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Robynmarie
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Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 12:06 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

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Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 12:16 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Fuk Tyra. She should be speaking up for something BLACK.
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Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 12:33 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

THANK YOU TONYA!! However, Tyra is doing the same thing Oprah is doing trying not to alienate her majority white audience.

I don't agree with it. But it is smart.
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Do not alienate the majority, yep, that is smart. But don't expect to find no "Tyra haters" in this crowd, who's even thinking about Tyra?--besides coons and uncle Toms of course.
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Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 12:44 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

i don't hear anything...what is she saying?
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Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 02:10 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Yukio...surely u don't have a problem reading lips ?? LOL !
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well...that not one of my pastimes...so tell me what is she saying...
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Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 02:26 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

*kizz my phat azz*
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Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 02:29 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

ok...i would indeed oblige...LOL!
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Tyra has got to be one of the stupidest people on earth. Granted, she had a great modeling career and she parlayed that into television and other ventures and reaped the financial rewards. But when she was on Larry King a couple of weeks ago talking about how her weight shouldn't matter she said something to the effect of "I weigh 161, well no, it's actually closer to 160"

DUUUUUUUUH. 161 vs. 160??? Give me a ing BREAK!!! This is STOOOOOPID.

Furthermore, she's the one who brought up her weight. People don't know how much you weigh unless they are:

1. A human scale

2. Your doctor

3. Or you told them what you weigh!!!

And 4.

Who gives a shit???

Stop walking around in a bikini Tyra Banks. No one is interested in looking at your ass whether it's fat or skinny!!! Dumb !!!


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Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 03:00 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Umm Mzuri...tell us how you REALLY feel..LOL
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Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 03:03 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Tyra, airhead that she is, claims that she was mainly upset because calling her "fat" sent the wrong message to young girls who have weight issues that could possibily lead to eating disorders. zzzzzzzz
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And doesn't the dumb have her own television show??? What did she have to go on Larry King Live about her weight for??? She could have been doing a fundraiser to help the homeless Katrina victims or something. Tyra and Oprah need to go jump off a ing bridge!!! Dumb es!!!


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Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 03:09 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Tyra, ditz that she is, probably thinks that there's no such thing as bad publicity. She's milking this issue for all that it's worth because she's getting a lot of attention and press from it. Yes, she's a ditzy air head, but she is also media savvy.
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Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 03:24 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)


Thanks Cynique because I wasn't sure what her beef or her purpose of ing was. But has anyone ever watched any of Tyra's shows? The talk show or the reality model competition? She supposedly has some full-figured women on this season, but for the most part, her standards for the models is the same as that of the modeling industry - you gotta be tall and skinny. If she doesn't want to perpetuate the wrong message being sent to young girls, then she should have chosen a different reality show theme. Something involving using your BRAINS perhaps!!!

Tyra is a DUMB !!!


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i think that once u get a show and people clapping for you...it makes u dumber than usual, and lil shit damages your intellect.
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She always focuses on weight. Why doesn't Tyra ever discuss how the white beauty standards in the modeling industry affects young African American girls?
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Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 03:56 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

tyra is one egg mcmuffin away from joing the fatass club ... but until that mcmuffin is swallowed ... i would still holla. all of those chick talk shows are the same and if i didn't work and didnt have video games and a whole bunch of other stuff i'd rather do, then i'd watch them all. :-)
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Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 03:57 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

she looks kinda sexy in that image though, i like them feisty sometimes!
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Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 03:59 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I guess Banks should say in this clip "Kizz my phat dumb azz?"

LMAO !
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Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 09:52 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Tonya --

"Fuk Tyra. She should be speaking up for something BLACK."

Do you (really) "hear" what you're sayin'?
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Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 10:02 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

tonya has been posting like a crack head lately.
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Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 10:39 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Tyra's such a frickin' FRAUD.

Here this trick make MILLIONS selling an image of woman that 99% of women have a snowball's chance on the hot side of HELL of achieving but now cause she's got a talkshow and have started to eat and look more like your average human female, she wants to start self-righteously spewing from a soapbox.

Somebody needs to add some STFU sauce to all those BLT samiches she's been scarfing down lately.
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Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 10:49 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Tyra's such a frickin' FRAUD.

Here this trick make MILLIONS selling an image of woman that 99% of women have a snowball's chance on the hot side of HELL of achieving but now cause she's got a talkshow and have started to eat and look more like your average human female, she wants to start self-righteously spewing from a soapbox.

Somebody needs to add some STFU sauce to all those BLT samiches she's been scarfing down lately.

<applause>
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Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 08:59 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

LOL...ABM I share your sentiments (maybe not as harshly though...)

