Dsoul said:

WT? Perhaps you should do some research DSoul. Fine European features? Iman has high cheekbones, and a slim type face. That is not limited to European features dear. Have you ever seen the facial characteristics of people of the Sans Bushmen tribe of the Kalahari desert in South Africa? They are the oldest living descendants of the human race encompassing all the features of the human race. Many of them have almond shaped to very slanted eyes and high cheekbones, and vary in complexion, and they are the world's oldest living culture dating back over 100,000 years. According to some genetic scientists, the Sans Bushmen encompass most of the majority of the facial features of the human race. You see those same facial features in many asians and natives (native american ancestry).

There's a lot of Africans in my neighborhoods and they marry within, and are very tight-knit family wise. Rarely do they even marry Black American females born within the states who are not born in Africa or have direct, African roots affiliated with a specific African ethnic group. Although you have some Africans who don't follow those customs and marry outside of their ethnic group. So yes their Black African women are held in high regard to them. Not every race/culture falls into the stupidity, ignorance and assinine idea of what some hollywood dimwits consider "beauty" for the rest of the world.
[Edited 4/29/09 9:03am]

candy2277 said:

Dennis Rodman has said that he was rejected by alot of black women,so he now refuses to date them.I think they don't date him because he's too weird (lol,just kidding).

SoulAlive said:

I think that's just an excuse for his obnoxious behavior and his own insecurities about himself.

SoulAlive said:

I'm sure a lot of white women rejected his UGLY ass. Ugly is ugly regardless of race. Have you seen that alien in person???
[Edited 4/29/09 10:12am]

2elijah said:

Yeah, that too. I used to work in a club he owned and he was always grabbing women and pulling on them. He just lost a case this week for doing the same to a waitress. That dude has all kinds of USHERS.

SCNDLS said:

I thought he decided to be a gay alchoholic who can't keep a job on the Apprentice?

Graycap23 said:

As opposed to the other umimportant,irrelvant & pointless threads on this and other forums?

gypsyfire said:

Although your message is rough in a couple of spots, I have stated more than a few times on this board that I believe Prince is VERY hypocritical and confused when it comes to his depiction of beauty standards and color. He can be so poignant and reflective about life, society and the errors of man, yet so blind when it comes to his own actions of isolation. As a 34-year-old, brown-skin Black woman, I've LOVED Prince since I was 10! That's basically 24 years now that I've been idolizing this man. However, I've always been saddened by his obvious color issues. Songs like Colonized Mind are amazing, but sadly, it's a song punctuated by his own.

DesireeNevermind said:

I don't think that's why people are so riled up regarding Prince and his color issues. His personal life is his business. The fact is that he conveys messages that would have people believe that his inner sanctum is a racial nirvana where race and skin color don't matter. However, it loses veracity when most of the women that he exalts for their beauty or works with in any measurable capacity, look a certain way. Yes, he understands marketing i.e. the bi-racial parentage marketing myth he deployed in Purple Rain. He understands that racially-ambiguous people of color have always been largely more favored and palpable to the masses. However, knowing this, doesn't exactly obliterate the sting, nor does it excuse Prince from at least acknowledging it.

Shango said:

They both look VERY angry in that photo! LOL

Dsoul said:

Checkmate! This comment speaks volumes of the historical brainwashing and limited exposure, that need to be erased. What exactly are "African-featured" women? Africa is a large continent, comprised of beautiful women with vastly different physical features. Just the other day I was watching an African beauty pageant on the African channel on cable. There were women from South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Tunisia, Cameroon, Algeria, Somalia and they were some of the most beautiful women I've seen. They ranged in hair texture, length, skin tone etc, eye color and facial features that went from very full and broad to thin lips and thin noses. The woman who won had very dark skin and dark eyes. She was beautiful. However, it amazed me how many of the photographers who were drooling over them were European! Unfortunately, the Black community doesn't place women who look like this on a pedestal as often as it should.

SCNDLS said:

You kill me ROFLMAO

airbak said:

toots said:

I'm just saying dude is scary looking. He looks like a human Picasso. But what makes it MUCH worse is his attitude, that's truly ugly.

SCNDLS said:

I agree its just funny as hell HOW you put it into perspective ur still killing

Again, i don't condone or condemn Prince for showcasing a light skinned chick when he himself is light skinned and green/hazel eyes on top of that. I can cut the bruh some slack when he's picking women who are somewhat racially ambiguous.

Its not like he's Quincy Jones who has frequently sported and been married to blonde blue eyed chicks. Its not like he's Tiger Woods whom to my knowledge has never dated anybody that was of the same skin tone as he yet alone racial background. Its not like he's Robert Dinero whose only dated women of a certain ethnic group. Prince may not be practicing hard core diversity (dating every ethnicity under the sun) when it comes to women he romances/produces/puts up in the video but he's not discrimanatory (sp) either. Uh except maybe Asian women. I can't recall one at the moment.

toots said:

airbak said:

Like it finally dawned on her an hour or two too late that she, Marvin Gaye's daughter, had been talked into wearing chain mail and little else by a fully dressed, philandering midget.

He definitely has a type and that type is best-categorised as "ambiguous ethnicity".

But, just as Susan Moonsie, Robin Power and Nona Gaye are exceptions to the rule, so were Susannah Melvoin and Kim Basinger...



He never dated the similarly milk-white Sheena Easton. He may have had a "thing" with Madonna - who knows?.. So, two confirmed relationships with two obviously white women (Susannah and Kim) are the exceptions to the rule, rather than his other relationships with women of colour (regardless of their shade).

It's just really not that worth worrying about.

Sheesh, when is someone black enough? You can't even be it a 100 percent (whatever that means) without people saying you're not black enough because you don't have these certain kinds of features or have the wrong ancestry.

I've come to understand that being "truly" black has not as much to do with skincolor as with features and attitude. Being black seems to have a lot to do with expectations and preconceptions.

GirlBrother said:

I wonder if Prince designed that silly dress she's wearing?
[Edited 4/30/09 3:35am]

Why aint this thread in the religion forum?

If Prince was married to one person for 30 years what would that say?

SoulAlive said:

I kinda like that dress actually.

another weird thing about his relationship with Kim is that she is 5 years older than he is. He also did not make a fool out of her by making her her own c.d. and comparing her artistry to Sade who is a favorite with critics. I feel bad for Bria. I don't think she was ready to be critiqued like an artist of International recognition. I hope she had built up a thick skin before the release of this c.d.!

I liked Kim Basinger b4 she went coo coo.

SoulAlive said:

Yes he did.

SCNDLS said:

Somewhere Vivianne Westwood did a design like this for last season. No shit.

salaciousV said:

She's on the cusp of crazy with her some of her shit so I'm not surprised.

SCNDLS said:

its a hot bridezilla mess.

Anxiety said:

actually, I thought Tamar wrote that herself. I thought it was pretty much a formed thought/idea and Prince just "fleshed it out" and recorded, which is why Tamar got credit for it as well as Prince.