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Please tell people to stop using the slave master branding/terminology of his creation of identifying his off spring as MULATTO. That is the word listed on the slave master schedule/inventory of his property along with the farm animals.
Hey, do you think your course could work for a Brazilian? I'm pretty sure our resources are more scant and we might need to access them in different ways, due to different record keeping habits of our governments... Maybe I could try with my Italian side of the family too, idk if they have more accessible data over there. Or do you think it works more fore people researching their heritage IN the US? Thank you very much
For that lady during her parents time they also used Egroe with and N on the front and that was “black” now colored could be mixed like how it’s used in South Africa or it could be for people who they perceived to come from a black mixed lineage etc. in addition to the latto term with mu on the front. The one drop rule was a way to exclude people from claiming white and trying to get resources by putting everyone in the “black” box. So if it takes two white parents to make a white child then it also takes two black parents to make a black child and if people have one of each a black and white parent then they are mixed, if they come from generations of mixing then they are generationally mixed. So mixed and generationally mixed are neither black nor white unless their descendants mix to one side or the other based on who they procreate with. That is where BQ comes in as 75% or higher is considered full if they are less then they may be half or 3/4 of one side or the other. I know a person who has a mom that is mixed with black and white with her mom being white and her dad being black, she had one child with a black man and that child is probably around 60-70% black and she also had a child with a white Italian man and that child is around 60-70% white both those children are brothers, but one is a mixed black man and the other is a white man of mixed lineage as the haplogroups would show. One would show a black dad paternally and a white mom as his grandmother would be white so he would be a mixed-black man while his brother of the same mom would be a white man both maternally and paternally in haplogroups and his dna is predominantly white although there is a mix there. He is also more culturally black as both the mixed mom and her children were raised around the black side of the family and not the white side so culturally and socially etc. they are all more to the black side even though one is a white man of mixed ethnicity. Both her children are around 3/4 one or the other, but neither is black in bloodline until they mix back in a number of generations. So if they don’t have two parents of the same background be it black or white then they are not mono racial and can’t claim to be so, they may be mixed-black or mixed-white woman or man, but they are not mono racially one or the other. Meghan Markel is a Mixed-Black woman as her maternal line is black, but the other half of her lineage is white so she is mixed and would be considered a mixed-black woman and her haplogroups would reflect that. Barack Obama is a mixed-black man as he paternally comes from black men and as a male he would be a mixed-black man as his mom was a white Irish woman from Kansas, Mariah Carey would be a mixed-white woman as she comes from a white Irish mom and a Black dad so would be a mixed-white woman, with Taj Mowrey and his brother they would be mixed-white men as their mom is black and their dad is white so them descending from white men would make them Mixed-white men. All that would show genetically in haplogroups. A mono racially black or white person would have both maternal and paternal haplogroups from black or white groups. Really race would be something like human, fallen angels etc. but for that sake of understanding I did use race for differing “species” of people groups. (When looking at taxonomic rank a black bear and white bear are considered different species, a brown bear may be a subspecies or some may say species depending). This should clarify why people say if you don’t have two black or white parents then you are not black or white. Mono “racial” is not mixed it’s just one or the other mixed is mixed and a mixed person can mix to one line or the other and become mono”racial” over a number of generations if they mix to one side or the other.
If you’re from Louisiana, we already know this. We have all colors in our family ranging from the whitest to the darkest. Before a baby is born, we don’t know which genes from the family will be dominant. It’s a beautiful thing.
It is simultaneously funny and sad that you have to apologize for being in the sun, lest you be accused of “blackfishing.” The mental gymnastics that some people engage in are amazing.
@@Myopinionmattersthemost she a mix heavyly mix person imposing herself as whole Black person darring u to say she is not is something done only to Blacks
That is why family love is priceless. When the outside world tries to make rules that do not make sense, you can always have family around to do a reality check with and keep things real. Love your channel.
She is such a sweet person! Very kind hearted and down to earth. It annoyed me so much that people just wouldn’t believe her. Dana is sweet down home Louisiana Creole.
My family is Creole from West Monroe, Louisiana. Some have red hair, hazel eyes, and pale skin. Some are med brown and other are dark brown with brown hair and eyes. Almost no one is the same shade as anyone else. I and some of my cousins have freckles. Genetics is a very mixed bag. You get what you get. I'm black and so are all of my family members. ✌🏾
Louisiana is a pot of gold. Because here we don’t care about what color you come from. Because if you are from Louisiana you just don’t know what you are. But it’s a wonderful place to be born. And I love ❤️ it Danielle. I’m black and all those other colors too. So be it. I love my genetics. I’m a mechanic because of my genetics 🧬 make up. Thank you ancestors for all your genetics 🧬
Sandy Brown hair,blue eyes my family is on point creole..but we are also chahta indian's baby I let no one tell me who I am and who I ain't.. I wish someone would try me.
My sister who is also black and Mexican looks more “white” and when she tells people she’s biracial/black she gets attacked,,,, I’m black and when I say I’m mestizo Mexican too I get side eyed 🙄🙄🙄🙄 IMO people in America have been conditioned to think skin color equals race/ethnicity
My husband roots are LA Creole. He and his siblings who were born at home in their Creole neighborhood were listed as Colored on their birth certificates, but the ones born later in the hospital were listed as White on their birth certificates.
Two of my brothers enlisted in the army as black, by their appearance some how there were changed to white, may have been those two blond hair. It’s all how you were raised and what you choose.
Seems like His People were doing the Imitation of Life thing! It's plenty of People that thinks white is right! Because of mistreatment, and are running from their OWN Family Tree! Not just people in tha BOOT either! Latinos, Asians, Hindu, so called Blacks/ Indians, and Native American! ✌🏾
@@etruscancivilization Maybe you're Etruscan. Etruscans are fascinating. My being mixed was more recent, I've met black people who look more white than me, dark, light, bright and damn near white as the saying goes. Although people don't guess I'm black unless I've been out in the sun. I had a parent from each of the cultures of African American, White, so mixed race is just easier to say. I wouldn't say I'm totally culturally black. My hair was more wooly when I was younger and got straighter with age. I was also darker when I was younger.
I'm bi racial, my mother Irish American, my father African American. I also grew up with a step father who was a " light skinned " African American & whose whole family identified as creoles . As a matter of fact when you had your episode on " redbones" I chuckled because their last name was "Johnson" , one of the last names you had on your list for redbone families in Louisiana. I remember in the latter part of the 70's when I was very young, about 10 or so , we drove down to Baton Rouge to meet the Johnson /Cook family. One big creole family. Now mind you , my younger brother & I are fair-skinned , but as far as I understood things, my biological father & the rest of his family , even though they were from Louisiana too, didn't necessarily identify as " creole " . But ironically my brother & I fit in just fine. The 1st unusual thing was me meeting an older cousin, who just looked white to me. If you saw her walking down the street of most cities , she would just be viewed as " white ". But she, nor the rest of the family saw her that way , she was creole. The reasons why we went down ( from the bay area) was a niece of my step father was getting married. This leads me to the 2nd & most disturbing thing we saw on this trip ( besides the rural poverty ) . We noticed that most of the people in the wedding & the guest were all pretty fair-skinned, but all the help ( waiters, cooks , valets etc ) were all dark skinned folk . Once my brother & I saw that this was real( & not just us being in bay area " activism " mode 😊) , we were really put off. That was the 1st time we had actually witnessed a form of intra race racism before. We had never seen such a thing. Real quick, I had mentioned that my biological father was from Louisiana too ( New Orleans , & technically probably creole too, just didn't wear it on their sleeve) . He told me that when he was a boy he, my aunt & a cousin would ride the trolly car together downtown. Of course this was the 1950's so it was all segregated. Kids will be kids & their cousin, who was so fair you would have to really look close to see there was something else going on , well, she would sit down in the front of the car, beyond the " colored " section & then look back & giggle at my father & aunt because they couldn't " pass " . Of course they all thought it was hilarious, but as I write this , I can only imagine what that does to children. You're basically telling them something is wrong with them . Very sad.... & New Orleans was much better than most areas in the deep south. Right next door you had the very bottom, an almost police state when it came to segregation & violence , with Mississippi.
@@leeolie3728 The original meaning of creole, crioulo, criollo is someone that descends from Latin people (Spanish French Portuguese Italian) in the new world (north cental and south America and surround islands.
@@krazyjnva2up2down55Actually Creoles and Africans intermarried with one another. Most Creoles accept African American culture as theirs as well and there is nothing wrong with that..
That lady and I look enough alike that she could be my older sister. I’m not creole, but my family is multi-generational mixed, and I’ve had the same experience of having to pulling out pictures to explain things. 🙄. Just as there are people telling her she’s not black, I’m sure there are other people telling her she’s not white, based on her features and hair texture. There is absolutely no winning this kind of argument - people see what they want to see.
It hurts like hell though! Right! This is true especially for light skin Black people like yourself! Listen, upon meeting new relatives (I was raised in foster care) we set around one day and the family members I knew (lovingly) were talking about our Creole roots and introducing my daughter and I to the ones we didn't know! They got to me and said, "Well, I don't know what race 'Cathy' > me looks like lolssss and everyone laughs; including me! After I got home, I ruminated on that family gathering topic because I didn't know why I laughed when it really hurt my feelings!
@@catherinedavis1241 God is a Master Artist, and He loves various Colors. Just as a bouquet of flowers display a beautiful flower arrangement, we need to take that under consideration and be proud of the fact that we are created by a Master Artist, and with the stroke of His Brush He selected a certain color for each individual in order to display His artistic creation.
@@lorraineelviraaiken1157 Agreed! Yah (God) placed that artwork in our genome! He then caused those genes to mutate and produce the various skin tones and features that were and are still in Africa to this very day! As a matter of fact, everyone is still brown and not 'Red, Yellow, Black, or White!' Look this up for yourself! Everyone was dark skinned when Yah (God) and our Lord and Savior Yahshua (Jesus) created the world >>> John 1:1! Shalom my sister!
One of the most famous U.S. Supreme Court cases involved Homer Plessy, who was a Creole man born in Louisiana. Homer Plessy, by appearance, looked white. However, he estimated that he had 1/8 Black ancestry. In 1892, Mr. Plessy was arrested for boarding a white train car. Mr. Plessy challenged his arrest, and his case went before the United States Supreme Court. In 1896, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Plessy vs. Ferguson that states could legally segregate based on race based on the doctrine of "separate but equal." It wasn't until Brown vs. Board of Education that segregation was ruled illegal in 1954 by the United States Supreme Court. However, the Southern states took years to abide by the Supreme Court's ruling.
A portion of LA "white" folks have African DNA, as do the folks in South Carolina (and other parts of the South), The "prejudice" came about as an excuse to abuse fellow humans. We share culture, music, cuisine. Humans have always mixed.
PROUD ! My 75 year old mom is the SAME skin complexion as this lady in the video and both of her parents are BLACK no white parent no creole . My mom classify herself as black. . I am PROUD of ALL black people in the USA who have white skin and they don’t pass for white or use biracial . They classify as BLACK/ ADOS/ / FBA/ colored/ black indigenous American. It is easy to pass to fit in white but it takes a strong person to be black and fight racism.
The best thing for each racial group, especially ethnic groups in America, is leave the colorism out of your family, community and people. If you base your people on skin tone alone, that will literally tell certain people that they "aren't [insert race] enough". I have full blood and mixed blood Natives on my family tree - a few have Black admixture, half are pure Native, and almost half of my tree have white admixture. A few relatives bought up "you're too light, or you're too dark, or you're not Native enough" at some of my other relatives. I see colorism among some Black Folk with other Black Folk too, a few Black Folk have told my Afro Choctaw cousin that he doesn't have the right hue, he has too much Native blood to be Black or have Black rights, and he has experienced a few prejudices from Natives in Oklahoma for being too dark. Moral of the story is, you might want to avoid basing everything on skin color.
Black are part native but also Africans just as the White mix with native are part Europeon to simply label non majority blood people native,Black or white is not true picture
@@principtounenmondesir Sure, and I do believe when it get's down to drops, it's nearly impossible to be apart of a non-white ethnic group. The Louisiana Creole woman has small percentages of Black DNA, she is mixed with a little Black and her culture is Creole, she's not Black. I was taking more about those mixed people who are half and half or maybe 25% to 50%, or those mixed with multiple racial groups. Colorism can be toxic to a family or community tho.
I have friends in an interracial marriage, she is Black but very dark. Their kids, 2 are fairly light skinned but still look mixed as they are biracial, the youngest is more a medium brown he does not look biracial. Of course, as I said Mom is very dark has lot of melanin in her skin. when the elder two were small people always assumed they weren't hers. One lady smarted off to her when she told her if they were her children "their daddy must be awfully light if you are their mama" and she replied" yes, he's light, so light he is white." another friend, Mexican American form Texas married a very pale red-haired blue-eyed freckle faced man. Her kids did not look Mexican. They looked white with olive skin. when they were small people never believed they were her kids.
How can a mix person tell no im not mix this is why a women like this can disregard the collect view of a people for her self center self mind you her ancestor choose to date or marry out continousally
Same with my Italian-heritage mother. She was dark, but my Anglo-Germanic dad was very light. When my brother and I were little, she was questioned for having two very light skinned kids. My oldest brother is dark, just Ike my mom.
I wish you could interview her. Us Louisiana Creoles know our people and she is definitely one of us. We do not have that type issues within the culture. Her family looks like mine and most Creole families.
The Louisiana Creole woman is speaking fact! Our family same way with the creole multiracial. She really doesn't have to justify herself with anyone. If you know you know because it real you can be born with many shades and it can be something some have to get used to or try to when they find out a friend or family member has came out a shade or many shades darker. Multiracial is a beautiful thing and if you have it, you have to just embrace it. Love yourself is so special. ❤
Growing up I always considered my mom white bc I was white, and we "had to be the same" (she just had darker skin). I took me years to learn she was mixed, and that people in general didn't really perceived her as white, and that experienced racism. Interestingly, she considered herself white, bc her parents are white, but my grandpa is actually light skin mixed (idk what color he considered himself), and she is tan skinned (although she looks black after a week or two in the sun). I'm blond with green eyes and never questioned being any other than white until I did a genealogy project for school. That made me realize why my mom was so tan, and that I was technically mixed race (black if you count the one drop rule). But my life experience and socialization were that of a white girl and in my country mixed races is very common, so I still say I'm white, bc it feels wrong saying otherwise, but it does feel reductive, considering all I know now about my family
She Black! Neither Creole nor mixed is a race. She grew up Black and embraces her Black heritage. Leave her alone. It's not like she's pretending to be Black for benefits.
