Anonymous
Post 03/20/2012 00:17     Subject: Racially ambiguous?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think the Jesus thing is saying he had "black" hair (as in the texture). But he kinda looked white. Therefore, racial ambiguity.


What's black hair? Thanks to the raping of female slaves, black hair comes in all textures.


I didn't know Jesus and American black slaves were contemporaneous.... Also, you are assuming "black" one refers to back Americans descended ends of slaves.
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2012 00:11     Subject: Racially ambiguous?
Jesse metcalf? He does not look racially ambiguous to me. Betty White was a joke, right?
Anonymous
Post 03/20/2012 00:00     Subject: Re:Racially ambiguous?
Anonymous wrote:The Rock
George Clooney--what's up with the black pupils? Grandad was hittin' it.
my kids.


Pretty sure we all have black pupils. Seeing as how a pupil is a HOLE.
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2012 23:03     Subject: Racially ambiguous?
Anonymous wrote:I think the Jesus thing is saying he had "black" hair (as in the texture). But he kinda looked white. Therefore, racial ambiguity.


What's black hair? Thanks to the raping of female slaves, black hair comes in all textures.
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2012 22:53     Subject: Re:Racially ambiguous?
The Rock
George Clooney--what's up with the black pupils? Grandad was hittin' it.
my kids.
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2012 22:19     Subject: Racially ambiguous?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Zoe Saldana
Jesse Metcalf
Rosario Dawson


Zoe Saldana is pretty clearly of African descent...


She is Dominican and Puerto Rican.


Yep. And Dominican and Puerto Rican are nationalities, not races. I am American, but that doesn't tell you anything about my race.

I believe Zoe Saldana's mom is a mixed-race Puerto Rican woman and her father is a black Dominican.



I think PP is saying that most people assume she is African American and not a Black Latina.


If the PP is making that point, it's unclear and also irrelevant to my previous post. I posted that she was of African descent, I said nothing about ethnicity.
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2012 21:39     Subject: Re:Racially ambiguous?
Kris Humphries?
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2012 21:29     Subject: Racially ambiguous?
I think the Jesus thing is saying he had "black" hair (as in the texture). But he kinda looked white. Therefore, racial ambiguity.
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2012 21:27     Subject: Racially ambiguous?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Zoe Saldana
Jesse Metcalf
Rosario Dawson


Zoe Saldana is pretty clearly of African descent...


She is Dominican and Puerto Rican.


Yep. And Dominican and Puerto Rican are nationalities, not races. I am American, but that doesn't tell you anything about my race.

I believe Zoe Saldana's mom is a mixed-race Puerto Rican woman and her father is a black Dominican.



African Americans are a "social group" within the black race. You can't tell who is AA just by looking at them.

I think PP is saying that most people assume she is African American and not a Black Latina.





LOL I've never heard it put that way before!
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2012 21:24     Subject: Racially ambiguous?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Zoe Saldana
Jesse Metcalf
Rosario Dawson


Zoe Saldana is pretty clearly of African descent...


She is Dominican and Puerto Rican.


Yep. And Dominican and Puerto Rican are nationalities, not races. I am American, but that doesn't tell you anything about my race.

I believe Zoe Saldana's mom is a mixed-race Puerto Rican woman and her father is a black Dominican.



I think PP is saying that most people assume she is African American and not a Black Latina.


Sorry...that didn't quote right. Should have read:

African Americans are a "social group" within the black race. You can't tell who is AA just by looking at them.
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2012 21:23     Subject: Racially ambiguous?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Zoe Saldana
Jesse Metcalf
Rosario Dawson


Zoe Saldana is pretty clearly of African descent...


She is Dominican and Puerto Rican.


Yep. And Dominican and Puerto Rican are nationalities, not races. I am American, but that doesn't tell you anything about my race.

I believe Zoe Saldana's mom is a mixed-race Puerto Rican woman and her father is a black Dominican.



African Americans are a "social group" within the black race. You can't tell who is AA just by looking at them.

I think PP is saying that most people assume she is African American and not a Black Latina.
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2012 21:21     Subject: Racially ambiguous?
Anonymous wrote:Op you need to rephrase you're question. Pp's are giving you black people that kinda look white? Do you really want ambiguous ? Someone who can look like anything?
My husband has been asked for directions in 3 seperate countries (Italy, Mexico, India)
He's AFA.
More surprise black people: Slash
Wentworth Miller, Carole Channing, Jesus (the whole hair of lambs wool gives it away)




So someone truly racially ambiguous is your husband....a person that we don't know? Yeah, thanks.

BTW, what does Jesus' "hair of lambs wool" give away, exactly?
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2012 21:21     Subject: Racially ambiguous?
Anonymous wrote:Op you need to rephrase you're question. Pp's are giving you black people that kinda look white? Do you really want ambiguous ? Someone who can look like anything?
My husband has been asked for directions in 3 seperate countries (Italy, Mexico, India)
He's AFA.
More surprise black people: Slash
Wentworth Miller, Carole Channing, Jesus (the whole hair of lambs wool gives it away)




Op here, any example really is fine. I was trying to figure out what is considered racially ambiguous and all of these have helped. I think there are probably racially ambiguous white celebrities as well.
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2012 21:21     Subject: Racially ambiguous?
Me! I have the generic ethnic look. I have been asked if I'm Russian, Iranian, Eastern European, Italian, and Jewish. It's weird because nobody ever guesses my real heritage which is hispanic!
Anonymous
Post 03/19/2012 21:17     Subject: Racially ambiguous?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Zoe Saldana
Jesse Metcalf
Rosario Dawson


Zoe Saldana is pretty clearly of African descent...


She is Dominican and Puerto Rican.


Yep. And Dominican and Puerto Rican are nationalities, not races. I am American, but that doesn't tell you anything about my race.

I believe Zoe Saldana's mom is a mixed-race Puerto Rican woman and her father is a black Dominican.



I think PP is saying that most people assume she is African American and not a Black Latina.