Hilda Simms - the problems of light skinned blacks!
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- Hilda Simms - the problems of light skinned blacks!
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I am curious if there is a way that you can create a video about black people who are dark skinned and visibly look multi ethnic? What I am asking may sound stupid. I also am not being as creative or descriptive enough with my words here. I understand if what I am saying is confusing
LaVern Baker…She seems like an interesting lady…If there’s any research on her could you do a video of her
Angela Bofill recently passed away…I remember watching the Unsung episode of her life and it was very interesting…Would you do a bio or breakdown about her ?
Her voice was very nice and soulful plus she was very beautiful
Biracial people should be allowed to embrace both sides , not forced to choose.
Or rather, people who intermarry should avoid procreating. At least in a country like the USA where biracial children will be rejected by both communities, which causes depression, identity crisis, mental issues and much more
Nobody's forcing you to choose.
We do! Fuk what everybody else thinks!
@@TheBLACKboard65 Your profile name alone tells all I need to know about you.....
@@BohemianRhapsody324 - As does yours.
Being light-skinned and being biracial are 2 very different things. My parents are black and so are my grandparents and so on. It is not the same as having a non-black parent. Also, my whole family is from Louisiana. Creole people are specific families with a specific lineage not just just anyone with light skin. All Creole people do not have light skin. There are also other ethnic groups in Louisiana.
Get off your high horse lady. Light skin is an indication of non-indigenous African ancestry. When colorists advocate for lighter-skinned people, they do just that. They don't care from whence that light skin derives. It might matter if Creoles controlled the industry, but they don't. Don't misunderstand, we are not colorists, not by far. In other words, we DO NOT believe one is competent for equality only in the ratio of his/her White blood.
😒 Whts the difference REALLY☝🏾😊 Oh I KNOW, Different texture hair?! 🥴😂
Yes I don’t know many biracial plp for a reason we didn’t fully connect having black parents and them having only one black parent.
@@shanteecoleman8003 The difference is culture. Biracial people, especially ones with non black mothers often lack the nuances of the collective cultural awareness people with black mothers have.
Being intergenerationally mixed still makes you mixed. The one drop rule has skewed the reality that mixed is still mixed.
I love the beauty and uniqueness of melanated skintones. ❤ I don't love how colorisim tends to always spark controversy and seperate us at times.....as if any if us had control over who our parents were or what color we were born. When you love yourself, everything else is moot. I do enjoy your commentaries btw❤
This 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 I agree ❤️❤️
I agree but unfortunately colorism is such a deeper conversation than being a different color and I’m just happy that we are finally acknowledging the nuances that were always gaslit in the past
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Yes
As a biracial woman, I can tell you that I was not black enough for black people, but definitely black to white people…
😢😢 this divide just needs to end! This is so disheartening 💔
WHITE PEOPLE STARTED ALLLLLLLL THIS COLORISM SHITTTTT POINT BLANK
Clearly you weren't white enough for white people so I don't get why blacks get all the blame...
That’s so terrible that type of thinking is plantation thinking way back durning slavery. It’s hard to believe people are still that ignorant in this day and age.
I can relate I even was told I couldn’t comment on police brutality because I was light skin and didn’t understand!
She was an attractive woman and a very good actress.
Freddie Washington accepted her blackness even though she looked white. No matter how white she looked , White people reminded her that she was black
Yes she embraced her African American heritage but she still acquiesced to what White bigots wanted instead of accepting the fact that she was Mulatto.
One Drop Rule is colorist and biased.
An INVENTION OF THE WHITE EUROPEAN SLAVE MASTERS.
American slave thinking .it's deeply ingrained in our culture . As white mom I tried hard to instill pride in my kids . One identities as black , the other two as biracial .
No, racist and which people made that rule?
It's a issue for people who are trying to escape Blackness.
@@BronzeSistathat’s not true. Biracial is its own racial category. They shouldn’t have to choose either side
its the same today how they hire actors like zendaya instead of darker women like yes we notice
Unfortunately because black American people allow Zendaya to “identify” as a black woman, though she is a mixed race woman. So she and other mixed race/biracial people will continue to steal opportunities from black men/women.
@VeeLondon1449 facts. There is a difference between light-skinned, and biracial.
This is also why you get movies like "Nina" , being played by Zoe Saldana 🙄. Gotta stop calling everyone "black". That 1 drop rule needs to be abolished
@@kia.203do you believe if the Mulatto is taken out of the black community, then finally dark skin women will be seen in Hollywood? Do you believe that mulatto people are in your way? If they were gone and out of your community, would your community have more peace more marriage more money more happiness better housing better jobs? Is the black community held up by the one drop rule??? Once the mulatto was out of your community then finally the black community will be free??😂
Zendaya is a biracial woman who doesn't really have full black features like Halle Berry and Faith Evans.
