Traditionally for the vast majority of the history of this country people like this wouldn't dare admit to black ancestry and give up white privilege in exchange for a hellish existence in poverty and subjected to terrorism.
@Demiclea Jewish is a white minority. Edit: I ran into this comment 2 years after posting it and since then, I have learned more. Jews aren't really white, as they have a lot of DNA from the middle east. Some of them may pass as white though, especially Ashekenazi Jews.
@diane9247 Nah Judaism is a religion, Jew in reality is meant to denote someone who descends from the lineage or tribe of Judah that is where the word was coined from. So in truth not every Israelite is a Jew. Now the term Jewish is just a new age term which is loosely associated with those who follow Judaism
The reason this world is this way is because groups of people were and are systematically oppressed and their oppression was justified with diabolical doctrines. The world dose not have to be this way, it can change and it will.
This world was/is, a lie from the start. A playground for the multitude of egos expressing whatever can be conceived of from the good to the evil. We are spiritual beings having a human experience, and the egos in their weakness hold onto false labels of differences, and the childlike games begins. A world of chaotic chaos. We can't change the world, but individuals can at least enlighten themselves to rise above the buffoonery.
Why do these people need to announce they are privlige ...what does that make other members of their family? Seriously...these people have issues...they want "Minority Privledge "...they want to check that box to get extra funding or the benefits of being a minority preference from an employer. It's so sad. I'm a quarter Asian...that box on applications wasnt made for me. I know she I am. If people see me as white...whatever
@@constancedenchy9801 They are not "announcing" anything. They are discussing racial issues in an interview. It's odd that anyone believes that there is some checkbox that gets extra privileges. Blacks and Latinos still have higher rates of unemployment and earn less than other groups. I have heard bosses say that Asians are smart, but are not real Americans, when denying them promotions.
Why do these people care about what they fucking look like. I’m southern Italian but look so dark that I could be a Arab. But I don’t care what race I am. People can call me white or Arab I can care less.
I am racially profiled as White when I'm Asian. I've even been hired to impersonate White celebrities and even more oddly, have had to straighten my curly hair to do so. The worst thing for me is what happened to me at work recently. I am a substitute so people don't know me well. My name is also ethnically ambiguous because it's common in Japan and in America as a White name. I was accused if being racially insensitive towards Asians. Obviously, she overheard my private conversation incorrectly. I then had to explain what I actually said and then had to have the awkward conversation of the fact that I was raised in an Asian household by a 100% Asian single parent who spoke English as a second language. The struggle I felt was regarding something that many say doesn't exist: reverse discrimination. It does exist because I get beat by both of ends of the racial stick. I complained to the head of the program and tomorrow, I was asked to call and a letter is being sent to me after she decided to conduct an investigation. My decision to speak out against a White person erroneously telling an Asian to not be racially insensitive against Asians may cost me my job. They do not want to recognize reverse discrimination, which happened to me when someone misheard my conversation, but they can get away with further marginalizing an Asian by mistakingly profiling me as a White supremacist. Someone has to do something about this insanity.
The thing I noticed growing up in Philadelphia, a city with a large black population, is that mixed race light skinned black people most of the time act the blackest, It's like they have something to prove. It must be an ego or acceptance thing, it's really strange!
@Nathaniel Hall well yeah, if you're majority black you'd probably consider yourself black or at least a mixed black person (because you still are partially white)
@Nathaniel Hall I just say mixed black person; how come it’s only black +white that ask that? Afro Latinos just claim that. Blasians call themselves that and keep it moving. But only black +white prefer to just say black.
brenda jackson I understand where he's coming from. He is black yet he appears white, that makes him racially fluid in truth. If tomorrow he decided to pass as white he could with no problem.
IWIN ITALL oh is that what he was saying...? I couldn't quite grasp what his segment was about because he brought up being Jewish as if Jews have a distinct skin color
As a non-american its weird to me that this kind of thing always goes one way, always away from white. There is never a half white american embracing both his heritages or identifing with the white one.
Because other than out of trauma nobody outside of white people want to be white and its as simple as that Let that sink in as to why, there's only a small handful of reasons why people pretend to be white
No. Ppl. I knew her personally. She's a shit person. I've been to her house. She took me to Angela Davis at WSU... She's not a meme. But she sure is confused and sad.
I didn't say that her race was Hispanic. I said that she LOOKS Hispanic. Basically, she doesn't look like a white European. Kapeesh! She was implying that she looked like a white European and has privilege. She doesn't. The rest of them can pass but not her.
Wiccan Witch serious question how is Hispanic not a race? When you fill out an application for a job the main races on there are black, white, asian, hispanic, Pacific Islander and other.
What's so strange about a white-passing mixed-Black person? The plaintiff, Homer Plessy, in the Supreme Court case Plessy v Ferguson that legalized segregation and Jim Crow apartheid had 7/8 European and 1/8 Black ancestry. Homer Plessy looked white it didn't matter. He was legally Black. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Plessy Similar, Maggie Walker, a very successful Black business woman was white passing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_L._Walker Race is a social construct.
I’m black and I have black privilege! I have an amazing career, a nice home, I drive a nice car, I’m young, attractive, slim/athletic and brown skinned. Every race on this planet can be privileged. Being born white does not automatically mean privileged.
@@dominiquec1126 Jesus probably looked like the average olive skinned, dark hair, pronounced nose people who are native to the Eastern Mediterranean region
I’m a dark skin mixed race person. People think I’m just Black but it’s a lot more complex than that. My African great grandfather and my Chinese great grandmother fell in love with each other and that’s why I’m here ! A mixed race/multiracial folks have a very complex history. From appearing racially ambiguous to racially unambiguous and look mono-racial I think it’s important as Black appearing folks we look more inside of what brought us here rather than just take what society has made us be. Yes I’m Black but I’m not just Black 💗
I am Moroccan(tuareg) (ma) ,taino aboriginal and Cherokee aboriginal(pa) I have all my families documents,land, and hand me downs everything. But yet they just categorize us all as "black" "descendents of slaves" etc etc. My family were always here. It's funny when you can prove it too .there's no slavery anywhere in my history. Only war..my family traded across the u.s and traveled back and forth from Morocco to the u.s that's just the blood of my .iwaleda papas roots are old. I have met my great grandfather before he died he told me one thing that has always stuck with me "they're going to erase us if you let them" their writers. Always kept notes, receipts,laws bills, census,and everything well documented and kept. Neighbors even. Old business partners. It's insane. I solely believe that's where I get my hands from.. only if people knew a little bit more about ethnics and ethnicity look a little closer at people's eyes their hair their skin certain proteins producer in the facts that we see us you know curly or straight or curly or skinny people just need to understand more about genetics and I think that she will fade away, education but until then we'll all may be seen as white or black or yellow or whatever the case maybe and it's simply just something they've created for classes reasons. Creating a social hierarchy among the people makes them easier to control. Right?. But the amount of times I've been falsely identified her mistaken is hilarious and it's truly an annoyance sometimes as well. I've been mistaken for so many things. The amount of times I've heard "your black, but your like a different kind" 😊 is ridiculous."your voice doesnt match you" is another way of saying you don't sound black. It gets unless I can sit here name examples all day but bottom line is it really gets annoying and it's hard to understand the dude in the video honestly because you simply don't want to keep explaining something over and over and over again your whole life
@@timbredan3476 There are no hard rules for how people of mixed backgrounds will look. I saw an article about a light-skinned Black woman who was married to a white man. Their first child was blond and blue-eyed with pale skin. Their second child had brown skin, darker than his mothers, and brown hair.
HE IS NOT WHITE , HE IS TURKISH , AND USING THIS BULLSHIT AS MANY MUSLIMS AND MINORITY DO TO PROMOTE BULLSHIT , JUST TO GET AN APEASEMENT TREAMENT FROM THE LIBERALS ELITES TO PUSH BULLSIT PROPAGANDA
Who are those people? The ones who enslaved Africans and raped their women. Then created laws to ensure that their mixed-race offspring remained enslaved? The same people who then created the One Drop Rule to boost white supremacy and champion racial purity? Surely you aren't blaming someone who identifies with his ethnic heritage? Do you condemn someone who calls himself Irish or Polish American? Read a history book.
Gigi, It is politics, religion and a distortion of facts. It is the miseducation of the minority by a minority who in fact control the resources of the world by greed, terrorism and fear in order to divide and conquer the ignorant of all races. It's tribalism plain and simple. Forget everything you've been taught and seek the real truth. You'll soon realize you've been deceived.
I'm so tired of it, once _awhile, more recently, whatever ppl thk I am I just smile, nod cz I cnt stand to hv that conversation, we all jus ppl, damn it's been old, sick of race, kmt
Lies! DNA test doesn't ascribe to race but human population groups indigenous to certain regions within a continent. Certain DNA tests may attach your DNA to certain countries. But never a race. Why? Because race is a social construct. Also if you had North African as a result, that is a fancy way of saying you are part "spicy white". Don't get ahead of yourself.
