KARYN PARSONS:IT’S HARD BEING BIRACIAL IN AMERICA/RAISING BIRACIAL KIDS
Karyn Parsons,who played Hillary Banks on syndicated television show the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, says that it is hard being biracial in America. In addition,the actress turned producer/writer says that it is harder raising bi-racial kids.Karyn says that her daughter Lana,4, came out looking like the ”whitest white child with blonde hair and blue eyes” and her son Nico,11 months, came out looking “browner than [she is]“. Read Karyn’s interview with Essence.com below:
Essence.com: Your mother is Black and your father White. What’s been your biggest challenge being biracial in America?
K.P.: Well, it’s hard. When I saw Barack’s speech on race, I cried and I felt like, there’s the speech I’ve been wanting to write. I’ve been thinking about writing about race for a long time. It’s very interesting how we feel about each other in terms of race. When I’m around Black or White people, I’m always in the middle. Especially when I am around Black people; they will really tell how they feel about White people regardless of the fact that I’m also White and have White relatives. It’s very interesting and can be really hard.
Essence.com: It’s definitely an issue our society still faces.
K.P.: Exactly. And I’m married to a White man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest White child with blonde hair and blue eyes. And I’m like, Omigosh, now what am I going to do? She has my mom’s features and is lighter than my husband. And my boy is browner than I am. Brown eyes and really tan. The race thing is something we continue to deal with and just have to learn to love ourselves and others.
In 2005,Karyn and her husband wanted to “instill a sense of culture and heritage to their daughter” and so they started an award-winning collection of African-American children’s DVD’s.
Essence.com: Congrats to you on the success of your award-winning collection of African-American children’s DVDs, which aired on HBO. How did you get into writing for children?
Karyn Parsons: While I was on Fresh Prince, my mother, who was head of book resources at a college library, told me the incredible story of Henry ‘Box’ Brown, a slave who mailed himself in a small box from Virginia to Pennsylvania to find freedom. Talk about determination! That was such an obvious story to tell kids and it stayed with me. A few years later, I talked to my husband about it. He was really fascinated with it as well and pushed me to just do it, and bring the story to life.
Essence.com: Well, we are glad you did. That is an eye-opening story that people need to know.
K.P.: And they really have been receptive. I started my company Sweet Blackberry in 2004 and The Journey of Henry ‘Box’ Brown was our first DVD. It was an easy way to introduce slavery to young kids. It can be difficult for parents and teachers to explain that part of our history. It was an interesting experience and kept me thinking, Is that too much? Does the whip crack in this scene? We all love to hear a good story, and Alfre Woodard was amazing as the narrator. It aired on HBO in February for Black History Month. Our second story was Garret’s Gift, about a teenage Garret A. Morgan, who invented the traffic light, and Queen Latifah narrated for us, which was great.
Ummm… It’s hard because you make it hard.
Whether it is race or culture, one has to surpass the other. There is no place for both. When you or your kids walk in the street, they are identified as black.
You are black whether you have a white mother or father.
I don’t see any problems there. Once you accept your blackness, there is no problem. To me only when people have a problem saying “I am black”, that is when things go wrong..
Cranberry, clearly you are not mixed. One can’t understand what it’s like to be biracial in America unless one is actually biracial… in America. Unfortunatly it’s not as easy as the “one drop of black blood (makes one black)” rule would imply. That concept was a way to discourage whites from having sexual relationships with blacks, as many Caucasions (1) feared that race mixing would render the white race instinct and (2) thought that blacks were so inferior that they were unfit as mates to whites. By implementing the one drop rule, whites who chose to cross the color lines romantically had to deal with the fact that their children would not be accepted in white socity nor be afforded all the benefits it had to offer. So, this in addition to all the other ways in which blacks were treated and generally regarded as inferior in America, kept blacks “in their place” and whites with whites.
Simply put, the one drop rule is a social construct, originating from slavery, that does not reflect reality. Actually, if you are born from one black parent and one white parent, you are of both races, to the exclusion of neither (for example, Cameren Diez refers to herself as mixed and is accepted as a Caucasion even though she is of Cuban and Caucasian descent; why should it be any differerently when one is of part African American descent?). Actually, if you come from a white mother and were raised by her and her white family in a white neighborhood, you probably identify with the white race more than the black, even though you might be darker than your close kin. Yet, because of people like you Cranberry, that person would be told to “accept his/her blackness” by some, not regarded as black by others, and veiwed as “just another white person” by still others. This makes for a very confusing situation, especially for young children.
