@@FOUNDATIONALBLACKAFRICANwell she has literally used a slur of actual biracial people and is mostly white so like she should be more connected to her white side
what's wild is she's using the language and history of the oppression of black people to describe her struggles as a mixed race woman...here's the thing...these two things are very much not the same. If she lived in the era of segregation and Jim Crowe, as a means of survival she would be able to try and pass as a white person. She would be able to avoid a lot of judgement purely based on the color of her skin. Sure, she would still experience hardship. She would still experience people questioning her whiteness, but she has a privilege that most black people do no have, and she fails to acknowledge that. This whole thing rings hollow because it comes off like she's saying she has it worse than both black and white people, but I'm sure at least half of all people she encounters think she's white. Even if that percentage is greater than 0.1% that is a greater privilege than most black people have. She's playing the oppression Olympics rather than speaking her actual truth. The fact that she tries to compare her experience to the lynching of her uncle(?) is obscene. If you want to talk about your trauma, talk about your trauma, but don't use that as evidence that you've had it just as bad if not worse than non-mixed black people. You could write an entire paper about how tone deaf and privileged this piece is.
Thank you! You said my exact thoughts so eloquently. Her experiences pale in comparison and at any moment she can remove herself from persecution just by not telling people her business.
This is what I was thinking at the same time I'm an American descendant of slavery myself I live 45 minutes from where my great-great-grandfather was sold out once but twice at a slave market that still stands in Fayetteville North Carolina and the fact that she referred to herself as a coon is asinine by far to me it's not poetry it's a whole bunch of words made to sound deep !😳
I’m not understanding what her fight is? She wants to be more accepted as a black person? Or accepted as a mixed person? She wants racism to end? I’m confused lol
she thinks she is confused about her race but she’s actually confused about her self importance in the world. no ones cares if your mixed this is america it’s a melting pot and thats ok.
Maya is not a Black person. The definition of race is not defined by oppression or discrimination. Defining Black people by negative treatment is an utter insult to Black people and is not how race is defined. It is a movement of the goal post. Maya is not Black, she may have faced hardships because she is mixed, but the doesn’t make her Black.
Yeah, she shouldn’t say that she’s black. If she’s proud of her black heritage great but she needs to identify as mixed. I can’t see that she would go through the same thing as a dark skin black woman
@@Brownsugarpapayaso what shade does someone have to be for them to identify as black? and who are you to tell someone else how they "need" to describe themself and their lived experience? don't get me wrong this girl is a clown but colorism is NOT the answer.
We’re still very much a part of the legacy racial system that enforced the one drop rule. Depending on the location, back in the day Maya either would have been classed as black and therefore a slave, albeit a light-skinned one, with the “privileges” that came along with that (house slave, etc.), or mulatto, with a generally elevated level of rights and privileges relative to black people, but not quite the same as white people. Again, it would have depended on the laws in whatever colony you were born/sold into. Even in today’s racial classification system, it’s not as simple as saying “you’re not black, you’re mixed”. In general, people mixed with black still experience racism, although it would be to a (much) lesser extent than a dark skinned black woman would face. My point is that being mixed does not necessarily preclude you from the black experience. Cultural factors are important to consider as well. I think while this girl needs to stop with this particular line of nonsense, it’s equally damaging to us as a community to deny her (and others’) experiences both as a black person and as a mixed person.
@@bunnybird9342 stoooop. She's exactly the same. People need to start getting bullied again 😂 I would've loved to see her try to play this game outside of a cushy ass life so she could see the real end 😂
The mom is weird too 😂. Skin color does not dictate how much European blood you have. You can be as yellow as the sun and still be 90% Black. Lightskin is not the same as being mixed
Yep I have a friend couple who did an ancestry check and the wife is lighter and husband is dark skin and his dna had higher roots of European then hers did.
1/4 is still significant because it is equal to one grandparent and one parent who is 1/2 Plus most 3/4 white people still look mixed to some degree, and there are some that could NEVER pass for white (such as Alexandre Dumas and JonathanBeckEdits). I can literally tell she is mixed black because of her face, skin undertone, and her hair texture being curlier than any curly hair monoracial white people have.
3/4 white is still mixed. 1/4 is still significant because it is equal to one grandparent and one parent who is 1/2. Plus 1/4 mixed almost always look mixed to a certain degree. And there are some 3/4 white mixed, such as Alexandre Dumas, who could never pass as white.
Its crazy even her own parents are hesitating to agree with her and it's so telling. One of the few things she says that is accurate is she is in fact confused! She has the experience of a white passing mixed person, not a black person in any way.
Phenotype is something else. Tamera Mowry’s children are 3/4 white and her daughter is browner with curly/wavy hair. Her son has blue eyes and looks white.
This is truly one of the dumbest things I’ve heard in a while. I was already a little taken aback thinking she was gonna identify as mixed but when she said “TODAY I’m Black 😃🧍🏻♀️”…I was blown. I feel so sorry for her father and the fact the whole family just didn’t claim his white side. Then tried to make him out to be some white guy who just “doesn’t get it”…idiotic…
Her dad and white people are definitely NOT the victims here. His children are NOT white. They're mixed. Not Black, because having a white parent and a half Black parent makes the children mixed, not Black or white. But if they look white, and she does, they need to own that privilege. She does not experience what her mom and siblings are, who are darker, experience.
@@USA-o5oshe is 1/4 black and 3/4 white, meaning that she is technically both but has more white ancestry than black ancestry and hence why she is light-skinned.
She acknowledging her mixed black/white ancestry isn't the one-drop rule. A white person deciding they can say the n-word because they found out they got 3% black on a DNA test is.
@@bunnybird9342 This is just not true, white people can have any undertone. They dont sell lighter makeup shades in only pink undertones. And we dont have to be mixed for that. Im 99.70% white as per dna test and have olive skin from my south ukrainian grandma :) South ukrainians are commonly darker, mediterranean types.