It is exhausting having to always explain these things. I am from Dominican Republic, we cover the whole color spectrum in my family. In the US, people say that I am black or mixed, but my sister would be called white. I am so tired of the color o race policing. 😢
@@LynnHarris-zq2or why? Though you are somewhat correct , Reyes said nothing to indicate differences between the peoples of Hispaniola. It would be great if you all could get together you are a huge territory all facing similar dilemma. Ask yourselves why you remain divided split by two super powers in the context of slavery which actually carry on to this present day.
In America if you got African descent in your blood you black don't matter light skin bright skin brown mocha caramel straight hair curly hair wavy hair red hair
The funny part is that non-Creole African Americans have close relatives whose complexions are so different they're at opposite ends of the spectrum. Some are so offended by underrepresentation in the professional/mainstream media that there is a movement to "excommunicate" mixed Black people, especially if one parent is non-Black. I understand the resentment of being underrepresented, but this is needlessly divisive.
This is so true! My dad has 7 siblings and they are all different skin tones. My paternal grandparents were medium to dark. My dad is a deep brown and my mom is light skin. I ended up light skin but my sister is closer to my dad’s tone. So, yes this is true! This is why we need to stop with the nonsense. Genetics are not as predictable as we like to think.
Yes. My granny was light and her children a plethora of complexions and hair textures. My granny's siblings look black to ambiguous with a dark skinned daddy. I need people to stop playing.
Please stop blaming Black Americans. Most of this is coming from groups with immigrant backgrounds, including those who are falsely labeled as one of us. I have never in my life heard that Prince, Tina Turner, and some others weren't black until THEY started coming into our spaces.
I understand because being “Creole “ myself, I am tired of fighting about “blackness “ or “whatever “. I will never apologize for myself or any family member. 😂 People are so ignorant sometimes.❤
@psenisen and some aren't mixed at all like Chris tucker and Blaire underwood. Chris tucker family has never left the state his people are from in Georgia they been there since enslavement yet never moved after the enslavement was over, like many others did during the great migration . Hes literally 100% black African American. There's no mix at all in him on no sides his people stayed black was never forced into a mixed situation ( rape etc during enslavement)
7:00 sadly in Brazil they separate family members for access to schools. Some were saying a mixed looking girl with blond curls was white, when she's actually in a family of mostly darkskin family, just that she took one of her ancestor's features. Brazil and Dominican Republic are a good example akin to creoles in Louisiana.
I love how she is handling the nonsense. She could have come online and just told off all these trolls that continue to speak the nonsense. Instead she has come with the "receipts" and they need to take her advice of arguing with their own Mama. 😉🙂
@@kevinc3342That's YOUR perception. You can't tell her what She is. Do you hear how she speaks, her accent?Sounds just like my Louisiana family, and we're all shades. People don't understand. Creole is really not about color, per se.Its the traditions and the culture and the upbringing.Their way of life, their sense of family and community,and their ties to their ancestral lands .
My mom, uncles, and aunties are Creole . they look white as hell, until i looked at my black grandfather. 😂😂 My wife and i are black but my half of my kids are very light and half are medium fair skin even with a DNA test. You're a little this and that😂🤪 that's Louisiana people for you!
I served in the military wtih a lady from Guam. She looked Chimorran (pacific islander), Guam native, and she had sons from a white American man. One son looked general Asian/Pacific Islander and white, her other son looked pure Japanese (her words). The Japanese at one point had ruled over Guam when their empire was over the Pacific. I'm sure she had it in her DNA somewhere back when.
White people originate from the Caucasus mountains, which is in Asia. I feel like East Asians come from a pale skin race and Asian negrito or black looking pacific islander type mix anyway. The parents probably had the right formula to produce a Japanese or Chinese esque phenotype.
@nyla27855 No, white people did not originate from Europe. They come from the caves of central Asia. White people are Asian in origin, a fixed population of albino Asians is what white people are essentially.
This is actually common in our community ADOS/FBA. Many of our families go from snow to crow. My paternal grandmother was passing with green eyes as was her sister, my great aunt. Remember also, some of the most famous/infamous Americans were passing: J. Edgar Hoover Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy Jennifer Beals Walter Francis White
The problem is that a lot people confused and/or confuses ethnicities with race. My auntie lives is Alabama and she is yellow bone. My mom is near white passing and the other siblings are black passing. Her husband tells her that we are not her real family because we look so different. He literally made her sad. Louisiana Creole has African roots as its base no matter how light we are. Black is a “race” and Creole is an “ethnicity". I’m not born back then but my dark complexion aunt tells how few in the family didn’t pass the paper bag test and would be shunned because of it. She says that when popular company would come over she and the other siblings would have to stay in their rooms and only my mom, with the light skin, blue/green/grey eyes (whatever color they felt like changing to) and the blondish hair was allowed to be upfront in view. Those like that were considered a trophy to show off…it was a token of status although my grandmother was dark herself..my mom gave her status. It is really crazy and me and all my siblings look different and are different shades. One I’m redbone with reddish hair, my second brother is brown skinned, the two after him are yellow bone..one with light brown eyes (looks Samoli) and the younger with Hazel eyes and blondish hair (cud pass for Mulatto) and my sister is brown with reddish hair. If you passed the paper bag test you were Creole with a capital ‘C’ if you failed you were creole with a lowercase ‘c’. My uncle was dark but had eyes like my mom…he and she were the only siblings to have those eye colors and his kids are redbone with hazel and amber eyes. Creole had its own discrimination among its people that tore siblings apart..even to this day. My aunt is very hurt because of her husband’s words and he haven’t even met all of the family to pass such judgment on her. It was mostly friends he met but…yet she has two sons one light and one dark but I guess they’re not really brothers🤷🏾. In Louisiana our race is “Black” mixed with other races to create a wild and wide ethnic variety. We also have Asian and of course Indian, Spanish, Irish (that red hair🤦🏽♂️) and European not just French mixed in our genes.
My family is mixed with different cultures, we all turned out slightly different in shades. But outsiders will make what race they think we are. I was called White, Italian, Arab, and even though I told them what I am, they will say no you're not you are this. Or that.
My mixed race mom was also asked if she was my nanny! I wonder if the opposite happens, like a blond mother and a mixed race kid. I doubt it, they might be confused, but I doubt they would jump to nanny
I’m Louisiana creole, too, and my siblings and I range in color from medium brown to light skin with freckles and red hair. I’ve been asked questions like, “what are you”, to “are you mixed?” I’ve had people speak Spanish to me bc they thought I was Puerto Rican and Mexican. I haven’t done an ancestry test yet, but I think it’s time bc I really want to understand my heritage.
Danielle, your are beautiful! Keep embracing all that is natural to you. Please don't apologize to these random "don't-matter" people. You are who you are. The creator does not make mistakes. You can't change what is natural to you. Those who matter are listening to you. The rest can go elsewhere versus being negative.
Good evening from Copperhill Tn. I apologize for missing your video when you posted. It's spring time and I am busy. I subscribed so I can catch you on the replay!!!😊
Yes very true but even some of the are still genealogically connected whether they like it or not. Not all hated the love so their was alot of lovin going on.. Just saying!🤣🤣🤣😆 The mixture is already in there.
@@dt9233 You are absolutely correct in your statement. But you know in America not too many people want to admit they have black in their DNA. The psychological programming is so deep that the bottom will never be found. Many people still will not accept the fact that “Homo Sapiens Erectus” in the branch of human being that came out of Africa and is worldwide today. For some people, “ignorance is bliss”…🤣🤣🤣
Cajuns are white, and creoles can be of any race 😂 that's like saying Latinos are black knowing damn well Latinos can be of any race. There white creoles, black creoles, colored creoles, native creoles, Asian creoles etc
@@carlosm.3426 So sayeth Carlosm.3426. Have some DNA work done on a large group of Cajuns, you might be surprised or not. You may be covering something up, who knows ? Those swamps have a lot of hidden secrets. Remember, Louisiana was a serious “Sodom & Gomorrah” location during the Antebellum South Era.
It's getting pretty weird we have to defend our shade. I love her channel she has an amazing spirit but I feel she's telling my story too. There is an amazing children's book I wish every adult of color read it's called The Shades of Brown. It explains skin tones, hair textures, and eye colors. My son who's 9 was teased in school they were calling him white. Until his dad and brothers arrived. Changed schools to a more mixed environment with no issues. Your skin looks flawless. I change shades quite easily too!
I think this is very common for us in the Caribbean, but I think America, because of the one drop rule, have been so weird about people of multiethnic backgrounds.
Yes, in America, different states had different laws regarding Black identification. In some states, one had to be one-eighth Black or more to be considered Black, but in other states one had to be one-fourth Black or more. So, you had people who would be legally Black in certain states but White in others. What most people do not realize is that the so-called one drop rule was deemed unenforceable due to the Loving Vs. Virgina case, which was about legalizing interracial marriage. Also, before 1924, mixed race people had their own category on census forms, the mulatto category, but it was erased after the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 came about. Mulatto was no longer a choice & as a result, mulattoes were funneled into the Black or Colored category.
Much of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean organized race according to the casta system. which has worked to the detriment of the black population by consistently reducing the number of people who identify as and with blackness or the plight of the black people on our islands as a group. Resulting in the black population not having the numbers to politically advocate for themselves as a group. So black identified people in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean are normally the poorest community. The English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean use a modified version of the one drop rule, which has resulted in much less anti blackness and more access to opportunity for the black populations. in the Caribbean we may be less weird about multiethnic backgrounds, however, the one-drop rule has provided African Americans a unity across shade and phenotype that we don't have. to the detriment of our identifiable black populations. In the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, we actually discriminate against family members who have inherited too much negro from our black ancestors. We would do well to have the relatively mild form of colorism that african americans work hard to eliminate in their culture every generation. It's so normalized within our cultures that We don't even try to address it, we don't even notice it.
@@Vanipollonia1 which gave African Americans the numbers to prosecute the civil rights movement and address the inequities they now all faced as a group and a culture. The unintended consequence of the one drop rule it gave African Americans was consistently increasing numbers as a political group. If it had never existed African Americans would only be about 5% of the population rather than 12% and thus a politically neutered population who could be kept on the back of the bus, because there isn't enough of them to matter. Soon they will all just disappear as they did in Chile
It's very normal in other places but America is the only continent/country I see where people that look visibly white claim to be black if a person that visibly looked black claimed to be white people would be calling them crazy or self hating. Blackness isn't only about culture just call yourself white and then be like but u have a white heritage. It's not that hard people are trying to complain about today but fail to realize 1 drop rule is incredibly harmful and clearly its still getting applied today. And a lot of black people are very very light it's not only about color it's mostly about phenotypes. It's like also calling Italians black because a lot of them have African blood
I can relate my mom was from Costa Rica out five kids I’m the only one that looks non white” growing up my brothers friends would ask him who was the Mexican kid!
I grew up among lots of Italian families in New Jersey. I would see many different shades of skin tones anong brothers and sisters in the Italian genome. My bestman in my wedding was Italian with both parents being Italian who had white skin color. My friend was white skinned just like his parents and twin sister. Their oldest two brothers were dark skinned and looked Mexican. They all were related same mom and dad of Italian ancestry.
I just learned by a DNA test that I am genetically grouped into “Creole of Color” would love to learn more about Creoles and whys there’s so many groups of Creoles..
If there is more than one group of creole, the term is being used to mean mixed and there were various mixes. So in universities the definition that used to be given for creole was fathered by a French or Spanish man and later meant European men and the mothers were black women typically Black American Indigenous women like Beyoncé or Don Lemon etc. then there were mixes of those who had European dads and Asian moms and they were known as mestizo, but sometimes classified as creole when they use the term to mean mixed. Creole is also a language and food type and culture etc. in places like South Africa colored would be mixed and in the USA colored could mean that people come from a mixed lineage with black. So there are various meanings. Some of the creoles like the lady in the video would be generationally mixed just as there are other groups even in Ohio etc. so if there are groups of creole it’s typically just a meaning of mixed. Some people mix back in with black and others mix back with white or Asian and become more of those lines they mix with than another side. So in your instance creole would be mixed.
@@bluetinsel7099 Thank you for that information it definitely helped. My dad’s mom is definitely not fully black she stated she had a European grandfather and a Native American ancestor. I know now since I’ve done the research all sides of my family is generationally multiracial
If you are part of the Black community, and you grew up in this community, you have seen this your whole life. It's definitely fascinating to say the least. What's strange is folks not being able to accept it, love it, and recognize the diversity. I love my Creole family and their places of origin outside of North America. The history is downright fascinating.
Yes they are depending on if they were raised culturally that way. Bryant Gumble is Louisiana Creole himself and he has 65% white ancestry but he and his parents and grandparents identified as black so they are black
@nyla27855 Yes! To me, Halle Berry and Barack Obama don’t look mixed at all. I think 70% or more European … or close to it … shouldn’t consider themselves to be Black. Even though African genes are dominant, and Africa is the birthplace of the original people on earth. Even though the African genome can create any human. Any features, hair types, and skin colors. If you’re 65% to 70% or more European … that’s non Black. The dominance is washed out by that point. Lol!
