Has anyone read this?

http://www.barnesandnoble...1422216286

It's a biography series specializing in notable biracials.

I wonder how accurate this biography might be.

bi-racial? what is his other race? I am guessing some kind of alien species...

Skim-read 'Trascending' as 'Transgendered'. :doubletake:

NouveauDance said:

Skim-read 'Trascending' as 'Transgendered'. :doubletake:

LMFAO

For a transgendered bi-racial, I really think he's achieved things.

People still believe this "P is biracial" shit?

"On the back cover of the book, it says, "Prince, son of a black father and a white mother." Then in the actual text of the book, it says Prince's father is black and mother is multiracial. I think they lied on the back cover to get those who wish Prince was at least 50% white to buy their product.
Many may remember in "Under a Cherry Moon" when Prince called Jerome "chocolate," but himself "butterscotch." However, that's because Prince is LIGHT-SKIN'DED. Prince ain't Mariah or Halle or Obama. He is plain, ol' Black just like me and most Black folk!
What this book doesn't cover is that Prince LIED about this multiraciality. Some say Prince claims to be part Italian. However, many magazines and documentaries have shown photos of his parents and stress that Prince has two Black parents who wouldn't be deemed anything besides Black in the United States. I know some Filipino Americans who said Prince was part Filipino and that's hogwash too. Prince may chant about "I wish there was no Black or white," but that doesn't mean he's neither. The book could have touched on something that it didn't: Prince has a romantic preference for mixed-race women.
To be fair, the book doesn't say "biracial this" and "biracial that" on every other page. It speaks about his childhood, start in music, hits, and misses. Surprisingly, there's only one page at most about "Purple Rain," the soundtrack or the film.
Like the Beyonce book in this series, these bookmakers have reversed things and somehow deemed that any Black person with one drop of white blood is biracial. On "African American Lives 2," dark-complected Don Cheadle learned that he's 20% white. Is this Biracial Achievers series gonna include him too one day?! Gimme a break!"

^^^^a review posted on the book from amazon. com.......this guy was just trying to sell books obviously FOH.

Prince is Prince, he's rainbow, he ain't black or white, he's Purple

OldFriends4Sale said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Prince is Prince, he's rainbow, he ain't black or white, he's Purple

OldFriends4Sale said:

Prince is Prince, he's rainbow, he ain't black or white, he's Purple

And he isn't straight or gay--he's Lovesexy?

Ottie posted some factual info about this a few weeks ago...

http://new.prince.org/msg...?&pg=1

Isnt he half Filiipino?

Funny how a lot of people want to recreate Prince in their own image... Guess he always liked it that way...

purplethunder3121 said:

Funny how a lot of people want to recreate Prince in their own image... Guess he always liked it that way...

Again

luv4u said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Funny how a lot of people want to recreate Prince in their own image... Guess he always liked it that way...

Again

I heard he was part Welsh. poor bastard.

Marrk said:

I heard he was part Welsh. poor bastard.

I could see it now, Prince Gareth Evans or Prince Price Williams!!

Actually he may be biracial like most African Americans as the National Geographic geo nome survey showed the average Afriocan American is 18 % European DNA, 77% Sub saharan African and 5% other (Usually Asian or Native American).

All true, African Americans have moved a genetic distance from their African ancestors, the last authenticated slave ship to arrive in the USA was in 1859, so all African Americans will have at least 150 years or 6 or 7 generations to gain this non African DNA in their make up.

Of course I do not mean recent African migrants or West Indian Black Americans.

Adorecream said:

Actually he may be biracial like most African Americans as the National Geographic geo nome survey showed the average Afriocan American is 18 % European DNA, 77% Sub saharan African and 5% other (Usually Asian or Native American).

All true, African Americans have moved a genetic distance from their African ancestors, the last authenticated slave ship to arrive in the USA was in 1859, so all African Americans will have at least 150 years or 6 or 7 generations to gain this non African DNA in their make up.

Of course I do not mean recent African migrants or West Indian Black Americans.

Well, what will top all of that is that genetics prove that ALL OF US HUMANS originated from Africa... This percentage shit needs to stop...

SuperSoulFighter said:

I thought he was from Sweden. Nelson=Nilsen.

I thought he was Nel his son. Hence Nelson.

But you guys know that he secretly is Dutch, right?

dJJ said:

SuperSoulFighter said:

I thought he was from Sweden. Nelson=Nilsen.

I thought he was Nel his son. Hence Nelson.

But you guys know that he secretly is Dutch, right?

That's what my grandfather claimed for years...even though his last name was Weisman?!!

purplethunder3121 said:

dJJ said:

I thought he was Nel his son. Hence Nelson.

But you guys know that he secretly is Dutch, right?

That's what my grandfather claimed for years...even though his last name was Weisman?!!

Do you know how and when his ancestors adopted that surname?

Sounds German to me.

Weis means White.

It could refer to him being a man from the White clan.

I don't know how and when the Germans got surnames.

I know that Dutch people were obliged to adopt a surname under the reign of Napoleon.

And people chose their occupation as a surname or something carachteristic, or referring to be the son of ....

I'm trying to figure out the female ancestor line of my mother and the Napoleon records have been helpful (and more confusing).

My ancestors have named the first names after grandparents, which also makes my search somewhat easier. I've signed up at family tree. I found a woman in Canada, who I correspond with about our ancestors!

Emancipation89 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Prince is Prince, he's rainbow, he ain't black or white, he's Purple

And you're green and I'm orange?

Prince IS black. It'd be nice if everyone could just accept and embrace who he is one day and move on.

Yes I'm green

Prince is Prince, is beyond that unnatural racial code

everyone needs to embrace the fact that racial codes are not natural, and move on from that archaic system, created by a racist

OldFriends4Sale said:

Emancipation89 said:

And you're green and I'm orange?

Prince IS black. It'd be nice if everyone could just accept and embrace who he is one day and move on.

Yes I'm green

Prince is Prince, is beyond that unnatural racial code

everyone needs to embrace the fact that racial codes are not natural, and move on from that archaic system, created by a racist

dJJ said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Yes I'm green

Prince is Prince, is beyond that unnatural racial code

everyone needs to embrace the fact that racial codes are not natural, and move on from that archaic system, created by a racist

Adorecream said:

Actually he may be biracial like most African Americans as the National Geographic geo nome survey showed the average Afriocan American is 18 % European DNA, 77% Sub saharan African and 5% other (Usually Asian or Native American).

All true, African Americans have moved a genetic distance from their African ancestors, the last authenticated slave ship to arrive in the USA was in 1859, so all African Americans will have at least 150 years or 6 or 7 generations to gain this non African DNA in their make up.

Of course I do not mean recent African migrants or West Indian Black Americans.

I see you've probably seen Spencer Wells' documentary "The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey. The link posted in Ottie's thread.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/30502963/

Excerpt from article:

Africans have more genetic variation than anyone else on Earth, according to a new study that helps narrow the location where humans first evolved, probably near the South Africa-Namibia border.

The largest study of African genetics ever undertaken also found that nearly three-fourths of African-Americans can trace their ancestry to West Africa.....

....... "Now we have spectacular insight into the history of the African population ... the oldest history of mankind.

"Everybody's history is part of African history because everybody came out of Africa," Ibrahim said.

^There...that should do it.

I found this interesting genetic diversity quiz on PBS.org on a topic called "Race: The power of illusion"

http://www.pbs.org/race/0...deeper.htm

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