She just feels burnt as she isn't as up to scratch as her model days. We had some of these pictures in gossip mags in the UK and I must say, I do worry for the women who often feel the need to buy these magazines for the sole purpose of people being ripped to shreds et cetera.

But Tyra knew what industry she was in and as model she should have developed a thicker skin by now. If she was so worried about her image being used to lower the self-esteem of young girls then maybe she wouldn't have been at the forefront of shows like ANTM which do that on EVERY show. She needs to think about what she is saying and how it reflects her before she speaks.

People in the US tell me she is fake, I have always thought she was quite sweet tho, but who really knows?
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Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 10:48 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

i really do think tyra in a way stands for something black...notice most of those girls who win on her show are black...so she's giving aLOT of black women a chance in the modeling world....plus she constantly pumps up the idea that thick lips and large behinds are beautiful every chance she gets...thats something ive noticed.


remember when she got all over one of the black models that was on her show about her attitude? she was being extra hard on her because she was trying to help her...along with other black women who have similar problems with attitude.
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Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 10:54 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

"Tyra's such a frickin' FRAUD.

Here this trick make MILLIONS selling an image of woman that 99% of women have a snowball's chance on the hot side of HELL of achieving but now cause she's got a talkshow and have started to eat and look more like your average human female, she wants to start self-righteously spewing from a soapbox.

Somebody needs to add some STFU sauce to all those BLT samiches she's been scarfing down lately."



the reason i dont see this as true is because in the first few seasons of her next top model show she use to tell certain models that they were "too skinny"
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Say what you will about Tyra, she has always been engagingly self-depricating, always telling people that she has cellulite in her thighs and wears hair extensions and relies heavily on make-up, just as she has always taken pride in her naturally endowed D-cups. She's entitled to speak out when people call her fat because she seems to have a special empathy for overweight people as witnessed by her donning a fat suit to prove how prejudiced the world is against overweight folks. Tyra would never win a nobel peace prize, but unlike some of the members of the pop princess royalty, she is well-meaning.
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Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 11:39 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

^^^very true
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Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 01:06 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Latina_wi,

Tyra's is at least as much a media ho as anything other's that out there. And I don't really fault her for it. Hell. The pay's GREAT.

But the hypocrisy and disengeniousness she's current displaying is downright UNSEEMLY.

She's almost like a hooker having the audacity to demand that nuns practice safesex.


Misty,

PUULEASE!!!

I watched the first couple of seasons of ANTM in their entirety. Hell. Most of those chicks were a biscuit or 2 short of Karen Carpenter territory.

Yet she still PICKED them to compete on her show. So, really, who she CRAPPIN'?
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Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 01:30 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Goddamn nigggerrrs are hating on Tyra Banks - A Brown-Skinned Black.
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Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 01:36 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

FUHK both Tyra sellout a$$ AND that horse she got the hair from that's atop that spacious mofo HEAD of hers.
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Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 02:33 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

What should Tyra do when an unflattering picture of her is splashed all over the newspapers with snide references to her being "fat"? She's entitled to publicly defend herself. And it's very likely that all the models trying out for ANTM were 2 bisquits short of being anorexic. The ones who were anorexic didn't make the cut.
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Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 02:40 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Yawl notice Tyra's turkey arm flapping as she triumphantly raises it?
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Tyra Bank's used to be cute Back in the day
Now she looks like FAT GHETTO TRASH with that FUGLY Blond WEAVE.
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Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 04:19 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I think she looks good here


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Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 04:24 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

BB123.

Photoshop.
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Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 04:26 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Is this one better?? lol
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Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 04:33 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

BB123,

When was that picture taken, babe?

During the Bush SR Presidential Administration?
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LOL

I think some time during the late the 90s.

That is one of the stankest photos I've ever seen.
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BB123,

It does have a Buffie the Body, Coco magazine and video ho quality to it.

Doesn't it?


See. When you see THAT Tyra you can't help saying "B*tch PUUULEASE!!!" to her current self-righteousness.
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actually, i think the weight looks good on her...she is 5'10" or so....and only 160lb? She can get it! LOL!
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Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 05:40 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Yukio,

Well. Be careful that she don't BITE it, Chief.

Because by the looks of her, THAT'S a definite possibility!
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LOL! she just needs some love...

remember her in higher learning in those tights...LOL! That was a while back before BB123 was even legal!
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Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 08:41 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

BB123 --

"Why doesn't Tyra ever discuss how the white beauty standards in the modeling industry affects young African American girls?"

Tyra doesn't represent (all) black women, and she doesn't have to. What black America doesn't seem to understand is that it's still defining race, ethnicity and so on according to the unscientific, arbitrary and discredited standards of the ODR and hypodescendency.

