Actress Paula Patton-"I find [the term biracial] offensive"
Is The Term “Biracial” Offensive?
Tue, Mar 02 2010 by Necole Bitchie | Filed Under: Bitchie Chicks , Celebrities
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I find [the term biracial] offensive. It’s a way for people to separate themselves from African-Americans….a way of saying ‘I’m better than that’.
I’m black because that’s the way the world sees me. People aren’t calling Barack Obama biracial. Most people think there’s a black president.
Via Paula Patton’s Interview in Women’s Health Magazine
Re: Actress Paula Patton-"I find [the term biracial] offensive"
I'm biracial but i don't give the term a second thought. If someone ask when they see me with my family I just say that's my mother, that's my father. Nothing else said or make a big deal out of it.
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Re: Actress Paula Patton-"I find [the term biracial] offensive"
I don't think the term bi racial is offensive that is what you are by saying you're one race your denying one of your parents heritage. When I look at paula patton I had no clue she was bi racial, black etc. I thought she was of latin ancestry.
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Originally Posted by channy
I find [the term biracial] offensive. It’s a way for people to separate themselves from African-Americans….a way of saying ‘I’m better than that’. I’m black because that’s the way the world sees me. People aren’t calling Barack Obama biracial. Most people think there’s a black president.
I don't think it's separation any more than it is acknowledging.
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I find [the term biracial] offensive. It’s a way for people to separate themselves from African-Americans….a way of saying ‘I’m better than that’.
I’m black because that’s the way the world sees me. People aren’t calling Barack Obama biracial. Most people think there’s a black president.
Via Paula Patton’s Interview in Women’s Health Magazine
Re: Actress Paula Patton-"I find [the term biracial] offensive"
I knew she was biracial. Acknowledging your biracial status is not elitist. It is acknowledging a fact.
I don't know why some people complain about black people marrying and procreating with people of a different race and making mixed children, and the "death" of the black race, then in the same breath calling these mixed race/biracial children "black". That makes no sense to me.
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I find [the term biracial] offensive. It’s a way for people to separate themselves from African-Americans….a way of saying ‘I’m better than that’.
I’m black because that’s the way the world sees me. People aren’t calling Barack Obama biracial. Most people think there’s a black president.
Via Paula Patton’s Interview in Women’s Health Magazine
Re: Actress Paula Patton-"I find [the term biracial] offensive"
I find it offensive when people ask me what I am mixed with. Or say, you can't just be black. That's very offensive. It mainly comes from black people too.
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Re: Actress Paula Patton-"I find [the term biracial] offensive"
The term biracial is not inherently bad. I do agree that the way people use it is elitist sometimes. I would not necessarily call it offensive, per se. And don't lie, most of you all would be up in arms if someone called Barack Obama black and he responded "No, I am biracial."
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Re: Actress Paula Patton-"I find [the term biracial] offensive"
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I get what she is saying but she must think by saying she's biracial that she's somehow better than that because who is thinking like that?
You'd be surprised.
I have run into people over the years that really do think that biracial is better than 'all black'.
There are some with that mind set.
She most likely has run into people in her life that tried to treat her better than 'all black' folk. Let's not act like we don't know that some of 'us' will negro over light/white folk. Heck down south, there were mothers that treated the dark child like crap, but put the lighter child on a pedestal.
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Re: Actress Paula Patton-"I find [the term biracial] offensive"
Years ago, if you had one drop of black blood in you, it was determined (by the man), that you were black. I do not find it offensive for people to consider themselves as bi-racial. That's what they are and who's to say, that it's not true.
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