Need some advice from black people

[Camile.Bidan]

Background: I have some black ancestry. It's about 25% by genetics. By genealogy, it's 50%. The afram side of my family is lighter-skinned, so although I am darker than many of them, by appearance, I am not a black man.

My two sons. One looks sorta Mexican (like Pisa/Mayan type not the CAC type). The other one looks pure Han Chinese after his mom. They both could pass as my race, which is south East Asian.

I feel like I should just allow their mom's culture to take over. Especially, my lighter son. I don't really have any culture to pass on to them.

Should I even raise them to be aware of their rather small, and not apparent, black ancestry?

 

[Grams]

You don't have any black ancestry stop it. And if you do it's minuscule, not no 25, 50%

 

[Camile.Bidan]

You don't have any black ancestry stop it. And if you do it's minuscule, not no 25, 50%

It's 25-28% according to genetic tests.

 

[Grams]

It's 25-28% according to genetic tests.

Gundam I know you. Racist ass Asian

 

[Camile.Bidan]

Gundam I know you. Racist ass Asian

I am not trying to be that way, and I don't want my kids to be that way either.

I was raised to be black aware, and I rejected it because who eventual my peer group turned out to be, and how I saw myself. I don't want to repeat those mistakes.


At the same time, I do want my kids to be aware of their slave ancestry and what that means. I also want to them to know why they have so-much European blood in their history, and that it wasn't a product of love.

 

[Yehuda]

It's about 25% by genetics. By genealogy, it's 50%.

I don't get this part, are you 25% or 50% black?

 

[Camile.Bidan]

I don't get this part, are you 25% or 50% black?

I always suspected their was some funny business based on the appearance of many of my black family members, but before I got a genetic test, I thought I was 50%. On paper I am 50%. On paper both my grand parents are 100%. Some where along the line, somebody wasn't telling the whole truth.

 

[Tom Foolery]

I don't get this part, are you 25% or 50% black?

Let me clear this up for you. He's 0% black.

 

[Yehuda]

Let me clear this up for you. He's 0% black.

I always suspected their was some funny business based on the appearance of many of my black family members, but before I got a genetic test, I thought I was 50%. On paper I am 50%. On paper both my grand parents are 100%. Some where along the line, somebody wasn't telling the whole truth.

Honestly, forget it. You're asking if you should raise your 1/8 black children (who you said don't even look black) to identify as black...

 

[LogicFirst]

Background: I have some black ancestry. It's about 25% by genetics. By genealogy, it's 50%. The afram side of my family is lighter-skinned, so although I am darker than many of them, by appearance, I am not a black man.

My two sons. One looks sorta Mexican (like Pisa/Mayan type not the CAC type). The other one looks pure Han Chinese after his mom. They both could pass as my race, which is south East Asian.

I feel like I should just allow their mom's culture to take over. Especially, my lighter son. I don't really have any culture to pass on to them.

Should I even raise them to be aware of their rather small, and not apparent, black ancestry?

Get them into Kwanza