@creoleladisallthatjazznblu6952 No love, they are culturally black. Just as Tina Knowles is creole but identifies as black. Beyonce father actually comes from the more colorist background he married her because he thought she was white at first . Then he thought she was at least a light bright who wanted to be white . But boy, was he wrong despite being lightskinned they were very afrocentric and self-aware. Vanessa Williams is another multi generational mixed women who many thought she was just bi racial she's not she's black because her parents and recent grandparents identified as black period
My family who are Black from the Piedmont of NC, come in a variety of shades and eye colors. Some of my great great grandparents were listed as Black, Negro, Colored or Mulatto on the censuses between 1870-1950. Our ancestors are from Africa, and Europe some of my great grandparents siblings even left NC and moved to PA, Ohio and West Virginia and identified as White.
I’ve always found the Creole and Cajun culture of the Louisiana Bayou intriguing. As I understand it, the Creole are a mixture of indigenous Indian, African and French. While the Cajun are indigenous Indian, French and Spanish. These biracial cultures have become traditions in the Louisiana Bayou that offer a unique style and flavor to the American landscape.
Many Mexicans have more indigenous DNA and others have more European
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@RT878 spanish europeans are not mixed they are white people except maybe in sicily where the moors conqured them . A mexican will not be claimed as spanish in spain unless they are white.
I'm not sure if we are around the same age or not but I'm in my early 30s and from Southern Virginia and raised in a "black" to family. I say that because my dad apparently have Latino mox heritage on one side that he really didn't grow up experiencing aside from being a music lover. But my dad's black side looked just as mixed as this Creole lady's family. We have plenty of cousins that could pass if they wanted to but because it was a small town after a while the white people were able to determine many of them were black if they what side of town they came from. But also during my time at least in my neighborhood it wasn't quite like it is today where people are fighting on social media and acting like they're calling people out trying to make them claim or disassociate with their blackness. Sure, i was bullied because i was not black enough in my interests and i had extremely long curly hair..it got to the point i never wore it out because of fear that other girls would cut it off ( medium brown myself that definitely in the summer most the kids would never ask about my heritage being anything different other than black unless i straighten my hair; then i get Brazilian or East Indian even Indians mistake me for their own).But aside of the ignorance of children, i usually never doubted them if someone said they were black but were really light. But today people are so ridiculous and when they categorize people in all these little groups and its coming across like either black people have this unique issue but also many others who dont ascribe to being black think they are experts on telling folks whether they are black enough. Its soook exhausting. Like you, this lady myself and others hav existed way before and share similar cultures. Shade is only one indicator of kinship. I mean it exhausts me and I feel like to most people and face value I don't complicate their psyche trying to figure out where I'm from or what my heritage is, for the most part lol. But thank you for talking about this on your channel and especially with the multi-generational aspect. After my exams I hope I'll be able to tune in and see that discussion. The funny thing about all of this is that culturally my dad ascribes to be more black than me semicolon in certain ways I ascribe to be more Latina or more of a blended heritage and I think it's my desire to want to embrace all parts on my background and not denying the other parts particularly those parts that may make others uncomfortable. No one and I mean no one should have to do that or feel that they need to do that. So thank you!
I’m white and I had a friend that was very dark black skin tone and one day I said something about him being black and he told me that he wasn’t black, he was Creole and that’s what his race was.
@@orvillegrant3304 if you must know! I invited him to go fishing in a remote location and he asked if anyone was going to mess with him and I said, why because your black? And he said he ain’t black. He said his momma was full blood Creole and his daddy was half black and Creole.
@@AlluminaOnyxia I guess because everyone perceived him as black because he looked black but he thought of himself as Creole and not black. He told me that he was everything African, French, Spanish and that’s why he got along with everybody. He showed me a picture of his momma and dad,she was very light and daddy was real dark Ike him. He said he had a sister that was very light skin.
Yes…we are black. LA creoles are Black. Some are white but most are black (formerly “Creoles of Color). Its a cultural heritage. Similar to the Gullah Geechee, that’s a Cultural heritage, but they are still black and still African-American. There you go. You have a lot of Creole fetishization and unfortunately, a lot of people that think creole means mixed when it is nothing but the case! It’s usually people (a lot of the time confused creole black folk) that want to not be associated with blackness and want to try to escape that association to where they say “I’m not black I’m creole” when they are literally saying they are black….but they think it means that they’re “mixed” (as if that is somehow a separate category and would make them non black…?) not realizing that not only is everyone who is a descendent of a slave mixed in the African diaspora, but especially African-Americans, and just Americans in general. I don’t feel like Black people (and specifically the ethnic group of African-Americans) in the United States really fully understand that we are all multi generational mixed. Like, when you study sociology and ethnography, African-American people are literally described as a multi racial ethnic group. It’s on our Wikipedia page and within that ethnic group there are regional subsets and cultures and communities like Louisiana creole people and Gullah Geechee people and I forget the name, but even African-American people with Asian ancestry in the west, because of that regions unique history. Everyone that is Louisiana creole knows (especially if you’re from NOLA) that if you say that you’re creole in New Orleans or in Louisiana, that means you’re letting them know you are black. And coming from Louisiana creole family I can let you know that there are all sorts of shades that will come out super light and super dark (like black people in general but ESPECIALLY in the south and in Louisiana) . Unfortunately, being creole has been fetishized to this belief that it’s a mixed look when we are literally a part of the African American experience The African-American registry literally had to fight for the recognition of the creole identity for Black people in New Orleans. We are a subset of African Americans. We a part of the beautiful diversity of African Americans. She literally looks like people in my family, many people in my family, in fact (black aunties and 1 uncle😂). But I also know people that are straight from Nigeria that have her same skin complexion an eye, color, because people who are in the black category, this binary racial categorization, we have, literally are the most diverse people on the planet, especially African people. Every feature and phenotype exists. White people don’t get to dictate what black looks like and what blackness is because they don’t understand. A great resource would be PBS is Henry Louis Gates series African-Americans, many Rivers to Cross. Literally talks about all of these dynamics.
@@Motheroftheuniverse22so are all black Americans… creole does not mean mixed, and I literally talk about the fetishization and miss representation of the media of what creole means
@@nikibronson133 why should a mixed people allow the racism of the one drop rule force them to align with "blackness". They are African, Native American, and European. They also retain a lot of cultural traditions of all the ethnicities. They aren't "black" they are all of the above.
One video she’s crying bc people are saying she’s not Black. Which she may very well not be. The next video she’s got that unambiguous CLEARLY Black guy tagged in stating she doesn’t want to be called Black or Afro American. He’s saying the same thing. When he CLEARLY is Black. This is becoming ignorant, annoying, and a minstrel show at this point. Really.
@@nytn Yes girl!!! She also has several videos of bafoonery. Speaking in Ebonics vernacular stating that she’s Black bc she “talks bad” and telling folks to go listen to how her dad “talks” etc. I love her bc she’s family, but the shenanigans need to stop. Asap. It’s crazy really. Just go take the dna and find out if you’re black or not and go with it. Lol!!! I’ve even lived with her and her mom twice when I was between places. We used to be really tight. Not anymore. This girl has lost her marbles. Also, pictures of close family members doesn’t prove your blackness either. My dad is just Creole. He’s not white or Black. My mom is Black Creole. So am I. My dad’s three other daughters are the daughters of my dad and my non ambiguously Black non Creole Afro American Black stepmother. Therefore, my dad is just Creole. Not Black or White. All four of his daughters are Black Creoles. My mom is twice as Black as my dad. My sister’s mom is non Creole Black / Afro American. Her daughters are certainly Black Creoles. My sister’s son and my son are both for non Creole Black American men and both of our sons are more Black than us. I do not know what the hell she thinks she’s proving by showing pictures of her close family members that are Black. That’s like a white woman having children with a Black man and going oh!!! Look at my Black kids. Now I’m Black. Like no. You’re not. 😂😂😂 Anyway, I don’t know if she’s Black or not. Neither does she. My point is just take the dna test and roll with the results. Significantly African is Black. Not significantly African is non Black. She also twerks all over the internet and participated in other bafoonery as arbitrary expressions of “Blackness” and it is quite offensive to be honest. “Talking bad” “twerking” “cultured” or “raised as” DO NOT make you a Black woman!!! ONLY dna does. Either she is or she isn’t. Bottom line. I’m sick of seeing this stupidity. Tbh with you.
@@CreoleLadyMarmalade Girl yes! 😂😂😂 It’s got to the point where I don’t follow her on tiktok anymore. I don’t really be on there anyway. I’m on Facebook and TH-cam like all day. Every day. 😂😂😂 I don’t fool with TikTok like that though. But yeah. The dude is very unambiguously Black. Talkin’ bout oh ya Creoles gon be like the Dominicans. We no Black. 😂😂😂 I was like um no! Speak for yourselves. The bafoonery is real. The thing she doesn’t realize is that a family line can be blackened or whitened. So unambiguously black close family members do not make you Black. How you were raised does not make you Black. How you speak bafoonery does not make you Black. I actually find that to be insulting. As Black Americans, the AA community used to pride itself on speaking properly. Actually. So “talking bad” as they say doesn’t make someone Black. My mom looks White. My mom actually doesn’t even have Afro centric features at all. My mom’s hair isn’t even curly. It’s straight with a little wave to it. Lol She looks White for sure. But … she is significantly African. So, I’m not saying for sure that Dana (this girl) isn’t Black. What I’m saying is either she is or she isn’t. Go do the dna test and find out is my thing. I used to argue with my dad that he just didn’t want to be Black. When I found out he and his siblings are actually only a quarter Black, I left them alone. 🤣🤣🤣 If I found out I was only in the twentieth percentile, I would’ve stopped self identifying as Black. To be honest. Even though I strongly believe that African genes are dominant bc of so much proof. Twentieth percentile. Like nah. Dominant or not … that’s non Black. Idc. 🤣🤣🤣 So … all of this stuff and these antics she keeps pulling are goofy and becoming annoying at this point. Just do the dna. Find out if you’re significantly African or not. If you are then you are Black. If you’re not then you’re not Black. Plain and simple. 😂😂😂 That’s like me saying bc my first cousins and my aunt are way more unambiguous than me that makes me Black. The folks she’s showing in these pictures are more Black than her due to sides of their family she’s NOT even blood related to. For instance, my mom’s sister is very much so unambiguously Black. Her mom my unambiguous grandmother. So yes I got Black blood from her. Her dad was very dark skinned. My mom’s dad was half White. My aunt is unambiguous. BUT … my unambiguous aunt doesn’t make me more Black. Bc she’s more Black than I am due to her father than I am not in any way related to at all. My first cousins in California are unambiguous. My mom and her sister (their mother that is now passed) … both fair skinned. My mom is mistaken for white all the time. She’s significantly African though. My mom’s passed on sister was always mistaken for Mexican mostly. I’d say about half and half. Depending on how she wore her hair and such a lot of the time too. She liked to rock the “in” hairstyles. If she was rocking a “black” hairstyle then people knew she was just a “red girl”. Light skinned black woman. If she had her hair in a different style, people would think she was Mexican. Her kids were for a dark skinned man and both of them are unambiguously Black. HOWEVER… even though they’re my first cousins… they are more Black than me. From their father whom I am not related to at all. So the showing pictures of unambiguous family members thing to prove Blackness is rather goofy if ya ask me. Your unambiguous family members don’t make you more Black. Especially if they’re more Black than you due to parts of their family that you’re not even related to. 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🙅🏻♀️🙅🏻♀️🙅🏻♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ It’s all just goofy at this point. It’s like hey. Just go do the dna test. Yes it’s not an exact science. Yes there are mistakes on it as well. However, it’s going to tell you how Black you are or aren’t. Those African (sub Saharan) haplo groups and genetic traits ain’t mixed up with European ones. I know that Danielle’s test may have confused her Sicilian with Egyptian. None the less … The dna tests ain’t that off to confuse sub Saharan Africans with Europeans. So … my thing is this. Go take the dang test. If it comes out that she is significantly African then boom. She is Black. If it comes out that she’s not significantly African then boom. She’s non Black. Plain and simple. But that completely unambiguous guy that is her cousin or whatever needs to shut his trap for real. 😂😂😂 Like CLEARLY he’s Black.
my late grandmere was black and a french creole from Louisiana. you can be both. so, i don't understand this misconception that being black and/or french creole can't be true. these colorists in the black and white community need a reality check. i'm a whole ass black woman... skin, hair features.. my ancestry dna test says i'm 80% european my second oldest child looks straight up white but his ancestry dna tests says he's 70% black. both of my parents are light skinned black people and my dad is white passing. me and all of my siblings go from the whitest of white and darkest of dark. my oldest sister is a blond haired white woman and my youngest sibling is dark chocolate .. both of their moms are white. genetics is crazy and looks have nothing to do with who you are.
I like your offerings. I am from the Caribbean and it is quite interesting the way Americans relate to race, however due to your research and postings I get a better grasp of the situation over there. Some folks need to create reasons to hate and color seems to be the perfect avenue. Travel to any Caribbean nation and you will find persons just like this featured lady and yourself this is not strange to us a good example of this mixture is Rihanna. Love yourself embrace your rich heritage sister and keep the content coming.
@cg2566 This channel is not a good representation of race in America. Btw, I know Rihanna family, Barbados has it's own legacy with race(similar to the U.S), Rihanna is a Black woman and created a new Black family.
My Mississippi born maternal grandmother (born 1885) was the only one on a 1910 census of a household of 10 kids, that was marked as "mulatto " 🤷🏽♀️ Her parents were definitely "mulatto ". On that same census report the rest are marked as "black". I don't know what was going on then with granny 🤪
Her accent sounds like New Orleans, where my family lives. The rule of hypo-decent (one drop) is adhered to, not as an imposition, but how we see ourselves as Black. If you attend a family event in the Black community, there is a range of phenotypic diversity. Even in the same households, with the same parents, kids will have wildly different skin tones and hair textures. There are many in my family who could pass for white, while others are so dark you can hardly see them at midnight and everything in between. It was culture shock for me to leave New Orleans and discover that the rest of the US/world doesn't do this😙
I don't get it, within the black community having 2 black parents has never been the standard for being considered black within the community. Every black family has several dozen different shades, hair textures, and ethnic features in it, As much as today the one-drop rule is seen as silly, and though it is true that it was never meant to benefit black people. It did have the unintended result of uniting African Americans across shades and phenotypes into a single unified historical, cultural, and political people who all faced the same cultural, and systemic issues interacted with each other freely and were equally committed to the preservation, advancement, and protection of the community and its culture. It didn't cause the community stratification across shade and phenotype lines that you see in cultures that worked under the Casta system which ultimately only served to bolster the numbers of the ruling white minority and divide the much larger underclass of color into smaller, easily managed groups separated by blood quantum and mutually antagonistic towards each other based on their proximity to whiteness and the privileges and opportunities that came with it. Without the one-drop rule, the civil rights movement would not have been possible, because the black community would have been too divided and too small in numbers to prosecute it politically. The fact that we are an identifiable, curtable political identity and ethnicity serves to safeguard our freedoms in a nation where we are only 12 to 14 percent of the population. historically Having no real path to legal whiteness meant we were all gonna be permanently in it together and dependent on each other to gain and maintain our rights and freedoms.