So Cranberry, you should really read up on your history and have a heart-to-heart with some mixed folks before you make such insensitive remarks.
well said!!
Very well said black is black!!!
To black is black…stupid: you clearly are confused, as you contradicted yourself in the first two sentences.
First sentence: “I believe there is only one race-the human race.”
Second sentence: “I identify as African American.”
That perhaps attributed to poor Katrina’s confusion in thinking your point was black is black.
No insightful commentary on biracial children here…I just want to say that her daughter looks straight up albino, not mixed
OH MY GOD IS HER DAUGHTER ALBINO
I think this is an interesting topic. My mom is half African American and half italian American. During her time, she was considered black because she was raised by a black and cherokee grandmother. Her mother abandoned her because she was too dark to ever pass for Italian. This has hurt and haunted her and her biological mother for years. However she considers herself to be biracial but culturally she is African American.
I think that it can be tough to hear some one talk about white people when you are half white. But I don’t consider myself to be biracial and can not really speak from experience. I do believe as time passes those who were identified solely as black will now be able to be comfortable saying they are biracial. I believe the country is coming to terms and slowly the one drop rule is eroding.
People are people, thats how I have grown up but then again I didn’t grow up during the 60’s.
Live and let live, and don’t force outdated views on the next generation. Eventually everyone will be various shades of brown anyway.
To clarify my point. It has nothing to do with being biracial. I think the real psychology in this is the color issues and the lack of ease when it comes to accepting blackness in America.
We are human beings and even if you disagree with Bateson’s theories on acculturation and assimilation, most people are multi-racial or cultural. In terms of identity, the African Diaspora is diverse and accepting because our our social identity is that of struggle and class.
Understanding the label of black goes beyond the 1 drop rule and the controls of white social order. It is not meant to deny biology, but rather retain the black skin and shatter the white mask.
I am multiracial and most likely lighter than you, but being black does not eradicate that fact. We can live in a white society as we do and nothing will change our black experiences, no matter what we call ourselves.
To Hmmm…
No I am not confused. I explicitly stated in my comments above that culturally I am black. I use the terms black and African-American interchangably.
There is only one race–the human race. However since we live in a society that likes to categorize people along “racial” lines, I always mark off African-American because culturally I am African-American. Had my father had a greater impact in my life and passed down his cultural habits to me then probably I would be like some biracial persons and mark off more than one box. But since I was rasied by my mother and am not obsessed over race I have no problem identifying myself as African-American because culturally I am such even though I might not look like what many perceive as the stereotypical African-American. I have never denied the fact that my father is Hispanic. It would be ridiculous for me to do so considering the way I look. But I am also not going to get bent out of shape if someone tells me “oh you just black girl” after they meet my mother, which is what many people, black and hispanic have done. I really don’t care how others perceive me. I know who I am and am confortable with it. I don’t need the entire world to know and affirm my ancestrial background in order to feel good about myself.
Also, don’t let my signature fool you. I’m not some radical. I created it as a joke. Now breathe everyone!
I just read you comments 20somethingvixen which is why I didn’t respond in my previous posts.
Yes, I’ve heard of other cases like your mother’s and it’s sad that she had to go through that. I do agree that race relations and people’s discomfort with interacial marriage and the children produced by such unions has changed since the ’60s, although prejudice and intolerance still exist. I just read an article on CNN where a 68 year old Indian-American was given a life sentence for the murder of his African-American daughter-in-law. Apparently he was against his son’s marriage to the 22 year-old woman, and hired a man to kill her, seven months after she gave birth to the couple’s only child, a girl. It took several years before police arrested the 68 year old grandfather. They got a tip from a female relative of the grandfather. She told the police that she had witnessed the crime along with another girl. Surprisingly, after the murder, the victim’s Indian husband gave his infant daughter to his black in-laws and has had no contact with the child since. He subsequently married an Indian woman and has more or less abandoned his daughter who is now 9 years-old. Of course this is an extreme example of racial intolerance and not the norm. But unfortunately hostility towards African-Americans and minorities in general, still exist. To extrapolate from a comment Cranberry made in her second post, no matter how we may “look” or identify ourselves, in a society and world where black people are viewed with hostility, if someone wants to label you black they will. I have no probleme with it. Not because I am anti-multiracial, but because I refuse to give into the notion that there is something wrong with being black. I also don’t have time to argue with ignorant people. If people want to identify themselves as biracial/multiracial then fine (and this is not an attack againt you 20sonmething vixen, or anyone else for that matter.) However I do find it disturbing when I come across people who say they can be white or black whenever they want to be because they have a white parent, and yet they look like Seal’s kids with Heidi Klum or Halle Berry. White people don’t think such things. And when they do, it generally comes off as obnoxious. But I understand that people have different experiences than my own. Until we stop placing value on skin color, we will continue to have these conflicts.
