3:47
I don't know. But why do we care what color a person is when they take a test? Why do we care what color a person is when it comes to job applications? I don't know. And even though I hear certain responses as to why, it still doesn't make sense to me
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 4:37
And so those that were lighter skinned, with more fine hair would try to pass as white. And then the Jim Crow law came into effect, where if you got even one 8th black in you, you are black. No matter how white or latino you might look, you are still black if you have a black grandparent or great grandparent in your bloodline. And so I think that for some black people, they feel like
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 3:53
You. Hey, Tanya, you brought up some really great points, and I agree with you 1000%. In fact, I was talking about this, I believe, with my husband last year, and he mentioned the same thing you have, that there are mixed race people that really overcompensate with their blackness. They're very black identified and them, they date black. They're constantly in black spaces
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 0:34
You. Hey, y'all, here's the link to the article that I wrote. I spent some time on it. I had to think about what I wanted to say. And you can see the responses as well. I think I have a few responses from just a couple people. But feel free to read it at your own leisure. You don't have to read it at all, really. It's almost reiterating what I said. I just added more things to it
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 4:20
And she did some more research, and she actually ended up meeting the black people from her mother's side of the family and explained to them who she was and how she found them and all of that, because this was long before ancestry.com, so she actually had to do some digging. She had to actually go to the library and do research and stuff. So she did end up meeting them. And, I mean, it was great
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 3:34
She Evelyn, remember where someone called the cops on her dad because they thought that maybe he kidnapped her or something because she definitely came out very fair skinned with blue eyes. So these are just some of the trauma that the biracials of this country experience, which is just so horrifying. Having to cover up your skin so you don't tan and be found out or watching your parent, your birth parent, being almost whisked away by cops because you look wholly different from them
Kitha Larie
@chitchatwithkk · 4:55
And he was talking about this child. And my boss said, well, they need an african american home. And the guy said, well, they're not african american. They're white and black. And we were sitting there and I was just being funny and I said, well, I said they're black because that's what society is going to label them. I said, but I understand they are african american and white, but in society they're black because that's what people see
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 1:35
Hey, Erica, I think it's interesting when you said the guy commented that Jasmine's statement may have been performative, and there could be some truth to that, because as far as I can remember, throughout Jasmine guy's career, she's always taken coles that were for black women. She's always been romantically linked to black men. She's always had a circle of black friends that I can see. She's always starred in predominantly black productions
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 2:58
Hey, Keith, you bring a very interesting angle to this that I actually agree with. Mixed people are viewed as black, and that's because of the one drop rule. And it's also because mostly black features are more pronounced, so they're going to be viewed as black. The other thing I agree with you, and I've mentioned this before, is that there are other things in this world to think about and to worry about, which is why I rarely talk about this
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 1:18
So I'm not sure why Jasmine guy thought to open up the can of worms by saying, know that black people are going to get mad. And this is what I'm talking about right here. Like, black people, we're always like, we're the horse that everyone beats the default. Like, why is it that black people would get mad? Why we're always used in the negative? So she didn't really have to mention all of that