Yea, this wasn't a thing until 2015. All of a sudden, people who are HALF BLACK aren't allowed to indulge in their own culture. It's ridiculous ! Then you have some that claim Tina Knowles as black (someone who hasn't had an undeniably black ancestor in generations), but deny Halle Berry or Drake..people who are obviously of significant African ancestry.
Creole is a loose term nowadays and can be interpreted differently by different groups. I’m not sure if all New Orleanians think like me but when I hear someone say they’re creole it usually means they want to acknowledge they’re mixed. It’s barely used here because everyone claims black or white. I find people visiting the city using creole as an identifier because the locals just say they’re black or white.
@nytn i grew up with my family saying that a child "breech" back when they come out lighter, datker, different hair texture, or eye color than their parents.
Calling Black Americans African Americans is really an incorrect statement. We are native produced from the experience of the U.S. A new people the result of an Ethnogenesis.Louis Armstrong was creole they come in diffrent shades. It would surprise you that in Black American families we all come in different shades.Some families have more light skin some families have more caramel or darker skin. I agree with NYTN alot judging by complexion will have you lost.But still call Black people African is wrong and leads to an erasure of people. I am Caramel but my Mother has the Creole lady Complexion my Grandmother could pass as White My Grandfather was a Dark skin man.My Father is a Caramel Man all are Black American produced out of the American experience not African but a mixture of different ethnic groups who participated in creating the U.S
@KAH-7 see my problem with some of the veiws of this channel the lady says she just wish we can all just be American. I admire that but she has consistently used the word African to describe Black Americans as African. It is not a mistake also when she describes her Black American ancestors she never say they are African she acknowledge the admixture. When she talks of Black Americans she pretends Black Americans are homogeneous Africans.That is dishonest from an anthropological point of veiw.
Creoles aren't a color. Being from south Louisiana I grew up hearing the terms Cajun vs Creole alot. I was taught that Cajuns were white and that Creoles were mixed or black. It wasn't until later on that I learned the history (and I'm still learning). Before "cajunization" in the early 60s many whites and blacks, etc referred to themselves as creole. I don't care if you're white, black, mixed, native, asian, etc. If you from Louisiana and you have the same culture as me then who am I to say you aren't creole. Creole is Louisiana, a people, not a race.
This girl is my cousin. I wish she just go do a dna and find out if she’s significantly African or not. If she is, she’s Black. If she’s not, she’s just plain Creole. Plain and simple. Idk if she is Black or not, but I wish she go find out and also quit flip flopping on whether or not she wishes to be Black. Either she is or she isn’t. It doesn’t really matter either way it goes. Both of her parents are Creole and both look white. The only way to find out if she is significantly African or not is to do the dna and just accept the results. Whichever they may be. This debate is becoming really silly. Also, no one can be “raised to be”, or “cultured into” a race. It’s a ridiculous notion. Race is a social construct, because different mixtures are identifies differently in different places. That doesn’t negate the genetic component of race. Significantly African is Black. Not significantly African is non Black. Plain and simple. Creole is an ethnicity. A Louisiana Creole is a simply a descendant of French and or Spanish lineage with at least one family line originating in Louisiana. Those of us that also have African and or Native American in us are Louisiana Creoles of Color. Those of us that are either significantly or majority African descent are Black. Those that are not of significant African descent are non Black. There’s also a full 100% Black Louisiana Creole group that are descendants of Nigerian and Congolese slaves. They gained their freedom and created a Creolized cultural society of their own. You have full full Black Creoles that are Nigerian and Congolese descendants. You have majority Black multi generationally mixed Creoles. You have significantly Black multi generationally mixed Creoles. You have multi generationally mixed Creoles of Color that do not identify with any race. Only their ethnicity. They are the Creoles that are so heavily mixed that they’re too much African to be white and not enough African to be Black. Then, you have White Creoles of very very minimal African descent or none at all. These people are French and or Spanish descendants with at least one family line originating in Louisiana. They do not have any or very very little African in them. These are the White Louisiana Creoles. Anglos are the only true “Whites”. French and Spanish are Latin European. However, in the current construct of race in America, everything European is called White. So, you have Black, White, and simply so heavily mixed Creoles that they are just Creoles. In short, NO! All Louisiana Creoles are NOT Black. Some are and some aren’t. As far as her… she needs to simply go take the test and accept whatever the results are atp. It’s becoming annoying. Tbh
@@kevinc3342 My mom’s dad was half white half Creole. Her mom was unambiguously Black. Creole ethnicity. So, my mom’s dna is significantly African. Which means she’s Black. My mom’s dad looked purely white as far as his phenotype. My mom looks White as well. Bc she looks like her dad. My niece came out looking White too. lol Like my mom. My niece is majority African dna. Majority Black. Her dad is non Creole Afro American. My sister is the daughter of our mom and my stepdad. Who is unambiguously Black. Creole ethnicity. So… phenotype doesn’t determine race. Neither does culture or how you were raised. Dna does.
@@kevinc3342 Also, most Creoles aren’t Anglo. I’m only 5% Anglo. I’m roughly 40% Black. A quarter Latin European. 30% Irish. A LITTLE Anglo. Most Creoles aren’t Anglo.
Danielle - please do a feature on Gregory Howard Williams, who grew up thinking he was fully white in the 1950's only to discover that he is biracial. He was formerly the Pres of City college in NY. He talks about it on TH-cam but I'd love to hear him discuss his experience with you ❤🎉😅
@ThatSuzanneSchmid I can judge who is Black!! Anglo-whites judge either who is included or EXCLUDED from whiteness, and you respect their decision. You wouldn't DARE question it!! That said - respect Black people's decision to decide who is... and is NOT part of the Black race!!
I love your channel and videos because alot of light skinned people grow up being teased and it's worst in families because everyone wants to know what you are,are we cousins 🤔 I use to be really light and got called "white girl"SMH there needs to be a video on that alone, colorism is so real it's baffling
My family varies in complexions. Even a dark complexion person can be considered mixed. This lady looks like my family member. My neighbor across the road from me was very fair-skinned and her parents are brown-skinned.
Nah, I dont have no majority white people in my family calling themselves black. Noone I know does. There's light skin, and then there's WHITE skin, yall crazy upholding the one drop rule.
@bettyboopsie9836 She's clearly black-ish. Very fair, but there are certain features that you can't miss if you know your own people. Most of us have mulatto or whatever term we're using now in our family tree. I have it on both sides of my family. We range from the fairest to the darkest, usually because the light and dark ones are finding each other. 🤣 And that's still happening today.
All Black Americans are multigenerationally mixed. We don’t claim it. Although we are different complexions, we are still BLACK. I’m trying to figure out why people are acting like we are all supposed to be the same complexions? It’s crazy to me Btw… I’m also Creole (dad’s side) but I wouldn’t be accepted as one ☝️ due to my complexion (my hair gives me a “pass” though
You are clueless. I have relatives this color who lived through the real Jim Crow. Not the 1950s or 60s but the 1930s, 20s, 30s and teens. They were subjected to the same racial laws that the blackest person in Louisiana was subjected too. You's a foreigner. You were born in a county. You're not qualified to speak on Louisiana. We on some different shit.
My dad was tan with a red tone. People got confused on how he had his color and freckles in louisiana with mixed hair. Family can skip a generation and the color can be drastically different. My mom is lightskin but her dark is very dark and mom is tan, but she's lighter than her own mom, but her grandfather is silver eyes and lightksin, but the only ancestor who was white was a slave owner. 1 slave owner, and it lead to generations of various skintones, some ginger hair like greatgrandpa with some having silver eyes even to my cousins.
@@principtounenmondesir I don't understand what you mean? I'm a brown skinned black woman, but my father & many people on his side of my family were light skinned. We're still black people
@@principtounenmondesirthe point is, it doesn't really matter what you or others think about her Blackness (or my Blackness or any person's Blackness). She is who she is, regardless.
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Please tell people to stop using the slave master branding/terminology of his creation of identifying his off spring as MULATTO. That is the word listed on the slave master schedule/inventory of his property along with the farm animals.
Hey, do you think your course could work for a Brazilian? I'm pretty sure our resources are more scant and we might need to access them in different ways, due to different record keeping habits of our governments... Maybe I could try with my Italian side of the family too, idk if they have more accessible data over there. Or do you think it works more fore people researching their heritage IN the US?
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For that lady during her parents time they also used Egroe with and N on the front and that was “black” now colored could be mixed like how it’s used in South Africa or it could be for people who they perceived to come from a black mixed lineage etc. in addition to the latto term with mu on the front.
The one drop rule was a way to exclude people from claiming white and trying to get resources by putting everyone in the “black” box. So if it takes two white parents to make a white child then it also takes two black parents to make a black child and if people have one of each a black and white parent then they are mixed, if they come from generations of mixing then they are generationally mixed. So mixed and generationally mixed are neither black nor white unless their descendants mix to one side or the other based on who they procreate with. That is where BQ comes in as 75% or higher is considered full if they are less then they may be half or 3/4 of one side or the other.
I know a person who has a mom that is mixed with black and white with her mom being white and her dad being black, she had one child with a black man and that child is probably around 60-70% black and she also had a child with a white Italian man and that child is around 60-70% white both those children are brothers, but one is a mixed black man and the other is a white man of mixed lineage as the haplogroups would show. One would show a black dad paternally and a white mom as his grandmother would be white so he would be a mixed-black man while his brother of the same mom would be a white man both maternally and paternally in haplogroups and his dna is predominantly white although there is a mix there. He is also more culturally black as both the mixed mom and her children were raised around the black side of the family and not the white side so culturally and socially etc. they are all more to the black side even though one is a white man of mixed ethnicity. Both her children are around 3/4 one or the other, but neither is black in bloodline until they mix back in a number of generations.
So if they don’t have two parents of the same background be it black or white then they are not mono racial and can’t claim to be so, they may be mixed-black or mixed-white woman or man, but they are not mono racially one or the other. Meghan Markel is a Mixed-Black woman as her maternal line is black, but the other half of her lineage is white so she is mixed and would be considered a mixed-black woman and her haplogroups would reflect that. Barack Obama is a mixed-black man as he paternally comes from black men and as a male he would be a mixed-black man as his mom was a white Irish woman from Kansas, Mariah Carey would be a mixed-white woman as she comes from a white Irish mom and a Black dad so would be a mixed-white woman, with Taj Mowrey and his brother they would be mixed-white men as their mom is black and their dad is white so them descending from white men would make them Mixed-white men. All that would show genetically in haplogroups.
A mono racially black or white person would have both maternal and paternal haplogroups from black or white groups. Really race would be something like human, fallen angels etc. but for that sake of understanding I did use race for differing “species” of people groups. (When looking at taxonomic rank a black bear and white bear are considered different species, a brown bear may be a subspecies or some may say species depending).
This should clarify why people say if you don’t have two black or white parents then you are not black or white. Mono “racial” is not mixed it’s just one or the other mixed is mixed and a mixed person can mix to one line or the other and become mono”racial” over a number of generations if they mix to one side or the other.
Thank you❣️
Sis is so humble❤❤
If you’re from Louisiana, we already know this. We have all colors in our family ranging from the whitest to the darkest. Before a baby is born, we don’t know which genes from the family will be dominant. It’s a beautiful thing.
Exactly!! We must stop generalizing
Right. I am a Creole from Pointe Coupee Parish. We all are different colors lol from Hiyella to Dark chocolate
@jayjay8061 we're probably related.
@@LCCreole I am from False River ( the island).
@@jayjay8061 I'm from pointe coupee (new roads), and I'm Creole (labatut, olinde, Porche, Albert are my family).
It is simultaneously funny and sad that you have to apologize for being in the sun, lest you be accused of “blackfishing.” The mental gymnastics that some people engage in are amazing.
Black fishing is a real thing. But Danielle definitely isn't black fishing.
Blackfishing is deeper than a tan. It’s pouring on the Afro wig falling the accent getting the lip injections and bbl and also LYING to people
It has nothing to do with black fishing. You aren't supposed to be in the eclipse sun
@@Myopinionmattersthemost she a mix heavyly mix person imposing herself as whole Black person darring u to say she is not is something done only to Blacks
All people are what God made them, let's enjoy each person's individual diversity with all positive and thankfulness of heart.
That is why family love is priceless. When the outside world tries to make rules that do not make sense, you can always have family around to do a reality check with and keep things real. Love your channel.
Love with imagination.
She is such a sweet person! Very kind hearted and down to earth. It annoyed me so much that people just wouldn’t believe her. Dana is sweet down home Louisiana Creole.
My family is Creole from West Monroe, Louisiana. Some have red hair, hazel eyes, and pale skin. Some are med brown and other are dark brown with brown hair and eyes. Almost no one is the same shade as anyone else. I and some of my cousins have freckles. Genetics is a very mixed bag. You get what you get. I'm black and so are all of my family members. ✌🏾
Louisiana is a pot of gold. Because here we don’t care about what color you come from. Because if you are from Louisiana you just don’t know what you are. But it’s a wonderful place to be born. And I love ❤️ it Danielle. I’m black and all those other colors too. So be it. I love my genetics. I’m a mechanic because of my genetics 🧬 make up. Thank you ancestors for all your genetics 🧬
My family too..farmerville Louisiana , Monroe.
