I thought Oz had plenty of Aborigones though!Here in Oz we dont have enough black (african) men :redface:
Why bless your heart, that's nice.Are many African Americans 100% African?
ROTFLMAO Nope, doesn't happen. I hesitate to say it is almost an impossibility. Though I prefer the word Black, I am an African-American. I was born here. My people have been here for centuries. Some on my fathers side were bought here from Africa in slave ships, I also have Cherokee Indian blood, and some of my ancestors can be traced back to County Kilkenny, Ireland.
Yes, I consider myself to be a true African-American or Black person. As near as I can tell if just one of your ancestors was bought here in a slave ship 300 years ago you can claim to be Black or African-American. Otherwise you are not. Is this silly? divisive? not helping the cause? Yes, but it's the way that it is.
I think the people to whom you refer are African immigrants. That is totally and completely different! Just like having parents from or being born in Jamaica or any other Carribean nation is completely different. Having brown or dark brown skin does not make one an African -American.
It may not make sense to you; but trust me it's a deep and touchy topic with many people of color here.
I am a white European (I think 100% but I haven't done a dna test), I have had an affair with an African woman. I get the horn just remembering her.
njqt... you are so flippin' smart, you don't even need those legs of yours to behot... your mind is ULTRA SEXY!!!!! Did anyone catch the documentaries where African Americans (PBS) and English people of African descent (BBC or Channel4) went back to Africa to trace their genetic heritage? Some of the Africans were downright shitty to the people tracing their DNA... most actual Africans have a strange attitude about African Americans, they love the culture that they have created (who doesn't?), but see them as pathetic branches on their family tree... they all kind of look down on African Americans, I don't really know why, but some of the Africans that I have known are all like that... kind of arrogant.
Why bless your heart, that's nice.
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So with regards to the OP, someone might be genetically only 10% African, yet you would automatically include them as a black or African American partner?
That seems a bit odd to me.
:tongue: So with regards to the OP, someone might be genetically only 10% African, yet you would automatically include them as a black or African American partner?
That seems a bit odd to me.
It's not how they classify themselves, it's how they are classified by society. People have always had to make an effort to "pass" for white when they did not have much African blood in them and a lot of them were unsuccessful in being seen as "white". Society seems to say if you even have a smidgen of African blood in ya, you are an African American of light complexion.
its not just that black women aren't geting married, as a whole black people in america are getteing married at a very small percentage but still havin families.
i have 26 1st cousins. 21 of them have children, but only 4 are married!
WTF IS THIS SHIT!
In the United States during the early to mid 1800's there was a law passed which stated that if you were just 1/16th black, you were black. It did not matter if you appeared white you were considered by law to be black. If you were found in the wrong place, by the wrong person you would be in big trouble. You had No Rights as an American and could be be beaten, killed or just made a slave.
Don't be silly, :tongue: you are handsome, smart, funny and well endowed. A woman of substance of any race would be delighted to have a relationship with you. No man, I don't care what color he is wants or needs a golddigger in his life.Lack of money is what has been keeping me from starting a permanent relationship... what women would wanna be married to a broke ass man?
You aren't from here are you?
We have come along way as a nation, but we have a very long way yet to go.
Indeed I am not. That wasn't meant to be an insult. As a Black American I don't accept racism but I am used to it.
Imagine if I were 10 percent French and was labelled french-british. Utterly absurd. If the one drop rule were to apply in your situation, you would be labelled French and for whatever reason that 10% would be considered less good than the British 90%.
I started a thread in ETC a while a go called Americans are americans are americans - noone really noticed it, but the point was that Europeans don't see your skin colour above your being an American. As you wrote earlier NJ, to me also you are an American, period (as you say).
I don't know about all that, but Im STILL waiting on my white girl . . .