Vanessa Williams is majority African.
Lightskin people AREN'T REALLY Black. {For the dummies...Im being sarcastic]
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Vanessa Williams is majority African.
Sauanaffe Tustunnagee
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while i understand many Brazilians have has racial identity issues not sure i'm buying that considering Brazil has an racial caste system in which for the most part across the board cacs are at the top and blacks,natives, and mixed breeds are all beneath them....if biracial Brazilians were allowed to claim and accepted as white there Brazil's elite class would be more diverse and not look like Argentines
i've actually 've seen more native leaning and racially ambiguous looking people counted as black in Brazil
i've actually 've seen more native leaning and racially ambiguous looking people counted as black in Brazil
And plenty identify as White.
Regardless we need their numbers being only 12% of the US population including those with immediate admixtures and from multigenerational mixed Blacks (like Louisana Creoles) and allies like Lumbee Indians and other First Nations who recognize their African admixture. "Real" (quote) Black People (75% African and were enslaved) are probably in the single percentage. And with organ harvesting in the hood, increasing poverty and gentrification, immigration we will be non existent in 50 years. Also, light skinned people have more access/privilege and generally were the educated/skilled/elite and were key in emancipating blacks and the Civil Rights Movement. People who passed would pretend to be White masters with their darker spouses and escape to freedom or eavesdrop on conversations using their phenotype as an advanage. Besides Black is a mindset. From my experience, the darkest wide featured folks are the most White brained, especially naturals.
ChiefQueen
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Lmao at 'lightskin' :ducktales: she's lightskin in make up.
IllmaticDelta
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This is not a requirement for being "black" or even looking "black" because one can be 70% white and still look "black"
vanessa williams is 56% african......... (and looks black)
Vanessa Williams' Surprising DNA Test - Ancestry Blog
IllmaticDelta
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...that's why there were different grades/names for various complexions
@ :18
what he describes as "1/4 white blood" or "in between" are redbone types...not fair skinned types
IllmaticDelta
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so you mean to tell me mulattos are counted and taking into account in studies about white people
In the USA alone, Melungeons (old stock, white looking biracials and triracials) are grouped in with white people
IllmaticDelta
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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:
Her features are very "afro"
Thandie Newton is another half Shona biracial, and she's also nowhere near as Afrocentric in appearance as those girls:
She's a bit more admixed looking but still in the true mulatto sense.
yup
I doubt he has problems with Africans and Islanders being grouped in AA admixture studies.
They look like a god deal of african biracials
she isn't light skinned (what we call yellow in the USA)
Never heard this before
Cube and his wife have the same devil's peak eyebrows. It's weird. They look like they are related and will whoop your ass.
IllmaticDelta
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Are people saying she doesn't look light skin? The desperation. 
Even people in the comments says she looks light skin.
The Coli...
Even people in the comments says she looks light skin.
The Coli...
Are people saying she doesn't look light skin? The desperation.
Even people in the comments says she looks light skin.
Nah, she is Jay Z/Ludacris/Will Smith color......caramel. Look at her face then look at her body.
This is not a requirement for being "black" or even looking "black" because one can be 70% white and still look "black"
vanessa williams is 56% african......... (and looks black)
Vanessa Williams' Surprising DNA Test - Ancestry Blog
What is looking black to you ? Because Vanessa Williams doesn't look black to me.
By including mixed and admixed people in our race you redefine what it is to be black which is horrible for real black people. For example you thinking Vanessa Williams looks black is very bad for our race . The black phenotype in the US is doomed with the way you are thinking
Vanessa Williams looks mixed , Mary J Blige looks black