@bunnybird9342 You are everywhere defending biracial people. Why do you feel the need to assert yourself into other communities? Biracial people need to stop colonising blackness. Be proud of your biracial-ness & leave black ppl alone ❤
@@laylah150 accepting biracial people into POC spaces isn't "colonizing" anybody. As long as mixed white people aren't being favored over monoracial POC, it isn't an issue at all. They are BOTH. Stop shaming them for being white and then denying them of the other side. Stop boxing them into an inferior category.
@@laylah150how are biracial people colonizing black spaces is my question? BIRACIAL PEOPLE HAVE THE SAME CULTURE AS BLACK PEOPLE no biracial people are not colonizing black spaces when there in black cultural spaces
@@jasminelee1234 same my cousins and siblings are chill idk why she had to embarrass herself begging for black validation like they gna care about her being racially confused ://
Identifying as what you are biologically doesn’t not negate the fact that you’ve had bad experiences. Why’re these people being dishonest and just confusing themselves? “Mixed race” is an identity, one where they’re not willing to claim but in reality that’s what they are. There’s certainly a pattern here. These people don’t know it yet but they’re “anti-mixed race”. You don’t have to pick a side. No matter how you identify, biology will always win. The one drop rule in this modern age is for dummies.
I’m a Latina “quadroon” mixed with white and indigenous. The only place I really felt like I fit in was in Brazil because no one gave a shit and half the population looked similar to me and didn’t question it like here.
@@gabrielvaldes-ramos6980 I had to look that up because I haven’t heard that before. I’m half white, a little more than a quarter black, and a little less than a quarter indigenous- would that still make me a Castizo?
She says she wants a man who doesn't care about race.. The vibe from her dad was that he raised his kids like race wasn't an issue. Yet, she Bitter towards him for ignoring his kids race.
I totally get people choosing to label themselves black in the American context with the history of the “one drop rule” and so on but it is strange from a British perspective. Maya would just be considered mixed race and nobody would question it here. I’m not saying either one is the “right” word just that it’s interesting.
Disagree - race is not light, breezy, easy & unquestioned in the UK. Until 9/11 usually the 1st thing many white ppl asked POC is 'where are you from?' never accepting the UK but wanting a 'fun', colourful island as a reply. Until recently Maya would have been unashamedly labelled as 'half-caste'. Another appalling exposure of the Met Police is indicitive of the ''interesting'' UK perspective.
My mother is Mexican American (very fair skinned with green eyes) and my biological father was African American. I identify as both (mixed). I am of both ethnicities and it is not important to choose one over the other. Many Black folks wouldn’t see me as totally theirs because of the color of my skin and Mexicans wouldn’t claim me either especially since I don’t speak fluent Spanish….so If I had to choose a self identity I’d say I am a child of God and that is most important to me.
@@dreiaparratt787 as somebody who is mixed with a white dad, I don't get how making fun of people for something they can't control is from a place of love.
3/4 black and 1/4 white is called griffe. But I personally consider it dated just like all of those other associated terms such as mulatto, quadroon, etc.
The part where her Mom said, if she marries a white man her kids would still be mixed race... Hmmm, NO. At that point they are white. I do admire that she loves and embraces her black side though.
@@FOUNDATIONALBLACKAFRICAN how about stop boxing mixed-race people into an inferior category by shaming them for being white and then denying them of their POC side
I pass..but yet ...I never pass.. im never white enough when you see some of family ..but yet I'm never black enough either when you see some of my family... my full white father helped my freckles... my blue eyes....my 1/2 3/4 or whatever we got mixed with. white mother looked more light so passable... .. why do we still judge.. im still us.. im both black and white... I look white... I pass... but im still here and both. Im not dark ... im pale but I tan too much.. my hair is too thick but too fine... not kinky enough... but not straight enough...
1/4 is still significant enough to count as mixed and 1/4 mixed-race people almost always look visibly mixed to some degree. I don't get why this is so difficult for people to grasp.
She looks like my Black Jamaican relatives on one sode of my family. We come from a light skinned family but the lightest ones have the exact same skin tone. Some were born with blonde hair and grey/hazel eyes. Honestly, for a 'quadroon,' she looks like some light skinned Caribbean people with English/Irish/Scottish ancestry generations back. Or someone who is mixed half and half with Black and White.
@@vaimendemultigenerationally mixed AND black. Mixed isn't its own race. It's like if somebody told a bilingual English/Spanish speaker "you don't speak Spanish you speak bilingual". Bilingual isn't a language in an of itself; it just means a person is fluent in two languages.
I totally understand and am impressed by her ability to express herself on something that is close to my heart. It will be a beautiful day for sure when color is no longer used to assess your character and ability to produce anything of value. I admire her strength and wish her the very best of what life has to offer. God bless.
@@Deemelanin7 if you look at it in the form of a pie chart, 1/4 is still noticeable. 1/4 still counts as mixed and 1/4 mixed people almost always look visibly mixed to some degree.
Most kids identify with the culture of their mother. Mothers nourish and pass on cultural traditions. The food, the hair, the aunties and grandmas. It think Maya may have struggled so much because her parents divorced.
@@clchawaii09 But the fact remains her DNA is black and white. There's nothing wrong with that. It's society and the system that's created this battle within herself.
I am 1/2 Sami and 1/2 middle eastern. I have all sorts of problems, but being percieved as non-white is not one of them. Lacking community and wanting to be part of my family is one. I am making the effort to get to know my Sami cousins and learning Lappish. But I am well aware I am so white I glow in the dark
I personally think that this video uses a lot of buzz words that are very much used as a "wow factor" but I think after watching the full video that she sheds light on people who are "mixed-race" and have trouble with fiting in between black, white, and other races. My mother is half black and half white and she went the through the struggles of both groups not accepting her. However, she leaned more into the black side rather than the white side because she felt like she had belonged. However, my mother has a different yet similar experience to Maya. And it makes me wonder as an adult, when I have children with a white man, will my kids face the same struggles of not feeling like they will fit into either category? There isn't a "mixed-race" category for people to sign on government papers when they're born. I think this video is taken out of context a lot due to the buzz words and if things were said differently I feel like she could most definetly shed some light on interracial couples and mixed-children.