Exactly
Black Creoles created a culture for themselves. They were set apart from the other blacks by choice. I can relate because I was raised in that era. Things got better after the Civil Rights Movement. Thanks to James Brown with his song "Say it loud I am Black and Proud ". it helped skin color and the Catholic and Baptist faiths come together with a better understanding of their differences.
Thanks, you gave a wonderful description of Louisiana Creoles ❤
This is why Viola Davis, Michelle Obama, Angela Bassett and other beautiful women of color should be celebrated for representing Black women of all hues so well.
Angela Bassett is celebrated for her talent and beauty.
@@sandraatkins2539 Yet she still hasn't won an Oscar.
@Igboman87 she did win a Oscar, its honorary but it still counts
They only represent women with their skin tones. I love Angela Basset but she doesn’t actually resonate with me
@Igboman87 she's won an Oscar it was honorary
Did anybody bring up the classic: "IMITATION OF LIFE"???
This is a phenomenal podcast & documentary of Hilda Simms. I’m a huge fan of your work. This should be available in all public schools. I applaud you.
Wow thank you so much ❤️❤️
🙆🏾♀️ So TRUE!!! 🙃
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This topic makes me think of Spike Lee's "School Daze" movie. The sororities and fraternities were divided by skintones. They were very talented and brilliant, however, there was a lot of division in there college which is really unfortunate.
and Spike Lee is notoriously colorist with any woman he was ever connected to, being super light with light eyes and hair atypical of unambiguous Blacks
Thank you for educating us about Hilda Simms. Did not know of her until now. Such beautiful eyes with an EQUALLY beautiful voice. ❤
You are so welcome! Thank you for watching ❤️❤️
That voice is not very feminine.
@@sandraatkins2539 It's subjective. I love the deepness of her voice. Same with Sade or the great Nina Simone. Doesn't take away its beauty.
Freida Washington faced the same backlash! No matter how she advocated for the black community, she was ridiculed by critics White and Black!
She should advocate for the mixed community
Many people PERIOD are just plain ignorant.....
Freddie Washington.
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50 years ago, one drop of Black Blood ,made you Black!
@@mariabrown6926if she advocated for only the mixed community Black people would still be mad. Black people stay mad at mulatto’s no matter what they do.
I do believe that race will not matter one day. 💖 All under God's kingdom.
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Amén
God is a God of variety. People need to understand and appreciate His view of beauty.
Division by colorism is not of God. Biblically, people were identified in a patriarchal system, aka, by tribe or family.
The closer to God and following His testimony the better human moral worth is acknowledged .
Amen ❤
Unfortunately this will always be an issue. I've been blessed to be here almost 70 years and it has not changed.
In 2024 why are African people still discussing our skin color. We come in many shades. We are still African people. Be proud.
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Exactly what I said in the end.. it’s exhausting 😭😭😭
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Yessss Queen, preach! ❤
Boy do I agree with you! It’s really ridiculous to still be talking about skin color. It doesn’t matter how light skinned you are in America you’re still considered black because that’s what you are. Just be proud.
The question: The “1 drop rule” which I think originated in slavery. If you have “1 drop of Black blood” then you’re Black, which economically benefited the slave owners.
It was the exact opposite for Indigenous folks. They had to prove their heritage, 1 drop wasn’t enough. That benefited the slave owners/ white businessmen
Fun fact, after the English came into southern Louisiana, many Creoles migrated to Vera Cruz, Mexico. There are some overlapping of Louisiana and Haitian Creole culture as many Haitians after the revolution migrated to the New Orleans area. Hence foods like pois rouge and mirliton were introduced into Louisiana Creole culinary traditions. My great grandfather came from Haiti thru Savannah , Ga into Louisiana in the late 1800’s. You will find culinary influences from Haiti in the cuisine of Creole Louisiana such as dirty rice and diri djon djon , lalo and gumbo des herbs etc etc etc. Great vid as always.
Most of those were people of
Indigenous Ancestry or mixed
with them because the region
of Mexico was their original Origin.
Incidentally, you failed to mention featurism. This whole video makes one think light-skin automatically opens doors, but lighter skin with typical indigenous African facial features usually doesn't open doors.Conversely, look at many very talented, darker-hued Black people with ambiguous facial features who are promoted as beautiful in the entertainment industry. You know exactly what we mean. Bassett, Turner, Cooke, Gaye, Bryant are but a few examples. Even in a Siuthern town that selected its first television news anchor. The lady was a medium dark brown with a love voice and personality. She was very talented as well, but we also know they picked her becayse she had very European facial features. This is not to say that her resemblance to European women made her beautiful. We a know that many women of European ancestry are not beautiful. In the case of the brown-skinned news anchor, she was vl an attention. getter because she was so beautiful.
@@KAH-7yes of course, we’re talking about 18th century Creole Louisiana. It’s a given. The mulattes,quadroons, octoroons ,quintroons and some griffes all subcategories of black that in most instances had the chance to study in Paris, Havana and Mexico. My parents attended Xavier University in New Orleans which is the only Roman Catholic HBCU in the early 50’s and it was still mostly that way.
