I never noticed this before until now but...

I always noticed how white people will say a biracial person is biracial, ONLY when they do good, yet they are black any other time. Heck, they are still seen as black, even when they claim the biracial person to be "biracial. But there was something else that I just noticed, this time its done at the hands of black people.

I was looking up Hugh Jackman, and how he had adopted a biracial boy from America. Alot of black people commented on it. It wasn't the usual "white people shouldn't adopt black" comments. Although I will get back to that in a minute.

Some of the things black people had to say in the comments was "Why did he have to go and adopt a biracial kid? was a black not good enough?" and many variations of it. It sounded just like the comment a black girl made once, when she said that "when a white guy dates as biracial girl, its because he doesn't have enough soul and is too scared to go with a REAL black woman".

It made me think back to Obama, and many other biracials who have had major achievements, such as Halle Berry, Alicia Keys, etc. Black people have no qualms about calling them black, and taking credit for their achievements (I noticed whites and blacks love to measure achievements by the race you are born in).

But all of a sudden, in something such as adoptions, they see black and biracial differently. This is where the celebrity adopting black comes back in.

A commenter mentioned, in retaliation to the hater comments, that blacks had an outcry against Madonna and Angelina Jolie for adopting black, yet now they are giving Hugh hell for adopting biracial INSTEAD of black....

Although it seemed like there was an agreeable consensus though on the fact that everyone was more angry about adoptions of blacks by Americans happening outside of America, rather than inside of America (which I totally agree with, I think its silly to adopt outside the country, when those inside the country need homes too, you can't fix other countries' problems, when your country needs to fix itself first).

Yet, I never really noticed this though, but biracial people seem to be a "throw around" for both whites and blacks...they can be their greatest ally, and their greatest enemy...we seem to spark arguments and controversy within each race. Blacks seem to be all for the ODR, until an actual black suffers while the biracial person benefits, then all of a sudden, they hate biracials and want to differientate between the two...it seems like whites and blacks see biracials as something that should be "seen but not heard".

Biracial babies are less wanted for adoption than black?

I was reading a few articles about black and biracial babies being adopted. Many stated that biracials were the least wanted, even less wanted than black babies. Tiffany of Mulatto Diaries even makes mention of this, herself, about the lack of adoptions for biracial babies.

I was surprised...maybe it was the logic in me, but it seemed as though, at least in my eyes, people would want a biracial baby more than a black, because some people have become conditioned to think when they see a white mom (or dad) and then a brown skinned child, they assume its theirs because of interracial relationship at one point in the past. Most would not assume adoption at all, because it may not be obvious to the stranger.

And isn't that the point of adopting, especially within your own race? The last thing you want is to make it clear from the get go that they are not biologically yours....

White people raising biracial or black is going to be hard naturally. But i guess the reason I thought biracials were adopted more was because, its more common to see biological biracial kids with a white parent...It just seems easier to adopt someone half white, than to adopt an actual black kid, if you are white.

I recently read an article that talked about how people from other countries come to America, to adopt black kids and biracial kids, because no one wants them in America. Its weird...Americans think they are saving Asian kids and even African kids (you know celebrity adoptions), from a terrible fate, and in a sense exerting their "America is superior" attitude while doing it, yet people from other countries put reality back into perspective. What does it say for a country, when you adopt from other countries, but other countries have to adopt the unwanted children of your own country?

It makes me think about the abortion debate...sometimes one can't help but ask if minority children are better off being aborted...cause they may have it bad raised in a home that doesn't want them...and then there is the possibility of spending your whole life in a foster home, and who knows how that person will come out afterwords...

I won't get into my opinions of the debate or talk about abortion any further, I am simply stating that it does make one understand more why some opt for abortion....

Apparently the US wants to make it harder for foreigners to be able to adopt black kids...which I feel is wrong, because Americans sure aren't adopting them. They prefer other "saving" other countries over their own....I think America is just too embarrassed about having to be saved by other countries, because many Americans feel they should be the Saviors of the World.

In the end though, it does seem kind of backwards to me that biracials are less wanted than black. Although another article stated that light skinned is preffered over dark skinned. So it seems like there are two different articles contradicting one another...I guess all we can say is, if you have any visible blackness in you, then you will more than likely not get adopted.

Does history always repeat itself?

History always repeats itself...no question about it...its just a question of WHEN.

Someone mentioned how America is coming closer to becoming the country with the next Holocaust. Some try to compare Obama to Hitler...but he is nowhere close. Its the conservatives, its the Glenn Becks and the Rush Limbaughs of the world one should be fearing.