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Maya's mom looks black but is bi racial and probably was always treated like a person due to her skin color and hair texture. Maya can identify as what makes her feel comfortable. Maya's brother is super adorable.
Maya's father looks like my older brother. And my younger sister is even lighter than him.Both of our parents identified as African American. While I have a light tan complexion, more like my father. Boy did we get a lot of stares when our family of 5 went out in public in my youth. Especially after we moved into a predominately White neighborhood in the 1960s. So if I didn't know Maya I would have assumed that she is Latina.Because so many people on my maternal French speaking creole grandfather's side of the family were so White looking. My maternal grandmother, also French speaking creole, had beautiful dark skin with hazel eyes and straight black hair. GENES are so funny and arbitrary. Human beings are human beings.Lol my mother, brother and sister had to deal with the stress of being accused of trying to pass for White.While my father and I were clearly visible as people of color who just happened to have fair skin.America is just so obsessed with race.
Black proolr come from west Africa they are NOT light skin white passing. If your family looks white they have lots of white ancestry. Mixed race is not just biracial.. 2 parents can both be biracial or multigenerational mixed .
@@PsychicMedium4747 I agree.Which is why the term "race" is a social construct.Most "African Americans" technically are of mixed ancestry.The irony is that the USA once had the strictest classifications on race.So people like my maternal grandfather and his parents adhered to the "One drop" rule that was in place at that time.Which was strictly enforced within the State of Louisiana.And elsewhere in many parts of the United States.I have always felt that the term Biracial is more specific.Meaning it applies when one's parents are of two completely different races.Like say a Tiger Woods.But how about Tiger's son Charlie?Is he also Biracial or of mixed ancestry or both.Which means in my opinion mixed ancestry is a broader term.And being Biracial is one classification of mixed ancestry.Here is the amusing part.There were members of my maternal grandfather's family,both maternal and paternal Aunts and Uncles,who left the State of Louisiana to pass as White marrying into White families.Some even migrated to France.With the advent of Ancestry DNA,these relatives produced many descendants.Some still live in France and the rest in the USA.I have met many of them,pale complexioned like my sister.The French ones don't like the term "White". They consider themselves French first and European second.And they acknowledge that most Europeans already have a range of different ethnicities Even North African if you go back to antiquity.They were not surprised at the small amount of African ancestry in their DNA.The "White" relatives in the States who discovered the African ancestry handled it in different ways.Some just shrugged.Some were devastated.So does the American definition of Whiteness mean racial purity to most people in this culture?And of course despite her appearance my sister always identifies as African American.Just as my mother and maternal grandfather did.Of course our beautiful much darker skinned maternal grandmother sealed that deal.
I am also mixed but I had literally zero issues with my race until I discovered the WMAF vs AMWF thing and I have been mentally fucked up by it ever since.
@@Antzlivesliterally shut the fuck up and go back to whatever right-wing forum you came from. Being transgender is not a choice or a trend. I am transgender myself and I can confirm this.
I know someone like this woman and I didn’t even think they existed until… Honey is Spanish! Mom is Dominican and Spanish and dad is Spanish and guess where this baby was born Spain! She looks white she is white and she’ll say stuff like but I’m also black, and I go baby where? Darling, guess what, I don’t know if anyone told you but you’re white. I know it’s shocking to hear but you’re not mixed or black. Maya love same goes for you.
So y'all don't think she has struggled with understanding and embracing her identity as well as navigating black and white spaces as a mixed person (black and white), that doesn't look completely like either parts? I understand the privileges she does have as a light skin, racially ambiguous looking woman, but navigating black and white spaces spaces and dealing with everyone's opinions on how she should identify can also be really hard for her to deal with internally.
That's fine, but don't tell black people WE'RE denying her of a Black experience. She's simply not Black. She needs to be raging against her parents for not preparing her. It's the exact same case with Tori Kelly and Halsey
@@laylah150mixed-race people existing is not colonizing anybody. Mixed-race people are allowed into POC spaces; they just have different experiences from their monoracial counterparts and their existence is not a problem unless mixed white people are saying they are better because they are part white.
This is hilarious. Like an SNL skit. Maya had problems in private school and wanted blonde hair! Dad can play African drums, but he wont know what it's like to be black, ever! Get some real problems, seriously.
Not really though. In Africa, albino people are often seen as black peoples with a curse while 1/4 black 3/4 white mixed people (I personally feel like quadroon and associated terms are dated) aren't seen as black at all.
Its easier to claim black when u look it its harder for Maya cus she look like a white woman 100% its ok u still beautiful your soul is black your dialect is black your spirit is black
LITERALLY THIS. People saying "oh 3/4 white is just white" are morons they almost always look mixed to some degree plus I can name some notable people with 1/4 mixed ancestry who are definitely mixed.
I’m a black American from NY however a man by the name Ambrose Nicolas Yates that started my grandfather’s bloodline on his father side (he owned Port Royal 1800’s google it) first son was a Quadroon interesting
@@bunnybird9342 what’s more interesting that women he had that son with was A. Ezekiel which come from Jewish/ African origin so I’m thinking the Quadroon came from her & now that I think about it hell my grandfather was a yellow man I’m guessing Quadroon but he was black to me… FunFact: When he can’t to NU through Ellis Island in the 30s or the 40s they labeled him a N-gro
@@bunnybird9342 My grandfather & great great grandmother’s history is wild! My grandfather looked yellow I’m guessing some would say “quadroon” however he was black to us but him & especially his father can pass for white
@@terrell112 mixed-race people have a lot of prominence in African-American history. Sure doesn't make sense to gatekeep blackness against mixed-race people, right?
im basically one quarter black but i have sand skin in winter, chocolate skin in summer, curly hair slanted eyes, the only white thing in my appearance is my nose Basically i look like a filipino with a straight nose and curls😂😂😂 no one guesses im european so why should i claim to be white
So many people keep saying that she's just white don't understand that 1/4 is still mixed and that there were many other mixed-race African-Americans throughout history who had experiences similar to hers.