Yes I know this, my Catholic Grammar School mate Graduated from Xavier and worked for Walgreens.
Right. Haiti 🇭🇹 does have heavy influence in Louisiana. My maternal grandfather family are from Haiti and they settled in Sicily Island, Louisiana.
Black people love yourself you come from greatness !
That’s not gonna happen….we are too obsessed with (whiteness) especially BW …..
That not true
They are Israelites. Their biggest mistake was not listening to the Most High God to keep the commandments, laws, and statutes of the covenant onlt they have with the Creator of this earth and universe and they didn't quit chasing all the nations of people's gods. The Most High God put them into captivity to be ruled over by their enemy. He said their minds would be destroyed. It will take only Him to heal them of most have self hate issues and problems caused by their oppressors.
@@saleemahfareed4495 how?
Do I think the topic of race and colorism will ever die out? No.
IF PEOPLE CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT RACE AND COLORISM...IT WILL CONTINUE TO STAY ALIVE!...SAD!
@@dianamcfarland1997 It will continue to stay alive because most people aren't capable of seeing beyond the color of the skin.
@@dianamcfarland1997no it will stay alive until people stop discriminate against darker women
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The seventies were the best decade for darker skinned actresses such as Judy Pace Stephanie Mills Thelma on Good Times as well as Ester Rolle and Louise Jefferson of the Jeffersons many others to numerous to name.
I confuse people all the time. I never felt as though I fit in anywhere. When I am out performing the most asked question I get is “Where are you from?” You wouldn’t believe some of the comments I have received. I also married a very white Puerto Rican and all 3 of my boys look different. I can tell you first hand, they were all treated differently in school. One looks like a typical PR, one looks more black but you can tell he’s mixed and the last one could pass. When I had my last one, the nurse checked my tag 3 times to confirm he was mine. She thought she had the wrong room🤦🏽♀️ We are all beautiful and should admire and love all of God’s creation. The division keeps us from being fully united which is what they want. Black is beautiful period🎤
A nurse working in a hospital not understanding how genetics works is very alarming 🤦🏽♀️ if anything you should be used to seeing a variety of babies. Foolishness
@user-do6kh7ob9w I am so sorry that people are so ignorant. ((HUGS)) Sigh, black females have it hard in the work force and I cannot even imagine what you must go through. You are a QUEEN, hold your head up high and if you cannot find a place that will celebrate you, then create your own space. I am tired of being overlooked, thinking my work will be less than (when you haven’t even seen me in action) and not being paid fairly. Look in the mirror, give yourself a high five and tell yourself you are beautiful, because you are.😘
@user-do6kh7ob9w Yes, do it!💪🏽
This topic will never change. Ppl allways look out to put ppl down in there differences If it was not race it would be the blue or brown eyes ppl or something else
so true. Too short, too fat, etc..
Or religion, like Northern Ireland.
Thank you for covering such a sensitive issue with respect. Like you said no one makes a choice as to how they are born. I hope that I am wrong but I don’t see things changing. Just another way to cause division. This is a perfect example of how important it is to develop a positive self concept/image. There will always be people trying to define who you are and where your place should be. Sometimes its your own people. I wish we could all embrace how beautiful it is to have so many diverse skintones. Thank you for doing another video on an actress that I had never heard of. 🌹 ❤
I don’t have any hope for that happening in my lifetime
As a multi ethnic Carib woman… society in general tells you what u are. Ppl look at me and just automatically assume “ Hispanic” without even inquiring and make assumptions. Most black / brown ppl are some type of combo…African , European and indigenous… some may have Asian… But we are All ppl of Color.
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Im so sick and tired of the back n forth nonsens about light skin vs dark skin. Its exhausting and ridiculous.
Thank you!! Agreed! All this stems from racist white supremacy of complete confusion and deception. Arguing over cultures that none of them belong to. Smdh.
God doesn't see none of these as more distinct over the other it is really pathetic!
Unfortunately race matters and it always have and will be. The closer to white you are the more privileges you will have. Some biracial and light used these and who wouldnt if it makes your life easier.
Us dark skin women got it going on im a queen 🤔❤
.... sometimes....
It's about time! ❤
You certainly are my Nubian goddess ❤️
Some dark skin women "got it going on", and some don't. Just as some lighter skin (including "white" women) "got it going on", and some don't. My point is that skin color cannot keep one from "got it going on", which I take it to mean that you got intelligence, morals, charisma, talent, style, personality...whatever you want to call it, that makes people like being around you.
We are all queens
We all come in different shades of Black.
I don't think black people are ready for this conversation. Whether you are light-skinned or biracial you are going to catch astray. It's sad we are still having this discussion. Just be a kind person, do your best and it is what it is.
Biracial is a term that is ignorant and untrue. One race of people esxists, human. We know that white men who owned other people came up with this term. Why do people, especially Black people still embrace this term?