@@gato0082 Spanish is just more white European not equal to Mexican. Most Mexicans are mestizos mixture of white European Spanish and Natives American/Mexican or some are mostly full indigenous.
i'm french and it always surprises me when american people consider 'being spanish' (on their dna test) means 'not white'... (am i correct to assume that's what your comment says?) you probably mean '2.8% from LATIN america'?
I mean obviously. She has curly hair. She might’ve passed more with straight hair. She would totally pass for white in southern or even Western Europe, but most European-Americans are from northwestern Europe.
Y’all need to stop this shit. That man has majority white ancestry and that is ok. Saying he is black is fine but seriously, you are a white man with a tiny bit of black ancestry. The race bs has to stop
@Nathaniel Hall that is my son. He is lighter then me. We have taught him to identify as Black but tell him he has White & Asian in him as well (we do). Had I been raised to identify as white, then he would have as well.
you know that is a fucked up thing to say because you don't know and don't want to relate to that experience. It's like damn if you do, damn if you don't. Back in the day, if you had literally one "drop" of African blood you were considered "black" and discriminated. Most people didn't want to claim there "blackness" but these folks do and here you are saying that they aren't "black" enough. By the way in the continent of Africa, not everyone has deep black skins and wide faces. Indigenous Africans have a wide array of phenotypes, skin color and hair textures from near white North Africans to the very "Asian" looking San people.
So you're saying that you don't even take people's actual genes into consideration when you're going to put them into categories? It's all about appearance?...
Jesus Vazquez She looks Arab/Mediterranean. Mexicans are Spanish after all, A Mediterranean people. Mediterranean people have a lot in common with Arabs. Arabs are Mediterranean
Finally people who can understand the same stereotype I'm called white all the time by blacks and black by whites and Its really hard to live with noone accepting who you are genetically as a mixed person sometimes i just don't know what to do or say :(
I am mixed race, and what I find incredibly frustrating is that once my ethnic make up is pried out, I am being put into a box and my ethnicity constantly has to be mentioned, brought to the attention, joked about etc. So, I tend to not voluntarily disclose it, even if I can sense how somebody is dying to find out. It is a way for me to stay true to who I am and seeing myself as an individual rather than having to succumb to somebody's idiotic idea of who or what I should be according to them.
@@rickybobby7276 I wonder whether you might be functionally illiterate. It seems even though you have the ability to read, you are unable to understand and digest what it is you are reading.
Rose FabFour looking white means she doesn’t look like the race she is “passing” as, to me. Clearly it’s more than skin color that’s the point of this whole video. And she’s saying she gets away with white privilege, so clearly looking white is a thing.
As a mixed race person, being mixed is really emotionally exhausting. I’m tired of explaining myself and being told who I am and what I am. It’s so annoying and it pushes me away from both sides of my ethnicities.
gary Wilhelm I am mixed with black and white my skin is very white but I have “black features” like a bigger nose and curly hair stuff like that but my hair is light my eyes are light and my skin is light so people mistake me for white and I understand why but when they tell me that I wouldn’t be black because I am so light is kinda hurtful given my circumstances
gary Wilhelm haha thank you! But you seem like you would be very good mix many people like you turn out to be very good looking people because it’s balanced out well
Emilee Gourdet maybe since I'm from South Florida I see many ethnic people that look like her. I would have thought Hispanic as well, but of course Hispanic is not a race.
chowder125 she doesn't look 100 percent white to me either. I thought she was going to say she passed for Latino. I know Latinos are mixed with a lot of racial backgrounds and huge genetic makeups. Maybe Peruvian, Puerto Rican, or Mexican.
Ethnicity is culture. Race is based on ancestry and is often associated with physical features. For instance, Black or African Americans are an ethnic group because they have a culture with its own history, language/dialects, literature, history, etc. tied to the experience of enslaved Africans and free Black folks of the United States. In general, most African Americans are mixed-race, regardless of skin color, with African, European and/or Native American ancestry. Similarly, Irish Americans are an ethnic group of people who're of Irish ancestry. Most Irish Americans are white. Some are of mixed-ancestry (for example, a lot of African Americans have Irish ancestry because Irish slave owners raping enslaved female Africans or through consensual relationships. Martin Luther King's great grandfather was an Irishman who married his great grandmother).
Well actually, it's the usual "destroy America from within" leftist and liberal types and those they have brainwashed into believing racism is a bigger mountain than it really is, who constantly are concerned with race in America. Everyone else is unbothered, uninterested, or don't mind and therefore get labeled as racists.
@Poder Vida who said white people didn't have dark hair tho ? and Italian people are considered white but throughout history they mixed with African people so they have this warmer complexion and more exotic features.
intelligent rock - the word exotic just means different to a certain country of the world. Everyone is exotic to some parts of the world, therefore having darker features in place like southern Europe is not very exotic.
@Poder Vida she doesn't look white even if I didnt know anything about here. Here phenotype is different than dark haired whites.. I can recognize Arabs 8 out of 10
You have to completely ignore what your eyes are telling you about my sex, complexion, or features, and treat me the way I identify myself! I see the end of America coming from within.
I wish this were a longer documentary. I'm from the deep south, Mississippi, to be exact, and we are used to seeing black people who are white-passing. Yes, colorism exists, but as black people, we know each other when we see each other. Regardless of what people think about the south and colorism, 95% of the time, we fully embrace each other. However, we all have a few people in our families that, if we didn't personally know them, we'd judge them as white on the street quite easily.
Bob Duncan ..correct my friend; people are so ignorant, that is not even funny with all that technology we have nowadays (internet). People should know that race & ethnicity are two different things..smh.
I am Creole. Visually, i loon white, but my mother was "light skinneded" and daddy was Acadian. They had 5 kids. Two of us pass as white visually and the other three are obviously mixed. I sooooo identify with this. Yes, I get the benefits of white privilege, but I get the scorn of not being "black enough". It is such a fucked up situation to be resented by your family because people you don't even know perceive you as white. 😢
There was a time where being mixed race was less commonplace and most people precieve another based on appearance. This in itself isn't a bad thing depending on the context. For those who genuinely don't know and is not apparently obvious, don't jump straight to being on the defensive rather than introducing it in a receptive manner into the conversation. What origan you want to embrace is totally up to you. Never chose one side soley cause its easier but rather who you most connect with as your true being. I'm sure your parents at one time or another had to overcome some hardships of being an interracial couple. Your mother gave birth to you and kept you. The least you can do is proudly own up to both sides of who you are.
technically im biracial hispanic and white but god its draining trying to explain my own race to everyone who asks, its made race such a huge factor in my head and thats just not good
im literally hispanic and ive had so many people say "if your hispanic then why is your skin white and not brown" and it just pissed me off because I had to explain to them everytime and then their like "Are you like Mexican then" and I tell them I'm Nicaraguan and their like "What the heck is NeCaRaGwA" and then they gotta ask the "oh so can you like speak fluent in Spanish" I mean I can but does that even matter?
Donald Quinn you're calling someone a dumbass you idiot. Hispanic is an ETHNICITY NOT A RACE. You have some as dark as Amara La Negra, Sammy Sosa and some as white as Cameron Diaz. And some the "typical" hispanic look like J lo. Dumb ass.
Donald Quinn it's an ethnicity, you idiot. You said WHITE. so what the hell is WHITE. It's a RACE. MY black ass is latina, so kindly stfu. "The U.S. Census Bureau defines the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino to refer to "a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race" and states that Hispanics or Latinos can be of any race, any ancestry, any ethnicity." THANK. YOU.
We need to be careful about imposing definitions on other people. The individual defines who he or she is, not society or anyone else. What matters most is you knowing who you are.
I have 3 mixed kids, I'm white my husband is black, but his mom is biracial as his grandmother and his great grandmother is full German, so I get asked way to much if my kids are Mexican, Italian, etc....and it makes me mad because WHY DOES IT MATTER!?! They're perfectly mixed! I proudly say everytime "they're black". People come in ALL colors! Just because you're skin isn't what color others think it should look like doesn't change who are! Be proud of you!
The question is not what you have identified 'as'. The question is have others identified you as a 'dish', or as a 'coffee cup', even though its always been a 'plastic bottle'? Have you considered purchasing an 'I recycle', T-shirt?
The last woman talked about being alienated from black people because she looks white. Well, that's not the only source of alienation. I am black and I look black, but because I am a dark-skinned female, I was rejected by black people (male & female). I went to school with a group of 7 black girls who all hung out together. I was excluded from the group all the way through elementary school because I was dark. Even my own brother liked to make fun of my darkness. So, yeah, I am alienated too. As an adult, I don't feel a part of black culture. Hard to feel part of a group that basically made fun of you your whole life. I don't feel like a part of anything. I'm just...me..living on this planet.