Until black America gets over the (not so new) fact that folks like *Tyra, Halle, Alicia, Beyonce, Vanessa, etc...are not considered traditional black anymore, then what they(*) represent will never completely align with the needs of the "typical" black-looking female and society as a whole. Again, black America (just like the rest of American society) has finally and dramatically morphed into another phenotype line, and there's nothing that really black-looking people can do about it but get over it, or crawl under a really "big" rock. No one's ever said that life was fair, instead - it's only tolerable.
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Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 09:41 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Nels,

Tyra has said so herself that she is a representation for black girls across America. I know this because I've been following her since I was a kid.
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Also, she is one of those Black women who can be made to look lighter and whiter--if you've seen her childhood pics you'd know what I mean. She had brown skin, and kinky hair.
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Abm, me and you must have been watching different shows because i remember her telling some people they were too skinny.
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Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 10:02 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

since when doesnt tyra banks look black anymore? lol

thick lips, high thin oval shaped forehead, brownskin, round nose. the only thing eurocentric about her is the weave.
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Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 10:13 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Misty,

if you haven't notice they do a lot of countouring to her nose; not to mention she has already had two nose jobs. Then top that off with the long, silky platinum blonde European remi hair, and the icy blue contacts she wears occassionally--

Tyra had said so herself that throughout her career, she had to make herself look whiter in order to be successful.
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i did notice in her later pictures her nose looks a bit sharper. its still not sharp as in white person sharp.
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Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 10:21 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Her nose will probably never be as sharp as a white person cause she isn't white and the surgeon knows it won't look right if he could. The goal was to get as close to the white beauty standard as possible. She didn't get the nose job to look blacker.
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BB,

my reply was in response to nels comment about tyra not looking black and being a newer breed...lol

but regardless even with the thinner nose...she still looks black. and if we cant pick but one or 2 features and say she doesnt look black anymore because of them then that really doesnt say much to support the claim in my opinion. btw... her nose is still black looking to me even with the nose reduction...but i see what you're saying......
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Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 12:56 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Misty,

It seems to me the most effective ways to deter younger women from developing eating disorders would NOT include featuring living stickfigures as possible winners of highstakes fashion modeling careers and contracts.
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Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 02:34 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Being slender is not synonymous with having an eating disorder. A model makes her living by maintaining a figure that best shows off the creations of high fashion designers. Just because a woman is not voluptuous doesn't mean she's a stick figure.
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Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 08:10 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Misty --

"she still looks black"

Your assessment is based solely on the ODR and the societal conditioning that you like many others have experienced during your entire life. How far removed she is from the "traditional" black ancestral phenotype is still the real question.
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Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 08:18 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Both of Tyra's parents are darkskinned unmixed looking Black people.
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Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 - 10:41 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I always though Tyra was mixed...and that was down to some of her features.
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latina_wi: for the most part, everybody is mixed in the African American community, that is blacks in the Americas.
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Yukio, most Black American's aren't really that mixed, like in other locations.
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hmmm....beyond our grand parents, most of us do not know the "racial" origins of our ancestors...there was alot of raping going on those plantations, as well as the jim crow period; and white women did birth the children of their slaves, as well. thus, if one does believe in "race," one needs to account for the imperceptible--blood. Beyond phenotype--skin, hair, and facial features, how does one discern if a person is "mixed" or not? That a person's skin is dark and nose broad doesn't mean that person doesn't have a great, great grand parent who was the overseer of some plantation, or the local police office in jim crow south carolina!
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Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 - 06:24 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I know my family lineage pretty far back and there aren't any white people to be found.

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if u say so; but are we to assume being mixed is limited to black and white relations? What about native american and "black," as well as "black" and mexican, especially in the south west or what of those in florida, new orleans, and the miss who are of both french and spanish heritage. Finally, are you representative of most blacks who "know [their] family lineage pretty far back"? And, are you relatives so honest that they would admit the possible bad experiences of your fore-mothers and fore-fathers?
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You made the assumption that most black people don't know the racial origins beyond their grand parents--and I answered to you that I do.

"And, are you relatives so honest that they would admit the possible bad experiences of your fore-mothers and fore-fathers"

Yes, they were very honest. No native american either.
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latina_wi: for the most part, everybody is mixed in the African American community, that is blacks in the Americas.

I realise that there are a great many in the american media who are pushed becase they are mixed (on the black side anyways). Is this reflected in actual american society (I am genuinely interested)?

I know about the gullahs of Baltimore who are almost, if not totally, pure.
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Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 04:53 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Yukio --

"hmmm....beyond our grand parents, most of us do not know the "racial" origins of our ancestors..."

You only have to look a bit harder.

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