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Cranberry…how are you gonna tell other ppl how they should identify themselves? That’s not your job. Not everyone wants to identify the same way…deal with it.
Black is black…I completely agree that there is nothing wrong with being black. I also don’t believe that you can re-identify yourself going back forth. I believe in embracing what you are and moving on. I was heart broken by the story of the black woman being killed by the Indian family over skin color. It disgusts me that people would go to such lengths. The fact the father wants nothing to do with his child is horrible too. This poor child has been abandoned because of race.
Cranberry feels that way because she’s ignorant. Although she’s argued ONLINE that she’s mixed and lighter than anyone posting..lol… she’s clearly not mixed and hates the fact that mixed people sometimes can have the best of both worlds. She wants them to only claim their blackness like she, who has no choice. Get over it Cranberry. Black is beautiful.
I was being sarcastic when saying of course it’s hard, yet showing the dichotomy of the stereotypes and hypes.
P.S. Her daughter looks every bit black even with her pale skin. Heck she looks like an albino friend of mine.
And I have cousins that look exactly like her and her son.
Biracial in America hard? How about acknowledging the fact that being black in America has never been easy, and even more so, accepting that regardless of this social construct called race, we are all a part of the human family
Then and only then will things start to get easy…
Mary D - I take my hat off to you.
It is nice to see someone that knows history.
I remembered when Thandie Newton used to say she was mixed.
She got along for a while.. Then she had kids - in an interview, she said after she had her children, she understood what it was to be black.
She said that her brother asked her where did the problack sentiment came from… LOL
I think Thandie understood that she could fit in and never have to justify herself. Her father is still white, bust she understood that she wasn’t and that is ok..
Thanks– A lot of people are misinformed about our history and that of the white man’s behavior in slavery and about the history of racially mixed people in the US and try to rationalize the unfair and racist reasons things are the way they are here in the US. To fully discuss the hypocrisy about slavery, mixed race people, slave codes and black codes and the new biracial movement would take a book, not a blog entry. I do believe that people have the right to decide who they want to identify with, etc but lets be real. A lot of this biracial “turmoil” is because the biracial people have a problem being identified with blackness in any way and want to really identify with their white or asian heritage. Many of them go through a lot of changes trying to identify with the part of their identity that may or may not accept them(ie, the white or asian part) instead of trying to understand the part of their heritage that has accepted everyone regardless of racial admixture(some of our greatest leaders in the past like WEB Dubois or Walter White or Adam Clayton Powell were mixed race/mostly white genetically)because the black community always had a forced solidarity because of the one drop rule.
Often, light skinned/mixed race people were promoted over darker people in many jobs historically by whites and this is still going on in entertaiment so these people benefit from being racially mixed. A whiter beauty standard is what whites promoted as they feel more comfortable with this to a certain degree. Check out the women like Karyn Parsons and Halle Berry, Lisa Bonet and that white looking chick on the Cosby Show–they all have had roles playing black women not identified as biracial but having 2 black parents in the shows or films they appeared in yet I have read articles in which they all talk about how they should not be mistaken for a black person( except Halle, who seemed to be ok aknowledging some black heredity and said so in her Oscar speech),how hard their lives are, etc. Yeah, right, tell that to sisters who wanted the part but were skipped over because they were considered too dark(even though on the Cosby show, dark skinned Bill Cosby and brown skinned Phyllica Rashad were the parents!) I am glad Thandie Newton is more ok with being thought of as partially black now–she made a career on playing light skinned black women getting busy with Ol master in Jefferson in Paris, Interview with the Vampire, etc and also made some of those quotes about “biracial turmoil”, etc. Maybe being in Crash(an excellent movie about how even money does not protect you from racism) or even Norbit( which was trash but was a virtually all black production) got her to re-consider. Or maybe the fact that she was getting scripts like Norbit when the white chicks weren’t got her to see anti-black racism in a different light as she was the one suffering from it for a change.
