Do you know anyone passing as a another race?

[The Gentleman]

Puerto Ricans are one of the most diverse looking people in the world imo.

True.

 

[The Gentleman]

Yep, I'm related to the late writer Anatole Broyard who unfortunately was passing for white for most of his young adult/adult life.

Oh shyt! They made a movie about him right? The deep stain I think?

 

[The Gentleman]

i would clown him daily.
call him at 3am blaring salsa into the phone talking bout "What up papi?"

That’s some sucker shyt. I’m happy for him. He should’ve did it sooner in my opinion. He always loved Latinas and Latin cultures.

 

[Ahadi]

Yup. He looks similar to Fat Joe. Dude is white and black, but when we hit up Latin events or around Latinas all the sudden “BORICUA”



& no one blinks, because he’s passing. But he likes to flip flop depending on the environment

 

[The Gentleman]

Yup. He looks similar to Fat Joe. Dude is white and black, but when we hit up Latin events or around Latinas all the sudden “BORICUA”



& no one blinks, because he’s passing. But he likes to flip flop depending on the environment

That’s how my homeboy was. Ha ha.

 

[Cyrus' Wife]

Oh shyt! They made a movie about him right? The deep stain I think?

Yes, Anthony Hopkins starred in "The Human Stain" and my cousin (Anatole's daughter) wrote a book about her dad too....

 

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[GoAggieGo.]

Nah. Don’t have too many in my fam that could even if they wanted too. Most of us are brown and dark skin. The ones that are light couldnt pass.

 

[Spence]

I get approached by people that speak Spanish to me as one of their own but I quickly let them know no habla español

 

[High Art]

My girl somewhat. She readily claims black (half black/white) and she never not claims her black side but at some point, she got tired of pointing it out and explaining that she is part black, unless someone asks. It's mostly because she looks white (think Annie Clark of St. Vincent fame when her hair was curly - they actually do look alike) and gets irate that people either don't believe her or make fun of her for it (the latter used to happen a lot growing up).

I get approached by people that speak Spanish to me as one of their own but I quickly let them know no habla español

This happens to me too. Apparently I look afro-latino. I don't see it but it happens too often.

 

[MoveForward]

I work with a lady that is VERY fair skinned, like lighter that most whites and people have asked and she says she’s white. There’s something there though… Her roots are thick but she keeps her hair pressed, her nose is on the rounder side, her fashion sense is also black (black women and whites women have a different flare for fashion even while wearing pants and blouses), and THEN I saw her dance at a company gathering… She wasn’t dancing suggestively at all but they way she was moving was definitely the two step of a black woman.

Her husband is white and even her kids have some “niggra” in there, the son has curly hair.

 

[I Really Mean It]

So if you had a homeboy from back in the day day that I always got mistaken as something other than black and he threw his hands up and said “fukk it we still cool but I’m a make this move.” You’re not going to respect his decision?

I get mistaken as mixed all the time, but it’s almost always from cacs whose idea of blackness - in appearance and behavior - is driven by racism.

Your boy sounds like he enjoys the perks of appearing mixed.

 

[CarltonJunior]

My girl somewhat. She readily claims black (half black/white) and she never not claims her black side but at some point, she got tired of pointing it out and explaining that she is part black, unless someone asks. It's mostly because she looks white (think Annie Clark of St. Vincent fame when her hair was curly - they actually do look alike) and gets irate that people either don't believe her or make fun of her for it (the latter used to happen a lot growing up).


This happens to me too. Apparently I look afro-latino. I don't see it but it happens too often.

Sounds like she's in that same lane as Logic, lol

 

[3rd Ward Swangin]

So if you had a homeboy from back in the day day that I always got mistaken as something other than black and he threw his hands up and said “fukk it we still cool but I’m a make this move.” You’re not going to respect his decision?

No, I have a home girl that's mistaken for several different races. Latinos be trying to claim her, she has creole ancestry. She's brown skinned and can pass for Ethiopian or Sudanese. She stands on her blackness when white people say racist shyt.

You don't look black or I didn't like black girl's, but I like you. They question her blackness like she's special. Both of her parent's are black. Her mother is really light skinned. She's the color of her father.

 

[The Gentleman]

I get mistaken as mixed all the time, but it’s almost always from cacs whose idea of blackness - in appearance and behavior - is driven by racism.

Your boy sounds like he enjoys the perks of appearing mixed.

I’m not gonna lie to you other black people have always low key looked at him as an outsider. And Latinos always assume that he’s Latino like them. So I guess at this point he’s just doing his thing. I’m glad he’s found his happiness. He even got a baby girl out to deal. So going by the way he looks and his wife looks
you know that baby ain’t gonna grow up black.