We need to rid their minds of the denial. Society and medi aportrayal make mixed folks deny that part if they can pass. My cousins and sisters do this all the time. Until I remind them of who they really are
HELP ITS REAL
Her friends and family absolutely don’t love her
Her dad didn't want her only identifying as black he wants her to see her white side as well.
@@FOUNDATIONALBLACKAFRICANShe seems to be making fun of both.
Thought it was just a tiktok meme😭😭😭
@@FOUNDATIONALBLACKAFRICANwell she has literally used a slur of actual biracial people and is mostly white so like she should be more connected to her white side
what's wild is she's using the language and history of the oppression of black people to describe her struggles as a mixed race woman...here's the thing...these two things are very much not the same. If she lived in the era of segregation and Jim Crowe, as a means of survival she would be able to try and pass as a white person. She would be able to avoid a lot of judgement purely based on the color of her skin. Sure, she would still experience hardship. She would still experience people questioning her whiteness, but she has a privilege that most black people do no have, and she fails to acknowledge that. This whole thing rings hollow because it comes off like she's saying she has it worse than both black and white people, but I'm sure at least half of all people she encounters think she's white. Even if that percentage is greater than 0.1% that is a greater privilege than most black people have. She's playing the oppression Olympics rather than speaking her actual truth. The fact that she tries to compare her experience to the lynching of her uncle(?) is obscene. If you want to talk about your trauma, talk about your trauma, but don't use that as evidence that you've had it just as bad if not worse than non-mixed black people. You could write an entire paper about how tone deaf and privileged this piece is.
Thank you! You said my exact thoughts so eloquently. Her experiences pale in comparison and at any moment she can remove herself from persecution just by not telling people her business.
This is what I was thinking at the same time I'm an American descendant of slavery myself I live 45 minutes from where my great-great-grandfather was sold out once but twice at a slave market that still stands in Fayetteville North Carolina and the fact that she referred to herself as a coon is asinine by far to me it's not poetry it's a whole bunch of words made to sound deep !😳
@@Rebekah_Renders pale? intended pun? lol
Well put.
White privilege doesn’t exist
I blame Logic
This is a lost episode of Atlanta, and you can't tell me otherwise 😂
Yo I thought this same thing 🤣🤣
Lmaooo
So accurate
Yooo 🤣🤣🤣 this is hilarious 😭
Yo there is literally no explanation that fits better
This “mixed kid struggle” is so tiring like …
Are you mixed?
@@lululemkowski5468 yup 3 quarters Black and one quarter white. The opposite of this young lady & I myself am tired of this rhetoric.
Stop Race Mixing
A quadracker if you will
@@restmydudes8778 💀
I’m not understanding what her fight is? She wants to be more accepted as a black person? Or accepted as a mixed person? She wants racism to end? I’m confused lol
Right? Like I’d be willing to accept she has some TYPE of an issue but I cant really really tell what it is 😂
She's confused too. Just let this girl make up her struggle. She'll pin it down soon 😂😂😂
she thinks she is confused about her race but she’s actually confused about her self importance in the world. no ones cares if your mixed this is america it’s a melting pot and thats ok.
Maya is not a Black person. The definition of race is not defined by oppression or discrimination. Defining Black people by negative treatment is an utter insult to Black people and is not how race is defined. It is a movement of the goal post. Maya is not Black, she may have faced hardships because she is mixed, but the doesn’t make her Black.
The concept of race is socially constructed and inherently racist.
THIS!
Yeah, she shouldn’t say that she’s black. If she’s proud of her black heritage great but she needs to identify as mixed. I can’t see that she would go through the same thing as a dark skin black woman
@@Brownsugarpapayaso what shade does someone have to be for them to identify as black? and who are you to tell someone else how they "need" to describe themself and their lived experience? don't get me wrong this girl is a clown but colorism is NOT the answer.
We’re still very much a part of the legacy racial system that enforced the one drop rule. Depending on the location, back in the day Maya either would have been classed as black and therefore a slave, albeit a light-skinned one, with the “privileges” that came along with that (house slave, etc.), or mulatto, with a generally elevated level of rights and privileges relative to black people, but not quite the same as white people. Again, it would have depended on the laws in whatever colony you were born/sold into.
Even in today’s racial classification system, it’s not as simple as saying “you’re not black, you’re mixed”. In general, people mixed with black still experience racism, although it would be to a (much) lesser extent than a dark skinned black woman would face. My point is that being mixed does not necessarily preclude you from the black experience. Cultural factors are important to consider as well.
I think while this girl needs to stop with this particular line of nonsense, it’s equally damaging to us as a community to deny her (and others’) experiences both as a black person and as a mixed person.
Gurl the way I was DYING throughout this whole thing 😭
“today, i identify as Black” is a very telling statement.
That's not what happened in her case.
I really can’t stop laughing
This is gonna be my go to video when I’m feeling down.
I just want to hear “Obama is a mulatto” laid over Usher’s “My Confessions”.
Pops was shooketh to learn that Maya was out here self identifying as black 🥴
Two generations from Rachael Dolazole
@@chickenfriedwaffles except unlike Rachel Dolezal she actually has black ancestry
Cuz why would she 😭
@@chickenfriedwaffles but unlike Rachel Dolezal she actually has black ancestry. You can't make that comparison.
@@bunnybird9342 stoooop. She's exactly the same. People need to start getting bullied again 😂 I would've loved to see her try to play this game outside of a cushy ass life so she could see the real end 😂
This is actually the funniest video ever😭
The mom is weird too 😂. Skin color does not dictate how much European blood you have. You can be as yellow as the sun and still be 90% Black. Lightskin is not the same as being mixed
Well she has a white mom so I’m not surprised she’s ignorant 💀
Yep I have a friend couple who did an ancestry check and the wife is lighter and husband is dark skin and his dna had higher roots of European then hers did.
@roadtohealingandfertility same with my parents 😂. Mama is lightskin, daddy is darkskin, but she has less european ancestry than he does
@roadtohealingandfertility That's the exception. Usually the lighter you are, the greater quantities of European DNA you have. This is fact.