It’s funny to hear black and solidarity in the same sentence. That’s all I’ll say on that point.
There is a mixed race, and people who’s grandma’s grandma who was half white/N.A./you pick the race, are not included.
If your parents are from two different races, you are mixed. Point blank. Those who fall in that category are free to choose as they see fit in terms of who they want to identify as especially if they are fare skinned with curly/wavy/straight hair and more European features. For the others, don’t be so bitter that you were not born with that choice. After all, with that luxury comes a price, as Parsons points out.
my mother is a black woman born in France
her father is a black man born in the Phillipines
my father is a black man born in Italy.
I am a black woman.
I suppose that means I’m mixed too, but I don’t concern myself with that label because in my opinion, the label is pointless. Just live and appreciate all of the cultures you are exposed to.
Calico, I need you to look up in the dictionary these two words: nationality and race. There is a difference sweatheart.
“Those who fall in that category are free to choose as they see fit in terms of who they want to identify as especially if they are fare skinned with curly/wavy/straight hair and more European features.”
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The above has to be the most ignorant statement ever.
#1 - You don’t have to be bi-racial to have “fair skinned with curly/wavy/straight hair and more European features.”
#2 - You can travel Africa and get black people with those same features, so please stop sounding foolish.
This is what happens when people don’t know their history.
Cranberry, no one said you had to be biracial to have fair skin and fine hair. But if you want to go there… I’ve never seen a person of African ancestry with those characteristics who was not also of another race. And please don’t count Egyptians without going to your local library. Black Afriacans and some black Americans (like you Cranberry) purport that the fair skinned/straight/wavy haired Egyptians are black; but, Egyptians are of at least partial Arab decent and don’t consider themselves black… even though they are African (I know you won’t get this difference Cranberry, but read it really slow a few times and perhaps you might). Quite frankly, I’ve never heard of or seen any fair skinned AND fine haired black who was not mixed (relaxers, weaves, and skin bleach don’t count).
But that’s soooo besides the point. Unfortunately Cranberry, you don’t even sound intelligent enough to fully grasp what’s really at the heart of these issues.
You’re clearly one of those people who picked on the beautiful mixed girls growing up because they had “long pretty hair,” light skin and all the boys’ attention and you didn’t. I’ve never been one to ignore the perks that come along with being biracial. It’s unfair… but like your mamy should’ve told you: life’s unfair. So get over it.
@ Not Buying It- You seem to have the whole House N**** /slave mentality at hello. Good luck with that and wherever it shall take you in THIS life.
Again, I know a lot of black women hate to admit it; but, a lot are jealous of mixed women…all the way to the Chinese shop to buy hair to mimic what mixed gals can create naturally with a flat iron (and…. no hair grease might I add). Black women spend tens of thousands of dollars over the course of their lives to look closer to mixed and white women. Not to mention the blacks in other countries who’ve practically burned their skin and gave themselves a one way ticket to skin-cancer hell using skin bleaching systems. People on this forum have been discussing the supposed identity crises of the mixed woman and I laugh. Black women are the ones who’ve made the most attempts of any race to look other than what they do naturally. Suggestion: stop buying the $1K + lace fronts, relaxers, and weaves and instead invest in your local libraries and children’s educations. Power to self love not synthetics.
I’m actually surprised that this discussion is still going on, but then race is such an emotional and complex issue.
I don’t know if I have much to add to the discussion. I think Lynn, Mary D, Shango Baptiste, and Cranberry made some valid points.
I was a bit turned off by some of the statments Not Buying it made. Especially when he/she stated that there are “perks” to being biracial and that it’s a “luxury” to be mixed. I’ve never believed my diverse background to be a “luxury” or a hinderence for that matter. It is what it is and I am comfortable with it. And the only “perk,” if you will, that I can see in having a diverse background is that you are exposed to different cultures but that’s only if you are raised by both parents. Not all biracial/multiracial persons are raised by both parents, so I’m not understanding this whole “perk” argument. It all sounds pretty obnoxious to me.
@ Not Buying it:
I doubt you are black because your statements are so off kilter and arrogant.
You sound like a white angry female or male with mental issues.
First off, black people don’t wear weaves because we want to look like mixed or white people.
As for “mixed” people, you have pure black people that have curly hair and light skin. Yes, you moronic clown, you have different skin complexions and hair textures withing the black diaspora, apart from the offspring of the slave trade. It just shows you are ignorant and clueless.