I’m light skin, my mom, aunties and my sister is brown skin. My mom used to tell people to not to tell me I’m pretty. My aunt would tell me my sister was prettier than me. Hurtful. I never understood it until an adult. They’ve been conditioned to believe that
I am sorry you were abused like this. My Mother & Aunts were colorist too!
Wow smh.
That’s so wrong. I’m brown and everyone in my family is brown but I had a light skin mixed looking baby. People have always asked me if she’s mine. I’m raising her to know she’s Beatiful on the inside and out and not because she’s light skin but because she really is a cutie pie and sweet as candy. I’m so sorry your family allowed you to feel less and hoping you learned when you were older that you care beautiful and loved.
She's so pretty. I can't wait to watch the Joe Lewis movie.
Thank you for doing this. I never heard of her. As a light skinned bi racial woman myself I want to say this is still an issue in our community. My mom was a white passing with grey eyes married to my handsom Father who was a dark skinned man
who I was very close to. Mom had a lot of dark skinned friends who I loved growing up in the 60's and a couple of white friends too. Colorism is something I wasn't aware of growing up. My best friend was dark skinned. I never thought any of my chocolate sisters as less than me and I never felt white people were better than me. I felt we were all the same until I was called the N word by a 7 yeard old white kid when I worked for a private school where I was the token. My fellow white co workers were appalled when that kid said that to me and scolded him. It was the first time in my life I had to learn about
racism. As a light' skinned woman I must be sensitive and aknowlege some privlage we get for being lighter. I've always been the token for most jobs I've worked. Believe me that comes with its own challenges. I'm not passing like my mom was who did
not try to pass cause she married my Father. My uncle on my mom's side I recently learned did try to pass. THat may explain why he used to call me when he was drunk. People who chose that route had to give up a lot. I understand why the rest of the
community doesnt sympathize when light skinned people like myself have issues with darker skinned women because they have been over looked and dis respected. I would feel the way they do too if I were darker skinned. Now Creoles which I beleive my mom's family is a part of became outsiders. Because of the one drop rule people like me are considered black
Fredi Washington another famous light skinned never passed. It's not suprising Hilda married a white man. Lena dd it too
but she did it to open doors. This whole thing is very complicated.There are u tubers now. Some light skinned who have issues with our darker skinned folks who criticize us and there are Dark skinned u tubers who call us light skinned folks ugly.People
we must figure out a way to embrace and support each other. When our ancestors were slaves and they didved them into house and field slaves because of this it has never been the same. I don't know how we can heal from this but all of us must
learn to love ourselves and stop looking for outside valedation. Dark skinned or light skinned we are all fabulous
Always so delighted to see a new Karine Alourde upload! And your recent vids have been exceptional! 🌠
Thank you so much for watching ❤❤
I’ve never heard sooooo many different meanings of a word, creole and/or Cajun. I was taught you can be blue black non mixed and be creole…it’s a culture -way of life.
You are a 100% correct. you can be blue-black and still B Creole. there's a island called Guadalupe owned by the French and it is filled with creole people and 90% of them are dark skinned and they are absolutely beautiful!!!
@@daisymae3332 they want to separate and quantify everything.
That was Joe Louis! He lived here in Chicago
as did Jack Johnson and Muhammad Ali!
For the record, Joe Louis was born in Alabama but made his longtime home in Detroit. We named a huge event arena after him and there is a famous statue of his hands in the city square. His family has a appropriately named popular restaurant downtown and his relative ran for mayor. Therefore, he is and remains more associated with Detroit which he called his hometown not Chicago. Just a history lesson since you brought up his name.
This is really good, the way it has been broken down to give you a clear understanding of how the whole racial system worked.
In the movie Origin (2023), the author tried to imply that skin colour and race were not the main factor where racism is concerned, but that it was a caste system like in India. In India, the caste system is solely based on skin colour. Darker skin is at the bottom and lighter skin at the top, which is exactly how racism is played out all around the world 🌎
Really? That would be a highly charged conversation because I see how the author drew that conclusion, but I can see a few fallacies with that conclusion. Thanks for sharing that point. I will have to do research on that story.
I think because Black people are distinct, have powerful genes, and are the salt of the earth, we dominate and anyone can tell some of what makes us partially makes them. Anyway, nice video and very interesting :)
Omg she’s my birthday 🎂 twin 4/15 she’s one special woman! Never heard of her until now thank you Karine ❤
Today in the media, the skin is darkened and shaded when they want the public to think they are a criminal, presumption of guilt.
Happens with Hispanic/ Latino/ Latin X / Indigenous
The thing about being the Ethnicity of Hispanic is that a person can be white, black, indigenous and also asian. We are so conditioned in only seeing people that look like Jennifer Lopez, John Leguizaimo or light skinned Mexicans. If you notice a lot of baseball players with Hispanic names look like a Tyrone Jackson from Chicago. Big Papi was definitely not a white hispanic. I visited Puerto Rico two yrs ago in the town of Ioiza which had been settled by Africans brought their for enslavement. The people are predominantly black. I just saw a video with Hugo Chavez and he talked about his African roots and the Venezuelan African roots of the people. I was really surprised.