Debra Lawrence That is so horribly sad. I know that has made you a stronger person and you have learned to live with your own solidarity but to be outstited because you are DARKER than an ' average' black people is even more cruel than being racially profiled BECAUSE you are black. I find that even more inhumane.
Debra Lawrence Maybe one commenter on a thread was right. I am thinking about this too much right now. But that's something a lot of white people don't know or are supposed to regard as secret: Black people discriminate against people on the basis of how dark they are. Obviously, it's always wrong for anyone to discriminate on the baisis of skin tone.
The Hand Of course, I'm thinking about it because I'm seeing it. Everyone including, I think, a ground squirrel. Got another employee fired; however, the person was reinstated. The manager's eyes got real wide when I told him the legal actions I would have taken had I been the fired employee. I can't give details. (I won't give details.) But what to the person fired was almost comical.
Honest question. You have three glasses. One is empty. One is full of tequila. One is full of orange juice. If you fill the empty glass halfway with tequila and top it off with orange juice, what do you have? Would it be identified as tequila, orange juice, half of each, a mixed drink or something else? Same setup but you fill the empty glass a quarter of the way with tequila and the rest with orange juice. Same setup again but you fill the empty glass almost to the top with tequila and add in a drop of orange juice; what do you call it? DNA percentages are rarely even. But if someone from West Africa with 100% local African DNA has a child with someone from Northern Europe with 100% local European DNA, the child would have roughly 50% of each. If that person had a child with someone who is 100% European and the cycle continues for several generations the percentage of African DNA drops to ~25%, ~12.5%, ~6.25%, ~3.125%, ~1.5625%, ~0.78125, ~0.390625 and so on. You're left with trace ancestry. At which point should one no longer identify themselves as the "race" of a small fraction of their DNA? Would you call a glass of tequila with a drop of orange juice a glass of orange juice? My DNA test results, which update/change every so often, state that I am 99.4% European. 0.2% is unassigned and 0.4% is trace ancestry. 0.2% of the trace ancestry is identified as "Iranian, Caucasian & Mesopotamian". The other 0.2% of ytave ancestry is identified as "Melanesian". My dad is 0.2% Native American. My mom is 1.1% "Broadly Northern West Asian", 0.3% Manchurian & Mongolian and 0.2% Peninsular Arab. I also have 286 Neanderthal variants in my DNA. Does that mean I can identify as mixed? Or that I can identify as Native American, Middle Eastern and Asian? Or am I simply white because I am >95% European?
The last woman, her words echoed what I think. I do believe that being mixed race is the merger for more social understanding and acceptance between two different societies. I'm mixed myself and I do understand what's it's like being on both sides..
Well, all I can say if you are Black and White be proud of both and don't let someone say you are not White enough or Black enough because you know what's in your blood not them embrace it like Armor!
Latino/a is an ethnicity, not a race. There are white Latinos (Cameron Diaz, Vanna White), black Latinos (Carmelo Anthony, Arian Foster), indigenous Latinos, Asian Latinos (Stacey Chinn, Tatyana Ali, Tyson Beckford, Bruno Mars, and Kelis, all of whom have a black/mixed Latino parent and an Asian parent).
Veronica Johnson bro. then are you saying that the only races are black, white, indian, asian, native american???? what about ppl who are full latinx?? what do you call ppl that arent mixed with anything that are from that part of the world?? you can say “white-latinx” all you want but all that means is theyre mixed with white and latinx. so yeah maybe they look a little white cuz theyre mixed with white it doesnt mean they are fully white. tf is “white-latinx”/“black-latinx” you’re white AND latinx, you’re black AND latinx
Veronica Johnson race is bullshit that you idnetify based on looks. so if she looks latina then were just saying we can fucking see that shes probably latina. theres no need for ur clarification that you should put a dash between white-latina instead of just saying white and latina. ethnicity is where your ancestors probably came from..there is no “name” for an ethnicity. if your ancestors came from latinx countries then you say “my ancestors came from latinx countries” not “my ethnicity is latinx” just to make it more complicated for everyone. then anybody can say that shit. nationality is what country you are a citizen of. if i was born in africa im african thats not my ethnicity its my nationality. your skin cant be a country. your race cant be your ethnicity.
@@Jordan-mr7ki bruh 10% black don't make him black. The guy is white. He may have some black mixture but he's a white man for the most part. Get rid of that one drop rule mentality.
WE THE NEW WORLD ORDER who said he’s 10% black and even if he is who cares he wants to identify as black let him like who are y’all to say what someone is and someone isn’t 💀
@Elver Galarga Ethnicity is simple terms is a group of people sharing a common language, culture, history and in some cases religion. Race is basically superimposing skin colour to that equation even if it is factually incorrect. Everyone should know that race is only skin deep.
@@lilredd3232 I disagree with this ethnicity and race aren't the same. For example Khoisan is ethnicity not a race but Asian is a race and not an ethnicity.
I'm a person who looks racially ambiguous too. The whole notion of "races" is just ridiculous. People like to put other people in boxes. Some of my family looks "black", some of my family looks "white". We're the same people, with the same ancestors. Some of us got light skin, while others of us got darker skin, just like in some other families people get blue or brown eyes.
Ok. Why do people make this shit so hard. His father was obviously mixed race. This guy is more white European than black African genetically. He is not "passing" he is being what he is, which is a predominantly European heritage mixed race individual. If someone was 70% black and 30% white, but they only wanted to relate to and claim themselves as white, people would criticize them. So why the double standard when the situation is reversed?
I did think it was strange how the first guy identifies as a black man, as a white passing poc I don't think that's right. Even if we do have black heritage, we don't face the same discrimination as black people do. However, I think it's perfectly acceptable to identify as mixed even if you only look one race.
Episode Interactive Yes they are. But that is not his case. He is of predominantly European ancestry. This individual is still mixed race. Mixed is mixed regardless of whether dominant or recessive genes express more.
nellek970 Just because some people want to consider race a "social construct " does not mean that racism, culture, ethnicities and experiences are not real. If no one is black, than no one is white or Asian either! Try telling a Chinese person no one is Asian! But I disagree with the "social construct theory" and I believe there is nothing wrong with having racial classifications as long as no one is mistreated. Also there are plenty of pure black people in Africa. No one has time to argue percentages just because a person has 2% European ancestry they feel like they are not pure black. That is stupid and a waste of time. Someone who had a non black ancestor that entered their bloodline over 300 ago, is not the same as having two parents from distinct different races or ethnicities.
@@fernandovillegas1889 very true. and alot of Argentina people or other latinos think that because they have a lighter complexion or lighter hair color than other latinos it makes them white. As a white person i don't really understand why someone would want to be categorized as white so badly?? we get shamed for being white and people say we "age like raisins" and don't get me started on having "white privelage" so wtfok.
@Poder Vida The blonde argentians you are referring to are nazi germans who escaped from Europe after ww2. The population of Latin America had much more brown darker complexion before the spanish conquests of South America. South American indigenous people dont have blond hair or blue eyes. The blonds with blue eyes are settlers or descendants of settlers. Learn the difference and educate yourself.
Nah, she looks white to me like Lorde. I should know, I’m Latino. Most mixed-race Latinos in Latin-America would be offended to be called black or indigenous instead of white. Yeah, colorism is a bitch worldwide, but the US claims being a minority as trendy and cool. Also, Latinos are a cultural and linguistic ethnicity.
...I don't understand. I thought "white" and "black" simply referred to the colour of one's skin. If a person looks a specific skin colour, that should mean that they have that skin colour, and thus "are" the label associated with it, white or black.
It's so ridiculous that we are even having these discussions. NONE OF US get to choose who we are or what we look like. We are all human beings. Race is a man-made concept solely with the purpose of dividing and grouping people. I think it's stupid as hell but I didn't make this world, I'm just living in it.
Sadly this is the world that we live in judging someone based on the color of their skin. A skin colour/shade they had no control over. They didn't go up to a grocery store and made a purchase or got it from a factory. Who are you to think that because your skin is lighter than mine means you are better than me. This type of behavior was taught and has been passed down generation to generation.
cmh We are not all treated like human beings however based upon what we look like which is why many people of color choose to pass themselves off as the favored phenotype, Caucasian. Many who are shaded are viewed as unintelligent, animals, lazy, criminally inclined or worse, in need of extermination. Its nice to hear folks dream of acceptance of all, but its not the reality on the groubd because people are yet lying about history.
He does look white, but my eyes do see something else. That second person, the woman, she doesn’t look white, just because I have family members who look like her. Third lady totally looks white.
How I see them too. First guy, I would definitely guess he was mixed. The Arabic woman is only white if she is Southern European, but I would be guessing she was likely something else. Last lady I wouldn't pick up on it, but I believe her too. I myself have a father with a dark complexion, but take after my mother strongly. A lot of people see pale skin and blue eyes and don't pick up on the mixture. That's okay, but it's still part of my heritage that I connect to.
