nursev said:

lol mariah isn't black

Zinzi said:

nursev said:

oh yeah i forgot ireland is a part of sub-saharan africa XD

nursev said:

co-





I get it. A play on words. She isn't black by virtue of her color. Oh hell I dunno what zinzi is talking about.

DesireeNevermind said:

or virtue of her race and genetics

http://www.wright.edu/col...ariahc.htm

What's the rule?


She's black

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You can see that she is in this pic

Zinzi said:

What???

Zinzi said:

by that argument...a lot of black people (Prince included) aren't really black. What's the cut off exactly?
[Edited 5/12/10 12:50pm]

DesireeNevermind said:

that's what I'm saying

What they have in common???

Uh...

Lemme think...

I don't know.

Mariah's daddy black and Venezuelan by the way.

http://answers.yahoo.com/...235AAkam9d

Same bullshit speculations with Prince.



HE'S BLACK!

DesireeNevermind said:

because most black's don't have a geneetic home test in thier house
so of course 'black' is all they know of officialy

being 50% white and KNOWING your mother is doesn't bring any bullshit of being black

KidaDynamite said:

her mom's irish

Timmy84 said:

Venezuela has a large black-latino population...people who have African ancestry. Jus sayin'.

Zinzi said:

wow

DesireeNevermind said:

Zinzi said:

Bullshit of being black? What the hell does that mean? Mariah calls herself black as well as mixed race so what are you talking about? Most people don't go around calling themselves 50% of anything. What if both of your parents are each half white? Are we still counting percentages and discounting someone being black?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...-drop_rule

hate to go there, but I had to take it there. The bullshit being posted in this thread is incredible. No sense of history, no respect for a whole race of people and our history.

I'm sure Prince and Mariah both consider themselves as having ties to the black community and race.


Another thing they have in common: they both like dark meat...and I aint talkin' bout chicken neitha!



carry on.

Anyway, back to what the hell Prince and Mariah have in common.

I don't see nothing, do you?

Timmy84 said:

people up in here tryna sabotage my thread. where them hot grits at?


lemme stop!


Prince and Mariah both have felt stifled by their recording contracts.

nursev said:

bit of a waste of energy using wow as an argument

Ooh! I got it.

Their song titles are very creative to say the least.

DesireeNevermind said:

Ah that's a good one. Forgot about that but yeah they have. They also signed $100 million contracts and those went bust as we all know.
[Edited 5/12/10 13:23pm]

IMO Comparing a man and a woman, physically, is a nonsense...
"Paint a perfect picture
Bring to life a vision in one's mind"

DesireeNevermind said:

bullshit of being black as in bullshit mysticism of being black
as in she KNOWS she ain't black
and ''people dont go around calling themselves 50% of anything''
really? youve never heard anyone say
''oh im half (insert race here)''
(because 50% and half mean the same thing if you didn't know)
if both of parents are half white and half of something else that would make you mixed race still
my argument here is
if white people can be ridiculed for calling mariah white
why can't blacks be ridiculed for calling mariah black
it's the exact same thing
you're both 50% wrong

ganesh said:

Well they don't have that much in common except for what Desiree just mentioned lol

Anyway other than that, I think Prince and Mimi are different like night and day.

One's a musician and one's a pop star lol

Zinzi said:

Uh,,,nobody on here is ridiculing white people for calling her white because, NEWSFLASH, white people don't call her white. At least they don't call her white once they found out her dad was black. She is referred to as either mixed race or black. Both are appropriate IMO because she lives in a country that has only recently began to acknowledge and accept mixed race heritage but still considers people who are part black to still be black. That attitude was not invented and is not sustained by black people btw.

There is no mysticism of being black. Black is very real and many people have suffered under that "realness".



If you don't like Mariah being called black then you really ought to take it up with her.


do you hold the same opinion with regard to darker skinned people like Halle Berry and Mario Van Peoples? Or do you just feel that way about folk who can pass?