Sandy Brown hair,blue eyes my family is on point creole..but we are also chahta indian's baby I let no one tell me who I am and who I ain't.. I wish someone would try me.
My sister who is also black and Mexican looks more “white” and when she tells people she’s biracial/black she gets attacked,,,, I’m black and when I say I’m mestizo Mexican too I get side eyed 🙄🙄🙄🙄 IMO people in America have been conditioned to think skin color equals race/ethnicity
My aunt kittie lived in Monroe LA. Nice
My husband roots are LA Creole. He and his siblings who were born at home in their Creole neighborhood were listed as Colored on their birth certificates, but the ones born later in the hospital were listed as White on their birth certificates.
Two of my brothers enlisted in the army as black, by their appearance some how there were changed to white, may have been those two blond hair. It’s all how you were raised and what you choose.
Birth certificates don’t prove blackness or disprove it either. That’s just record keeping the way they saw fit.
@creoleladisallthatjazznblu6952 Genetics prove blackness, if you are more European than African then you aren't black.
@@etruscancivilization Thank You! We all were rooting for her. Then she flip flopped. I’m like this is just Tom Foolery at this point. 😂😂😂
Seems like His People were doing the Imitation of Life thing! It's plenty of People that thinks white is right! Because of mistreatment, and are running from their OWN Family Tree! Not just people in tha BOOT either! Latinos, Asians, Hindu, so called Blacks/ Indians, and Native American! ✌🏾
I'm mixed race, in winter I'm pale and summer I'm dark. I never knew black fishing was a thing.
@@etruscancivilization I love your comment. Do you and be you always❤.
@@etruscancivilization Maybe you're Etruscan. Etruscans are fascinating.
My being mixed was more recent, I've met black people who look more white than me, dark, light, bright and damn near white as the saying goes. Although people don't guess I'm black unless I've been out in the sun.
I had a parent from each of the cultures of African American, White, so mixed race is just easier to say. I wouldn't say I'm totally culturally black.
My hair was more wooly when I was younger and got straighter with age. I was also darker when I was younger.
@@etruscancivilizationwhy would you call freckles ugly? I think they’re beautiful
Creoles are originally black Asians
I'm bi racial, my mother Irish American, my father African American. I also grew up with a step father who was a " light skinned " African American & whose whole family identified as creoles . As a matter of fact when you had your episode on " redbones" I chuckled because their last name was "Johnson" , one of the last names you had on your list for redbone families in Louisiana.
I remember in the latter part of the 70's when I was very young, about 10 or so , we drove down to Baton Rouge to meet the Johnson /Cook family. One big creole family.
Now mind you , my younger brother & I are fair-skinned , but as far as I understood things, my biological father & the rest of his family , even though they were from Louisiana too, didn't necessarily identify as " creole " . But ironically my brother & I fit in just fine.
The 1st unusual thing was me meeting an older cousin, who just looked white to me. If you saw her walking down the street of most cities , she would just be viewed as " white ". But she, nor the rest of the family saw her that way , she was creole.
The reasons why we went down ( from the bay area) was a niece of my step father was getting married. This leads me to the 2nd & most disturbing thing we saw on this trip ( besides the rural poverty ) . We noticed that most of the people in the wedding & the guest were all pretty fair-skinned, but all the help ( waiters, cooks , valets etc ) were all dark skinned folk . Once my brother & I saw that this was real( & not just us being in bay area " activism " mode 😊) , we were really put off. That was the 1st time we had actually witnessed a form of intra race racism before. We had never seen such a thing.
Real quick, I had mentioned that my biological father was from Louisiana too ( New Orleans , & technically probably creole too, just didn't wear it on their sleeve) . He told me that when he was a boy he, my aunt & a cousin would ride the trolly car together downtown. Of course this was the 1950's so it was all segregated. Kids will be kids & their cousin, who was so fair you would have to really look close to see there was something else going on , well, she would sit down in the front of the car, beyond the " colored " section & then look back & giggle at my father & aunt because they couldn't " pass " . Of course they all thought it was hilarious, but as I write this , I can only imagine what that does to children. You're basically telling them something is wrong with them . Very sad.... & New Orleans was much better than most areas in the deep south. Right next door you had the very bottom, an almost police state when it came to segregation & violence , with Mississippi.
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Thank you very much, this made my day.
Creoles usually claim blackness, although many have overwhelming European ancestry.
They are MGMs and can vary depending on the region. Many of them only intermarried other creoles for a long time so they are mostly related.
No they don't lol. That's the other way around. Blacks claiming creole. The reality is being Creole has absolutely nothing to do with race
@@krazyjnva2up2down55 It depends on which you are talking to. Ive seen both scenarios myself.
@@leeolie3728 The original meaning of creole, crioulo, criollo is someone that descends from Latin people (Spanish French Portuguese Italian) in the new world (north cental and south America and surround islands.
@@krazyjnva2up2down55Actually Creoles and Africans intermarried with one another. Most Creoles accept African American culture as theirs as well and there is nothing wrong with that..
That lady and I look enough alike that she could be my older sister. I’m not creole, but my family is multi-generational mixed, and I’ve had the same experience of having to pulling out pictures to explain things. 🙄. Just as there are people telling her she’s not black, I’m sure there are other people telling her she’s not white, based on her features and hair texture. There is absolutely no winning this kind of argument - people see what they want to see.
That woman CLEARLY is NOT Black!! Drop her in Nigeria - she will NOT be confused for a Black person!!
It hurts like hell though! Right! This is true especially for light skin Black people like yourself! Listen, upon meeting new relatives (I was raised in foster care) we set around one day and the family members I knew (lovingly) were talking about our Creole roots and introducing my daughter and I to the ones we didn't know! They got to me and said, "Well, I don't know what race 'Cathy' > me looks like lolssss and everyone laughs; including me! After I got home, I ruminated on that family gathering topic because I didn't know why I laughed when it really hurt my feelings!
Only in America
@@catherinedavis1241 God is a Master Artist, and He loves various Colors. Just as a bouquet of flowers display a beautiful flower arrangement, we need to take that under consideration and be proud of the fact that we are created by a Master Artist, and with the stroke of His Brush He selected a certain color for each individual in order to display His artistic creation.
@@lorraineelviraaiken1157 Agreed! Yah (God) placed that artwork in our genome! He then caused those genes to mutate and produce the various skin tones and features that were and are still in Africa to this very day! As a matter of fact, everyone is still brown and not 'Red, Yellow, Black, or White!' Look this up for yourself! Everyone was dark skinned when Yah (God) and our Lord and Savior Yahshua (Jesus) created the world >>> John 1:1! Shalom my sister!
One of the most famous U.S. Supreme Court cases involved Homer Plessy, who was a Creole man born in Louisiana. Homer Plessy, by appearance, looked white. However, he estimated that he had 1/8 Black ancestry. In 1892, Mr. Plessy was arrested for boarding a white train car. Mr. Plessy challenged his arrest, and his case went before the United States Supreme Court. In 1896, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Plessy vs. Ferguson that states could legally segregate based on race based on the doctrine of "separate but equal." It wasn't until Brown vs. Board of Education that segregation was ruled illegal in 1954 by the United States Supreme Court. However, the Southern states took years to abide by the Supreme Court's ruling.
A portion of LA "white" folks have African DNA, as do the folks in South Carolina (and other parts of the South), The "prejudice" came about as an excuse to abuse fellow humans. We share culture, music, cuisine. Humans have always mixed.
No
@@kaizatengoku3893 A map can be found detailing African ancestry in the white population of the US. Try looking it up.
Another interesting video. Please keep making videos like this.
PROUD ! My 75 year old mom is the SAME skin complexion as this lady in the video and both of her parents are BLACK no white parent no creole . My mom classify herself as black. . I am PROUD of ALL black people in the USA who have white skin and they don’t pass for white or use biracial . They classify as BLACK/ ADOS/ / FBA/ colored/ black indigenous American. It is easy to pass to fit in white but it takes a strong person to be black and fight racism.
The best thing for each racial group, especially ethnic groups in America, is leave the colorism out of your family, community and people. If you base your people on skin tone alone, that will literally tell certain people that they "aren't [insert race] enough".
I have full blood and mixed blood Natives on my family tree - a few have Black admixture, half are pure Native, and almost half of my tree have white admixture. A few relatives bought up "you're too light, or you're too dark, or you're not Native enough" at some of my other relatives.
I see colorism among some Black Folk with other Black Folk too, a few Black Folk have told my Afro Choctaw cousin that he doesn't have the right hue, he has too much Native blood to be Black or have Black rights, and he has experienced a few prejudices from Natives in Oklahoma for being too dark. Moral of the story is, you might want to avoid basing everything on skin color.
Boss it not about colorism it about origin no disrespect to mix people this is the confusion it bring that is overlook
Colorism is when your the same race of different tone
Black are part native but also Africans just as the White mix with native are part Europeon to simply label non majority blood people native,Black or white is not true picture
Right On!
@@principtounenmondesir Sure, and I do believe when it get's down to drops, it's nearly impossible to be apart of a non-white ethnic group. The Louisiana Creole woman has small percentages of Black DNA, she is mixed with a little Black and her culture is Creole, she's not Black. I was taking more about those mixed people who are half and half or maybe 25% to 50%, or those mixed with multiple racial groups. Colorism can be toxic to a family or community tho.
new orleans creoles claims black . end of story. Period.
I have friends in an interracial marriage, she is Black but very dark. Their kids, 2 are fairly light skinned but still look mixed as they are biracial, the youngest is more a medium brown he does not look biracial. Of course, as I said Mom is very dark has lot of melanin in her skin. when the elder two were small people always assumed they weren't hers. One lady smarted off to her when she told her if they were her children "their daddy must be awfully light if you are their mama" and she replied" yes, he's light, so light he is white." another friend, Mexican American form Texas married a very pale red-haired blue-eyed freckle faced man. Her kids did not look Mexican. They looked white with olive skin. when they were small people never believed they were her kids.
Yep if your story is true Its all facts💯💯💯💯💯👍. I've seen this all my life.
Sis they mix man
How can a mix person tell no im not mix this is why a women like this can disregard the collect view of a people for her self center self mind you her ancestor choose to date or marry out continousally
Same with my Italian-heritage mother. She was dark, but my Anglo-Germanic dad was very light. When my brother and I were little, she was questioned for having two very light skinned kids. My oldest brother is dark, just Ike my mom.
I wish you could interview her. Us Louisiana Creoles know our people and she is definitely one of us. We do not have that type issues within the culture. Her family looks like mine and most Creole families.
The Louisiana Creole woman is speaking fact! Our family same way with the creole multiracial. She really doesn't have to justify herself with anyone. If you know you know because it real you can be born with many shades and it can be something some have to get used to or try to when they find out a friend or family member has came out a shade or many shades darker. Multiracial is a beautiful thing and if you have it, you have to just embrace it. Love yourself is so special. ❤
Multiracial is the key word.
So because the government/white man say you are black, black people have to identify as black? 😂
Growing up I always considered my mom white bc I was white, and we "had to be the same" (she just had darker skin). I took me years to learn she was mixed, and that people in general didn't really perceived her as white, and that experienced racism. Interestingly, she considered herself white, bc her parents are white, but my grandpa is actually light skin mixed (idk what color he considered himself), and she is tan skinned (although she looks black after a week or two in the sun).
I'm blond with green eyes and never questioned being any other than white until I did a genealogy project for school. That made me realize why my mom was so tan, and that I was technically mixed race (black if you count the one drop rule). But my life experience and socialization were that of a white girl and in my country mixed races is very common, so I still say I'm white, bc it feels wrong saying otherwise, but it does feel reductive, considering all I know now about my family
What country are you from
@@vaimende Brazil
She Black! Neither Creole nor mixed is a race. She grew up Black and embraces her Black heritage. Leave her alone. It's not like she's pretending to be Black for benefits.
Exactly
People are so ignorant when it comes to blackness... We come in all shades of color absolutely!!!
Genetic tests would show she's mixed.
@@Dawn-uc3mnSpoiler alert, most "Black" Americans are also mixed. So what's your point?
Both of my parents were very , very light-skinned and I am light-skinned but I have no problem being Black !.
Yes, I saw this on TickTock. I am with her🎉. Creole party over here!❤
It is exhausting having to always explain these things. I am from Dominican Republic, we cover the whole color spectrum in my family. In the US, people say that I am black or mixed, but my sister would be called white. I am so tired of the color o race policing. 😢
Don't come to the United States - everything is all about race (and social class). It's very much about race!!
Dominicans are the same as Haitians. Same boat, same people. Stop with the foolishness.
@@LynnHarris-zq2or why? Though you are somewhat correct , Reyes said nothing to indicate differences between the peoples of Hispaniola. It would be great if you all could get together you are a huge territory all facing similar dilemma. Ask yourselves why you remain divided split by two super powers in the context of slavery which actually carry on to this present day.
It's an opinion and not fact though
In America if you got African descent in your blood you black don't matter light skin bright skin brown mocha caramel straight hair curly hair wavy hair red hair
She's multigenerationally mixed.
An MGM Louisiana Creole, which she constantly reiterated and freely acknowledged that she's black too. African Americans, on average, we're MGM.
We're all mixed and why a person or persons claim only one of their own mixed backgrounds is beyond me.
Well we African/Black Americans are individually majority of Sub Saharan extraction that's why they
note us as being so.
All African Americans are multinational mixed people.
No, that's not a fact. I just love these genealogical self taught experts on the web...😏
The funny part is that non-Creole African Americans have close relatives whose complexions are so different they're at opposite ends of the spectrum. Some are so offended by underrepresentation in the professional/mainstream media that there is a movement to "excommunicate" mixed Black people, especially if one parent is non-Black.
I understand the resentment of being underrepresented, but this is needlessly divisive.
This is so true! My dad has 7 siblings and they are all different skin tones. My paternal grandparents were medium to dark. My dad is a deep brown and my mom is light skin. I ended up light skin but my sister is closer to my dad’s tone. So, yes this is true! This is why we need to stop with the nonsense. Genetics are not as predictable as we like to think.