I’m a dark skin black male and the discrimination I receive now is the same on my side of my life for me military government and even in the private sector I’m treated unjust and I’m 62yrs young right now so it never ends dark skinned sisters n brothers I love me
I'm 63. My grandmother (born 1905) told me that there were help-wanted ads back in her day that used to advertise for maids, using the wording "must be light-skinned colored woman." Amazing that ads like that could even be legal. My father (born 1920) said that there was a very well-known saying amongst black people back in his day to "do the race a favor. Marry a light-skinned person." Of course, the emphasis on light skin is due to the fact that slavery created an instant caste system society with whites as the highest caste. As children were born to slaveholders, those children were lighter skinned and received privileges of working inside the plantation mansions in the capacity of maids, cooks, butlers, etc. They were even educated in many instances and sent away to college in some cases. Darker-skinned enslaved people were relegated to working in the fields. This is where the great divide happened. It has just continued to this day in many insidious ways.
Many light skin black people have kinky, coily hair as well as dsbp. The ones who got a chance to go to school were always the massas children by the black woman slave who were mixed or white passing lsbp whose hair was long and the lsbm hair not kinky. The kinky haired lsbp were kept slaves.
Karine.. ur Dialect is so soft and sweet .. Additive .. informative !! So many of us were LOST!! Ty
Girl, when you’re half white, you’re never white enough for them. I’m half south Asian & half white, & no one has ever called me white…
I have to push back on something you said,
the community never look down on her, they never disregarded her... I don't know why you keep coming up with that . You said the same thing when you did the story on Nina mckinney. Black people never looked down on nina, black people never looked down on hilda. .. ..
But.. It' s interesting that a lot of the youngsters these days are asking that question, because they themselves don't know the history race... and about race identity.. racial history is a powerful dynamic in the United states......
There was no way a mixed race person who is half black and half white could ever move inside the White Community during the turn of the last century in the early 1900s. In 1920s in the 1930s in the 1940s etc. if you got black in you.. you are not going inside the White society. There is a historical reference to that. Most black Americans are not pure blood West Central Africans anyway..
So we have a lot of different Skin complexions Within the black American strata..
But if you are a mixed race you inherited the black race, not the white race..
We do chose our families in the incarnation process , to break generational curses from karmic family members
Great mini documentary. So if any you watched the movie Alex Haley “Queen”starring Halle Berry there’s a part in there where her grandmother who is white tells her just because she looked white doesn’t mean anything. She said said to her just a tap of black makes you black. I even heard from racist while people that of your white and you have black that reached back into your family, they will consider you not white. It sad and this to me absolutely makes no sense. But I agree with Karine I don’t think this will ever change. Just sad.
What is inside a person is what is important. Ignoring one side of your background can't be healthy.
We have to stop 'othering' people. Sadly, I absolutely agree with you. I don't hold hope that things will change either.
♥️ Karine your videos are just brilliant. Phenomenal, informative content. Thank you 🤩
Half White and half Black is the same, you are fifty percent of one and fifty percent of the other.
The issue is the colour of the person's skin.
Thank you Karine Alourde. 💖🌹
Creole doesn't mean black it means born in the new world. Also, Creole people and Haitians are very close in culture. That's evidenced by how they came together a few years back. You will also find Haitian or St. Martinique in Creole people's background because they were both owned by the French.
@@Mimi-ht6xr what did I say that wasn't exactly true? You didn't even comment on that you began talking about Fats Domino. Secondly, I've been French Creole all my life too so I'm not sure where you were going with that either. Also, I never mentioned Africans or color so again what isn't true? Was Haiti not a territory of France? Was Martinique not a territory of France? Where is the lie you're talking about? Also, Louisiana Creole means BORN IN THE NEW WORLD so where is the lie? You just wanted to say something
@@Mimi-ht6xr and saying there was no African Americans is a bold face lie.
You're daggone right you Haitians definitely not Creole like a North American "brown" person. Although some of them had haitian and Dominican heritage btw. And actually the term creole was NOT originally applied to that simmered down pot you mentioned, Creoles were SPECIFICALLY French or Spanish persons of non slave heritage who were born outside of France/Holland/Spain....
I’m from Minneapolis, Minnesota and never heard of her. Weird. I think both sides complaints are valid. Its sad that things like race and color constantly tear us apart. So many bigger issues in the world. God bless
God loves all skin color.
What scripture is that in?
Hilda and Sanaa Lathan do favor. ....
I am certainly not a light-skinned Black, however, I have had it pointed out to me that I was lighter than a female friend that I happened to be with a White person, I find this so divisive. I hold no animosity toward light-skinned Blacks because they didn't create the racist system they just happened to be born light-skinned into a racist and colourist European society, we should be directing our anger at Whites who are solely to be blamed.