@@failyourwaytothetop myth
Why did they post this
a person that is 3/4 white is.....well white.
have fun w ur 23 and me results if you an american G
1/4 is still significant because it is equal to one grandparent and one parent who is 1/2
Plus most 3/4 white people still look mixed to some degree, and there are some that could NEVER pass for white (such as Alexandre Dumas and JonathanBeckEdits).
I can literally tell she is mixed black because of her face, skin undertone, and her hair texture being curlier than any curly hair monoracial white people have.
3/4 white is still mixed. 1/4 is still significant because it is equal to one grandparent and one parent who is 1/2.
Plus 1/4 mixed almost always look mixed to a certain degree. And there are some 3/4 white mixed, such as Alexandre Dumas, who could never pass as white.
@@bunnybird9342 ok she is mixed. Too mixed to be white and nothing about her says black
Her mothers mom is white and her dads white, she’s biologically white lol. Yes still mixed obviously but she’s white
Its crazy even her own parents are hesitating to agree with her and it's so telling. One of the few things she says that is accurate is she is in fact confused! She has the experience of a white passing mixed person, not a black person in any way.
She has a mixed 1/4 black experience, which is not the same as a monoracial black experience or a mixed 1/2 black experience.
Im 1/4th black and still don’t get labeled as white
her own mom called her out
No way really
“My ying and Yang reality” 😂😂😂
Promise NOBODY has ever called her that
Called her what?
A "quadroon"@@bunnybird9342
@@bunnybird9342a Quadroon
@@WarholMonet because that's dated language
@@bunnybird9342 that’s the point, it’s dated, no one has ever called her that so her usage of it is redundant 😭
BRO EVEN THE DEFINITION IS OFFENSIVE
this is diabolical.
Phenotype is something else. Tamera Mowry’s children are 3/4 white and her daughter is browner with curly/wavy hair. Her son has blue eyes and looks white.
This is truly one of the dumbest things I’ve heard in a while. I was already a little taken aback thinking she was gonna identify as mixed but when she said “TODAY I’m Black 😃🧍🏻♀️”…I was blown. I feel so sorry for her father and the fact the whole family just didn’t claim his white side. Then tried to make him out to be some white guy who just “doesn’t get it”…idiotic…
Her dad and white people are definitely NOT the victims here. His children are NOT white. They're mixed. Not Black, because having a white parent and a half Black parent makes the children mixed, not Black or white. But if they look white, and she does, they need to own that privilege. She does not experience what her mom and siblings are, who are darker, experience.
I didn’t have a problem with the mixed but the moment she said black like girl no your mom did not give you any melanin at all
@@USA-o5odo you not realize that mixed-race is a thing?
@@bunnybird9342I am biracial ok I know mixed race is a thing she’s that she’s not black though by mixed I meant mixed race but shorten it
@@USA-o5oshe is 1/4 black and 3/4 white, meaning that she is technically both but has more white ancestry than black ancestry and hence why she is light-skinned.
This is actually crazy
how tf is there 12:34 seconds of this dawg
they really made a documentary 😭
She look like all she got was one drop.. Please leave us alone 😩🥴
She acknowledging her mixed black/white ancestry isn't the one-drop rule. A white person deciding they can say the n-word because they found out they got 3% black on a DNA test is.
The way all the melanin and traits just SKIPPED her omg 😭
shes 3/4ths white obviously shes gonna look like it
Look at her skin undertone. It's a light version of the one black people have, not the pink one white people have.
She doesn't have the pink skin undertone white people have though...
@@bunnybird9342 This is just not true, white people can have any undertone. They dont sell lighter makeup shades in only pink undertones. And we dont have to be mixed for that. Im 99.70% white as per dna test and have olive skin from my south ukrainian grandma :) South ukrainians are commonly darker, mediterranean types.
@@bunnybird9342 sorry, its not pink skin undertone, its called blood. crazy yt people want color so bad callin selves pink now
She's definitely stalking these comments
So this video is 4 years old but it’s just now trending?
TikTok is cancer
@@bunnybird9342
Why because things go viral?
@bunnybird9342
You are everywhere defending biracial people. Why do you feel the need to assert yourself into other communities? Biracial people need to stop colonising blackness. Be proud of your biracial-ness & leave black ppl alone ❤
@@laylah150 accepting biracial people into POC spaces isn't "colonizing" anybody. As long as mixed white people aren't being favored over monoracial POC, it isn't an issue at all.
They are BOTH. Stop shaming them for being white and then denying them of the other side. Stop boxing them into an inferior category.
@@laylah150how are biracial people colonizing black spaces is my question? BIRACIAL PEOPLE HAVE THE SAME CULTURE AS BLACK PEOPLE no biracial people are not colonizing black spaces when there in black cultural spaces
This is hilarious and I’m happy I found this
dude even the dad is laughing at her saying she self identifies as black😭😭
Yeah she looks white
quadroons face weird situations
Not so much invested in the percentage of black conversation as I am angry at just how bad the poem is! 😭
Slam poetry is cringe but she is still valid as a mixed-race black person
As a quadroon we dont claim her
@@_K1tty.x ditto! My cousins and I would never come out with this tripe..am cringing..😫
@@jasminelee1234 same my cousins and siblings are chill idk why she had to embarrass herself begging for black validation like they gna care about her being racially confused ://
Identifying as what you are biologically doesn’t not negate the fact that you’ve had bad experiences. Why’re these people being dishonest and just confusing themselves? “Mixed race” is an identity, one where they’re not willing to claim but in reality that’s what they are. There’s certainly a pattern here. These people don’t know it yet but they’re “anti-mixed race”. You don’t have to pick a side. No matter how you identify, biology will always win. The one drop rule in this modern age is for dummies.
Bingo.
@@pinkdollangel they aren’t black or white
@@kay4640I said what I said. She’s multiracial with a mulatto mom and a white dad which makes her one-quarter black and 3 quarters white by ancestry.
@@kay4640 I said what I said. She's multiracial, 3 quarters white and one quarter black.
@@kay4640 I didn’t say she shouldn’t claim it. Read and comprehend simple English.
If she didn’t have the curly hair would they take her serious tho?
