If you look at his parents and his siblings that are just light African-Americans. I am sure due to Slavery he has some white people back in his family tree but P is not even light enough to pass himself off as white.

I just think he said all that crap in the begnining of his carreer because he did not want to get lumped in to the RnB genre.

I doubt there will be controversy....


unless you're talking about this thread

lawdy (get'em Calhoun!)

I think some of ya'll are confusing being "mixed" with having some indian in ya family.

My niece and nephew are "mixed", biracial...the momma is white and daddy is black....whereas Prince's mamma is black...daddy..black....."he got indian in his family" ....some miscegnation..that most BLACK ppl have and yet we identify with being BLACK.

I do think its getting to the point if you say you're Black and you're light skinned and your hair is curly, the miscegnation police are there with the handcuffs....

She's been on the cover of Jet and Latina magazine....

The problem with Mariah is she creates the misunderstanding by being incomprehensible. Ego Trip's Race-O-Rama called her a tragic mulatto. She is. I'm sure she will send a letter to Essence for labeling her a black woman and have them retract it. However, she does seem to be more "black" these days. It's all about the money and what race will benefit her for the moment. She has insinuated in past interviews that her "whiteness" was more of a creation of her ex-husband. In one of my Jet magazines, she sad that she used to say she was black when people would ask her what race she was (before fame) and would immediately follow-up with "what are you mixed with?" She decided to stop saying she was black and just list what she is mixed with. It's a little silly because all black americans are mixed

point was she aint posing trying to be black but is black! Whatever her deal is she has issues with being so light skinned, hey dosn't every celeb "have their something"

Oh, she's black now. Til she changes her mind again.

I doubt there will be controversy....


unless you're talking about this thread

lawdy (get'em Calhoun!)

I think some of ya'll are confusing being "mixed" with having some indian in ya family.

My niece and nephew are "mixed", biracial...the momma is white and daddy is black....whereas Prince's mamma is black...daddy..black....."he got indian in his family" ....some miscegnation..that most BLACK ppl have and yet we identify with being BLACK.

I do think its getting to the point if you say you're Black and you're light skinned and your hair is curly, the miscegnation police are there with the handcuffs....

Mariah Carey truly needs to get over herself. Another motherfucker who wants to be black now out of convenience.

Exactly! Especially when folks wanna throw that "all American Blacks are mixed anyway" which we are but come on - who is "just Black" if we're all mixed? Only people of a certain shade?? How far back do you go w/ the "I have this & that in my family" - at that rate nobody is really Black, so what the fuck??

No one ever said "Black" wasn't good enough!
Whether Prince is Blue or Purple, I don't honestly think he'd lie about his mixed heritage...come on!

Prince is a black man of course, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have a mixed background.

I've always been taught to embrace all of me and be proud of where I came from...This is just stupid.

I'm glad Mariah is featured on Essence, she's just as much black as anyone else is.
If she's been on Latina or Jet Magazine, it doesn't matter...alot of hispanics have african roots, so nothings wrong with embracing it all.

God Bless u all.

You know I was in a debate with these women over on the Vin Diesel boards about this very thing...they're holding fast to this "he's multicultural" shit, and I'm like "look, white women...dat nigga BLACK...I dont give a fuck what he's telling ya'll"...

good god what the fuck were u doing on a Vin Diesel msg board

I hope people see the irony in this: EVERYONE has some black bloodline in them since the human race STARTED OUT BLACK.

So, hey, we're ALL black.

You know I was in a debate with these women over on the Vin Diesel boards about this very thing...they're holding fast to this "he's multicultural" shit, and I'm like "look, white women...dat nigga BLACK...I dont give a fuck what he's telling ya'll"...