In some ways, she looks a little bit like “ Marilyn Monroe” you don't have to agree with me, but she has some traits of her looks!
Karine;
I LOVE YOUR PRESENTATIONS. However, The Creole Culture of The Gulf Coast of the USA Highway 90 / Interstate 10 from West of New Orleans, Cane River Region, The Mississippi Gulf Coast, The Gulf Coast of Alabama and The Gulf Coast Regions of 100 miles to North of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi can Trace their roots from The Original French and Spanish Descendants. There were several Gens De Libre ( Free People of Color) that even owned slaves ( for example:Ms. Laura Plantation of Louisiana).
Several of their families came to the Gulf Coast from the Santiago Domingo/Haitian Revolt with Napoleon and Tossaint Overture. A famous Creole City is Natchez, Mississippi and Mobile, Alabama was the capital of French/New France before New Orleans and the First Mardi Gras was held in Mobile Alabama. Several Creole families of this region migrated up the Mississippi River and to the Father City that was founded by a Creole Black Man which is Chicago, Illinois ( Jean Pointe Baptiste DuSable, He's buried in St. Charles, Missouri)or they migrate to the entire State of California (LA/MS) Louisiana/Mississippi. Several of these families still have roots and land. There is a Journalist on TV by the name of Malveaux. The Ties to Haiti are strong to the Gulf Coast Region and Up the Mississippi River to Natchez, St. Louis, . Memphis, CHICAGO, Milwaukee and Minneapolis/St.Paul.
Also, Detroit Michigan, but are never discussed.Several were Business Owners, Property Owners, Roman Catholic ( Still are, hundreds of years and years after migrating to Chicago and California). Several of these Descendants married French/ Spanish/English Men with Dowries as well as Mistresses and The Balls of Mullatoes, Quadroon, Maroon, Octoroon and some even went to France to be educated and returned to the USA Gulf Coast. Strong Cities on the Gulf Coast are New Orleans, Bay St. Louis, Iberville, Picayune, Biloxi/ Gulfport ( which became the French USA Capital), Gautier, Long Beach, Pass Christian, Ocean Springs, Pascaugola, Moss Point, Mobile, Alabama, Creola, Monroeville, Beatrice, Alabama and Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Natachez, Mississippi. And, yes slavery was a commodity to all and several of these Creoles of Color owned plantations and slaves. Ms. Laura Plantation in Cane River Region of Louisiana ( 100 miles Northwest of New Orleans) is the Most Famous and can be visited today. Ms. Laura Descendants migrated to Chicago. Also, the Melrose Plantation of Natchadoes, Louisiana of Marie Theresa ' Coin coin & The Metoyers. These Families still have Descendants and the plantation can still be visited in the Cane River Region and some of the Descendants went to the Father City of Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable the Father and Founder of/Chicago, IL. Some of the Descendants taught at Present day Chicago State University. Also, the Late Dr. Margaret Burroughs and her husband whom was Russian and Black founded the DuSable Museum. So, the ties to Haiti on the Gulf Coast of the USA and Up the Mississippi River are STRONG BUT NEVER DISCUSSED!!
A GOOD MOVIE TO WATCH ON THIS IS: "THE FEAST OF ALL SAINTS. After the Capital of Louisiana left Mobile, Alabama, it was Biloxi, Mississippi, then; New Orleans. New Orleans was a Greater Location because it could transport: Sugar, Cotton ,Fur Pelts, Tobacco, etc up the Mississippi River through the Great Lakes and Straight to France via the Atlantic Ocean. Several Streets in Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan and Milwaukee, Wisconsin are named after French People (even General Motors Cars such as: Cadallic, La Sabre, Buick, LaSalle, Pontiac, Coupe De' Ville.......all French).
The Artist, Archiebald Motley painted descriptions of your topic and his paintings are priceless. His descendants are still alive in Chicago, Illinois and he attended The Art Institute of Chicago when Blacks were not allowed. Remember, Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Ragtime, R&B, House Music was founded on the Gulf Coast Region and Mississippi River, several famous artists are: Josephine Baker, Ike&Tina, BB King, King Oliver and his Creole Band, Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson( LONG BEFORE HARLEM'S NEW YORK REINASSANCE IT WAS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS)and the List is endless!! You must visit the Gulf Coast Region and Up the Mississippi River and The International World Class City Founded by a Creole, which is Chicago Illinois. Also, several families changed their Surnames over time to assimilate into the USA culture or married to "Passe Blanc"( Past for being White)so people would not know where they were from, especially when the migrated to California. Some changed for example from Guzman to Gusman or some keep their names but through marriage it changed, however; they are still descendants from this Region.