They aren't even with the curly hair 😭😭😭
I can spot a quadroon even with straight blonde hair
I’m a Latina “quadroon” mixed with white and indigenous. The only place I really felt like I fit in was in Brazil because no one gave a shit and half the population looked similar to me and didn’t question it like here.
Are you Brazilian?
@@andradepasternak I’m half. My mother is from Brasília. She immigrated here in the 80s.
@@jenniferyoung2215 Interessante. Greetings from Curitiba!
Ur Castizo.
@@gabrielvaldes-ramos6980 I had to look that up because I haven’t heard that before. I’m half white, a little more than a quarter black, and a little less than a quarter indigenous- would that still make me a Castizo?
She says she wants a man who doesn't care about race..
The vibe from her dad was that he raised his kids like race wasn't an issue.
Yet, she Bitter towards him for ignoring his kids race.
I totally get people choosing to label themselves black in the American context with the history of the “one drop rule” and so on but it is strange from a British perspective. Maya would just be considered mixed race and nobody would question it here. I’m not saying either one is the “right” word just that it’s interesting.
Disagree - race is not light, breezy, easy & unquestioned in the UK. Until 9/11 usually the 1st thing many white ppl asked POC is 'where are you from?' never accepting the UK but wanting a 'fun', colourful island as a reply. Until recently Maya would have been unashamedly labelled as 'half-caste'. Another appalling exposure of the Met Police is indicitive of the ''interesting'' UK perspective.
I don't think she is mixed race though because being biracial s 50/50 she is just mixed but mostly white :) I would say
Most would consider her mixed race here too, especially considering she is mainly white through culture and family.
@@kimiatothecagedbirdsbiracial doesn't have to be 1/2 and 1/2 plus multigenerational mixed exists
@@bunnybird9342Bi means two.
AI couldn't write better satire. 😮
My mother is Mexican American (very fair skinned with green eyes) and my biological father was African American. I identify as both (mixed). I am of both ethnicities and it is not important to choose one over the other. Many Black folks wouldn’t see me as totally theirs because of the color of my skin and Mexicans wouldn’t claim me either especially since I don’t speak fluent Spanish….so If I had to choose a self identity I’d say I am a child of God and that is most important to me.
Your mither is a white Mexican just say that
@@vaimende that did sound like white mom-biracial nonsense 😂 swear I'm saying from a place of love tho lol
You can not see ethnicity, you see race. You are black.
@@dreiaparratt787 as somebody who is mixed with a white dad, I don't get how making fun of people for something they can't control is from a place of love.
I don't recall ever meeting a quadroon. Did meet someone that was the reverse, I actually thought they were half and half.
3/4 black and 1/4 white is called griffe. But I personally consider it dated just like all of those other associated terms such as mulatto, quadroon, etc.
The part where her Mom said, if she marries a white man her kids would still be mixed race... Hmmm, NO. At that point they are white.
I do admire that she loves and embraces her black side though.
Then she'd be an octaroon
Why didn't the mom just marry a black man? She does the opposite hoping here grandkids come mixed race??? Nah.
@@FOUNDATIONALBLACKAFRICAN how about stop boxing mixed-race people into an inferior category by shaming them for being white and then denying them of their POC side
Who are you to determine that?
@@gabrielvaldes-ramos6980 Facts determines that.
I pass..but yet ...I never pass.. im never white enough when you see some of family ..but yet I'm never black enough either when you see some of my family... my full white father helped my freckles... my blue eyes....my 1/2 3/4 or whatever we got mixed with. white mother looked more light so passable... .. why do we still judge.. im still us.. im both black and white... I look white... I pass... but im still here and both. Im not dark ... im pale but I tan too much.. my hair is too thick but too fine... not kinky enough... but not straight enough...
Thx I completely get that I’m quarter black I’m both white and black it’s ether I’m not white enough or not black enough
@@xxmagicmushroomboixx6370 you literally are not black enough to be black
1/4 is still significant enough to count as mixed and 1/4 mixed-race people almost always look visibly mixed to some degree. I don't get why this is so difficult for people to grasp.
It's a partial black experience
This.
Yeah definitely. It’s not the full black experience but she knows this.
1/4 mixed face different experiences from 1/2 mixed and monoracial.
@@bunnybird9342 they all have different experiences. A 1/2 person won’t have the same as a monoracial. A monoracial won’t have the same as a 1/4
@@Brownsugarpapayayes
She looks like my Black Jamaican relatives on one sode of my family. We come from a light skinned family but the lightest ones have the exact same skin tone. Some were born with blonde hair and grey/hazel eyes. Honestly, for a 'quadroon,' she looks like some light skinned Caribbean people with English/Irish/Scottish ancestry generations back. Or someone who is mixed half and half with Black and White.
Your family is multigenrationally mixed not black
@@vaimendethey are BOTH black and white how hard is this to get through your thick skull
But yeah I can literally tell she has black ancestry because of her face, skin undertone, and hair
@@vaimende mixed-race isn't a race in and of itself it's a combination
These people are both black and white
@@vaimendemultigenerationally mixed AND black. Mixed isn't its own race.
It's like if somebody told a bilingual English/Spanish speaker "you don't speak Spanish you speak bilingual". Bilingual isn't a language in an of itself; it just means a person is fluent in two languages.
I totally understand and am impressed by her ability to express herself on something that is close to my heart. It will be a beautiful day for sure when color is no longer used to assess your character and ability to produce anything of value. I admire her strength and wish her the very best of what life has to offer. God bless.
7:09 HAHHAHAHA “IVE GOT A LITTLE BLACK TOO” SHE SOUNDED LIKE MORTY
Not this white lady saying she's a black woman.
Lol, she is
@@andradepasternak ¼ vs ¾ she white
@@Deemelanin7 yeah, I see a lot of those in my country
@@Deemelanin7 1/4 what huh
@@Deemelanin7 if you look at it in the form of a pie chart, 1/4 is still noticeable. 1/4 still counts as mixed and 1/4 mixed people almost always look visibly mixed to some degree.
