Comments on: Still Black: 7 Things I Learned While Watching CNN’s Black In America 2

By: MizThickaDenThick

MizThickaDenThick — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:55:14 +0000

@OrangeStar616,

Yes they are! $1.97 @ walmart!!

By: MizThickaDenThick

MizThickaDenThick — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:43:54 +0000

@Smiley Face,

you are not alone cause i feel the same way bout steve harvey’s book.

By: MizThickaDenThick

MizThickaDenThick — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:36:14 +0000

@Panama Jackson,

Im co-signing with you on Soledad using the “N” word. And plus it would just be kinda weird…

By: Scipio Africanus

Scipio Africanus — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:50:30 +0000

@Sula,
If you look at it that way, then technically every single person’s experience is different.

I’m saying that the Creoles are a distinct subset of Blackness in America. Geographically isolated? OF course. But they are a group with a long history, cultural markers, and established identity, which is regarded by most people as being a branch of “Black.”

Soledad is half white Australian, half Afro-Cuban. I’m betting there’s no a whole lot of people with that exact ethic mix. Tiger is Black and Thai. There’s probably more of them, but they’re not some historical community here. These two are like lone electrons floating in the universe, if you will.

Do I think they’re black? Of course. I believe in the One Drop Rule just like that next guy – I *am* American, after all.

By: Madame Zenobia

Madame Zenobia — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:56:24 +0000

@SouthernGirl,
“did you really take for granted that you got accepted/had the opportunity to go to college? or did you take for granted that you were expected to go?”

No, I took the acceptance for granted. I never questioned whether or not I would to go to college, it was a question of what school I would go to. I was accepted to at least six schools if I remember correctly. I don’t remember being nervous about whether or not I was going to get accepted. The first one I got was fun to get but after that it was just kind of like “Eh, OK, here’s another one.” There was never any other path in my mind for me to take. I grew up middle class with two educators for parents. My mother was a teacher for 15 years and has been an education consultant the last 15. My father’s a college administrator and I’ve been on college campuses all my life because of him. College was never a strange or foreign thing to me. It was just the next step. Actually the idea of NOT going was weird. I knew kids who decided to take a year off before college or a few girls went to LA to “act or model.” It never occurred to me to explore options other than going to a four-year college. So yeah, unfortunately, I did take getting accepted to college for granted.

By: Panama Jackson

Panama Jackson — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:53:46 +0000

@Kamala Jones, call it flimsy, it is what it is.

get it right though, i’d question ward connelly, armstrong williams, john mcwhorter or any of a number of phenotypically black people if they tried to do this show.

but you seem to be missing my point. how she looks has jack shit to do with how i feel about her. i still acknowledge that she’s black. teh same way folks were taking shots at Condi b/c she was workign for the “other side”. i dont know if you did personally so take this with that in mind, but folks were very quick to claim that Condi lost touch for her policies and ideologies.

Soledad comes across, in her reporting of this like Liz said, like she’s on a Black-tour safari looking into some shit she was inerested in b/c she knows nothing about it. it is what it is.

By: V.E.G.

V.E.G. — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:32:07 +0000

@Kamala Jones,

“is it just me or do Black folks from Louisiana have some kind of �Black radar� where we can spot out other Black folks even if they are biracial, triracial, or mamelique (1/32 Black) while other Blacks not from Louisiana can not?!”

It’s not just you. We can.

By: aja

aja — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:17:21 +0000

Im still waiting on the real Black in America – The Middle Class Version. The version where Jack and Jill was a nursery rhyme and although my parents owned a large home, we still shopped at the Salvation Army. I guess our stories are just not newsworthy enough. I guess next time I hear of a documentary like that , ill just wait for the bootleg.

By: Siobhan means Woman of Wisdom

Siobhan means Woman of Wisdom — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:41:43 +0000

@Cheekie,

Heck I’m trying to get tickets to the show at the Borgota on Friday…he was beyond sexy…Maxwell was dancing and looking fine…and when people threw panties on the stage he picked up a pair and SMELLED them…*dead*

By: Sula

Sula — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:51:30 +0000

@MaiTai,

Bwahahahaha!! You didn’t bring up that masterpiece of coonery!
Bwahahaha!