What ever your mom is.... that's what's you are...
If you say so...
The same goes for people who propagate the converse.....🙄😏
Yes. My granny was light and her children a plethora of complexions and hair textures. My granny's siblings look black to ambiguous with a dark skinned daddy. I need people to stop playing.
Please stop blaming Black Americans. Most of this is coming from groups with immigrant backgrounds, including those who are falsely labeled as one of us. I have never in my life heard that Prince, Tina Turner, and some others weren't black until THEY started coming into our spaces.
I understand because being “Creole “ myself, I am tired of fighting about “blackness “ or “whatever “. I will never apologize for myself or any family member. 😂
People are so ignorant sometimes.❤
Right on.
Lol. You are not creole
@@CoreyQuadroon There are dark skinned Louisiana Creoles too my dad was one my granddad too
@@Selah_Saint_1865 there are, but you are not creole. You might have a creole ancestor somewhere but you’re not a creole
@@CoreyQuadroon How u gon tell me I'm not Creole? 😂 My dad's family is Creole which makes me Creole u weirdo
Many of us Black Americans have mixed ancestry
All people are mixed just some more than others.
@psenisen and some aren't mixed at all like Chris tucker and Blaire underwood. Chris tucker family has never left the state his people are from in Georgia they been there since enslavement yet never moved after the enslavement was over, like many others did during the great migration . Hes literally 100% black African American. There's no mix at all in him on no sides his people stayed black was never forced into a mixed situation ( rape etc during enslavement)
Blair Underwood's African Ancestry Matriclan (MtDNA)
is East/Southeast Asian. 😉
All Americans basically. Many "whites" crossed over for passing decades ago.
I’m also mixed creole , native, black
Just teach your kids to love everybody and the beauty of diversity, plain and simple.
7:00 sadly in Brazil they separate family members for access to schools. Some were saying a mixed looking girl with blond curls was white, when she's actually in a family of mostly darkskin family, just that she took one of her ancestor's features. Brazil and Dominican Republic are a good example akin to creoles in Louisiana.
I love how she is handling the nonsense. She could have come online and just told off all these trolls that continue to speak the nonsense. Instead she has come with the "receipts" and they need to take her advice of arguing with their own Mama. 😉🙂
When she said "I'm not fitting to argue with these people" 😂👍
She knows who she is and ain't got time for it.
O if only we could just be HUMAN. All this is 😞
What's receipts?! Look at her... she's Anglo-white!!
@@kevinc3342That's YOUR perception. You can't tell her what She is. Do you hear how she speaks, her accent?Sounds just like my Louisiana family, and we're all shades. People don't understand. Creole is really not about color, per se.Its the traditions and the culture and the upbringing.Their way of life, their sense of family and community,and their ties to their ancestral lands .
@@kevinc3342 were you even listening to her?
My mom, uncles, and aunties are Creole . they look white as hell, until i looked at my black grandfather. 😂😂 My wife and i are black but my half of my kids are very light and half are medium fair skin even with a DNA test. You're a little this and that😂🤪 that's Louisiana people for you!
I served in the military wtih a lady from Guam. She looked Chimorran (pacific islander), Guam native, and she had sons from a white American man. One son looked general Asian/Pacific Islander and white, her other son looked pure Japanese (her words). The Japanese at one point had ruled over Guam when their empire was over the Pacific. I'm sure she had it in her DNA somewhere back when.
White people originate from the Caucasus mountains, which is in Asia. I feel like East Asians come from a pale skin race and Asian negrito or black looking pacific islander type mix anyway. The parents probably had the right formula to produce a Japanese or Chinese esque phenotype.
@nyla27855 No, white people did not originate from Europe. They come from the caves of central Asia. White people are Asian in origin, a fixed population of albino Asians is what white people are essentially.
Seeing other Creoles so reaffirms my spirit! I LOVE seeing people who look like me. It makes my heart so happy.
This is actually common in our community ADOS/FBA. Many of our families go from snow to crow. My paternal grandmother was passing with green eyes as was her sister, my great aunt.
Remember also, some of the most famous/infamous Americans were passing:
J. Edgar Hoover
Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy
Jennifer Beals
Walter Francis White
It's not common when the average african american is 80% african 😂 unless you are including your mix race relatives in your "diversity"
Johnny cash ex wife
Carol Channing
David Carradine
No way that anti-Black freak J. Edgar Hoover was mixed race
BE PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE
ALWAYS REMEMBER…..”GOLD DONT OLD”💯💯💯💯💯
The problem is that a lot people confused and/or confuses ethnicities with race. My auntie lives is Alabama and she is yellow bone. My mom is near white passing and the other siblings are black passing. Her husband tells her that we are not her real family because we look so different. He literally made her sad. Louisiana Creole has African roots as its base no matter how light we are.
Black is a “race” and Creole is an “ethnicity". I’m not born back then but my dark complexion aunt tells how few in the family didn’t pass the paper bag test and would be shunned because of it. She says that when popular company would come over she and the other siblings would have to stay in their rooms and only my mom, with the light skin, blue/green/grey eyes (whatever color they felt like changing to) and the blondish hair was allowed to be upfront in view. Those like that were considered a trophy to show off…it was a token of status although my grandmother was dark herself..my mom gave her status.
It is really crazy and me and all my siblings look different and are different shades. One I’m redbone with reddish hair, my second brother is brown skinned, the two after him are yellow bone..one with light brown eyes (looks Samoli) and the younger with Hazel eyes and blondish hair (cud pass for Mulatto) and my sister is brown with reddish hair.
If you passed the paper bag test you were Creole with a capital ‘C’ if you failed you were creole with a lowercase ‘c’. My uncle was dark but had eyes like my mom…he and she were the only siblings to have those eye colors and his kids are redbone with hazel and amber eyes.
Creole had its own discrimination among its people that tore siblings apart..even to this day. My aunt is very hurt because of her husband’s words and he haven’t even met all of the family to pass such judgment on her. It was mostly friends he met but…yet she has two sons one light and one dark but I guess they’re not really brothers🤷🏾. In Louisiana our race is “Black” mixed with other races to create a wild and wide ethnic variety. We also have Asian and of course Indian, Spanish, Irish (that red hair🤦🏽♂️) and European not just French mixed in our genes.
My family is mixed with different cultures, we all turned out slightly different in shades. But outsiders will make what race they think we are. I was called White, Italian, Arab, and even though I told them what I am, they will say no you're not you are this. Or that.
My mixed race mom was also asked if she was my nanny! I wonder if the opposite happens, like a blond mother and a mixed race kid. I doubt it, they might be confused, but I doubt they would jump to nanny
I wonder why
Great topic! I love your channel
I wish everybody would just let people love themselves and their families. Peace and Love
I’m Louisiana creole, too, and my siblings and I range in color from medium brown to light skin with freckles and red hair. I’ve been asked questions like, “what are you”, to “are you mixed?” I’ve had people speak Spanish to me bc they thought I was Puerto Rican and Mexican. I haven’t done an ancestry test yet, but I think it’s time bc I really want to understand my heritage.
Danielle, your are beautiful! Keep embracing all that is natural to you. Please don't apologize to these random "don't-matter" people. You are who you are. The creator does not make mistakes. You can't change what is natural to you. Those who matter are listening to you. The rest can go elsewhere versus being negative.
Good evening from Copperhill Tn. I apologize for missing your video when you posted. It's spring time and I am busy. I subscribed so I can catch you on the replay!!!😊
Creoles are black people and recognize it. Cajuns are not considered black and are insulted if you refer to them as black people.
Trill Spill, and that's how I've alwayz known it to be! Born in tha BOOT, and raised in H-Town! 🏴☠️
Yes very true but even some of the are still genealogically connected whether they like it or not. Not all hated the love so their was alot of lovin going on.. Just saying!🤣🤣🤣😆 The mixture is already in there.
@@dt9233 You are absolutely correct in your statement. But you know in America not too many people want to admit they have black in their DNA. The psychological programming is so deep that the bottom will never be found. Many people still will not accept the fact that “Homo Sapiens Erectus” in the branch of human being that came out of Africa and is worldwide today. For some people, “ignorance is bliss”…🤣🤣🤣
Cajuns are white, and creoles can be of any race 😂 that's like saying Latinos are black knowing damn well Latinos can be of any race. There white creoles, black creoles, colored creoles, native creoles, Asian creoles etc
@@carlosm.3426 So sayeth Carlosm.3426. Have some DNA work done on a large group of Cajuns, you might be surprised or not. You may be covering something up, who knows ? Those swamps have a lot of hidden secrets. Remember, Louisiana was a serious “Sodom & Gomorrah” location during the Antebellum South Era.
It's getting pretty weird we have to defend our shade. I love her channel she has an amazing spirit but I feel she's telling my story too. There is an amazing children's book I wish every adult of color read it's called The Shades of Brown. It explains skin tones, hair textures, and eye colors. My son who's 9 was teased in school they were calling him white. Until his dad and brothers arrived. Changed schools to a more mixed environment with no issues. Your skin looks flawless. I change shades quite easily too!
So you're not Black - ACTUAL Black people don't change shades!! You can see their Blackness from a distance!!
Yes in my family I have ppl who are clearly “blk” but on the census records they’re considered white
I think this is very common for us in the Caribbean, but I think America, because of the one drop rule, have been so weird about people of multiethnic backgrounds.
Yes, in America, different states had different laws regarding Black identification. In some states, one had to be one-eighth Black or more to be considered Black, but in other states one had to be one-fourth Black or more. So, you had people who would be legally Black in certain states but White in others. What most people do not realize is that the so-called one drop rule was deemed unenforceable due to the Loving Vs. Virgina case, which was about legalizing interracial marriage. Also, before 1924, mixed race people had their own category on census forms, the mulatto category, but it was erased after the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 came about. Mulatto was no longer a choice & as a result, mulattoes were funneled into the Black or Colored category.
Which is funny enough legit everyone
Much of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean organized race according to the casta system. which has worked to the detriment of the black population by consistently reducing the number of people who identify as and with blackness or the plight of the black people on our islands as a group. Resulting in the black population not having the numbers to politically advocate for themselves as a group. So black identified people in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean are normally the poorest community. The English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean use a modified version of the one drop rule, which has resulted in much less anti blackness and more access to opportunity for the black populations. in the Caribbean we may be less weird about multiethnic backgrounds, however, the one-drop rule has provided African Americans a unity across shade and phenotype that we don't have. to the detriment of our identifiable black populations. In the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, we actually discriminate against family members who have inherited too much negro from our black ancestors. We would do well to have the relatively mild form of colorism that african americans work hard to eliminate in their culture every generation. It's so normalized within our cultures that We don't even try to address it, we don't even notice it.
@@Vanipollonia1 which gave African Americans the numbers to prosecute the civil rights movement and address the inequities they now all faced as a group and a culture. The unintended consequence of the one drop rule it gave African Americans was consistently increasing numbers as a political group. If it had never existed African Americans would only be about 5% of the population rather than 12% and thus a politically neutered population who could be kept on the back of the bus, because there isn't enough of them to matter. Soon they will all just disappear as they did in Chile
It's very normal in other places but America is the only continent/country I see where people that look visibly white claim to be black if a person that visibly looked black claimed to be white people would be calling them crazy or self hating. Blackness isn't only about culture just call yourself white and then be like but u have a white heritage. It's not that hard people are trying to complain about today but fail to realize 1 drop rule is incredibly harmful and clearly its still getting applied today. And a lot of black people are very very light it's not only about color it's mostly about phenotypes. It's like also calling Italians black because a lot of them have African blood
My dad side are all very light skinned and my mom side are mostly brown skin, But my great grandpop on my mothers side was native and white
When you have ancestors of various ethnicities, your "phenotype" can be in many ways.
I can relate my mom was from Costa Rica out five kids I’m the only one that looks non white” growing up my brothers friends would ask him who was the Mexican kid!
I grew up among lots of Italian families in New Jersey. I would see many different shades of skin tones anong brothers and sisters in the Italian genome. My bestman in my wedding was Italian with both parents being Italian who had white skin color. My friend was white skinned just like his parents and twin sister. Their oldest two brothers were dark skinned and looked Mexican. They all were related same mom and dad of Italian ancestry.
I just learned by a DNA test that I am genetically grouped into “Creole of Color” would love to learn more about Creoles and whys there’s so many groups of Creoles..
Welcome to the family so to speak! Lol 🫶🫶🫶
If there is more than one group of creole, the term is being used to mean mixed and there were various mixes. So in universities the definition that used to be given for creole was fathered by a French or Spanish man and later meant European men and the mothers were black women typically Black American Indigenous women like Beyoncé or Don Lemon etc. then there were mixes of those who had European dads and Asian moms and they were known as mestizo, but sometimes classified as creole when they use the term to mean mixed. Creole is also a language and food type and culture etc. in places like South Africa colored would be mixed and in the USA colored could mean that people come from a mixed lineage with black. So there are various meanings. Some of the creoles like the lady in the video would be generationally mixed just as there are other groups even in Ohio etc. so if there are groups of creole it’s typically just a meaning of mixed. Some people mix back in with black and others mix back with white or Asian and become more of those lines they mix with than another side. So in your instance creole would be mixed.
@@bluetinsel7099 Thank you for that information it definitely helped. My dad’s mom is definitely not fully black she stated she had a European grandfather and a Native American ancestor. I know now since I’ve done the research all sides of my family is generationally multiracial
@@creoleladisallthatjazznblu6952 ❤️🤗 Hey Fam
@@ethegreat6730 ❤️
If you are part of the Black community, and you grew up in this community, you have seen this your whole life. It's definitely fascinating to say the least. What's strange is folks not being able to accept it, love it, and recognize the diversity. I love my Creole family and their places of origin outside of North America. The history is downright fascinating.
Yes they are depending on if they were raised culturally that way. Bryant Gumble is Louisiana Creole himself and he has 65% white ancestry but he and his parents and grandparents identified as black so they are black
They’re not black if they’re damn near 70% European. They’re just Creole.
