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Message |
Topic: Crystal Kay |
Famu
Replies: 6
Views: 1981
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Forum: Popular People Posted: Thu 07 May 2009 01:30 Subject: Crystal Kay |
| I love Crystal Kay! She seems pretty chill. |
Topic: Trina McGee (Angela from Boy Meets World) |
Famu
Replies: 3
Views: 1496
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Forum: Popular People Posted: Thu 07 May 2009 01:29 Subject: Trina McGee (Angela from Boy Meets World) |
Topanga and her were both bombshells to me. I loved em both.
Me too! Well, not so much Topanga. I thought she could be a bit annoying. |
Topic: A Biracial Soldier's Open Letter to President Obama |
Famu
Replies: 36
Views: 4422
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Thu 02 Apr 2009 15:48 Subject: Re: Birth certifcate |
| I checked on my birth certificate and it has the race of my parents. I further checked my wife's birth certificate and it has the race listed of her parents. The race is not shown on our son's birth c ... |
Topic: Anne Wiggins Brown |
Famu
Replies: 2
Views: 3528
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Forum: Popular Culture Posted: Sat 28 Mar 2009 05:55 Subject: Anne Wiggins Brown |
"We tough girls tough it out," she said with a wry grin. "I've lived a strange kind of life--half black, half white, half isolated, half in the spotlight. Many things that I wanted as ... |
Topic: A Biracial Soldier's Open Letter to President Obama |
Famu
Replies: 36
Views: 4422
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Mon 23 Mar 2009 15:29 Subject: A Biracial Soldier's Open Letter to President Obama |
Really? Could you point me to some articles/books/research that supports this claim? I'm genuinely interested.
The best summary of the past ten-year history of this issue that I have read is "Pa ... |
Topic: A Biracial Soldier's Open Letter to President Obama |
Famu
Replies: 36
Views: 4422
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Sun 22 Mar 2009 01:51 Subject: A Biracial Soldier's Open Letter to President Obama |
It merely should go to the person's immediate race of their mother and father on the birth certificate.
Your race is on your birth certificate? LOL, I obviously missed out.
At the very least, ... |
Topic: An Identity Crisis: The Black Divide |
Famu
Replies: 7
Views: 1846
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Wed 18 Mar 2009 15:20 Subject: Re: An Identity Crisis: The Black Divide |
| Strange as it may seem, and perhaps it’s just a baseless observation, but I’ve noticed particularly over the past 5 to 7 years that many individuals who have a strong Negroid phenotype have been resor ... |
Topic: Ok, so... I wanna know... |
Famu
Replies: 9
Views: 1419
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Wed 18 Mar 2009 00:03 Subject: Re: Ok, so... I wanna know... |
In looking through other threads, as a new user, I am allowed to ask questions..
So I have a question...
What do YOU (everyone) consider me? My moniker speaks volumes, to many groups. I am a pa ... |
Topic: A Biracial Soldier's Open Letter to President Obama |
Famu
Replies: 36
Views: 4422
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Fri 13 Mar 2009 13:36 Subject: Re: Force? |
The question for you President Obama is what progress will we have made? Identifying to one race, clouds the dream that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wished for 45 years ago when he said; “I have a dre ... |
Topic: A Biracial Soldier's Open Letter to President Obama |
Famu
Replies: 36
Views: 4422
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Thu 05 Mar 2009 06:41 Subject: A Biracial Soldier's Open Letter to President Obama |
The question for you President Obama is what progress will we have made? Identifying to one race, clouds the dream that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wished for 45 years ago when he said; “I have a dre ... |
Topic: Why I was so eager to claim my biracial son for my own side |
Famu
Replies: 21
Views: 2800
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Sat 14 Feb 2009 08:42 Subject: Why I was so eager to claim my biracial son for my own side |
Another example of how the wrong conclusions can be drawn - I had a young student (teenager) who assumed that blue eye color was a dominant trait based on the prevalence of blue eyes in the people ... |
Topic: Singer disses Obama, Beyonce |
Famu
Replies: 3
Views: 2502
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Forum: Popular Culture Posted: Sat 07 Feb 2009 03:54 Subject: Singer disses Obama, Beyonce |
| I think she's just joking around. |
Topic: Meagan Good |
Famu
Replies: 12
Views: 8259
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Forum: Popular People Posted: Thu 05 Feb 2009 05:04 Subject: Meagan Good |
I remember her in "Eve's Bayou."
I loved her in Eve's Bayou! |
Topic: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
Famu
Replies: 10
Views: 13502
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Forum: Popular Culture Posted: Thu 05 Feb 2009 05:01 Subject: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
Anika Noni Rose
I LOVE THIS WOMAN. |
Topic: Why I was so eager to claim my biracial son for my own side |
Famu
Replies: 21
Views: 2800
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Thu 05 Feb 2009 04:52 Subject: Why I was so eager to claim my biracial son for my own side |
| As a black woman, I would at first be apprehensive if I had a child that appeared completely white, because I don't want to be mistaken for the nanny or the caretaker (again). I'm just being realistic ... |
Topic: Black parents with White kids |
Famu
Replies: 165
Views: 390373
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Forum: Molecular Anthropology and Genetics Posted: Thu 29 Jan 2009 07:34 Subject: Black parents with White kids |
http://www.blackcelebkids.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/x-mas2008b.jpg
Those girls are so cute! |
Topic: Michelle Obama's Geneology |
Famu
Replies: 1
Views: 2168
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Forum: Popular Culture Posted: Wed 21 Jan 2009 06:10 Subject: Michelle Obama's Geneology |
I wonder how many slave masters were named Cohen or was she a white jewish woman???
My mom has a Jewish name and she is black.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Fraser_Robinson%2C_Sr ... |
Topic: BLACK BABY IS BORN TO WHITE PAIR |
Famu
Replies: 62
Views: 11477
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Wed 21 Jan 2009 05:56 Subject: Re: Fertility clinic |
While we love Baby Jessica as our own, we are reminded of this terrible mistake each and every time we look at her. It is simply impossible to ignore."
Uh huh. Listen lady, no matter how you s ... |
Topic: What About the Children? |
Famu
Replies: 5
Views: 1365
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Wed 21 Jan 2009 05:37 Subject: What About the Children? |
You don't think having the ethnic background and family relations they have wouldn't cause them to begin to formulate an 'other' identity?
No, not really. My immediate family is similar to the ... |
Topic: What About the Children? |
Famu
Replies: 5
Views: 1365
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Mon 19 Jan 2009 10:20 Subject: Re: What About the Children? |
| gemini072"I wonder how do Obama's daughters see themselves in terms of racial identification? To me they are just as mixed appearing as their father. Having a biracial(black identified) father, ... |
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