MsClarinut MsClarinut I think it’s pretty interesting how genes can express themselves. I can only ever see the different genes with facial features, since eye color isn’t always a clear indicator nor is really pale skin, but I know that a lot of people see skin color first and most. I have a few mixtures here and there, but people say I look like my mom, my grandmother says I look strongly like my dad lol
Grappige Mannetje Touché, I’m gonna go ahead and agree with you on that one, my definition of white was a bit different though, but it’s true. I just got schooled, thank you for that. 🍃
My father is from the Philippines, his family came to America when he was much older. I look so much like him except I have brown hair so people tell me I’m white. So until recently, I completely denied and distanced myself from my Asian heritage and even that side of my family. I really wish I hadnt, I felt like I didn’t deserve my Asian heritage because I “look white” but the thing is, I don’t completely. It’s obvious when I’m around the Filipino side of my family, that i look Filipino
KiD 504# He actually looks very mixed race in that black&white photo of him as a kid, as an adult he looks slightly mixed race. He most definitely does not look like a White man.
You can tell they are all mixed race when you really REALLY study their faces, but as regular joe on the street or buying coffee you wouldnt even bat an eye.
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The US made race more important than life itself!
Traditionally for the vast majority of the history of this country people like this wouldn't dare admit to black ancestry and give up white privilege in exchange for a hellish existence in poverty and subjected to terrorism.
They Surely Did .. Yet Take NO RESPONSIBILITY EVER !
@Do Viet ....Yeah that' why David Duke and the Klan support the Rethuglicans and Donald Trump.
MrZlathan3. Tell them!
Literally. Millions of unborn killed every year.
When you find out you're 1.5 percent black by taking a DNA test
@Demiclea Jewish is a white minority.
Edit: I ran into this comment 2 years after posting it and since then, I have learned more. Jews aren't really white, as they have a lot of DNA from the middle east. Some of them may pass as white though, especially Ashekenazi Jews.
@@gabrielvaldes-ramos6980 No it's not!
@@LEO-xo9cz look it up.
@@gabrielvaldes-ramos6980 Jewish is a religion, not a race.
@diane9247 Nah Judaism is a religion, Jew in reality is meant to denote someone who descends from the lineage or tribe of Judah that is where the word was coined from. So in truth not every Israelite is a Jew. Now the term Jewish is just a new age term which is loosely associated with those who follow Judaism
Just watching this is disturbing- “I’m passing” - “Privileged “ why is the world this way.
The reason this world is this way is because groups of people were and are systematically oppressed and their oppression was justified with diabolical doctrines. The world dose not have to be this way, it can change and it will.
This world was/is, a lie from the start. A playground for the multitude of egos expressing whatever can be conceived of from the good to the evil. We are spiritual beings having a human experience, and the egos in their weakness hold onto false labels of differences, and the childlike games begins. A world of chaotic chaos. We can't change the world, but individuals can at least enlighten themselves to rise above the buffoonery.
Why do these people need to announce they are privlige ...what does that make other members of their family? Seriously...these people have issues...they want "Minority Privledge "...they want to check that box to get extra funding or the benefits of being a minority preference from an employer. It's so sad. I'm a quarter Asian...that box on applications wasnt made for me. I know she I am. If people see me as white...whatever
She said "white passing"
@@constancedenchy9801 They are not "announcing" anything. They are discussing racial issues in an interview. It's odd that anyone believes that there is some checkbox that gets extra privileges. Blacks and Latinos still have higher rates of unemployment and earn less than other groups. I have heard bosses say that Asians are smart, but are not real Americans, when denying them promotions.
Somebody needs to tell that Arab lady she ain't passing for sheet. She is obviously Arabic.
😂 right
If anything she could also pass for latin american
Imagine the first dude saying the n word in the hood 😂
He actually looks Creole
@@pinkskincanthandlethesunli6508 yep but dat ain't gonna help him
@@abdifitahbosto9909 Lol true!
Nope! That ain't gone end well at all!
Why do these people care about what they fucking look like. I’m southern Italian but look so dark that I could be a Arab. But I don’t care what race I am. People can call me white or Arab I can care less.
Lmao he wanted to be black but didn’t want to be black
Sway KJ Paul Mooney! LOL
@Another Day In Space - he didn't but he claims his blackness now. Were you not paying attention?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lmao 🤦♂️
Exactly hes not even black he probably has 15% black in him
"I passed as white when it benefitted me, now that's it's beneficial to be black I'm going to pick that now."
Ok buddy.
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Pretty sure its STILL more beneficial to be white
@@marsking443 ...Especially if stopped by the cops.
Exactly! You hit the nail on the head.
You arw the nation of your father?
I am racially profiled as White when I'm Asian. I've even been hired to impersonate White celebrities and even more oddly, have had to straighten my curly hair to do so. The worst thing for me is what happened to me at work recently. I am a substitute so people don't know me well. My name is also ethnically ambiguous because it's common in Japan and in America as a White name. I was accused if being racially insensitive towards Asians. Obviously, she overheard my private conversation incorrectly. I then had to explain what I actually said and then had to have the awkward conversation of the fact that I was raised in an Asian household by a 100% Asian single parent who spoke English as a second language. The struggle I felt was regarding something that many say doesn't exist: reverse discrimination. It does exist because I get beat by both of ends of the racial stick. I complained to the head of the program and tomorrow, I was asked to call and a letter is being sent to me after she decided to conduct an investigation. My decision to speak out against a White person erroneously telling an Asian to not be racially insensitive against Asians may cost me my job. They do not want to recognize reverse discrimination, which happened to me when someone misheard my conversation, but they can get away with further marginalizing an Asian by mistakingly profiling me as a White supremacist. Someone has to do something about this insanity.
You are white.
I am considered as white too, I’m actually South Korean and Japanese
No sweety, you are veeerrrrrryyyyyy middle eastern from miles away.
🗣miiiiles away sis 😂
Lol
Lmao
Nicole Oliver What features do you see to where as she appears middle eastern?
Yes arabs love to think they are white lol and indians
I’m identify as and old Rockefeller family member, can someone help me to get my billions?
🤣🤣🤣
You mean you want your trafficked children?
@Piolatus man
WakeUpMrYe wrote a similar comment somewhere else and people actually told me I’m stupid because that’s no race
That’s anti-semitic for some reason
The Arab chick actually looks like she can make a mean burrito....🥴.. she’s giving Tex mex vibes..
As a Mexican, I 100% agree
Truer words were never spoken
The thing I noticed growing up in Philadelphia, a city with a large black population, is that mixed race light skinned black people most of the time act the blackest, It's like they have something to prove.
It must be an ego or acceptance thing, it's really strange!
"I wish I looked identifiably black,..whatever that means"
You know exactly what it means.
It is exactly how its described.
Lmao, your whole comment #whereisthelietho
exactly 😭 i was like why did he say that lmao
🤣🤣🤣
@Nathaniel Hall well yeah, if you're majority black you'd probably consider yourself black or at least a mixed black person (because you still are partially white)
@Nathaniel Hall I just say mixed black person; how come it’s only black +white that ask that? Afro Latinos just claim that. Blasians call themselves that and keep it moving. But only black +white prefer to just say black.
I DO NOT like the phrase "Racially Fluid"
That needs to die!
Viq I agree. He can't say he's Black, then in the same breath say he is 'racially fluid'.
Viq TRUTH !!
What is your definition of Caucasian?
brenda jackson I understand where he's coming from. He is black yet he appears white, that makes him racially fluid in truth. If tomorrow he decided to pass as white he could with no problem.
IWIN ITALL oh is that what he was saying...? I couldn't quite grasp what his segment was about because he brought up being Jewish as if Jews have a distinct skin color
Americans when they find out there are light skin Arabs
As a non-american its weird to me that this kind of thing always goes one way, always away from white. There is never a half white american embracing both his heritages or identifing with the white one.
Because other than out of trauma nobody outside of white people want to be white and its as simple as that
Let that sink in as to why, there's only a small handful of reasons why people pretend to be white
Rachel Dolezar would be sooo jealous.
Gavin Scott that was hilarious
@Elevated Discourse who gives 2 fukks?
No. Ppl. I knew her personally. She's a shit person. I've been to her house. She took me to Angela Davis at WSU... She's not a meme. But she sure is confused and sad.
Yes- but remember Teena Marie ( white singer) considered herself as Black & even sang soulful Black songs & had a Black daughter.
Lol
The Arab woman looks Hispanic not white.
Hispanic is not a race.
I didn't say that her race was Hispanic. I said that she LOOKS Hispanic. Basically, she doesn't look like a white European. Kapeesh! She was implying that she looked like a white European and has privilege. She doesn't. The rest of them can pass but not her.
Wiccan Witch neither is arab
Wiccan Witch serious question how is Hispanic not a race? When you fill out an application for a job the main races on there are black, white, asian, hispanic, Pacific Islander and other.
It isn't "Scientifically" but it is culturally and culture is everything when it comes to being HUMAN.