Your dna determines your race or ethnicity. Not your opinion.
@nyla27855 Yes! To me, Halle Berry and Barack Obama don’t look mixed at all. I think 70% or more European … or close to it … shouldn’t consider themselves to be Black. Even though African genes are dominant, and Africa is the birthplace of the original people on earth. Even though the African genome can create any human. Any features, hair types, and skin colors. If you’re 65% to 70% or more European … that’s non Black. The dominance is washed out by that point. Lol!
@creoleladisallthatjazznblu6952 No love, they are culturally black. Just as Tina Knowles is creole but identifies as black. Beyonce father actually comes from the more colorist background he married her because he thought she was white at first . Then he thought she was at least a light bright who wanted to be white . But boy, was he wrong despite being lightskinned they were very afrocentric and self-aware. Vanessa Williams is another multi generational mixed women who many thought she was just bi racial she's not she's black because her parents and recent grandparents identified as black period
My family who are Black from the Piedmont of NC, come in a variety of shades and eye colors. Some of my great great grandparents were listed as Black, Negro, Colored or Mulatto on the censuses between 1870-1950. Our ancestors are from Africa, and Europe some of my great grandparents siblings even left NC and moved to PA, Ohio and West Virginia and identified as White.
Basically, I describe mexicans and Latinos, but on a smaller scale in the US
I’ve always found the Creole and Cajun culture of the Louisiana Bayou intriguing. As I understand it, the Creole are a mixture of indigenous Indian, African and French. While the Cajun are indigenous Indian, French and Spanish. These biracial cultures have become traditions in the Louisiana Bayou that offer a unique style and flavor to the American landscape.
The marble analogy can be applied to Mexican-American families.
No it does not hispanic is a culture not a race .
Many Mexicans have more indigenous DNA and others have more European
@RT878 spanish europeans are not mixed they are white people except maybe in sicily where the moors conqured them . A mexican will not be claimed as spanish in spain unless they are white.
Thanks for covering her video. People have bullied her. I feel so bad for her.
I liked her
I'm not sure if we are around the same age or not but I'm in my early 30s and from Southern Virginia and raised in a "black" to family. I say that because my dad apparently have Latino mox heritage on one side that he really didn't grow up experiencing aside from being a music lover. But my dad's black side looked just as mixed as this Creole lady's family. We have plenty of cousins that could pass if they wanted to but because it was a small town after a while the white people were able to determine many of them were black if they what side of town they came from. But also during my time at least in my neighborhood it wasn't quite like it is today where people are fighting on social media and acting like they're calling people out trying to make them claim or disassociate with their blackness. Sure, i was bullied because i was not black enough in my interests and i had extremely long curly hair..it got to the point i never wore it out because of fear that other girls would cut it off ( medium brown myself that definitely in the summer most the kids would never ask about my heritage being anything different other than black unless i straighten my hair; then i get Brazilian or East Indian even Indians mistake me for their own).But aside of the ignorance of children, i usually never doubted them if someone said they were black but were really light. But today people are so ridiculous and when they categorize people in all these little groups and its coming across like either black people have this unique issue but also many others who dont ascribe to being black think they are experts on telling folks whether they are black enough. Its soook exhausting. Like you, this lady myself and others hav existed way before and share similar cultures. Shade is only one indicator of kinship. I mean it exhausts me and I feel like to most people and face value I don't complicate their psyche trying to figure out where I'm from or what my heritage is, for the most part lol. But thank you for talking about this on your channel and especially with the multi-generational aspect. After my exams I hope I'll be able to tune in and see that discussion. The funny thing about all of this is that culturally my dad ascribes to be more black than me semicolon in certain ways I ascribe to be more Latina or more of a blended heritage and I think it's my desire to want to embrace all parts on my background and not denying the other parts particularly those parts that may make others uncomfortable. No one and I mean no one should have to do that or feel that they need to do that. So thank you!
She recently turned 37. 😉
All I can say is Amen! I totally agree. My family reunion looks like hers.
I’m white and I had a friend that was very dark black skin tone and one day I said something about him being black and he told me that he wasn’t black, he was Creole and that’s what his race was.
What is the reason you mention his physicality?
@@orvillegrant3304 if you must know!
I invited him to go fishing in a remote location and he asked if anyone was going to mess with him and I said, why because your black? And he said he ain’t black. He said his momma was full blood Creole and his daddy was half black and Creole.
Creole is an ethnicity... not a racial group!! You can't mark "Creole" on the U.S. Census!!
@@DV-ol7vt Did he clarify his question? If he's not Black what was he concerned about?
@@AlluminaOnyxia I guess because everyone perceived him as black because he looked black but he thought of himself as Creole and not black. He told me that he was everything African, French, Spanish and that’s why he got along with everybody. He showed me a picture of his momma and dad,she was very light and daddy was real dark Ike him. He said he had a sister that was very light skin.
Yes…we are black. LA creoles are Black. Some are white but most are black (formerly “Creoles of Color). Its a cultural heritage. Similar to the Gullah Geechee, that’s a Cultural heritage, but they are still black and still African-American. There you go.
You have a lot of Creole fetishization and unfortunately, a lot of people that think creole means mixed when it is nothing but the case! It’s usually people (a lot of the time confused creole black folk) that want to not be associated with blackness and want to try to escape that association to where they say “I’m not black I’m creole” when they are literally saying they are black….but they think it means that they’re “mixed” (as if that is somehow a separate category and would make them non black…?) not realizing that not only is everyone who is a descendent of a slave mixed in the African diaspora, but especially African-Americans, and just Americans in general.
I don’t feel like Black people (and specifically the ethnic group of African-Americans) in the United States really fully understand that we are all multi generational mixed. Like, when you study sociology and ethnography, African-American people are literally described as a multi racial ethnic group. It’s on our Wikipedia page and within that ethnic group there are regional subsets and cultures and communities like Louisiana creole people and Gullah Geechee people and I forget the name, but even African-American people with Asian ancestry in the west, because of that regions unique history.
Everyone that is Louisiana creole knows (especially if you’re from NOLA) that if you say that you’re creole in New Orleans or in Louisiana, that means you’re letting them know you are black. And coming from Louisiana creole family I can let you know that there are all sorts of shades that will come out super light and super dark (like black people in general but ESPECIALLY in the south and in Louisiana) .
Unfortunately, being creole has been fetishized to this belief that it’s a mixed look when we are literally a part of the African American experience
The African-American registry literally had to fight for the recognition of the creole identity for Black people in New Orleans.
We are a subset of African Americans. We a part of the beautiful diversity of African Americans.
She literally looks like people in my family, many people in my family, in fact (black aunties and 1 uncle😂). But I also know people that are straight from Nigeria that have her same skin complexion an eye, color, because people who are in the black category, this binary racial categorization, we have, literally are the most diverse people on the planet, especially African people. Every feature and phenotype exists. White people don’t get to dictate what black looks like and what blackness is because they don’t understand.
A great resource would be PBS is Henry Louis Gates series African-Americans, many Rivers to Cross. Literally talks about all of these dynamics.
Creoles are mixed up
@@Motheroftheuniverse22so are all black Americans… creole does not mean mixed, and I literally talk about the fetishization and miss representation of the media of what creole means
@@nikibronson133 why should a mixed people allow the racism of the one drop rule force them to align with "blackness". They are African, Native American, and European. They also retain a lot of cultural traditions of all the ethnicities. They aren't "black" they are all of the above.
Well if you didn’t vote for old Joe you ain’t black .
@@TheSweetnsalty1 💀💀💀💀💀 the reference 😂😂😂
My grandpa was creole, similar complexion as her along with blue eyes. His dad was German but his mother was apparently black/indigenous.
THEY ARE MIXED
@msrenee7023 so are you dear
All Native Black Americans are.
I mean, like, why is that so damn hard for people to admit..just foolishness.it doesn't mean you're not apart of the community.. jeeze.
@msrenee7023 If I just randomly bumped into her, I would consider her Black.
It's not rocket science. They're just mixed.
DNA test solves all issues. When you mixed sometimes one of the ancestry wells run dry. Siblings can inherent different ancestry blood
One video she’s crying bc people are saying she’s not Black. Which she may very well not be. The next video she’s got that unambiguous CLEARLY Black guy tagged in stating she doesn’t want to be called Black or Afro American. He’s saying the same thing. When he CLEARLY is Black. This is becoming ignorant, annoying, and a minstrel show at this point. Really.
Oooh I didn’t see that!
@@nytn Yes girl!!! She also has several videos of bafoonery. Speaking in Ebonics vernacular stating that she’s Black bc she “talks bad” and telling folks to go listen to how her dad “talks” etc. I love her bc she’s family, but the shenanigans need to stop. Asap. It’s crazy really. Just go take the dna and find out if you’re black or not and go with it. Lol!!! I’ve even lived with her and her mom twice when I was between places. We used to be really tight. Not anymore. This girl has lost her marbles. Also, pictures of close family members doesn’t prove your blackness either. My dad is just Creole. He’s not white or Black. My mom is Black Creole. So am I. My dad’s three other daughters are the daughters of my dad and my non ambiguously Black non Creole Afro American Black stepmother. Therefore, my dad is just Creole. Not Black or White. All four of his daughters are Black Creoles. My mom is twice as Black as my dad. My sister’s mom is non Creole Black / Afro American. Her daughters are certainly Black Creoles. My sister’s son and my son are both for non Creole Black American men and both of our sons are more Black than us. I do not know what the hell she thinks she’s proving by showing pictures of her close family members that are Black. That’s like a white woman having children with a Black man and going oh!!! Look at my Black kids. Now I’m Black. Like no. You’re not. 😂😂😂 Anyway, I don’t know if she’s Black or not. Neither does she. My point is just take the dna test and roll with the results. Significantly African is Black. Not significantly African is non Black. She also twerks all over the internet and participated in other bafoonery as arbitrary expressions of “Blackness” and it is quite offensive to be honest. “Talking bad” “twerking” “cultured” or “raised as” DO NOT make you a Black woman!!! ONLY dna does. Either she is or she isn’t. Bottom line. I’m sick of seeing this stupidity. Tbh with you.
Oh wow! I didn’t see that one either 😳
@@CreoleLadyMarmalade Girl yes! 😂😂😂 It’s got to the point where I don’t follow her on tiktok anymore. I don’t really be on there anyway. I’m on Facebook and TH-cam like all day. Every day. 😂😂😂 I don’t fool with TikTok like that though. But yeah. The dude is very unambiguously Black. Talkin’ bout oh ya Creoles gon be like the Dominicans. We no Black. 😂😂😂 I was like um no! Speak for yourselves. The bafoonery is real. The thing she doesn’t realize is that a family line can be blackened or whitened. So unambiguously black close family members do not make you Black. How you were raised does not make you Black. How you speak bafoonery does not make you Black. I actually find that to be insulting. As Black Americans, the AA community used to pride itself on speaking properly. Actually. So “talking bad” as they say doesn’t make someone Black. My mom looks White. My mom actually doesn’t even have Afro centric features at all. My mom’s hair isn’t even curly. It’s straight with a little wave to it. Lol She looks White for sure. But … she is significantly African. So, I’m not saying for sure that Dana (this girl) isn’t Black. What I’m saying is either she is or she isn’t. Go do the dna test and find out is my thing. I used to argue with my dad that he just didn’t want to be Black. When I found out he and his siblings are actually only a quarter Black, I left them alone. 🤣🤣🤣 If I found out I was only in the twentieth percentile, I would’ve stopped self identifying as Black. To be honest. Even though I strongly believe that African genes are dominant bc of so much proof. Twentieth percentile. Like nah. Dominant or not … that’s non Black. Idc. 🤣🤣🤣 So … all of this stuff and these antics she keeps pulling are goofy and becoming annoying at this point. Just do the dna. Find out if you’re significantly African or not. If you are then you are Black. If you’re not then you’re not Black. Plain and simple. 😂😂😂 That’s like me saying bc my first cousins and my aunt are way more unambiguous than me that makes me Black. The folks she’s showing in these pictures are more Black than her due to sides of their family she’s NOT even blood related to. For instance, my mom’s sister is very much so unambiguously Black. Her mom my unambiguous grandmother. So yes I got Black blood from her. Her dad was very dark skinned. My mom’s dad was half White. My aunt is unambiguous. BUT … my unambiguous aunt doesn’t make me more Black. Bc she’s more Black than I am due to her father than I am not in any way related to at all. My first cousins in California are unambiguous. My mom and her sister (their mother that is now passed) … both fair skinned. My mom is mistaken for white all the time. She’s significantly African though. My mom’s passed on sister was always mistaken for Mexican mostly. I’d say about half and half. Depending on how she wore her hair and such a lot of the time too. She liked to rock the “in” hairstyles. If she was rocking a “black” hairstyle then people knew she was just a “red girl”. Light skinned black woman. If she had her hair in a different style, people would think she was Mexican. Her kids were for a dark skinned man and both of them are unambiguously Black. HOWEVER… even though they’re my first cousins… they are more Black than me. From their father whom I am not related to at all. So the showing pictures of unambiguous family members thing to prove Blackness is rather goofy if ya ask me. Your unambiguous family members don’t make you more Black. Especially if they’re more Black than you due to parts of their family that you’re not even related to. 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🙅🏻♀️🙅🏻♀️🙅🏻♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ It’s all just goofy at this point. It’s like hey. Just go do the dna test. Yes it’s not an exact science. Yes there are mistakes on it as well. However, it’s going to tell you how Black you are or aren’t. Those African (sub Saharan) haplo groups and genetic traits ain’t mixed up with European ones. I know that Danielle’s test may have confused her Sicilian with Egyptian. None the less … The dna tests ain’t that off to confuse sub Saharan Africans with Europeans. So … my thing is this. Go take the dang test. If it comes out that she is significantly African then boom. She is Black. If it comes out that she’s not significantly African then boom. She’s non Black. Plain and simple. But that completely unambiguous guy that is her cousin or whatever needs to shut his trap for real. 😂😂😂 Like CLEARLY he’s Black.