I am light skin and have curly hair and I wear weave, not because I want to look white but because it is easier to manage and because of the time it takes to groom our hair and the fact that our hair is FLEXIBLE, I wear weaves and sometimes I relax my hair.
Secondly, White women wear weaves, texturize their hair and let’s not mention tanning. Actually the biggest skin bleachers are in India and that is due to colonization and the evil created by European slavery.
Honestly I think you are an angry troll with issues. Get a life. You need to meet real black people and get your crazy azz outside..
Yeah right. I’ve heard the whole convenience argument PLENTY of times. Dreadlocks or afros are much more convenient… not to mention cheaper than going to buy high priced synthetic hair. Denial, denial, denial.
Yes, white women wear weaves; but I have yet to see afros as being the weaves of choice for them or blacks for that matter. White women, like black women do it for beauty (or what they perceive as beautiful).
As for the qualms with my “perks argument,” it really wasn’t an argumennt. Instead it was a mere comment. In my experience I’ve come to believe it is beneficial in America to be fair skinned with fine hair. I thought that was no secret, but I guess some are unaware of it. I think people other than myself on this forum have mentioned perks, or in other words benefits, to being mixed. In the acting world, someone mentioned, lighter skinned women tend to get more opportunities in mainstream media than their darker skinned counterparts. I’m sure that “phenomenae” isn’t exclusive to the entertainment industry.
To Pookie_Sanchez, the name calling was really mature. How does that work out for you at your place of employment? Do you even have a job or are you under 18? If the latter, go study for finals or something.
Not all “mixed women” have straight hair by the way. Nor do they all have more managable hair. Some of them can have kinky hair.
Corinne Rae Bailey, the British singer, does not have straight hair and neither does Thandie Newton, Lisa Bonet, or that young woman who won the Miss America Pagent a few years back. Karen Parsons wears hair extensions in her hair. I saw a picture of her when she was a teenager. Her hair did not look as she wears it now. And during the final season of the Fresh Prince, she straightened her hair and I’m sure her hair stylist used some sort of hair balm, because no competent stylist would flat iron their client’s hair dry. You’ll damage your hair. Charles Barkely’s college age daughter also has kinky hair. As well as Kobe’s daughters and Heidi Klum’s sons. This just shows your ignorance about genetics.
I just watched a poetry slam performance on youtube by a young woman, Zora Howard. Her poem is called “Biracial Hair” and speaks on the difficulty she has with maintaining her “naps”–those are her words not mine. Its an interesting poem. Perhaps you should read it as well as take a course in genetics and anthropology.
Why are people putting words in my virtual mouth? I did not say that ALL mixed people had anything. There needs to be more reading and interpreting on this forum before hitting the reply button. Black, I’ve never stated that all mixed people had fine hair, just as I never said that only mixed people can have fine hair. But since we’re on this major aside, the majority of mixed individuals do have curly/wavy/straight hair. However, that has nothing to do with my recent posts. It astounds me how so few black women wear their natural hair. I personally don’t know of any mixed people who regularly wear weaves. But, I can count on one hand the number of black women between the ages of 20 to 35 who wear their hair naturally. If you want to argue that point, argue with the wall… ’cause that’s just reality.
I never said anything in my post about weaves, so I am not going to reply on that issue. And I never said that you said all mixed women have straight hair. What you actually said was:
“…I know a lot of black women hate to admit it; but, a lot are jealous of mixed women…all the way to the Chinese shop to buy hair to mimic what mixed gals can create naturally with a flat iron (and…. no hair grease might I add)”
You’re right, you didn’t say “all,” but you didn’t say “some” either. You made a blanket statement and I simply pointed out the flaw in your remark by giving some examples of biracial women who can’t “flat iron their hair without grease.”
I’m not trying to argue with you or anyone on this forum if you want to know the truth. In fact I don’t plan to comment on this subject after this post, because its getting a bit stale.
I just think you happen to be a little too stoked on yourself because you claim to have “fine hair.” But if that’s where your self-esteem comes from then so be it. I just don’t understand how you can stomach insulting others especially considering that at least half of your family is black. Yes there might be some African-American women who have a color complex and issues with hair, but most women I know, regardless of race, do something to change the texture of their hair in order to make it more managable. Isn’t that why you flat iron your hair without grease?
