You held up Bob Marley as an individual that who's heritage is mixed..but is still considered black. That's why he's your example. You didn't call the name of certain black people, like an Alex Wek, for a reason.

Bob Marley is a man of African descent who aligned himself politically, socially, and culturally with the politics of nonmixed African people DESPITE being racially mixed. Similar to an Adam Clayton Powell, who could be seen as white, but aligned himself with blacks. We all know what black means & yeah the reason we're called that is because that blackness is manifested PHYSICALLY. If we looked like Britney Spears then we wouldn't be black.


An Alek Wek is more than likely not as racially mixed as Mariah Carey..what is the confusion? Clearly Alex Wek's black experience is very different than that of Mariah (who could claim NOT to be black). Of course blackness is about physical appearance despite the fact that racially mixed black people have been included in the category. Remember, the 1 drop rule was created to (and still is in effect) to help preserve white purity. It was not a choice on our parts & still isn't (though in my experience, black people generally accept anyone as black who declares themselves such).


Read what I say very carefully:

The product of mixed race relations in South African are a buffer class btwn the whites and nonmixed blacks. With the death of apartheid, much of this mixed race population is still working fevorishly to preserve their seperate status from "blacks" because that seperate status gives them a social, economic, and political position that is higher than nonmixed blacks and they don't want to lose it.

Historically, in America, the black community has been similarly (though not legally) divided with exceptions here & there but the general principle is true. Its no question that a color caste still exists within the black community and will continue as long as we live in a white dominated society.

That being the case, why are people who claim to love being black, that understand the racial dynamic going on in this country & worldwide, deliberately aligning themselves personally with nonblack people? They've decided to make certain qualities more important than others. That's their right but that IS what they are doing.

>How much of a unified front are "non-mixed" Blacks presenting in America right now?

Of course we're not unified..we're still debating the importance of black people loving and mating with other black people. The home is the first place where this "unity" begins, its the first place culture is passed on, its the first place we start...its the foundation for our communities.