Yes, there were family arrangements to marry distant cousins ( " Family Caste System") to keep the Land and property into the families. Through the years, speaking in French died off and it's rare, unless a person is over age 90. The Cajuns were exiled ( kicked out of Novia Scotia and Canada and were sent to the Gulf Coast. The other City that is tied to The Gulf Coast ( although it is in South Carolina is: Charleston, South Carolina and most French/ Spanish stopped there. Otherwise, the others came directly from Spain or France or from the Haitian Revolt from Haiti
It’s wrong for anybody have to go through because our skin color dark or light skin my mom experience with that bull crap being light skin and her bother and two sisters where dark skin God didn’t put that into our race, thanks for sharing ps. I am dark skin and my baby brother is dark and my dad 😊
In Africa bi-racial are called colored.
That’s only in Southern Africa, most Africans call bi-racial people half caste.
That’s in Southern Africa. In the west we call them half caste.
In the USA. THERE are many nationalities mixed or whatever
I've been to HAITI MANY TIMES!you REALLY NEED TO DO BETTER. Whatever color you are! We have to do better than this. We are all BEAUTIFUL. EVERYONE ISNT GOING TO HEAVEN. 144,000 THE EARTH WILL BE PARADISE. ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE
That's Always misquoted. That's 144,000 of The Elect, not how many people who'll be allowed through the Gates of the Jenna (Heaven)!?
It's only confusion to those who don't know U.S. history.
The dominant Euro ethnic powers that be came up with
the hypo descent rule here. So obviously it wasn't anything
other than Euro/Anglo wyt supremacy. Nothing more,
nothing less.....
So she was no different than Prince?
That definition/explanation you posted
is incorrect. Louisiana Creoles and the
Cajuns aren't the same block of people.
Jet, along with it's parent Publication
Ebony Magazine was from right here in
Chicago, IL. 😉
Omg, skin color has been the root of so much division throughout history. My daughter, RIP 12/4/2013, had Virtiligo. A skin condition common in African & Native American decent peoples which involves loss of skin pigment. She was ridiculed in school as a child being nicknamed “pinto”. Cruel to say the least. It was hard enough living with the condition. This video brought up some memories…
I never heard of her. I love her voice. She was beautiful. It’s unfortunate that we never hear or seen or know about these black actresses.
I'm very mixed race and I didn't grow up where it mattered, so it's absolutely possible. But in the U.S "black" still has a different culture attached to it which wasn't true for me at all. If I went to the U.s they'd call me black when african is the least of my ethnicities, they go by that one drop rule. You have to fill in your race. Here we designate people's background by their country. We don't think a person from Nigeria or Brazil are the same.
So when I arrived at school age 4 the kids ask "where are your parents from"? To satisfy their curiocity about why you look different. But then they had their answer and as I spoke and acted exactly the same as all the other kids they treated me the same. In a rural part of the Netherlands during the '80's. Kids of a different shade didn't band together or sit together at lunch in highschool, didn't listen to their own kind of music or got into fights by different rules.
I don't think full integration will happen unless the kids speak and act like everyone else though. Skin colour doesn't matter, culture does. Rural kids would come to school with their dialects and quickly adjust their speaking to the mainstream dutch so everything what gramatically correct among their peers. How loud you are, how agressive, what matters, all those things can dictate if you are accepted in a certain group as a peer.
My friend would step into her yard and start talking to her parents and I barely understood her, I only knew her speaking regular dutch, maybe with a local accent but not like at her home. Kids can switch very well.
As a light-skinned woman from new orleans with creole and caribbean lineage, in my experience it all falls down to colorism and feauturism. Even if you’re not biracial some people can mistake you as, if you’re of fair complexion and have certain features. Growing up I’d often get asked about my background due to this resulting in me feeling like an oddball at times. With that being said, sometimes you’re still not black enough to other black people yet still seen as black to white people regardless because of the infamous one drop rule. You really can’t win in this society, that’s why it’s important to just embrace the diversity and find the beauty in your uniqueness.
It’s irrelevant. Look at the woman as a talent & not her skin color
I'd bet Hilda Simms's ethnicity was Jewish, French European, and West African. I assume she has Jewish ancestry because of her father's surname.
Thank you for the history and anthropology lesson on the Creole people and language. I would love to visit Louisiana or Haiti some day.
Both very gorgeous places! Pray for Haiti as we have a lot of political unrest right now 🙏🏼❤️
This behavior begin on the plantation by the slave owners.
I too have dealt with “colorism” heavily in the 1980’s.
If you weren’t a lightskin black girl with green eyes or lighter eyes with long wavy hair, black boys necessarily didn’t like you.
I was told by black boys then that I was ugly but Asian, Latino, and white boys thought that I was beautiful. I was confused.
I went through some turbulent years of hating myself because of how black people viewed me.
Our country is becoming more and more mixed race which means that how we read people as Black or even non white is changing. And people are uneasy about that for some justified and unjustified reasons. Pop culture is obsessed with racially ambiguous people and for young people Rihanna, Kehlani, Zendaya etc are the physical representation of a Black woman. The content creator Mayowa talks about this a lot, and I agree: DNA and self-identity aside, Black people present as Black unambiguously. And as people are saying below, light skinned Black people and mixed race or biracial people are not the same thing. You don't have to have dark skin to present as Black.