And don’t just accuse Black women of straightening their hair. Many Jewish women have kinky curly hair. I know, I attended a predominantly Jewish high school and some of those girls had downright kinky curls. Natalie Portman said in an article once that she straightened her hair to get the curl out and felt bad because it came off that she was trying to hide her Jewish background when in reality she just wanted more managable hair.
Many Egyptian women relax their hair–and I’m not talking about black Egyptian women, I’m talking about the Arab population that currently lives in Egypt. I read an article in which the author said that whenever her father went home to Egypt to visit his family, all his female relatives would ask him to bring with him a suitcase full of black hair products and relaxers. One could argue that in both Natalie Portman’s case as well as the Egyptian women above, that they must hate themselves and want to “look more white” because they straighten their hair. But I know many women, regardless of their backgorund, simply want more managable hair. Isn’t that why you flat iron your hair withough grease? Or do you hate your self and simply want to look more like your white ancestors?
Also, even though I stated above that I would not comment on mixed women who wear weaves, I just thought of Halle Berry. Halle Berry regularly wears hair extensions, so that’s at least one biracial woman who wears weaves even though I don’t believe her natural hair is kinky. Apparently it just doesn’t grow quick enough to give her the length she desires at this time.
Okay I’m done with this subject.
Peace!
black please. I’m not talking about celebrities here. Clearly most celebrities alter there appearance to the ninth degree, with gobs of make up, obsessive dieting and exercising and surgery. I’m talking about regular folk. Also your comments hinge largely around women of other races. No one is denying that other races have there issues. But, this is a black forum, discussing black people. Take your issues of Jews to Jewishcelebritykids.com.
Truthfully, I hope you don’t post again. But I do hope that you and others wake up to the real reason Black women tend to alter their looks on a daily basis. Anytime I can watch Oprah and Tyra and witness black woman who are crying profusely because they’re asked to take off their weaves, there’s a problem. And no, they aren’t the only ones. I know plenty of women whose natural hair I’ve never seen. Everytime they are out their hair is tucked away and they go and get it redone at both convenient and very inconvenient times. Again, don’t redirect the commentary to other races or attempt to isolate this issue to a personal one.
And as to your comment about me flat ironing my hair. Sweets, I wear my hair curly 95% of the time… a very far cry from refusing to ever walk out of the house natural.
’nuff said.
Bravo, Mary D. and Black Is-verry well stated.
I just came across this thread sitting in my office in JHB SOUTH AFRICA and fyi egyptions are not the only light skinned, straight haired “tribe” in Africa.Xhosa people in my country often come out looking mixed or closer to white but are definately one thousand percent black
They don’t call Africans, and those whose bloodline can be traced to Africa, black for no reason. 95% of blacks are dark complected with kinky hair, when full-blooded. You might find an exception in one pocket of the world….but really that’s anomolous just like the albino… a freak of nature in some respects. Why is this point even being argued. It’s a given and doesn’t address the important issues that were discussed above.
Well if black women need to get over the “debilitating victimization that so many blacks clinge to” then “mixed persons” like Karen Parsons need to stop whining like tragic mulattos.
I couldn’t resist. I had to give one more post.
black go touch up your roots and stop posting…please. Your comments are meritless.
Stop frontin. You know you look like Whoopi Goldberg’s next of kin.
From reading these posts, I see America is soo black and white. I am so glad I was born in the Carribean. Its not so much about light and dark there as it is about features and hair. We do not acribe good hair to light skinned folks or bad hair to dark folks. Its many of the dark people who have the straightest hair. There is Asian (Indian/Chinese), African, and Southern European blood all over the Carribean. So you will have millions of black women with chocolate skin and bone straight (natural) or curly hair, thats grows long without weaves. These women are not necessarily biracial and are majority African descent but have been past mixed like everyone else in the world. Stop the generalizing and travel more.
Whoopi get to work.
Wait a minute, aren’t you suppose to be a professional? Shouldn’t you be the one at work. I’m on summer break, what’s your excuse?
With professionalism comes the luxury of coming and going as you please, barring imminent deadlines. If you’re lucky to become one when you grow up you’ll come to realize this.
Whatever!
Just admit it, you’ve been laid off from your job as a $10 an hour paralegal and have nothing better to do. Waiting for hubby are you???
If you only knew sweetheart. Maybe if you study long enough you’ll end up where I am. Although I doubt it, judging from your previous remarks and undying ignorance.