No. What was she supposed to say?
That her child is mixed or how about my child is a humanbeing like the rest of us? Why pull out the one-drop theory? She also made sure to tell black peeps that she has not abandon them. This is a half white woman talking like this! She of all people should know this kind of stuff is totally unnecessary:roll:
The comments are especially interesting in light of a TMZ report on Friday that claimed Aubry, 34, views their daughter as "white" and allegedly became very upset whenever Nahla was otherwise characterized.
Halle Berry has came out and said her that her daughter is black because of the one-drop theory. Meaning you got one black drop of blood in you that makes you black. Do you feel this is racist to think this way during this day and time?
I have no problem with her saying her child is black as that is probably gonna be how the world at large may label her child. My problem is her use of the term the one-drop theory.
Does that not go back to like the slave days and is it really necessary to have that kind of thinking when it is the year 2011?
Halle Berry to Ebony magazine: My daughter Nahla is black because of the 'one-drop theory'
Halle Berry has came out and said her that her daughter is black because of the one-drop theory. Meaning you got one black drop of blood in you that makes you black. Do you feel this is racist to think this way during this day and time?
I have no problem with her saying her child is black as that is probably gonna be how the world at large may label her child. My problem is her use of the term the one-drop theory.
Does that not go back to like the slave days and is it really necessary to have that kind of thinking when it is the year 2011?
Halle Berry to Ebony magazine: My daughter Nahla is black because of the 'one-drop theory'
This is why she said it:
The comments are especially interesting in light of a TMZ report on Friday that claimed Aubry, 34, views their daughter as "white" and allegedly became very upset whenever Nahla was otherwise characterized.
So, the father (who is white) had sex with one of the hottest women on the planet (who also just happens to be black), had a child, and is upset the child might be considered black? Sounds like he considers black women good enough to screw, but that's about it...
I think that puts the race card squarely in his corner, not hers.
Yeah, he sounds like a douche, I'd say whatever Halle Berry wanted me to say for the chance to screw her. :mrgreen:
Mixed race children are seen as Black by many and will mostly be judged as that by society.
I see nothing wrong with what she said in that context :shrug:
That her child is mixed or how about my child is a humanbeing like the rest of us? Why pull out the one-drop theory? --
Though true, it is a racist statement by today's standard.
In the context I read, I don't think it was truly racist. However, considering the emotional roller-coaster of being in a bitter custody battle, and given that the child's father is white, I think she's trying to wrap her child in the cocoon of being black to decrease the chances that her child would be raised by a white father. She's publicly playing the culture card. As a mother, I understand. I'd play every card in the deck to keep custody of my child.
American society as a whole believes in the one drop rule. Just look at Obama. We'll never hear people say 'Kill Obama the cracker!' We'll hear 'Kill Obama the nigger!' even though he is 50-50. Black people affirm that Obama is black and so do white people. It's not racist and more of a cultural issue. We tend to refer to people who are mixed by their other. Whether this was inherited from racist practices is debatable but it's not racist to believe in the 'one drop rule' by today's cultural context.
From what I have read, it was infact the Father who has refused to say his daughter was Black and didn't like anyone referring to her as such and would refer to her as only White.
She claims to identify herself as black so she says her daughter is black. The father identifies himself as white and thus calls his child White. It is ultimately the daughter's decision in the end what she wishes to classify herself as.
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