If you look at 1930s and 1940s Germany, propaganda swept people into hating Jewish and anything that wasn't Aryan.

The world was suffering economically, and the powers of Germany was able to feed on the fears of everyone.

In America, it was irrational fears that helped catapult the country into an even further economic turmoil, when everyone rushed to the banks to withdraw their money.

When Birth of a Nation came out in 1915, it revived the Klan, because it fed on peoples fears.

All these examples show how fear causes one to become more irrational. Many say that another holocaust is impossible. Is it because the Civil War was the only major war America had on its soil, that they believe America could never be the next Germany? Is it because people believe we have improved socially?

All it takes is propaganda, and using the right words to put fear into people. You then take advantage of that fear and convince people to join your side. It is from there, things like the Holocaust can happen.

Russia is on the verge of a Holocaust. Ironic considering they fought against them in WWII...and now the amount of Neo Nazis there are ever growing. You know disaster is only a few miles away when something that goes by a name (or similar name) such as National Party gets voted into some form of political power. It recently happened in the UK, the BNP now have a seat in Parliament.

Many people want to shrug off these hate groups and assume they are all just a bunch of delusional people. When Obama got elected, Stormfront had a major increase in its membership. The problem is, we assume we have progressed enough that we have no threat from these groups.

And that is our fatal flaw. We assume they will be no harm. So no action is taken. Because of inaction, their numbers grow, and its only a matter of time before America is the next Germany.

No matter how much a country can progress socially in its beliefs, a country can always revert, and often times does, to its former self, out of fear. We shouldn't be afraid of what damage Obama can do. Be afraid of what people like Limbaugh, Beck, and Coulter can do to America since they have more ability to spread propaganda and to feed on the fears of the American people.

The next holocaust will be worse, chances are it will be more worldwide. Its not a question of if another one can happen, but a question of when.

History always repeats itself. People say that we should just learn the mistakes of those from the past. But some mistakes can't be learned. Sometimes its not a matter of learning what they did wrong and not repeating it, its a matter of everything in the situation converging with eachother and creating a mess. Different factors, but same results. Lets face it, humanity is cocky, we blame everything on our human nature, and prefer not to tame it.

Is happiness always at the expense of others?

Happiness is something we all want. But sometimes I wonder, is the only way people can be happy in life, is at the expense of others? Since America's founding, white people led more comfy lifestyles and had a happier experience compared to minorities, at the expense of Natives and Blacks. Even today, whites enjoy white privilege simply for being their skin color, at the expense of minorities, especially blacks. Naturally most don't want to give that up, so most tend to be very condoning of racism and tend to turn a blind eye because of it.

I start to think about each individual person's happiness. Surely enough we are a society that believes in material possessions. And if it takes a material object to make one happy, wouldn't one be doing that at the expense of all those who make them in third world countries, underpaid?

It seems like, regardless of what makes us happy, as much as one person is happy, another is sad over the same thing. Is it only possible for their to be happiness at the expense of others?

Are those that have to live unhappy and miserable existences, to thank for your happiness in the end, are they the underdog hero, not only given a bad rep, but treated unfairly considering the situation?

The irony of colorism.

I have talked about colorism before, mostly referring to blacks, but this one is more of a general post.

Colorism is racism within a racial group. So instead of it being two different racial groups against each other, its people with the SAME race, who dislike each other for the skin color (light or dark).

Colorism can be found in almost every race. India is notorious for it, and to a lesser extent, the African American community. And to an even smaller extent, it can sometimes be found in the white community (this is where the whole pasty white vs tanned comes in).

The irony of colorism is that it divides people within their race, when the reality is, people of other races do not see nor classify anyone of that race with colorism.

Meaning, to white people, black is black, no matter the shade or mixing in each person, a black person is still black.

Its easy to shrug off colorism, especially when you are on the "better" end, and its even easier when you do not usually have to deal with it. Or when you are in an environment where you deal with more racism than colorism.

Colorism tactics are nothing more than a way to keep a united front from being made. Lets face it, if a group is too busy in fighting, than the enemy could swoop on in and annihilate them much easier.

While it is true that some go with the flow when it comes to colorism because they were taught and raised to see it that way, its obvious "divide and conquer" still exists, because this is a problem that many know a little something about, that could easily be addressed...but isn't. One could easily start getting on the path to fixing it, but no one seems to really want to. Its obvious that many in society buy into it in some form or fashion, otherwise, someone would be finding a solution for it.

But colorism is always going to be ironic and a conundrum. It is amazing how many of us see racism going on...and want to stop it. But we all stand idly by with colorism, and don't seem to realize how colorism actually makes dealing with racism harder.

