Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor is gorgeous
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Anonymous
Exactly. Frump ppl with no style think Kate has style. Sorry not sorry but her style doesn’t fit her smile and looks. |
Anonymous
Um, having 20-25% European ancestry does not make one 100% black. |
Anonymous
I don't know what you mean by "100%" if she is part European. |
Anonymous
The heir and the spare take priority over later borns. |
Anonymous
She needs to liven up her look. She is turning into a real fuddy duddy. |
Anonymous
It’s her lips. They look swollen. |
Anonymous
Yes, it does. Because black or AA is an ethnicity, not a race, and in American history, people who were descendents of both slaves and slave owners were only allowed to participate in the culture of their slave ancestors, and thus are 100% ethnically black or African American. |
Anonymous
It means Doria is an identifiable visible Black woman. Though Doria likely has 20-25% European genes, for cultural and historical purposes she is Black. It times of slavery, the short lived Reconstruction era, and finally the Jim Crow era, ADOS (American Descendants of Slaves) were whatever race their maternal side indicated. The recent box of multi-racial/bi-racial is quite new [unless you were of Creole/Cajun descent]. |
Anonymous
I think PP mean to write 100% AA. It is possibly to have both white and black ancestry and still be AA. In fact, it was legally the rule in this nation for hundreds of years. Up through 1/16 African ancestry. Which is likely undetectable by phenotype and without DNA, entirely based on a community policing via legal records. It’s interesting to me that the people on DCUM who want to defend Latin America as a racial paradise completely miss that the Spanish and Portuguese colonial governments established dozens of racial categories for various admixtures (castas) and even commissioned paintings to help local bureaucrats label babies accordingly. Allegedly each type of admixture produced a certain temperament and of course, the more white ancestry, the better the temperament with black/Indian seen as the worst. See https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/early-europe-and-colonial-americas/colonial-americas/a/spaniard-and-indian-produce-a-mestizo-attributed-to-juan-rodriguez The legality of the sistema de castas ended, but a lot of the attitudes embedded in it have remained, including the idea of improving the bloodline by whitening it. I see these attitudes still circulating in my own Cuban-American relatives and in many countries in Latin America when I worked and lived there. |
Anonymous
I loved this University blog post about Beyonce’s Formation lyrics: The notion that Creoles represent a different racial group from “Negro” has been shaped by the history of southern Louisiana. Most people who identify as Creoles of color are descendants of gens de couleur libre (free people of color), a group with roots in French Louisiana. Gens de couleur libre often had white fathers and enslaved African mothers. Emancipated by their fathers, this mixed-race population formed a separate group in colonial Louisiana. They married one another and formed communities throughout the southern parishes. Some owned land; the wealthier ones even owned slaves. Gens de couleur libre considered themselves to be neither white nor black, but a combination of both races. Their descendants, who referred to themselves as Creoles of color after the Civil War, continued to stress their racial and cultural hybridity. DH is Louisiana Creole (French/African), very dark, and far less likely to be identified as a multi-racial black person than I am (light skinned African/Irish/Cuban), but the family histories both include at least one black ancestor who was emancipated in the very early 1800s and established as a middle class landowner. One difference is that his ancestor did it as part of a community of peers and mine did it in isolation. |
Anonymous
The Queen is not Archie's grand mother. |
Anonymous
I guess they take a few photos, and choose the one where the baby has his eyes open and is looking forward, and maybe that means that it might not be the best one of some of the adults. |
Anonymous
I think the baby will have beautiful curly red hair 
He’s adorable already. Red haired babies are so cute. |
Anonymous
******Coreection: Red-headed Babies are so cute....ugh iPhone typos ***** |
Anonymous
Pp you quoted. You're right, lol. I wonder who chose the decor? And why on Earth the photos were taken there? |