Lightskin people AREN'T REALLY Black. {For the dummies...Im being sarcastic]

[Northern Son]

phenotypes can be deceiving

these girls (twins) can pass for african biracials

but look at their parents

or

Ice Cube's older son




for context

his other son

both sons

Tbh those girls don't look biracial at all to me, and Ice Cube's oldest son is actually his (lightskinned) wife's kid with some military dude before she met Ice Cube. He's not related to Cube biologically.

 

[BruhManFromTheFifthFlo]

it isn't.

Cold how you left me hanging on them pics

 

[Poitier]

Cold how you left me hanging on them pics

I got over 30 PMs about it. Everyone will wait.

 

[filial_piety]

AA is the culture that was created through the bond of shared racial origins in "black" or subsaharan africa in the USA, which is why there are no ethnically non-black AfroAmericans

Basically you've taken the long way of saying that anyone with a drop of black blood in the US is "black" thereby making them AA by default, even those with majority non-black ancestry

 

[BruhManFromTheFifthFlo]

I got over 30 PMs about it. Everyone will wait.

I'm special tho

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Tbh those girls don't look biracial at all to me,

They look like a god deal of african biracials

and Ice Cube's oldest son is actually his (lightskinned) wife's

she isn't light skinned (what we call yellow in the USA)

kid with some military dude before she met Ice Cube. He's not related to Cube biologically.

Never heard this before

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Basically you've taken the long way of saying that anyone with a drop of black blood in the US is "black" thereby making them AA by default, even those with majority non-black ancestry

I never said "anyone"

 

[filial_piety]

I never said "anyone"

"Bond of shared racial origin" insinuates anyone of that racial origin.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

"Bond of shared racial origin" insinuates anyone of that racial origin.

the people who were of african descent that decided to identify as something else, didn't share in the bond that united us/created our identity & culture, so they became something else, which could be white or even "Indian".

 

[Northern Son]

They look like a god deal of african biracials

They look like fairly typical brown skinned African American girls to me.

she isn't light skinned (what we call yellow in the USA)

I guess, but at what point do you officially cross the threshold into lightskinned? She's about the same color as Rihanna.

Never heard this before

Yeah. And as you can see from his IG handle, he was born in 86 when Cube was in CIA/early NWA, and he says met his wife around AMW.

 

[Northern Son]

Side note: Ice Cube's wife is fine as shyt for her age

 

[IllmaticDelta]

They look like fairly typical brown skinned African American girls to me.

that's the thing, alot of african biracials don't look biracial by USA standards, think Boris Kujo for example.

I guess, but at what point do you officially cross the threshold into lightskinned?

It's basically a combination of facial features, hair texture and complexion

She's about the same color as Rihanna.

people like her and beyonce aren't true light skinned. They are "red" while true light skinned types starts at "yellow"

Yeah. And as you can see from his IG handle, he was born in 86 when Cube was in CIA/early NWA, and he says met his wife around AMW.

Hmm.

 

[Northern Son]

that's the thing, alot of african biracials don't look biracial by USA standards, think Boris Kujo for example.

Lol, nah I disagree. Can't speak for West African biracials, but I'm African (Malawian/Zimbabwean), and I know African biracials. Most of them are nowhere near that dark or Afrocentric featured.

I'm Shona on my Zimbabwean side, and the R&B singer Tinashe is half Shona half white American, and this is what she looks like:

Thandie Newton is another half Shona biracial, and she's also nowhere near as Afrocentric in appearance as those girls:

Most African mulattoes are closer to the above in my personal experience, but I'm sure it varies widely based on ethnicity.

 

[Rollo Goodlove]

Quit hatin on lightskins darkey

 

[Doomsday]

How is this an example that phenotypes are deceiving?