I was really hoping that this was just a joke, a skit maybe.. Y'all need to be serious
What's so strange about a white-passing mixed-Black person? The plaintiff, Homer Plessy, in the Supreme Court case Plessy v Ferguson that legalized segregation and Jim Crow apartheid had 7/8 European and 1/8 Black ancestry. Homer Plessy looked white it didn't matter. He was legally Black. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Plessy
Similar, Maggie Walker, a very successful Black business woman was white passing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_L._Walker
Race is a social construct.
I’m black and I have black privilege! I have an amazing career, a nice home, I drive a nice car, I’m young, attractive, slim/athletic and brown skinned. Every race on this planet can be privileged. Being born white does not automatically mean privileged.
@@AnAdorableWombat1 It does when you're stopped by the cops in your fancy car.
I identify as a billionaire. Yet still my house is being repossessed. What am I doing wrong?
Lmfaooooo 😂😂😂😂😂
Doctor Manhattan staapp 😁😁😂😂💀💀
Doctor Manhattan 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Doctor Manhattan 😂😂😂😂
TravelingDiva2018
Europeans have superior genes.
Lady, you have blue eyes, light skin and straight hair. There's a reason why people think you're just a white lady.
@Christian Robertson dont think so pal
@Christian Robertson wtf 😂
@@dominiquec1126 have u see the Jesus Christ in your entre life ?
@@dominiquec1126 Jesus probably looked like the average olive skinned, dark hair, pronounced nose people who are native to the Eastern Mediterranean region
Christian Robertson : lmfao
I’m a dark skin mixed race person. People think I’m just Black but it’s a lot more complex than that.
My African great grandfather and my Chinese great grandmother fell in love with each other and that’s why I’m here !
A mixed race/multiracial folks have a very complex history. From appearing racially ambiguous to racially unambiguous and look mono-racial
I think it’s important as Black appearing folks we look more inside of what brought us here rather than just take what society has made us be.
Yes I’m Black but I’m not just Black 💗
I am Moroccan(tuareg) (ma) ,taino aboriginal and Cherokee aboriginal(pa) I have all my families documents,land, and hand me downs everything. But yet they just categorize us all as "black" "descendents of slaves" etc etc. My family were always here. It's funny when you can prove it too .there's no slavery anywhere in my history. Only war..my family traded across the u.s and traveled back and forth from Morocco to the u.s that's just the blood of my .iwaleda papas roots are old. I have met my great grandfather before he died he told me one thing that has always stuck with me "they're going to erase us if you let them" their writers. Always kept notes, receipts,laws bills, census,and everything well documented and kept. Neighbors even. Old business partners. It's insane. I solely believe that's where I get my hands from.. only if people knew a little bit more about ethnics and ethnicity look a little closer at people's eyes their hair their skin certain proteins producer in the facts that we see us you know curly or straight or curly or skinny people just need to understand more about genetics and I think that she will fade away, education but until then we'll all may be seen as white or black or yellow or whatever the case maybe and it's simply just something they've created for classes reasons. Creating a social hierarchy among the people makes them easier to control. Right?. But the amount of times I've been falsely identified her mistaken is hilarious and it's truly an annoyance sometimes as well. I've been mistaken for so many things. The amount of times I've heard "your black, but your like a different kind" 😊 is ridiculous."your voice doesnt match you" is another way of saying you don't sound black. It gets unless I can sit here name examples all day but bottom line is it really gets annoying and it's hard to understand the dude in the video honestly because you simply don't want to keep explaining something over and over and over again your whole life
My half sister is dark skin, but has a white father
@@timbredan3476 There are no hard rules for how people of mixed backgrounds will look. I saw an article about a light-skinned Black woman who was married to a white man. Their first child was blond and blue-eyed with pale skin. Their second child had brown skin, darker than his mothers, and brown hair.
AYYOO GUYS I TOOK A DNA TEST AND IM 0.8%BLACK!! BLACK LIVES MATTER✊🏿
IM SO OPPRESSED EVERY SINGLE DAY 😢 😭 😞 😔
BLACK COME IN ALL SHADES! You're my nigga✊🏿✊🏿
Well he looks white so people assume he is white...shocking I know ..first world problems lmao
M.L. Soll yeah total first work problem. It really is.
HE IS NOT WHITE , HE IS TURKISH , AND USING THIS BULLSHIT AS MANY MUSLIMS AND MINORITY DO TO PROMOTE BULLSHIT , JUST TO GET AN APEASEMENT TREAMENT FROM THE LIBERALS ELITES TO PUSH BULLSIT PROPAGANDA
@@MLSoll Not just first world. Anywhere there was European colonialism.
"I identify as a black man" lmfao wait what
Lol
He's black?😳
Yea I was like that too until I saw his dad and I kinda believed it
ღ I like cookies ღ shit dont add up chief
Cultural and familiar ties influences your identification. Of course race is part of that but black in the americas is a bit different
I dunno, dude looks like he could be Terrence Howard’s younger brother
I hate what these people have done to this country. What a shame
Who are those people? The ones who enslaved Africans and raped their women. Then created laws to ensure that their mixed-race offspring remained enslaved? The same people who then created the One Drop Rule to boost white supremacy and champion racial purity?
Surely you aren't blaming someone who identifies with his ethnic heritage? Do you condemn someone who calls himself Irish or Polish American?
Read a history book.
Who lied to the second lady. She looks straight up Arab and Muslim
E Pizzle You can’t look Muslim.
LukstrGamr well that’s also wtf she said repeating what she said dumb fuck
😂😂😂
she's delusional
No, Islam doesn’t have appearance that’s religion.
Behavior is what divides us, not race.
i agree with this statement
Behavior is largely dictated by race.
Someone times it both tho
Gigi You can say that again! Totally agree!
Gigi, It is politics, religion and a distortion of facts. It is the miseducation of the minority by a minority who in fact control the resources of the world by greed, terrorism and fear in order to divide and conquer the ignorant of all races. It's tribalism plain and simple. Forget everything you've been taught and seek the real truth. You'll soon realize you've been deceived.
DNA test said I’m 3% black & 2.8% Spanish. I’m also pale, so being white is fine by me. America needs less identity politics.
I'm so tired of it, once _awhile, more recently, whatever ppl thk I am I just smile, nod cz I cnt stand to hv that conversation, we all jus ppl, damn it's been old, sick of race, kmt
Lies! DNA test doesn't ascribe to race but human population groups indigenous to certain regions within a continent. Certain DNA tests may attach your DNA to certain countries. But never a race. Why? Because race is a social construct. Also if you had North African as a result, that is a fancy way of saying you are part "spicy white". Don't get ahead of yourself.
@@gato0082 Spanish is just more white European not equal to Mexican. Most Mexicans are mestizos mixture of white European Spanish and Natives American/Mexican or some are mostly full indigenous.
i'm french and it always surprises me when american people consider 'being spanish' (on their dna test) means 'not white'... (am i correct to assume that's what your comment says?)
you probably mean '2.8% from LATIN america'?
I don't understand why the color of people is so much more important than their character
I'm green baby. But people think I'm black 😤
That's really deep...
I’m thanos.
Squidward is gr-black I meant black
You look aquamarine. And also very hunk like.
Your comment is so cute 😂😂😂
Idk... looking at the second girl, I immediately knew she wasn’t white.
She looks Arab.
629 she is, she’s a black Arab
Running Many Greeks and Italians look like her though
I mean obviously. She has curly hair. She might’ve passed more with straight hair. She would totally pass for white in southern or even Western Europe, but most European-Americans are from northwestern Europe.
@@arianaqueen4994 she not black Arab. She's Arab
Y’all need to stop this shit. That man has majority white ancestry and that is ok. Saying he is black is fine but seriously, you are a white man with a tiny bit of black ancestry. The race bs has to stop
You can definitely recognize black features in how his face is formed he is just really light skinned.
That’s what I’m saying
he looks "Mediterranean" (I can't think of any other word) to me though? Like Greek or Italian. But that might just be me
Thank you!
@Nathaniel Hall that is my son. He is lighter then me. We have taught him to identify as Black but tell him he has White & Asian in him as well (we do). Had I been raised to identify as white, then he would have as well.
No he doesn't. He looks White.
Most people think I'm white, BECAUSE MY SKIN IS WHITE and I have European features! Give me a break please.......why did I even watch this..
RedFace Rambo ong 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hahahahahaha
@Nightmare Nightmare 💀
you know that is a fucked up thing to say because you don't know and don't want to relate to that experience. It's like damn if you do, damn if you don't. Back in the day, if you had literally one "drop" of African blood you were considered "black" and discriminated. Most people didn't want to claim there "blackness" but these folks do and here you are saying that they aren't "black" enough. By the way in the continent of Africa, not everyone has deep black skins and wide faces. Indigenous Africans have a wide array of phenotypes, skin color and hair textures from near white North Africans to the very "Asian" looking San people.
