That is so misleading, because he was born from two black parents, which does not make him biracial. Somebody's been watching the Purple Rain movie way too much. .
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That is so misleading, because he was born from two black parents, which does not make him biracial. Somebody's been watching the Purple Rain movie way too much. .
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2elijah said:

U r the misleading one, lying, calling both Prince parents just "black", when they were part white (his mother was triracial, black, white and amerindian, u can see their parents inside the Emancipation cd booklet, they are not just/fully "black"), they said it themselves. Prince himself in interviews said he was mixed.
"My grandfather, John's grandfather, it was a racially mixed family"-Mattie Shaw, Prince's mother. From the book Inside the Purple Reign (1984) by Jon Bream.
Book Purple Reign (1998) by Liz Jones (page 24):
"I never did a family tree. John has some Italian in him. Mattie was part African-American, part Native American, part white."

u r labeling Prince's mom and dad as "black" when they were part white and part amerindian, Prince has some "white" from both parents. Biracial just means the person has 2 races in his dna, it doesn't necesarily mean 50%black+50%white.

For example a person whose mother is half black-half white and father is half black-half white, is biracial, half black half white just like his parents, but in the case both parents label themselves as just "black", that would make u say the child is just "black" when actually he is biracial, 50/50 just as much white as he is black.

do u belong to Nation of Islam or something?

They wouldn't go as far as to print a book 'Biographies of Biracial Achievers: Prince' without checking Prince's biographies and interviews first. Prince obviously has some (i'm not saying he is 50% white) white in him it's visible in his skin color and nose, lips, etc.

http://www.comedycentral....oId=162807
The Racial Draft-Chappelle's Show.

2elijah said:

U r the misleading one, lying, calling both Prince parents just "black", when they were part white (his mother was triracial, black, white and amerindian, u can see their parents inside the Emancipation cd booklet, they are not just/fully "black"), they said it themselves. Prince himself in interviews said he was mixed.
"My grandfather, John's grandfather, it was a racially mixed family"-Mattie Shaw, Prince's mother. From the book Inside the Purple Reign (1984) by Jon Bream.
Book Purple Reign (1998) by Liz Jones (page 24):
"I never did a family tree. John has some Italian in him. Mattie was part African-American, part Native American, part white."

u r labeling Prince's mom and dad as "black" when they were part white and part amerindian, Prince has some "white" from both parents. Biracial just means the person has 2 races in his dna, it doesn't necesarily mean 50%black+50%white. Just as Triracial doesn't necesarily mean 3 equal parts 33.33% black, 33.33% white, 33.33% americanindian.

For example a person whose mother is half black-half white and father is half black-half white, is biracial, half black half white just like his parents, but in the case both parents are labeled (by themselves and/or others) as just "black", that would make u say the child is just "black" when actually he is biracial, 50/50 just as much white as he is black.

do u belong to Nation of Islam or something?

They wouldn't go as far as to print a book 'Biographies of Biracial Achievers: Prince' without checking Prince's biographies and interviews first. Prince obviously has some (i'm not saying he is 50% white) white in him it's visible in his skin color and nose, lips, etc.

http://www.comedycentral....oId=162807
The Racial Draft-Chappelle's Show.

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From amazon.com (it was already published in 2009 but I haven't seen it before and couldn't find a mention here on the org):

Prince: Singer-Songwriter, Musician, and Record Producer (Transcending Race in America: Biographies of Biracial Achievers) (Hardcover)
~ David Robson



# Reading level: Ages 9-12
# Hardcover: 64 pages
# Publisher: Mason Crest Publishers (October 15, 2009)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1422216144
# ISBN-13: 978-1422216149
# Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.3 x 0.4 inches

As a light-skinned black man, from two black parents, I find it ammusing when these non-black Prince fans come on here and try as hard as they can to claim prince as anything but African-American. I have a multiracial background just Like Prince and like the majority of African-Americans. But no matter how you try to slice and dice it: WE ARE BLACK. We don't consider ourselves mixed but we know back in the slave days mixing did take place in our bloodline

Prince identifies himself as a black man (or in his many song lyrics, as a "brotha" and sometimes "nigga" and don't forget about all his NAACP and BET awards!).

