Post by lpatrice on Mar 19, 2018 11:09:09 GMT -4
Passion I get. Misdirected hatred I don't. Wishing/celebrating the death on a man who hasn't done anything to her personally was too far in my book. Bruno is not personally responsible for setting up a rigged system. Yes, he benefits from it, but he didn't build it. Is there something he could do to acknowledge it, and help dismantle it? Sure. And that's a conversation to have; but I can't get behind just kicking him around because he's popular and winning.
Just yesterday on ONTD, there was a thread about this actress and her response to criticism of her being too light for the X-men role she was cast in. Someone in the responses points out how most of the under-30 black actresses being cast in major films aren't just light-skinned black women (which has been par for the course forever in Hollywood) but are of mixed race.
I think the reason people say they're biracial today is because there are more biracial people around, safety in numbers. Most of the biracial people I knew just said they were black because it made sense, that's what Halle Berry's mother told her to do. If there aren't any other biracial people around, you'll be out on your own. I had a roommate in college who was half Japanese, half Irish and she had a hard time because at that time, at that school, there weren't people like her around. She was off on her own, so she hung around us black girls.
I don't think Bruno Mars would have had a career if this were 1975. He would have been told he wasn't black, he wasn't white and his last name is Hernandez. He would have been told to stick to Latin music. End of story.
Halle Berry has always identified as a black Woman with a white mother because her mother explained to her early on that society would view and treat her as a black woman. - And she wasn’t wrong. Most biracial people (the ones with one black parent) quickly realize that unless they can legit pass for white - society at large is going to view and treat them as black. Also genetics, endlessly fascinating. I know people with two black parents who most Americans would think were mixed or exotic; whereas I also know mixed / biracial people who don’t even look it (they look straight up black) and I know at least one who legit looks like a basic white woman.
I can see why someone like Meghan Markle identifies as biracial; She could almost pass for white - and it seems she pretty much lives her life as a white person would; seems to only have white friends, date only white men, runs in white circles. And that’s her business. Halle Berry is on the other end of the spectrum. I wouldn’t have even known she was mixed if not for her talking about it and sometimes bringing her mom to events.
Back to Bruno, this was probably the best thing I read about the current topic at hand. People Don’t Understand......