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posted April 25, 2016 06:57 AM            

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I think that in America - Black is for central Americans and maybe Canadians (?) - but Southerners see themselfs more through their nationality than race ,and i understand that ,lots of them are mixed and probably dont wanna pick "sides" of their heritage

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posted April 25, 2016 07:23 AM            

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Originally posted by headintheclouds91:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkpUyB2xgTM

Don`t want future kids esp black kids to grow up with the same believes like those kids in that clip so thats why i want more good full blackness in the forefront

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Whew!
That's sad.
It also sparks all kinds of thoughts, none of which I'm bringing up here.

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posted April 25, 2016 08:29 AM            

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Originally posted by DopGang:
Whew!
That's sad.
It also sparks all kinds of thoughts, none of which I'm bringing up here.

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Yep its very sad.. ugh. We got to work for a change

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posted April 25, 2016 09:17 AM            

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Originally posted by Hemilla:
I think that in America - Black is for central Americans and maybe Canadians (?) - but Southerners see themselfs more through their nationality than race ,and i understand that ,lots of them are mixed and probably dont wanna pick "sides" of their heritage

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This makes no sense to me. Can you explain?

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posted April 26, 2016 02:18 PM            

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They absolutely should have found someone else to play Nina. I find the black-face nonsense VERY offensive.

-Cancer Moon
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posted April 26, 2016 02:42 PM            

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Originally posted by erickaf:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Hemilla:
[b]I think that in America - Black is for central Americans and maybe Canadians (?) - but Southerners see themselfs more through their nationality than race ,and i understand that ,lots of them are mixed and probably dont wanna pick "sides" of their heritage

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This makes no sense to me. Can you explain?

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I think that in Latin America people dont identify as much with what they look like because majority is mixed (even though they too have ''labels'' they can use for diferent types of looks ) - so they identify with their nationality more,while in USA as far as i can notice and by what i have been told - it is diferent even today,what you look like plays bigger role in identification.

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posted April 26, 2016 06:13 PM            

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I was raised in the South and race does matter, and "black" is a type of identity, with a few unusual exceptions (like say Creole) which are a rich mix (and have more in common with the mixed racial groups of the Caribbean who can't relate to US racial terms and identities).

Though that said, I'm not certain that racial divides are worse in the South than they are anywhere else in the US. It varies a lot, region by region. But it would make sense to me that whites would fear other races more in the South (affecting everyone), which comes more from the history/legacy, but at the same time, people (from other parts of America and beyond) are constantly moving there just as others in the South move so even looking at the history of the area becomes very blurry (in terms of people living there, and anywhere else, today). But the Wheel of Karma keeps on turning...

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posted April 26, 2016 06:52 PM            

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Are you saying you are from Southern USA or South America? (sorry didnt really get that part)

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posted April 26, 2016 08:13 PM            

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Southern USA.

South America has its own definitions of race and ethnicity that are also incompatible with that of the USA. It really frustrated a friend of mine in Argentina when she tried to visit the USA, though all in all it was one of her lesser frustrations (but she still got into an argument over which race to mark when filling out a form, though, it's amazing how many people think race is an objective classification rather than subjective one, and only exists because society demands it exist).

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