In fact he's more in touch with his "blackness" than many black folks I know, including myself.

Point is, the man is black. A very cool and eclectic black man. Ask his sister Tyka. And do youself a favor and forget the white women who "played" his mom in Purple Rain, and really LISTEN to Family Name, Dreamer and Dear Mr. Man.

Gonzalo1979 said:

2elijah said:

U r the misleading one, lying, calling both Prince parents just "black", when they were part white (his mother was triracial, black, white and amerindian, u can see their parents inside the Emancipation cd booklet, they are not just/fully "black"), they said it themselves. Prince himself in interviews said he was mixed.
"My grandfather, John's grandfather, it was a racially mixed family"-Mattie Shaw, Prince's mother. From the book Inside the Purple Reign (1984) by Jon Bream.
Book Purple Reign (1998) by Liz Jones (page 24):
"I never did a family tree. John has some Italian in him. Mattie was part African-American, part Native American, part white."

u r labeling Prince's mom and dad as "black" when they were part white and part amerindian, Prince has some "white" from both parents. Biracial just means the person has 2 races in his dna, it doesn't necesarily mean 50%black+50%white. Just as Triracial doesn't necesarily mean 3 equal parts 33.33% black, 33.33% white, 33.33% americanindian.

For example a person whose mother is half black-half white and father is half black-half white, is biracial, half black half white just like his parents, but in the case both parents are labeled (by themselves and/or others) as just "black", that would make u say the child is just "black" when actually he is biracial, 50/50 just as much white as he is black.

do u belong to Nation of Islam or something?

They wouldn't go as far as to print a book 'Biographies of Biracial Achievers: Prince' without checking Prince's biographies and interviews first. Prince obviously has some (i'm not saying he is 50% white) white in him it's visible in his skin color and nose, lips, etc.

http://www.comedycentral....oId=162807
The Racial Draft-Chappelle's Show.

That is so misleading, because he was born from two black parents, which does not make him biracial. Somebody's been watching the Purple Rain movie way too much. .

2elijah said:

So many people still don't realize that 'black people' come in all shades.I remember a co-worker of mine (who's white) actually said this,with a straight face:

"I can't believe that so many people think Prince is black,just because of the way he dances"

Gonzalo1979 said:

STOP IT,PLEASE!


Prince is a black man.End of story.Let's stop it with all this 'he's half this,he's half that,he's a quarter of this,he's 25% this' nonsense" It's really annoying.

I'm getting tired of him telling us how to recognize our own people, when he has absolutely no clue about African-Americans.

2elijah said:

A 100% fool?

Do you think society knows each individual's family tree when they see them on the street or even cares? When they see someone, they immediately see either "white", "black", "hispanic", "asian", etc. They don't know the entire history of that person's family, nor do they care.

My grandmother on my mother's side used to brag when she would get mad...."You don't want to mess with me, my grandmother was a full blooded Indian (Native American)" so that lets me know I have Native American in me from generations back. My father, on the other hand, is about is white as white can be, has no other races in his family tree (his racist ass has traced his family tree), and is the most racist person I've ever been in contact with. Yeah, I'd love to consider myself biracial also considering that my great great grandmother on my mother's side was a Native American, hell I'd love to consider myself anything other than just full flooded "white" considering that the white race in this country has done some extremely embarassing things in the past, but I do live in reality. Both my parents are white so I'm white also.

HamsterHuey said:

Where was Gonzalo when Prince's own sister, Tyka, stated during her not so recent interview with a radio station, when she defined their family as Black when she spoke about growing up in Minnesota? I mean those words came right from his sister's mouth. You mean to tell me Gonzalo would take John Bream's word over Prince's own biological sister?