Carmelo and La La on cover of "Black Love" Ebony Mag. edit-thoughts?
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But again, it has to start with self love and acceptance of who you are, and rejection of "black" being synonymous with bad traits (for example when 2 sistas are trading words and one ALWAYS has to call the other a "black bytch". Like damn, "bytch" wasn't enough?).
I can't stand when black people say dumb shyt like that when they're tryna argue or make fun of somebody
Agreed, you can be what you want to be. Mario Balotelli is a good example. Don't you think putting Balotelli on the front page of a magazine called "Ghana Football" would be an affront to all the Ghanaian players who rep their country? You can't have it two ways, you're black 100% of the time, or you're not black 100% of the time.
Black person's response:
- I'm black. Oh, why is my hair extra curly? well, my grandma was native American
c00n/mixed breed response:
-What am I, well, I am Native American, Irish, Scottish, and 1/8th Filipino. Oh, why am I dark? Well, supposedly, my dad was half black, but I'm not sure.
^^^the second one shouldn't be in any magazine representing black people
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You know whats funny though? I met an Ethiopian just this past month that was telling me that Ethiopians and East Africans around that region aren't black.Guys dark brown and pitch Black Africans are the *real* Black people. Let's ignore the fact that the first Black men and humans to walk the earth were Ethiopians (range form yellow to brown) and Khoisians (yellow) and Niolites (Black). Nope, all pure Black people are dark as the night sky
If you have a half Black parent and a Black parent, you aren't Black, you're no race
Malik
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Go google "Black Love" and see if you can tell the difference
JillScottsHunny
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People on this site get tight about the silliest things. As for this cover, they're bot black. I don't see the problem.
Adebisi_Said
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They could've had Kerry and Nnamdi on the cover. 
Black as in Black American. They're the same as Dominicans and other Africans who make sure that everyone knows they aren't Black American.
@2Quik4UHoes will tell you what it is.
Malik
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They could've had Kerry and Nnamdi on the cover.
Totally forgot about them. That would have been a good choice too.
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Nikkas dont care about the images we put out into the media, like it doesn't affect the psyche of our people. I forgot what poster said it, but he said we need to stop allowing these mixbreeds and half-castes to be considered "black" because by doing so, you're altering the standard of beauty in our community. Our women aspire to look like something they'll never be able to achieve.
And....Mixed people/mulattos have always been opportunistic. They know they can be on the lower end of the totem pole in the white community or be the elites in the black community. If it better served them to be white, they would go be white tomorrow. You obviously can't tell people what they can and can't identify with but, these mixed folk should not be the ones representing us when there's full black celebs couples out there. If yall cool with these folk representing you, then its obvious you're one of them.
This is Black Love to me.
Exactly. Dominicans in DR swear they ain't black, but in NY they wanna be down
When they're amongst white people, they're bacchata loving gentle folk, but then when they're in the hood and sh*t is about to get thick, they look to their black homies for backup. This is coming from a guy whose Mom's side of the family is Lisa Raye/Alicia Keys skin tone, and who's dad's side is Morris Chestnut/Don Cheadle skin tone, and I've always had to deal with this bullsh*t growing up. Anytime I come back from the tropics my moms is berating me because my skin got darker. I be like 
women I am BLACK, what does it matter? So this is coming from someone on the other side of the color spectrum. And it disgusts me personally. And the funny thing is that it won't even be the Ari Parker types, it will be a Lala type whose mixture is BARELY noticeable talking down on darker folks. The right to be on the cover of a black magazine should be EARNED. This the kind of bullsh*t that happens when we sell our sh*t to corporate America.
@Poitier
I'm OK with saying we're all black in solidarity but I don't know about all of this shyt breh
I like Lolo Jones as much as the next dude but she's a good American. I don't know if she should be on the cover of Ebony though
Lolo Jones is biracial so she isn't Black but the only person in this thread who isn't Black is Mariah. Carmelo and Lala are a Black couple. West Africans and the darkest Black Americans are not the only representations of Blackness.
lol, they are not a hispanic couple. they kids not gonna have no fukking quincinera.
