is Prince black anyway?

evenstar3 said:

The fact he seems not to care which race colour he dates! Some black people have got offended by his lack of black women around him, but I feel Prince just chooses the people he works with (or fucks) because he purely wants to, and has nothing to do what colour they r.....

it seems that black people get/got offended when other black people date light skinned people, Iam glad Prince does not agree with this rather unsettling view!

is Prince black anyway?

thesexofit said:

um....yes.

He's part American Indian aswell.

thesexofit said:

um....yes.

evenstar3 said:

Prince is Black and Italian.

Awww shit... here we go with the how black is Prince thing again...

Prince is black. Point blank. Period.
No African-American can claim 100% Gambian because there's always some other creed flowing through our bloodstreams down the genetic line somewhere. As a result we are all different pigments and complexions. Please yall, don't start that half-Italian, half-American Indian nonsense. Prince has been known to have been a ho but he ain't no Navajo.

Their skin tones may not be the same but Prince is as black as Wesley Snipes, believe it or not. He hasn't dated many black women in the public eye and he seems to have a preference for Latino or Latino-looking women. End of story and the drama. The world will continue to spin.

Also, I've said this a million times, but this was esculated in "Under The Cherry Moon", where two things happenend:

1) Two black men fought over the rich white woman. Prince even went so far as making fun of Jerome buy basically saying who do you Think she'd prefer "Chocolate or Caramel"--in other words, my light skin or yo black azz.
2) The only black woman given more than 2 seconds of time in the movie is an old ugly black woman wanting sexual favors from him, cuasing him to run screaming in fear---not good, not good.

AsianBomb777 said:

1. The Tricky and Christopher scene was about whether police would believe they were brothers not whether Mary would be in love with Tricky's black ass.

2. The whole "black woman in Under the Cherry Moon" scenario is one of those stories that was (mis)interpreted by some journalist years ago and now folks wanna accept it as the gospel truth. I would accept that theory if this motion picture was depicted this way: Prince gallivanted around with all of these rich white women, he stumbles into an alley with a poor black woman who asks him for a dollar and he screams "I don't like poor bitches!!!" and runs off in that melodramatic way he did in the original scene, then you'd have a more rational reason to be offended. But the fact that you described the black woman in the scene as "old and ugly" when she was just as rich and probably just as old as Mrs Wellington is more telling about you than Prince's supposed complex with black women-- not good, not good.
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AsianBomb777 said:

1. The Tricky and Christopher scene was about whether police would believe they were brothers not whether Mary would be in love with Tricky's black ass.

2. The whole "black woman in Under the Cherry Moon" scenario is one of those stories that was (mis)interpreted by some journalist years ago and now folks wanna accept it as the gospel truth. I would accept that theory if this motion picture was depicted this way: Prince gallivanted around with all of these rich white women, he stumbles into an alley with a poor black woman who asks him for a dollar and he screams "I don't like poor bitches!!!" and runs off in that melodramatic way he did in the original scene, then you'd have a more rational reason to be offended. But the fact that you described the black woman in the scene as "old and ugly" when she was just as rich and probably just as old as Mrs Wellington is more telling about you than Prince's supposed complex with black women-- not good, not good.
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is Prince black anyway?

Awww shit... here we go with the how black is Prince thing again...

Prince is black. Point blank. Period.
No African-American can claim 100% Gambian because there's always some other creed flowing through our bloodstreams down the genetic line somewhere. As a result we are all different pigments and complexions. Please yall, don't start that half-Italian, half-American Indian nonsense. Prince has been known to have been a ho but he ain't no Navajo.

Their skin tones may not be the same but Prince is as black as Wesley Snipes, believe it or not. He hasn't dated many black women in the public eye and he seems to have a preference for Latino or Latino-looking women. End of story and the drama. The world will continue to spin.

She was old. And she was ugly.
And Prince noted that by running and screaming.

It's not about whether Prince was racist or not--he obviously wasn't. It's about how suttle messages, deliberate or not affect the audience.

U obviously are not nearly as educated ad I am, nor do you possess a literary mind. Dare I say it, you seem somewhat stupid.

Prince has been known to have been a ho but he ain't no Navajo.

I think who Prince dates is really his business. I don't think it matters if he doesn't like dating black women, and even strongly dislikes dating them.

HOWEVER, I DO think how he used to NOT portray them in his videos was a different matter altogether. I really didn't like his 80's and early 90's videos where all his women where drop dead gorgeous white or latino girls, but not black. Also, I've said this a million times, but this was esculated in "Under The Cherry Moon", where two things happenend:

1) Two black men fought over the rich white woman. Prince even went so far as making fun of Jerome buy basically saying who do you Think she'd prefer "Chocolate or Caramel"--in other words, my light skin or yo black azz.
2) The only black woman given more than 2 seconds of time in the movie is an old ugly black woman wanting sexual favors from him, cuasing him to run screaming in fear---not good, not good.

I think he's really really grown alot since then understanding that no matter what his intentions, the mass media is a powerful tool for setting messages--suttle or blatant.

But again, in his private life--so what if he preffers this race or that race?

I've dated a few white girls that only liked brown skinned latino types (which for some reason my asian ass somehow fits the bill).





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AsianBomb777 said:

The "chocolate or caramel" line was in reference to the (hypothetical) police not believing Christopher and Tricky could be brothers.

He ran from the woman because she was scary, not because she was black.