So you're saying that you don't even take people's actual genes into consideration when you're going to put them into categories? It's all about appearance?...
That Arab looks Mexican
🤣🤣🤣
Jesus Vazquez She looks Arab/Mediterranean.
Mexicans are Spanish after all, A Mediterranean people.
Mediterranean people have a lot in common with Arabs.
Arabs are Mediterranean
Can we plz stop this racism
I m tired of this man
This guy looks Arab,this looks African,she is white ....
I m tired of reading this kind of comments
You’ve never seen a Arab
You look Mexican not white and she even said of white privilege smh go with what you look like at least.
too many burritos.
Finally people who can understand the same stereotype I'm called white all the time by blacks and black by whites and Its really hard to live with noone accepting who you are genetically as a mixed person sometimes i just don't know what to do or say :(
I am mixed race, and what I find incredibly frustrating is that once my ethnic make up is pried out, I am being put into a box and my ethnicity constantly has to be mentioned, brought to the attention, joked about etc. So, I tend to not voluntarily disclose it, even if I can sense how somebody is dying to find out. It is a way for me to stay true to who I am and seeing myself as an individual rather than having to succumb to somebody's idiotic idea of who or what I should be according to them.
@@rickybobby7276 Maybe you should reread my response. I explained my reasons very clearly.
@@rickybobby7276 I wonder whether you might be functionally illiterate.
It seems even though you have the ability to read, you are unable to understand and digest what it is you are reading.
The Arab girl doesn’t look white to me at all, so idk how shes “passing”
Rose FabFour looking white means she doesn’t look like the race she is “passing” as, to me. Clearly it’s more than skin color that’s the point of this whole video. And she’s saying she gets away with white privilege, so clearly looking white is a thing.
I agree, she does not look white. Meaning her features are not European.
毛派傻逼港独台独民猪主义者都死光 So not true... but that’s your opinion.
Junior Doe she does? Welp everyone’s eyes see different lol
毛派傻逼港独台独民猪主义者都死光 LMFAO!!! You racist little biiiiitch!
As a mixed race person, being mixed is really emotionally exhausting. I’m tired of explaining myself and being told who I am and what I am. It’s so annoying and it pushes me away from both sides of my ethnicities.
Adoredbyothers same
gary Wilhelm I am mixed with black and white my skin is very white but I have “black features” like a bigger nose and curly hair stuff like that but my hair is light my eyes are light and my skin is light so people mistake me for white and I understand why but when they tell me that I wouldn’t be black because I am so light is kinda hurtful given my circumstances
gary Wilhelm haha thank you! But you seem like you would be very good mix many people like you turn out to be very good looking people because it’s balanced out well
gary Wilhelm that’s really not really a problem you are only a bit shorter than the average
gary Wilhelm well I’m sure you’ll find someone that goes for your heart and not your appearance
I know a lot of Middle Eastern Syrians and even Africans in Algeria that look more white than that second lady
I do not care about race, I only care that one is nice to another human being. That is what really count in live!
@Vebunkd That's literally...what causes racism, both systemically and individually.
Who told the Arabic woman that she can pass as white? Ray Charles? We are all beautiful and wonderful people ❤.
chowder125 I would assume she was white or a white hispanic. Until she started talking. She has an Arab accent
Emilee Gourdet maybe since I'm from South Florida I see many ethnic people that look like her. I would have thought Hispanic as well, but of course Hispanic is not a race.
😂
wow.ray charles..how low can soms people go to win an argument that dont concern them.
chowder125 she doesn't look 100 percent white to me either. I thought she was going to say she passed for Latino. I know Latinos are mixed with a lot of racial backgrounds and huge genetic makeups. Maybe Peruvian, Puerto Rican, or Mexican.
This is the Americanest video I've ever watched.
Everyone's saying there's a difference between ethnicity and race,but no one is saying what that difference is!
Ethnicity is culture. Race is based on ancestry and is often associated with physical features. For instance, Black or African Americans are an ethnic group because they have a culture with its own history, language/dialects, literature, history, etc. tied to the experience of enslaved Africans and free Black folks of the United States. In general, most African Americans are mixed-race, regardless of skin color, with African, European and/or Native American ancestry.
Similarly, Irish Americans are an ethnic group of people who're of Irish ancestry. Most Irish Americans are white. Some are of mixed-ancestry (for example, a lot of African Americans have Irish ancestry because Irish slave owners raping enslaved female Africans or through consensual relationships. Martin Luther King's great grandfather was an Irishman who married his great grandmother).
Carrol Channing, Yul Bruner, J Edgar Hoover and many that you don’t know passed and are passing, I don’t blame them one bit, more power to them.
American people will never cease to amaze with their frenzy. 🤦🏼♀️
Sharks go on a frenzy, and they work hard for the top of the chain in the Oceans and sea.
Well actually, it's the usual "destroy America from within" leftist and liberal types and those they have brainwashed into believing racism is a bigger mountain than it really is, who constantly are concerned with race in America. Everyone else is unbothered, uninterested, or don't mind and therefore get labeled as racists.
Im half jamaican
White people made it about race
@@ferrykent433 When? Try again. Go and listen to congressmen like AOC, Pressley, Omar, Tlaib and many other politician and they aren't white.
she don’t look white💀💀
@Poder Vida who said white people didn't have dark hair tho ? and Italian people are considered white but throughout history they mixed with African people so they have this warmer complexion and more exotic features.
intelligent rock - the word exotic just means different to a certain country of the world. Everyone is exotic to some parts of the world, therefore having darker features in place like southern Europe is not very exotic.
@Poder Vida she doesn't look white even if I didnt know anything about here. Here phenotype is different than dark haired whites.. I can recognize Arabs 8 out of 10
@ebony b no sure doesn't 😂😂
@@christingonzalez9642 what does "darker feature mean" ?? Like actually dark skin or like what people mean when they say "tall dark and handsome" ??
You have to completely ignore what your eyes are telling you about my sex, complexion, or features, and treat me the way I identify myself!
I see the end of America coming from within.
I wish this were a longer documentary. I'm from the deep south, Mississippi, to be exact, and we are used to seeing black people who are white-passing. Yes, colorism exists, but as black people, we know each other when we see each other. Regardless of what people think about the south and colorism, 95% of the time, we fully embrace each other. However, we all have a few people in our families that, if we didn't personally know them, we'd judge them as white on the street quite easily.
wake up people, race and ethnicity are 2 different things
Bob Duncan ..correct my friend; people are so ignorant, that is not even funny with all that technology we have nowadays (internet). People should know that race & ethnicity are two different things..smh.
Agreed 100%
Bob Duncan ikr
Preach
Say it again so people in the back hear it again
If you squint you can see the ethinicity in there
RiRi J lmboooooo he white
LOOOOOOOL
RiRi J nah
RiRi J white people get crows feet at age 25 😂😂😂😂😂
ChocolateBunny Dba UrbanEssence Nope. Black people get crows feet at age 18.
I am Creole. Visually, i loon white, but my mother was "light skinneded" and daddy was Acadian. They had 5 kids. Two of us pass as white visually and the other three are obviously mixed.
I sooooo identify with this.
Yes, I get the benefits of white privilege, but I get the scorn of not being "black enough".
It is such a fucked up situation to be resented by your family because people you don't even know perceive you as white. 😢
That sucks. But, you have every right to your heritage and culture. You get to choose how you identify.
There was a time where being mixed race was less commonplace and most people precieve another based on appearance. This in itself isn't a bad thing depending on the context. For those who genuinely don't know and is not apparently obvious, don't jump straight to being on the defensive rather than introducing it in a receptive manner into the conversation. What origan you want to embrace is totally up to you. Never chose one side soley cause its easier but rather who you most connect with as your true being. I'm sure your parents at one time or another had to overcome some hardships of being an interracial couple. Your mother gave birth to you and kept you. The least you can do is proudly own up to both sides of who you are.
There's never really been a time where being mixed race was less commonplace, nobody simply talked about it.
I'm always disappointed by the comments section. Why do I keep scrolling?
Because it's hilarious!
bellyboy800 I know right!🤣
Bellboy me too lol!
Stockholm syndrome
The comment section is awesome. I don't see a problem.
CNN has finally reached the point where I can no longer tell if they are parodying themselves.
They're bored now
He looks like a mix between Brendan Fraser, Gerard Butler, and Lieutenant Dan.
😂😂😂
technically im biracial hispanic and white but god its draining trying to explain my own race to everyone who asks, its made race such a huge factor in my head and thats just not good
My mom is BLACK and my dad is mostly WHITE. I just be myself. People can be both loving and ignorant as hell. America focuses too much on color.
TRUTH PUSHA Nah. They use the mother to look at lineage.
ali peace Thanks brother. Some people don't read or REMEMBER THE ONE DROP RULE.
KEL in MEMPHIS Forsure man. No matter what color either parents is. Were mixed. Crazy how some people try and take that away.