Most kids identify with the culture of their mother. Mothers nourish and pass on cultural traditions. The food, the hair, the aunties and grandmas. It think Maya may have struggled so much because her parents divorced.
Her mother has a white mother.
exactly@@underestimated1171
You are mixed race person... not black and be proud of it. Stop picking sides.
Nobody can tell her what her identity is but herself.
@@clchawaii09 💪🏽👏🏾🤦🏽
@@clchawaii09 But the fact remains her DNA is black and white. There's nothing wrong with that. It's society and the system that's created this battle within herself.
@@bertanyarko1696 my DNA is black and white but, I am a black man.
@@clchawaii09 You're experience perhaps yes, but that doesn't take away one of your parent is white. You can't disown one of your parents.
Did anyone come here from Mayowa’s channel?
I thought TikTok was joking. I’m not even black, but wtf
I am 1/2 Sami and 1/2 middle eastern. I have all sorts of problems, but being percieved as non-white is not one of them. Lacking community and wanting to be part of my family is one. I am making the effort to get to know my Sami cousins and learning Lappish. But I am well aware I am so white I glow in the dark
They gotta be fuckin with us.
Please 😭
The commentary interruptions throughout this are annoying and unnecessary. I came here from TikTok and I just wanna see the whole poem!
I personally think that this video uses a lot of buzz words that are very much used as a "wow factor" but I think after watching the full video that she sheds light on people who are "mixed-race" and have trouble with fiting in between black, white, and other races. My mother is half black and half white and she went the through the struggles of both groups not accepting her. However, she leaned more into the black side rather than the white side because she felt like she had belonged. However, my mother has a different yet similar experience to Maya. And it makes me wonder as an adult, when I have children with a white man, will my kids face the same struggles of not feeling like they will fit into either category? There isn't a "mixed-race" category for people to sign on government papers when they're born. I think this video is taken out of context a lot due to the buzz words and if things were said differently I feel like she could most definetly shed some light on interracial couples and mixed-children.
Yeah exactly. I'm not even a fan of slam poetry but there are so many idiots in this comment section.
I need Maya to defend herself, where she @
Slam... poetry. YELLING! Angry???? WAVING MY HANDS A LOT! Specific point of view on things! Cynthia! Cyn-thi-a! Jesus died for our sin-thi-as! Jesus cried, runaway bride. Julia Roberts! Julia Rob-hurts????! Cynthia! Mmmmmmmm, Cynthia. You're dead. You are dead, bop boop beep bop bop boop bop. You're dead. That's for Cynthia... who's dead.
Maya, you are black and white. There's nothing wrong with that. Loved your spoken word performance.
She's white (3 white grandparents).
@@laylah150how are you just going to ignore the fourth grandparent just because he is the only black one?
Maya's mom looks black but is bi racial and probably was always treated like a person due to her skin color and hair texture. Maya can identify as what makes her feel comfortable. Maya's brother is super adorable.
She only looks black by American standards 😂
If there is enough of an ancestry to affect you, then it counts.
1:12 -That “ooh” was so funny.
Maya's father looks like my older brother. And my younger sister is even lighter than him.Both of our parents identified as African American. While I have a light tan complexion, more like my father. Boy did we get a lot of stares when our family of 5 went out in public in my youth. Especially after we moved into a predominately White neighborhood in the 1960s. So if I didn't know Maya I would have assumed that she is Latina.Because so many people on my maternal French speaking creole grandfather's side of the family were so White looking. My maternal grandmother, also French speaking creole, had beautiful dark skin with hazel eyes and straight black hair. GENES are so funny and arbitrary. Human beings are human beings.Lol my mother, brother and sister had to deal with the stress of being accused of trying to pass for White.While my father and I were clearly visible as people of color who just happened to have fair skin.America is just so obsessed with race.
Your family is numtigenrationally mixed
Black proolr come from west Africa they are NOT light skin white passing. If your family looks white they have lots of white ancestry. Mixed race is not just biracial.. 2 parents can both be biracial or multigenerational mixed .
@@PsychicMedium4747 I agree.Which is why the term "race" is a social construct.Most "African Americans" technically are of mixed ancestry.The irony is that the USA once had the strictest classifications on race.So people like my maternal grandfather and his parents adhered to the "One drop" rule that was in place at that time.Which was strictly enforced within the State of Louisiana.And elsewhere in many parts of the United States.I have always felt that the term Biracial is more specific.Meaning it applies when one's parents are of two completely different races.Like say a Tiger Woods.But how about Tiger's son Charlie?Is he also Biracial or of mixed ancestry or both.Which means in my opinion mixed ancestry is a broader term.And being Biracial is one classification of mixed ancestry.Here is the amusing part.There were members of my maternal grandfather's family,both maternal and paternal Aunts and Uncles,who left the State of Louisiana to pass as White marrying into White families.Some even migrated to France.With the advent of Ancestry DNA,these relatives produced many descendants.Some still live in France and the rest in the USA.I have met many of them,pale complexioned like my sister.The French ones don't like the term "White". They consider themselves French first and European second.And they acknowledge that most Europeans already have a range of different ethnicities Even North African if you go back to antiquity.They were not surprised at the small amount of African ancestry in their DNA.The "White" relatives in the States who discovered the African ancestry handled it in different ways.Some just shrugged.Some were devastated.So does the American definition of Whiteness mean racial purity to most people in this culture?And of course despite her appearance my sister always identifies as African American.Just as my mother and maternal grandfather did.Of course our beautiful much darker skinned maternal grandmother sealed that deal.
@@PsychicMedium4747virtually all African-Americans have white admixture it's just that some of them have very notable amounts of white ancestry.
i am mixed i never struggled internally about it, externally people and circumstances did it was the early 60s lol half white half black here lol
I am also mixed but I had literally zero issues with my race until I discovered the WMAF vs AMWF thing and I have been mentally fucked up by it ever since.
THIS IS NUTS
Identity does not always equate to reality
In 2024 with trans hysteria, this couldn't be more true
@@Antzlivesliterally shut the fuck up and go back to whatever right-wing forum you came from. Being transgender is not a choice or a trend. I am transgender myself and I can confirm this.
there’s octaroons now?
