CalhounSq said:

twink69 said:

I never bought that name change story...it's not common latino's regardless of their race changing their surnames when coming to the USA...being Latino our last names are our pride, and I heard her father was a Black Venezolano NOT mixed with African-American and Afro-Venezolano.

Rhondab said:

Um, that is mixed.

Besides, go back far enough, and not one person is strictly one ethnicity anyway. Even if all you're talking about is French/English heritage, that's still having a mixed ancestry. And with both nationalities, go back far enough and you've got German, Viking, and Italian(Roman) in there too. And if you believe in evolution; go back even farther and you've got black ancestry as well.

Everyone's mixed. Being 100% anything is impossible.

meow85 said:

ya missed the whole point But I still gotta love ya.



I meant...having your parents being of two different races rather than your great great great grandmother being black or white or whatever.



I'mma beat you meow

Dont matter how much percentage of "black" u have in you.. U BLACK. I could slap Tiger upside his natural head.

Chico319 said:

So what's fucked up here? That black girls are straightening and bleaching their hair (or wearing weaves) or that white girls are frying their skin?

Mariah's hair's gonna fall out, and Paris will get skin cancer.

CherrieMoonKisses said:

Thank you. Fuck Mariah Carey.

Dont matter how much percentage of "black" u have in you.. U BLACK. I could slap Tiger upside his natural head.

paisleypark4 said:

That's ridiculous. The term black implies African. He's more Asian than African.

To be American on many accounts today and certainly in the future is to be multi-racial. One day, if we live long enough, that'll be the case world-wide. It starts here though because it's where all of the different "races" come together. All of our perceived differences are superficial anyway and whether it's us, our kids, or our kids' kids that line of separation will be blurred until it's completely gone. Resisting that and holding on to the past won't stop it and will only cause you grief.

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

Dont matter how much percentage of "black" u have in you.. U BLACK. I could slap Tiger upside his natural head.

Janfriend said:

CORRECTION: Mariah's Irish Mother is the blame for that BS!

Think about it.

It was her mother that encourage her to say that she is biracial & needed to act like it full-time.

Halle Berry's white mother was THE exactly opposite by encourage her to say that she is a black woman. Period!

See there ladies & gentlemen. It always the parents who decide racial classifications. It's stupid sometimes. But that's society for you.

boriquateddy said:

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It's funny that way. Within my own family, my uncle changed his name from "Lados" to "Sides" but everyone else kept their last name. Why did he change it? To this day, we have no clue, but he was the darkest out of all of the family, spoke fluent Spanish and English, and felt that he could make his way in the US with an American-sounding name.

Think of Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen. Martin Sheen, the father, was born Martin Estevez, if I am not mistaken. For their professional names, one son went back to the family name, the other chose his dad's professional name.

Nowadays, I think you're right. No one seems to change their name anymore, but back thirty, forty, or fifty years ago, who knows? Rita Hayworth, anyone?