Exactly! It only bothers you if you let it. It's never been an issue for me.
Exactly! Too much drama about it!
Gender fluid, racially fluid, everything is fluid these days tbh...
Fluid diet for everyone..
Except science 🧪
cell brains too...
im literally hispanic and ive had so many people say "if your hispanic then why is your skin white and not brown" and it just pissed me off because I had to explain to them everytime and then their like "Are you like Mexican then" and I tell them I'm Nicaraguan and their like "What the heck is NeCaRaGwA" and then they gotta ask the "oh so can you like speak fluent in Spanish" I mean I can but does that even matter?
You are what you look like. Your visual appearance
That girl looked everything but White, literally lol. Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Black/White, etc😂
Donald Quinn I was referring to their phenotypes, not their genotypes👍😊
Donald Quinn you're calling someone a dumbass you idiot. Hispanic is an ETHNICITY NOT A RACE. You have some as dark as Amara La Negra, Sammy Sosa and some as white as Cameron Diaz. And some the "typical" hispanic look like J lo. Dumb ass.
Donald Quinn it's an ethnicity, you idiot. You said WHITE. so what the hell is WHITE. It's a RACE. MY black ass is latina, so kindly stfu. "The U.S. Census Bureau defines the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino to refer to "a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race" and states that Hispanics or Latinos can be of any race, any ancestry, any ethnicity." THANK. YOU.
Donald Quinn "troll" = "you proved me wrong" mmmkay, take your L and move on.
she looks latina period
1:28 She is 100% Middle Eastern with 10% error.
Damn!! 10% error?! that sh*t was funny, lmao! lol
lol
We need to be careful about imposing definitions on other people. The individual defines who he or she is, not society or anyone else. What matters most is you knowing who you are.
@@RayPointerChannel Tell Jesus Christ that.
Error? Yea the 90% was error
I have 3 mixed kids, I'm white my husband is black, but his mom is biracial as his grandmother and his great grandmother is full German, so I get asked way to much if my kids are Mexican, Italian, etc....and it makes me mad because WHY DOES IT MATTER!?! They're perfectly mixed! I proudly say everytime "they're black". People come in ALL colors! Just because you're skin isn't what color others think it should look like doesn't change who are! Be proud of you!
My whole immediate family appears white and I look mixed. I have dark frizzy hair and yellow skin. Same parents, totally different experience.
i identify as a plastic water bottle but everyone else doesn't seem to understand.
I identify as funny. Indeed, your comment is funny so now, I don't really understand what I am anymore. Am I still funny?
Blackmill.
Volo I respect you and honor your plastic bottle-ness.
The question is not what you have identified 'as'. The question is have others identified you as a 'dish', or as a 'coffee cup', even though its always been a 'plastic bottle'? Have you considered purchasing an 'I recycle', T-shirt?
I identify as a potato and every one else agrees 👍
The last woman talked about being alienated from black people because she looks white. Well, that's not the only source of alienation. I am black and I look black, but because I am a dark-skinned female, I was rejected by black people (male & female). I went to school with a group of 7 black girls who all hung out together. I was excluded from the group all the way through elementary school because I was dark. Even my own brother liked to make fun of my darkness. So, yeah, I am alienated too. As an adult, I don't feel a part of black culture. Hard to feel part of a group that basically made fun of you your whole life. I don't feel like a part of anything. I'm just...me..living on this planet.
Debra Lawrence That is so horribly sad. I know that has made you a stronger person and you have learned to live with your own solidarity but to be outstited because you are DARKER than an ' average' black people is even more cruel than being racially profiled BECAUSE you are black. I find that even more inhumane.
Debra Lawrence Maybe one commenter on a thread was right. I am thinking about this too much right now. But that's something a lot of white people don't know or are supposed to regard as secret: Black people discriminate against people on the basis of how dark they are. Obviously, it's always wrong for anyone to discriminate on the baisis of skin tone.
Iresonate with YOU!
you shouldnt have to be "alienated" from anyone because your skin is too light it dark.... God humans are fucking IDIOTS
The Hand Of course, I'm thinking about it because I'm seeing it. Everyone including, I think, a ground squirrel. Got another employee fired; however, the person was reinstated. The manager's eyes got real wide when I told him the legal actions I would have taken had I been the fired employee. I can't give details. (I won't give details.) But what to the person fired was almost comical.
Honest question.
You have three glasses. One is empty. One is full of tequila. One is full of orange juice.
If you fill the empty glass halfway with tequila and top it off with orange juice, what do you have? Would it be identified as tequila, orange juice, half of each, a mixed drink or something else?
Same setup but you fill the empty glass a quarter of the way with tequila and the rest with orange juice.
Same setup again but you fill the empty glass almost to the top with tequila and add in a drop of orange juice; what do you call it?
DNA percentages are rarely even. But if someone from West Africa with 100% local African DNA has a child with someone from Northern Europe with 100% local European DNA, the child would have roughly 50% of each. If that person had a child with someone who is 100% European and the cycle continues for several generations the percentage of African DNA drops to ~25%, ~12.5%, ~6.25%, ~3.125%, ~1.5625%, ~0.78125, ~0.390625 and so on. You're left with trace ancestry. At which point should one no longer identify themselves as the "race" of a small fraction of their DNA?
Would you call a glass of tequila with a drop of orange juice a glass of orange juice?
My DNA test results, which update/change every so often, state that I am 99.4% European. 0.2% is unassigned and 0.4% is trace ancestry.
0.2% of the trace ancestry is identified as "Iranian, Caucasian & Mesopotamian". The other 0.2% of ytave ancestry is identified as "Melanesian". My dad is 0.2% Native American. My mom is 1.1% "Broadly Northern West Asian", 0.3% Manchurian & Mongolian and 0.2% Peninsular Arab. I also have 286 Neanderthal variants in my DNA.
Does that mean I can identify as mixed? Or that I can identify as Native American, Middle Eastern and Asian? Or am I simply white because I am >95% European?
The last woman, her words echoed what I think. I do believe that being mixed race is the merger for more social understanding and acceptance between two different societies. I'm mixed myself and I do understand what's it's like being on both sides..
I am biracial, and I kind of look like the first guy.
@LM3ALLEM ew
LM3ALLEM Lmao
I’m biracial, white passing but have Native features in person.
you biracial guys think you all look alike...lol.
Well, all I can say if you are Black and White be proud of both and don't let someone say you are not White enough or Black enough because you know what's in your blood not them embrace it like Armor!
Someone tell that girls she looks arab or Latina not white 🤣 that’s all in her mind she don’t look white who lie to her 🤣
Marixa Aburto . Right
Latino/a is an ethnicity, not a race. There are white Latinos (Cameron Diaz, Vanna White), black Latinos (Carmelo Anthony, Arian Foster), indigenous Latinos, Asian Latinos (Stacey Chinn, Tatyana Ali, Tyson Beckford, Bruno Mars, and Kelis, all of whom have a black/mixed Latino parent and an Asian parent).
Depending in where she was raised
Veronica Johnson bro. then are you saying that the only races are black, white, indian, asian, native american???? what about ppl who are full latinx?? what do you call ppl that arent mixed with anything that are from that part of the world?? you can say “white-latinx” all you want but all that means is theyre mixed with white and latinx. so yeah maybe they look a little white cuz theyre mixed with white it doesnt mean they are fully white. tf is “white-latinx”/“black-latinx” you’re white AND latinx, you’re black AND latinx
Veronica Johnson race is bullshit that you idnetify based on looks. so if she looks latina then were just saying we can fucking see that shes probably latina. theres no need for ur clarification that you should put a dash between white-latina instead of just saying white and latina. ethnicity is where your ancestors probably came from..there is no “name” for an ethnicity. if your ancestors came from latinx countries then you say “my ancestors came from latinx countries” not “my ethnicity is latinx” just to make it more complicated for everyone. then anybody can say that shit. nationality is what country you are a citizen of. if i was born in africa im african thats not my ethnicity its my nationality. your skin cant be a country. your race cant be your ethnicity.
Him:
-Has a white skin
-Has an American accent
-Probably a multi racial of european
Also Him:
*I DECLARE MYSELF TO BE BLACK!*
first one got those 40k tad cr1 speakers, wish i could’ve seen the entire system
Bruh!🤦🏿♂️ One of your grandparents were black; but you most definitely are not. 😂
Exactly! I'm walking around Black passing , one of my ancestor was white... smh
Shina Omisanya biologically he is 😐
Djomo Khanasante yes depending on what species it mates with
@@Jordan-mr7ki bruh 10% black don't make him black. The guy is white. He may have some black mixture but he's a white man for the most part. Get rid of that one drop rule mentality.
WE THE NEW WORLD ORDER who said he’s 10% black and even if he is who cares he wants to identify as black let him like who are y’all to say what someone is and someone isn’t 💀
Judging from the comments people don’t know the difference between ethnicity and race
Race is technically ethnicity on steroids.