They have already been a thing
She isn't one though because she 1/4 black not 1/8 black
Like 😂😂😂
@@chichi5985 go read about Sally Hemings's children, for one
I know someone like this woman and I didn’t even think they existed until… Honey is Spanish! Mom is Dominican and Spanish and dad is Spanish and guess where this baby was born Spain! She looks white she is white and she’ll say stuff like but I’m also black, and I go baby where? Darling, guess what, I don’t know if anyone told you but you’re white. I know it’s shocking to hear but you’re not mixed or black. Maya love same goes for you.
So y'all don't think she has struggled with understanding and embracing her identity as well as navigating black and white spaces as a mixed person (black and white), that doesn't look completely like either parts? I understand the privileges she does have as a light skin, racially ambiguous looking woman, but navigating black and white spaces spaces and dealing with everyone's opinions on how she should identify can also be really hard for her to deal with internally.
That's fine, but don't tell black people WE'RE denying her of a Black experience. She's simply not Black. She needs to be raging against her parents for not preparing her. It's the exact same case with Tori Kelly and Halsey
@@sweedy3333
Her biggest trauma is black people asking her to leave them alone and stop colonising our identity.
@@laylah150mixed-race people existing is not colonizing anybody. Mixed-race people are allowed into POC spaces; they just have different experiences from their monoracial counterparts and their existence is not a problem unless mixed white people are saying they are better because they are part white.
It's 2024, and barely Black people are still down bad.
Disgustingly Cringe...
I am just listening to Higher Learning and heard an excerpt from this lady. So I am here and .......
Wait, who even is this white lady? And why is there a mini-documentary about her identity issues & slam poetry 😭😭😭
Lmao her poor dad being gaslighted by the whole family
Yeah it sounds like he felt that as rejection so that’s kinda sad
IM A QUADROON 💀
I can feel the stupidity through each word omg
Now you see I’m a quarter black white skin color but my hair is a mix of type 3/4 hair so i identify at mixed
You are still mixed regardless. 1/4 is still quite significant.
This is hilarious. Like an SNL skit. Maya had problems in private school and wanted blonde hair! Dad can play African drums, but he wont know what it's like to be black, ever! Get some real problems, seriously.
I agree. The blacks are the problem tearing up ppl for having a different race. Whaddya know
This is cringey and funny. Being mixed is only as big a deal as you make it.
I meannnnn….. yall being hard on her but I definitely understand where she’s coming from
Maya you are loved. You are YOU. The World is crazy...not you. You want to be Black it's OK. God just sees Maya...Beautiful.
She is crazy
Lmao what is this comment even supposed to mean
This is an extension of 'The Black Experience' Black individuals with Albinism experience the same issues as Quadroon individuals.
Not really though. In Africa, albino people are often seen as black peoples with a curse while 1/4 black 3/4 white mixed people (I personally feel like quadroon and associated terms are dated) aren't seen as black at all.
Its easier to claim black when u look it its harder for Maya cus she look like a white woman 100% its ok u still beautiful your soul is black your dialect is black your spirit is black
We’ll seid!
@Ms Terry she's not black period. let her claim white.
She looks black tho.
@@clchawaii09 no she doesn’t.
@@lilmizzije she look like many people in my family who happen to be black.
This is Epic. Shakespearean
Dang I thought this happened recently. How did it go viral just now? 💀💀
The internet
you’re a whole mixed person sweets - let’s stop using fractions of Blackness to describe ourselves - it’s not necessary.
Mixed-race people are not partial they are multiple
Also, there is no way you can “pass” for white when you don’t even “look” white.
LITERALLY THIS.
People saying "oh 3/4 white is just white" are morons they almost always look mixed to some degree plus I can name some notable people with 1/4 mixed ancestry who are definitely mixed.
You can it’s called putting on a bunch of makeup and covering up as much as you can
@@USA-o5othat is called INTERNALIZED RACISM which is not cool at all. Stop being an idiot.
This feels like satire buts it’s real 😭
Slam poetry always be like that
Is this a parody?
This is disrespectful aF, honestly and truly.
I’m a black American from NY however a man by the name Ambrose Nicolas Yates that started my grandfather’s bloodline on his father side (he owned Port Royal 1800’s google it) first son was a Quadroon interesting
That's so cool
@@bunnybird9342 what’s more interesting that women he had that son with was A. Ezekiel which come from Jewish/ African origin so I’m thinking the Quadroon came from her & now that I think about it hell my grandfather was a yellow man I’m guessing Quadroon but he was black to me… FunFact: When he can’t to NU through Ellis Island in the 30s or the 40s they labeled him a N-gro
@@bunnybird9342 My grandfather & great great grandmother’s history is wild! My grandfather looked yellow I’m guessing some would say “quadroon” however he was black to us but him & especially his father can pass for white
@@bunnybird9342 my grandfather, his mother & father & sister & my uncle their younger brother skin color was Maya’s color
@@terrell112 mixed-race people have a lot of prominence in African-American history. Sure doesn't make sense to gatekeep blackness against mixed-race people, right?
Lmfaoooo
0:17 for those who wanna hear it over and over again
i will NOT comment on dads stance even if ive MANY feelins about
No matter how many classes or books...
im basically one quarter black but i have sand skin in winter, chocolate skin in summer, curly hair slanted eyes, the only white thing in my appearance is my nose
Basically i look like a filipino with a straight nose and curls😂😂😂 no one guesses im european so why should i claim to be white
Exactly. 1/4 is still mixed and anybody who says otherwise is wrong.
This isn’t as bad as I thought it was
The poem is cringe but ultimately harmless
Her ancestors endured the same hardships as your ancestors. She is proud of her heritage just like you are.
So many people keep saying that she's just white don't understand that 1/4 is still mixed and that there were many other mixed-race African-Americans throughout history who had experiences similar to hers.
We need to rid their minds of the denial. Society and medi aportrayal make mixed folks deny that part if they can pass. My cousins and sisters do this all the time. Until I remind them of who they really are
Why can't Biracial and multiracial individuals choose their own identity rather than by society ?