I just saw your channel for the first time! @CreoleLadyMarmalade
Heartbreaking that there is public discourse about this given those that say do maybe denying the their own relatives.
my late grandmere was black and a french creole from Louisiana. you can be both. so, i don't understand this misconception that being black and/or french creole can't be true. these colorists in the black and white community need a reality check.
i'm a whole ass black woman... skin, hair features.. my ancestry dna test says i'm 80% european
my second oldest child looks straight up white but his ancestry dna tests says he's 70% black.
both of my parents are light skinned black people and my dad is white passing. me and all of my siblings go from the whitest of white and darkest of dark. my oldest sister is a blond haired white woman and my youngest sibling is dark chocolate .. both of their moms are white.
genetics is crazy and looks have nothing to do with who you are.
So you think it's crazy if your whitest of white sister is not viewed as black by a black person?
I like your offerings. I am from the Caribbean and it is quite interesting the way Americans relate to race, however due to your research and postings I get a better grasp of the situation over there. Some folks need to create reasons to hate and color seems to be the perfect avenue. Travel to any Caribbean nation and you will find persons just like this featured lady and yourself this is not strange to us a good example of this mixture is Rihanna. Love yourself embrace your rich heritage sister and keep the content coming.
@cg2566 This channel is not a good representation of race in America. Btw, I know Rihanna family, Barbados has it's own legacy with race(similar to the U.S), Rihanna is a Black woman and created a new Black family.
My Mississippi born maternal grandmother (born 1885) was the only one on a 1910 census of a household of 10 kids, that was marked as "mulatto " 🤷🏽♀️ Her parents were definitely "mulatto ".
On that same census report the rest are marked as "black". I don't know what was going on then with granny 🤪
Her accent sounds like New Orleans, where my family lives. The rule of hypo-decent (one drop) is adhered to, not as an imposition, but how we see ourselves as Black. If you attend a family event in the Black community, there is a range of phenotypic diversity. Even in the same households, with the same parents, kids will have wildly different skin tones and hair textures. There are many in my family who could pass for white, while others are so dark you can hardly see them at midnight and everything in between. It was culture shock for me to leave New Orleans and discover that the rest of the US/world doesn't do this😙
I don't get it, within the black community having 2 black parents has never been the standard for being considered black within the community. Every black family has several dozen different shades, hair textures, and ethnic features in it, As much as today the one-drop rule is seen as silly, and though it is true that it was never meant to benefit black people. It did have the unintended result of uniting African Americans across shades and phenotypes into a single unified historical, cultural, and political people who all faced the same cultural, and systemic issues interacted with each other freely and were equally committed to the preservation, advancement, and protection of the community and its culture. It didn't cause the community stratification across shade and phenotype lines that you see in cultures that worked under the Casta system which ultimately only served to bolster the numbers of the ruling white minority and divide the much larger underclass of color into smaller, easily managed groups separated by blood quantum and mutually antagonistic towards each other based on their proximity to whiteness and the privileges and opportunities that came with it. Without the one-drop rule, the civil rights movement would not have been possible, because the black community would have been too divided and too small in numbers to prosecute it politically. The fact that we are an identifiable, curtable political identity and ethnicity serves to safeguard our freedoms in a nation where we are only 12 to 14 percent of the population. historically Having no real path to legal whiteness meant we were all gonna be permanently in it together and dependent on each other to gain and maintain our rights and freedoms.
Yea, this wasn't a thing until 2015. All of a sudden, people who are HALF BLACK aren't allowed to indulge in their own culture. It's ridiculous ! Then you have some that claim Tina Knowles as black (someone who hasn't had an undeniably black ancestor in generations), but deny Halle Berry or Drake..people who are obviously of significant African ancestry.
That’s Dana, her family is definitely black. I know her and Ms. Esther (her mom) very well.
Genetics do their own thing, you sort of cant control it.
my sibling, who is 3 years older than I am, looks like my twin, only we're two different shades of brown
That's my cousin and she's down in Laplace Louisiana
How did she make it through Ida?
@@Zarga8 she did alright. It's Louisiana. Don't want to speak too much for her, but she's fine.
Creole people get mistaken for Latinos I get this a lot myself
Creole is a loose term nowadays and can be interpreted differently by different groups. I’m not sure if all New Orleanians think like me but when I hear someone say they’re creole it usually means they want to acknowledge they’re mixed. It’s barely used here because everyone claims black or white. I find people visiting the city using creole as an identifier because the locals just say they’re black or white.
She's a beautiful black lady. This is normal in Louisiana. Blacks needs to learn who we are
2 blk parents equal blk
ALWAYS
2 blk parents equal blk
We are white? 😂
The only people that can truthfully claim being white are vast majority of European extraction!?
@nytn i grew up with my family saying that a child "breech" back when they come out lighter, datker, different hair texture, or eye color than their parents.
My people make me laugh. 😂😂😂 we are all different skin shades in Louisiana families.
I have creole relatives and yes, they can look as white too. Being in Louisiana and Texas gulf area this is not uncommon.
Calling Black Americans African Americans is really an incorrect statement. We are native produced from the experience of the U.S. A new people the result of an Ethnogenesis.Louis Armstrong was creole they come in diffrent shades. It would surprise you that in Black American families we all come in different shades.Some families have more light skin some families have more caramel or darker skin. I agree with NYTN alot judging by complexion will have you lost.But still call Black people African is wrong and leads to an erasure of people. I am Caramel but my Mother has the Creole lady Complexion my Grandmother could pass as White My Grandfather was a Dark skin man.My Father is a Caramel Man all are Black American produced out of the American experience not African but a mixture of different ethnic groups who participated in creating the U.S
I don't have an identity crisis
and or an anti dark Continent bias.
I'm A Okay with being an African American.
@KAH-7 see my problem with some of the veiws of this channel the lady says she just wish we can all just be American. I admire that but she has consistently used the word African to describe Black Americans as African. It is not a mistake also when she describes her Black American ancestors she never say they are African she acknowledge the admixture. When she talks of Black Americans she pretends Black Americans are homogeneous Africans.That is dishonest from an anthropological point of veiw.
Creoles aren't a color. Being from south Louisiana I grew up hearing the terms Cajun vs Creole alot. I was taught that Cajuns were white and that Creoles were mixed or black. It wasn't until later on that I learned the history (and I'm still learning).
Before "cajunization" in the early 60s many whites and blacks, etc referred to themselves as creole.
I don't care if you're white, black, mixed, native, asian, etc. If you from Louisiana and you have the same culture as me then who am I to say you aren't creole. Creole is Louisiana, a people, not a race.
This girl is my cousin. I wish she just go do a dna and find out if she’s significantly African or not. If she is, she’s Black. If she’s not, she’s just plain Creole. Plain and simple. Idk if she is Black or not, but I wish she go find out and also quit flip flopping on whether or not she wishes to be Black. Either she is or she isn’t. It doesn’t really matter either way it goes. Both of her parents are Creole and both look white. The only way to find out if she is significantly African or not is to do the dna and just accept the results. Whichever they may be. This debate is becoming really silly. Also, no one can be “raised to be”, or “cultured into” a race. It’s a ridiculous notion. Race is a social construct, because different mixtures are identifies differently in different places. That doesn’t negate the genetic component of race. Significantly African is Black. Not significantly African is non Black. Plain and simple. Creole is an ethnicity. A Louisiana Creole is a simply a descendant of French and or Spanish lineage with at least one family line originating in Louisiana. Those of us that also have African and or Native American in us are Louisiana Creoles of Color. Those of us that are either significantly or majority African descent are Black. Those that are not of significant African descent are non Black. There’s also a full 100% Black Louisiana Creole group that are descendants of Nigerian and Congolese slaves. They gained their freedom and created a Creolized cultural society of their own. You have full full Black Creoles that are Nigerian and Congolese descendants. You have majority Black multi generationally mixed Creoles. You have significantly Black multi generationally mixed Creoles. You have multi generationally mixed Creoles of Color that do not identify with any race. Only their ethnicity. They are the Creoles that are so heavily mixed that they’re too much African to be white and not enough African to be Black. Then, you have White Creoles of very very minimal African descent or none at all. These people are French and or Spanish descendants with at least one family line originating in Louisiana. They do not have any or very very little African in them. These are the White Louisiana Creoles. Anglos are the only true “Whites”. French and Spanish are Latin European. However, in the current construct of race in America, everything European is called White. So, you have Black, White, and simply so heavily mixed Creoles that they are just Creoles. In short, NO! All Louisiana Creoles are NOT Black. Some are and some aren’t. As far as her… she needs to simply go take the test and accept whatever the results are atp. It’s becoming annoying. Tbh
DNA test?! For what?! That's a dam Anglo-white woman, with a Creole background... but she's definitely Anglo-white!!
@@kevinc3342 My mom’s dad was half white half Creole. Her mom was unambiguously Black. Creole ethnicity. So, my mom’s dna is significantly African. Which means she’s Black. My mom’s dad looked purely white as far as his phenotype. My mom looks White as well. Bc she looks like her dad. My niece came out looking White too. lol Like my mom. My niece is majority African dna. Majority Black. Her dad is non Creole Afro American. My sister is the daughter of our mom and my stepdad. Who is unambiguously Black. Creole ethnicity. So… phenotype doesn’t determine race. Neither does culture or how you were raised. Dna does.
@@creoleladisallthatjazznblu6952 Congratulations - you're mixed-race... not Black!!
@@kevinc3342 Also, most Creoles aren’t Anglo. I’m only 5% Anglo. I’m roughly 40% Black. A quarter Latin European. 30% Irish. A LITTLE Anglo. Most Creoles aren’t Anglo.
@@creoleladisallthatjazznblu6952 You're mixed-race.
Danielle - please do a feature on Gregory Howard Williams, who grew up thinking he was fully white in the 1950's only to discover that he is biracial. He was formerly the Pres of City college in NY. He talks about it on TH-cam but I'd love to hear him discuss his experience with you ❤🎉😅
Balck fishing? Nonsense you look marvelous! Good to see you black Oh, I meant back....See what I did there🙂
The woman narrating the video is NOT Black, and neither is the woman on the thumnail!!
@@kevinc3342are you the judge of who is Black?
@ThatSuzanneSchmid I can judge who is Black!! Anglo-whites judge either who is included or EXCLUDED from whiteness, and you respect their decision. You wouldn't DARE question it!! That said - respect Black people's decision to decide who is... and is NOT part of the Black race!!
@@ThatSuzanneSchmid Yes!!
@ThatSuzanneSchmid You wouldn't DARE question whites about whiteness, so why do you question Black people about Blackness?!
That’s Slidell, Louisiana folks right there. ❤
You ain't got nothing to prove I'm creole.. don't trip sista you all good.
I love your channel and videos because alot of light skinned people grow up being teased and it's worst in families because everyone wants to know what you are,are we cousins 🤔 I use to be really light and got called "white girl"SMH there needs to be a video on that alone, colorism is so real it's baffling
JUST DO DNA RESULTS and Accept it
Dna test have been disproven many times smh
Commercial dna kits are not as straightforward as they seem
DNA test are not accurate.Many people sent dog dna in and got human results.
@@jenjoestar. that’s gossip mine is correct. Have you done it? No, I’m sure you haven’t because you listen to garbage.
RIGHT!!! I’m sick of this debate. 😂😂😂
My family varies in complexions. Even a dark complexion person can be considered mixed. This lady looks like my family member. My neighbor across the road from me was very fair-skinned and her parents are brown-skinned.
None of this is new in the black community. We practically all have this same situation in the fam.
Nah, I dont have no majority white people in my family calling themselves black. Noone I know does. There's light skin, and then there's WHITE skin, yall crazy upholding the one drop rule.
@bettyboopsie9836 She's clearly black-ish. Very fair, but there are certain features that you can't miss if you know your own people. Most of us have mulatto or whatever term we're using now in our family tree. I have it on both sides of my family. We range from the fairest to the darkest, usually because the light and dark ones are finding each other. 🤣 And that's still happening today.
All Black Americans are multigenerationally mixed. We don’t claim it. Although we are different complexions, we are still BLACK.
I’m trying to figure out why people are acting like we are all supposed to be the same complexions? It’s crazy to me
Btw… I’m also Creole (dad’s side) but I wouldn’t be accepted as one ☝️ due to my complexion (my hair gives me a “pass” though
They are not blacks!!! Lol
You are clueless. I have relatives this color who lived through the real Jim Crow. Not the 1950s or 60s but the 1930s, 20s, 30s and teens. They were subjected to the same racial laws that the blackest person in Louisiana was subjected too. You's a foreigner. You were born in a county. You're not qualified to speak on Louisiana. We on some different shit.
My dad was tan with a red tone. People got confused on how he had his color and freckles in louisiana with mixed hair. Family can skip a generation and the color can be drastically different. My mom is lightskin but her dark is very dark and mom is tan, but she's lighter than her own mom, but her grandfather is silver eyes and lightksin, but the only ancestor who was white was a slave owner. 1 slave owner, and it lead to generations of various skintones, some ginger hair like greatgrandpa with some having silver eyes even to my cousins.
That's the legacy of slavery, I'm African American and have family members that look similar to the women in the video
So we all suppose see mix person as Black cause your family have a few talk about self centered
@@principtounenmondesir I don't understand what you mean? I'm a brown skinned black woman, but my father & many people on his side of my family were light skinned. We're still black people
@@veronicaharris8541 lightskin dont equal mix
@@veronicaharris8541 if they mix like this women why not just say that?
@@principtounenmondesirthe point is, it doesn't really matter what you or others think about her Blackness (or my Blackness or any person's Blackness). She is who she is, regardless.
I’m a new sub , but I would like to tell you , you are beautiful 💪🏾
Idk bout everyone if them👀 but the girl on the thumbnail def has African facial features
She has both white and blk features
Same lady
@@Motheroftheuniverse22black and white features is a made up thing
@@Motheroftheuniverse22 thanks Capt obvious🤦🏿♂️
She all AMERICAN features 🤔