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Originally Posted by onelove917

Bill Cosby once said on Tony Brown's journal (I believe & years ago) that the mixed children were our children. Whites did not want the part black children; East Asians did not want any part black children (view treatment of bi-racials left behind in Asia); so if "we" did not take care of the children; "no one" would.

Blackness has not been constructed the way whiteness has been constructed: on absolute white purity (Anglo/German) or even on being basically white physically if not pure (Spaniard). Blackness has embraced even mixed people who obviously has minute African input as being "black."

Should we reject this course or affirm it ? In my family, my yellow skinned brown haired birth mother, my white skinned frizzy haired cousin, my dark brown other cousin, his night black female friend & my medium brown skinned self, are all "black." So, I'm shocked that any in here would reject this.

Valid Point. Alot of our people hate to think about the history of slavery/colonization and how it has effected us as a people. For this reason, many of our people have different types of: complexions(hues), hair textures(nappy-straight), eye colors, body types, and facial features. Many of us are already mixed by default and could have a President Jefferson situation in the midst.