V10LETBLUES said:

UncleGrandpa said:

All I have to add to this thread is, DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN, ya'll went way off course.

Off course and into a ditch, sirens, ambulances, paramedics and are wandering about trying to figure out what hell is happening.

Y'all say that like it's something unusual around these parts,

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V10LETBLUES said:

UncleGrandpa said:

All I have to add to this thread is, DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN, ya'll went way off course.

Off course and into a ditch, sirens, ambulances, paramedics are wandering about trying to figure out what hell is happening.

[Edited 2/18/11 19:41pm]

right?

OldFriends4Sale said:

jason7sh said:

2elijah is right on point in her remarks above. I really respect and like what she said above. This race and percentage stuff is really holden humanity back. When I was at Princeton, I took a class with Dr. Cornel West and he was one great professor. I loved the way he broke down the social constructs of racism, classism and sexism in America. This was one of the greatest classes that I've ever taken on African American history, religion and culture. In fact, Dr. West even attends P's concerts sometimes.

Of course, are you 2 acting out some skit for Black History month?

You have white guilt, everything you say is suspect

Clean it up, deacon!

Spinlight said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Of course, are you 2 acting out some skit for Black History month?

You have white guilt, everything you say is suspect

Clean it up, deacon!

[Snip - luv4u]

OldFriends4Sale said:

prodigalfan said:

Thanks for reply. and thanks for the picture. I imagined Sheila's mom looking more average AA and not so exotic looking. Her "Black" mom looks more racially ambiguious than Sheila herself.

Right because her mom isn't Black, she's Creole, she's from a line a mixed race people from Louisiana. Beyonce Knowels mom is Creole too, and so is actress Lynn Whitfield mom. It's considered a different ethnic group.

I agree, from the time i first saw her in the Glamorous Life video I always saw Sheila E as a 'mulatta' Sheila actually to me, has a look that I see as discernably of africa/other admixture, where her brothers have a more stereotypical 'latin' look

^

Yes, it is funny how siblings can take on very different looks even though they are of the same 2 people. look at the Debarges. Bunny Debarge always looked like a light skinned black woman with "good hair" where some of her brothers look down right Mexican.

prodigalfan said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Right because her mom isn't Black, she's Creole, she's from a line a mixed race people from Louisiana. Beyonce Knowels mom is Creole too, and so is actress Lynn Whitfield mom. It's considered a different ethnic group.

I agree, from the time i first saw her in the Glamorous Life video I always saw Sheila E as a 'mulatta' Sheila actually to me, has a look that I see as discernably of africa/other admixture, where her brothers have a more stereotypical 'latin' look

^

Yes, it is funny how siblings can take on very different looks even though they are of the same 2 people. look at the Debarges. Bunny Debarge always looked like a light skinned black woman with "good hair" where some of her brothers look down right Mexican.

that is true. Funny thing is the DeBarge father is French-Canadian

OldFriends4Sale said:

prodigalfan said:

^

Yes, it is funny how siblings can take on very different looks even though they are of the same 2 people. look at the Debarges. Bunny Debarge always looked like a light skinned black woman with "good hair" where some of her brothers look down right Mexican.

that is true. Funny thing is the DeBarge father is French- Canadian

That was a big shocker to me. I always always thought the Debarges were either Mexican and Black or Spanish and Black.

Also when I saw an interview of their mother... I was surprised that she looked and talked just like women of my family. I thought she would be a real nutjob staying with an abusive man who also abused her babies... but when they interviewed her for Unsung... I could understand why she stayed so long. Nothing pathological .... just a woman who had too many babies and no job skills.

I have older aunts who endured the same sort of family environment... for the same reasons.

I heard a comedian tonight discuss how Barack Obama, when he decided to run for President, was described as a black man running for president. Then, when he won, he was suddenly "multi-racial". He then joked that, in reality, if Obama was out stealing your car, you wouldn't go to a cop and say, "hey, there's a multi-racial guy stealing my car". You'd say there's a black guy stealing your car, because, well, he looks black. And that is what matters, in matters of race, especially with Black people.

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