@Elver Galarga Ethnicity is simple terms is a group of people sharing a common language, culture, history and in some cases religion. Race is basically superimposing skin colour to that equation even if it is factually incorrect. Everyone should know that race is only skin deep.
@Elver Galarga This is just a hyperbole I used.
Ain’t that the same thing🤷🏼♀️... ethnicity is ur race🙄🤦🏼♀️
@@lilredd3232 I disagree with this ethnicity and race aren't the same. For example Khoisan is ethnicity not a race but Asian is a race and not an ethnicity.
Why do people make such a big thing about race just calm tfd everyone.
I'm a person who looks racially ambiguous too. The whole notion of "races" is just ridiculous. People like to put other people in boxes. Some of my family looks "black", some of my family looks "white". We're the same people, with the same ancestors. Some of us got light skin, while others of us got darker skin, just like in some other families people get blue or brown eyes.
I'm Asian
Yes, race is a social construct. People do have cultures in which they are raised and cherish.
Ok. Why do people make this shit so hard. His father was obviously mixed race. This guy is more white European than black African genetically. He is not "passing" he is being what he is, which is a predominantly European heritage mixed race individual.
If someone was 70% black and 30% white, but they only wanted to relate to and claim themselves as white, people would criticize them. So why the double standard when the situation is reversed?
Blame the one drop rule.
I did think it was strange how the first guy identifies as a black man, as a white passing poc I don't think that's right. Even if we do have black heritage, we don't face the same discrimination as black people do. However, I think it's perfectly acceptable to identify as mixed even if you only look one race.
Episode Interactive Yes they are. But that is not his case. He is of predominantly European ancestry. This individual is still mixed race. Mixed is mixed regardless of whether dominant or recessive genes express more.
Ikr?
nellek970 Just because some people want to consider race a "social construct " does not mean that racism, culture, ethnicities and experiences are not real. If no one is black, than no one is white or Asian either! Try telling a Chinese person no one is Asian! But I disagree with the "social construct theory" and I believe there is nothing wrong with having racial classifications as long as no one is mistreated. Also there are plenty of pure black people in Africa. No one has time to argue percentages just because a person has 2% European ancestry they feel like they are not pure black. That is stupid and a waste of time. Someone who had a non black ancestor that entered their bloodline over 300 ago, is not the same as having two parents from distinct different races or ethnicities.
The second lady speaking looks like a MINORITY.. Latina maybe.
@@fernandovillegas1889 very true. and alot of Argentina people or other latinos think that because they have a lighter complexion or lighter hair color than other latinos it makes them white. As a white person i don't really understand why someone would want to be categorized as white so badly?? we get shamed for being white and people say we "age like raisins" and don't get me started on having "white privelage" so wtfok.
@Poder Vida The blonde argentians you are referring to are nazi germans who escaped from Europe after ww2. The population of Latin America had much more brown darker complexion before the spanish conquests of South America. South American indigenous people dont have blond hair or blue eyes. The blonds with blue eyes are settlers or descendants of settlers. Learn the difference and educate yourself.
@@intelligentrock4379 They look white because they ARE MOSTLY FROM IBERIAN AND ITALIAN DESCENT DUMBASS.
Nah, she looks white to me like Lorde. I should know, I’m Latino. Most mixed-race Latinos in Latin-America would be offended to be called black or indigenous instead of white. Yeah, colorism is a bitch worldwide, but the US claims being a minority as trendy and cool. Also, Latinos are a cultural and linguistic ethnicity.
Poder Vida A predominantly white mestiza.
Being mixed race doesn't automatically mean you can or should choose blk.the majority of Genetics should determine
By the way the man looked black to me. He looked a lot like my Uncle Micheal.
I really don't understand the point of this video
It's mainly about not judging people on outward appearances. It's important to realize that not everyone who looks white is white.
Its seeing both sides of America and showing just how different your experience in the US can be because of your race.
Daddy Government now why would you mention derogatory things about the Jews? You must be trolling..
...I don't understand. I thought "white" and "black" simply referred to the colour of one's skin. If a person looks a specific skin colour, that should mean that they have that skin colour, and thus "are" the label associated with it, white or black.
C Bell just don't...lack of news is showing they're running out of ideas
The first guy looks like his dad... Caucasian version
They are not from caucasian area
Exactly dee lighful. You can also see other features there. Even as a child he doesn't look fully white.
@@dontwastetimeyouarelosingr8172 they blood will trace back to the caucus
No he looks like the mix version of his dad
It's strange sometimes I pass as white and other times people don't think I am white. It's really shocking to be able to be on both sides of it
How do they know what people are automatically thinking? Do they ask people to guess their race?
It's so ridiculous that we are even having these discussions. NONE OF US get to choose who we are or what we look like. We are all human beings. Race is a man-made concept solely with the purpose of dividing and grouping people. I think it's stupid as hell but I didn't make this world, I'm just living in it.
YES!!! Thank you. I knew there were people out there who think and feel as I do. I scrolled down just to read this very comment.
cmh People need to be grouped, perhaps you don't know how this world works? Tribalism is human nature, you'd best get back to reality..
Sadly this is the world that we live in judging someone based on the color of their skin. A skin colour/shade they had no control over. They didn't go up to a grocery store and made a purchase or got it from a factory. Who are you to think that because your skin is lighter than mine means you are better than me. This type of behavior was taught and has been passed down generation to generation.
cmh We are not all treated like human beings however based upon what we look like which is why many people of color choose to pass themselves off as the favored phenotype, Caucasian. Many who are shaded are viewed as unintelligent, animals, lazy, criminally inclined or worse, in need of extermination. Its nice to hear folks dream of acceptance of all, but its not the reality on the groubd because people are yet lying about history.
Race is just silly
He does look white, but my eyes do see something else. That second person, the woman, she doesn’t look white, just because I have family members who look like her. Third lady totally looks white.
How I see them too. First guy, I would definitely guess he was mixed. The Arabic woman is only white if she is Southern European, but I would be guessing she was likely something else. Last lady I wouldn't pick up on it, but I believe her too. I myself have a father with a dark complexion, but take after my mother strongly. A lot of people see pale skin and blue eyes and don't pick up on the mixture. That's okay, but it's still part of my heritage that I connect to.
MsClarinut MsClarinut I think it’s pretty interesting how genes can express themselves. I can only ever see the different genes with facial features, since eye color isn’t always a clear indicator nor is really pale skin, but I know that a lot of people see skin color first and most. I have a few mixtures here and there, but people say I look like my mom, my grandmother says I look strongly like my dad lol
KALEIDO jess It's funny how you can have one person swear you look just like your mom and have another person say the exact opposite.
Grappige Mannetje Touché, I’m gonna go ahead and agree with you on that one, my definition of white was a bit different though, but it’s true. I just got schooled, thank you for that. 🍃
Agreed
See this is why aliens dont visit us 🤦
He is not black, identifying as black does not make him black
He is biracial
@@flora-3603 He has 0 African features
Let me make this simple.
Two parents of different races = Biracial
@@flora-3603 One parent is wite and the other one is probably biracial so 75% wite !
Weird way to get the N word pass
There's no true n word pass.
@@ajh.7868 nigga plz..
J R just say the word no one no thing is stoping you
Samurai_Aldo lol 😂
It's a magic word, say it allowed in public and you change people's emotional state.
The 2nd women does not look white smh
Amelia Myers yea she looks middle eastern or Latina
Nadia V exactly.
Yeah if I first saw her I would have thought she was Latina. I would have never guessed she was Arab.
Helplessshi or white.
Where is the rest?! This was a good start
My father is from the Philippines, his family came to America when he was much older. I look so much like him except I have brown hair so people tell me I’m white. So until recently, I completely denied and distanced myself from my Asian heritage and even that side of my family. I really wish I hadnt, I felt like I didn’t deserve my Asian heritage because I “look white” but the thing is, I don’t completely. It’s obvious when I’m around the Filipino side of my family, that i look Filipino
Actually I would guess he was mixed because of his facial bone structure.
1st guy you could definitely tell he was mixed race. The 1st woman as well. The last woman was very difficult to tell.
Catlily Holmes I struggle with being mixed. My relatives are more obviously black or white
MsClarinut I disagree. Ive seen whites with the same face shape.
KiD 504#
He actually looks very mixed race in that black&white photo of him as a kid, as an adult he looks slightly mixed race. He most definitely does not look like a White man.
You can tell they are all mixed race when you really REALLY study their faces, but as regular joe on the street or buying coffee you wouldnt even bat an eye.
He looks more North African tbh. I had an Egyptian doctor once that looked just like him.
You are all great people with so much courage to speak out globally. You all are beautiful to say the least...💯💛👍
Most people think im a white castle burger but im actually a Black angus burger
Best answer ever 😂
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haha
No. You're a nasty Mondo burger not a good burger
@@Face_Reality between my black angus meatball lol