As if anyone can control what color they are! So I guess if you’re over weight you want it that way. If you’re short, tall, green eyed, red hair big feet, or small feet. It’s all so stupid!
Read the history of the "Quadroon Ball" your heart will weep for the darker skinned mothers and her lighter dkinned daughters. A good mothers pain is worst when her child is abused.
It's not mix race people fault they didn't choose their color.
The difference between these ladies is that Nina looked down on black people and it Hilda didn't
Yeah, but we have to stop buying into the bull and love each other and ourselves. This is a trap to use our unique beauty against us.
Unfortunately history repeats itself time and time again! Colorism is still here no matter how far back your African roots go or no matter where or how you were raised……here are your 💐 💐 Hilda for all you endured with your fighting spirit you stood tall!
She could pass😂where?
That's what I thought
It will never die. Color will always be an issue. Unfortunately
It's the devil.
But...
1 John 4:4 - You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Hey Karine Thanks for this Video I Never Heard of Her
It seems that you always praise Mixed w/Black women's beauty but not unambiguous Black women. Maybe I'm overlooking something or maybe you really do see them as more worthy.
I love these types of videos, because I learn so much of our people journeys. It's painful to hear what they have suffered. We all get it whether you're brown like me or caucasian appearing we all get a piece of the White man's crazy. I believe all races have beauty within it and I celebrate all. Thank you for sharing this profile on such a talented woman.
From Dona Drake , Ina Ray Hutton to Carol Channing , Joan Bennett to Dinah Shore, Ava Gardner to Angie Dickinson , Mae West to Loni Anderson and Humphrey Bogart , Pernell Roberts , even the King of Rock and Roll himself Elvis Presley . That old one drop rule seems to persist .
I'm FBA but the 'Creole's that I've met through my lifetime --I LIKE'EM--FrFr--they just Folks both my parents were so called light skinned black people but we [Black] I don't give a damn about all this 'colorism' bullsh!t 'cuz' Black Is Beautiful and 'Godly'---So thats just my to cents worth--anyhooooo..Peace Grace And Blessings to all my royal black families--FBA forever 'eternally'--B1💯
She was talented & beautiful like all my melinated 👸🏿 queens..
@KarineAlourde, please do a videography about singer, "Madame Sisieretta Jones, The Black Patti"
What an attractive lady she was!
Do you think multiracial people would fall into the same category as biracial? (Kids who have biracial parents of different races). I feel like ppl make jokes when I like to learn about all cultures within my ancestry. I mean my great-great grandfather was forced to go to the first Native American school in Pennsylvania. And my other great-great grandfather was a Jewish man who has a school named after him. My ancestry has significant history. But I get the “one day you’re black. The next day you’re Choctaw. Now you’re Dominican …” speeches and it’s so annoying to hear. They gaslight me as if I’m having identity crises. But I don’t like claiming one race because like with biracial ppl, I’m not fully immersed or look like them enough to be in each community. So yeah, sometimes I do say creole or multiracial, and sometimes I just say black if I don’t feel like explaining what my parents are mixed with. It just depends who I’m talking to.
She was a very good actress.
I’m Creole myself and from Louisiana with family members both dark and light 🖤🤎, who still speak the dying language to this day 😢; But girl by you distinguishing the difference between Cajun and Creole 🤯….by itself really warmed my heart 💗🙇♀️ because there are natives of Louisiana (👨🏻🦳) who stillI think this way today 🙄. I also hate how the word creole is thrown around as a badge of honor instead of understanding the struggle of why they were forced to make their own language 💔💔 due to not being allowed to speak French by you know who……(👨🏻🦳) and this is coming from a descendant of Creoles and Natives aka the Original Americans 🌎 and Other 🤐😒….. that part 🤣
You’ll are light skin black not us whyt people ❤
I thank the Most High God for that.
I have extremely red, mahogany skin. Where do i fit in, lol!!!😂😂😂 In a league ALL my own. Me and all other mahogany extremely redskinned brownish folks....get our own category. Lol.
What an interesting video Karine! I really love your channel. Your channel is a standalone in the TH-cam world. Greetings from a silent listener in Germany.
Thanks Karine,
I love your videos and appreciate all the research you put into all you do.
Bi-ethnic people are always labeled black become of the one drop rule. I personally label bi-ethnic people in whatever group they look like and culturally ID with - Halsey, Rashida Jones, and Pete Wentz are white to me even though both have black identifying parents. Yet Kadida Jones, Rashida's sister and Tupac's fiancee, is black to me because she looks black and invested in black culture. Halle Berry, Paula Patton, Zendaya, and Boris Kodjoe, to name a few, are considered black to me - partially because they look black and ID as black.
Makes sense to me! 💯🤷♀️