...Yeah, she Mixed!

The battle between dark skin women and "red bones" are so prominent in our culture that it should be preached about in churches. I find it interesting people associate beauty with lighter skin or mixed heritages. Or that people may go out of their way to try to find "mixed consistencies" in their family trees. Thus is the case with the females that brag about being "mixed" with 5 to 10 different ethnicities. It is even more interesting when those ethnicities have no observable correlations. Such is the case with someone I know who claims to be Irish, African (She does not specify the country), Jamaican, Indian, Chinese, and White. Did she really go back a century or what? Or is she one of the females that count relatives that have been married into the family, or worse a cousins' or distant relatives' father...or is she making it all up? I have yet to find out and judging that I don't believe her anyway, I'm not trying to. Anyway, I decided to do a little research on how these cultures came to "mix" and what products they usually produce so that I can compare the outcome to the ladies who claim that they are indeed...mixed. I came up with info on Latinos/Latinas and of course it went back to the slave ship. Latin America received millions of African slaves before the Whites even got whiff of the trade, thus the mixing began. To date, at least a million black and mixed people make up Latin America. Haiti makes up 98%, Dominican Republic 64%, Cuba 62%, Brazil 49%, Colombia 21%, and Venezuela 10%. So as immigration takes place and people meet and fall in love (or lust) mixed babies multiply, I understand that. But, when people go crazy and try to say they are mixed with X,Y, and Z I tend to get a little skeptical. Especially because the noted mixed people look a certain way and the "claimers" do not personify that image. Celebrity Afro-Latinos include Zoe Saldana, Sammy Sosa, Juelz Santana, and Sessilee Lopez (Dominican). La-La, Lauren Velez,Jenifer Lopez and Roberto Clemente (Puerto Rican). Shakira (Colombian). And Christina Millian, Celia Cruz, and Gina Torres (Cuban).

So what I'm saying is, it is pretty obvious to tell when one is "mixed" and if you have to wonder if someone really is (while I'm sure you won't even entertain their foolishness) ask them about their roots, what country their parents are came from or even peep their last names, only then will you be able to say...Yeah, she Mixed! or Not.

Sources: Agabond
Black Marxism
Pan Africansim