The In Between?

Some mulattoes, not all, have the ability to see neutral on how both races can be. When a mulatto has criticisms about blacks and whites, they cannot be labeled racist for they are both, and they are the in between and have the ability to see the in between.

While some mulattoes lean greatly towards one side, sometimes to the point of showing hatred towards one, other mulattoes can tell you what whites need to work on and what blacks need to work on.

Mulattoes don't like to do what white people do, and derail a conversation and make it about black people. Mulattoes don't like to do what black people do and hide the dirty laundry and pretend it doesn't exist.

Mulattoes can sometimes be the moderates of race relations. When you are raised by a parent with a very different skin color, even more than before are you able to see things slightly different than others.....

While mulattoes can't bridge the gap between races, they can at least point out the problems each race has that need working.

Mulatto the new threat to blacks?

I was surfing the web, and came across a racist white supremacist website called VDare. In an article they talked about some new "Mulatto Elite"...curious, i surfed more about the whole subject in the content of that post. And found a known racist, Steve Sailer, who has a blog at Blogger, he pretty much talked about some new "mulatto elite" too. In the comments, there was a comment that stood out to me.

The comment contained a diatribe of how mulattoes benefit more than blacks from AA, that as long as they have the choice to say they are black, they can have the benefits. The commenter then said that mulattoes want nothing to do with "black trash" and simply want the benefits of being part black, but also separating themselves from it. Someone followed up that comment by saying how mulattoes are a greater threat to blacks than white people.

The white user said that mulattoes would not be as kind.

It made me think for a little bit. To some people, they hate mulattoes more than blacks, because mulattoes are the product of "race traitors". To others, mulattoes are not as bad, because their being half white "saves them".

But the concept that mulattoes do take advantage of their black side is true. Many of us do take advantage of the benefits that come with being half black, such as AA (which really one does not choose if they will use in the first place, its the boss that chooses), college scholarships, and other things.

Mulattoes have helped carry the black race, for hundreds of years. With people as long ago as Booker T Washington and Frederick Douglass, and as recent as celebrities and politicians.

In another post, I stated, that one dropping benefits the black race, it makes the race look bigger than it may be, while also, increasing the amount of achievements made.

But one must ask, will one dropping at some point make things worse for blacks?

Some one drop mulattoes to "keep them in their place", mainly because who wants yet another racial group possibly being treated better than their own group?

But mulatto fight is starting to pick up, it may be in its beginning stage, but for how long? Mulattoes are fighting to end ODR, to get their own race, and to reverse hundreds of years of ODR and preconcieved notions. Naturally it will take a long time, since blacks are still fighting for their rights.

But is this supremacist commenter somewhat correct?

Will biracial people be worse than whites? They say if latin/hispanic people take over America, they will be much more heartless and violent towards blacks than any white person ever was. I can somewhat imagine that, given what goes on in California, and other places.

But many blacks often accuse biracials of hating their black side. Of all the biracials I knew in high school, only few associated mostly with blacks. Only one or two associated with an even amount of both blacks and whites (in seperate groups usually), and the rest (including me) associated mostly with whites.

Do blacks mispercieve being raised by your white side of the family as hating your black side? No doubt, some biracials (even myself), have been deprived of some things because of our lack of having a black side in our life...

I hate the fact that my father proves the stereotype about black men to be true, and it can be hard trying to defend the black race and say "there are good black men out there" (I haven't dated a black guy yet, but naturally there are good black men out there), knowing full well my dad was apart of the still growing trend of men leaving pregnant women. I almost want to stop defending and just say that whether or not its a majority problem of men in the black race doing it, it still needs to be addressed.

Is being more tough about how the black race should be, since I am biracial, make blacks angry? Yes it does, they often feel they must "remind" me that I am black, and I know I am, but that does not address the problem.

Some biracials intentionally want nothing to do with blacks, some do not necessarily relate well with many blacks. And some are rejected by blacks because they hold tough criticisms about the black race.

Maybe mulattoes are considered the "new threat" to blacks because, mulattoes hold lots of achievements in the black race, and if they become their own race, where does that leave blacks? Maybe mulattoes will be more tough towards the black race, because they are black, but also their white side propels them to see the black race slightly different than born black people.

Maybe they are just a threat to the current standard of living amongst black people. Meaning, they are threating the current way of life...and the current way of life amongst blacks (and even mulattoes) is grim and bleek, so is it really such a bad thing?

Of course, then there is the theory that the mulattoes that could be a threat most to blacks are the ones that resent being half black because they are punished for the actions of bad blacks. And if mulattoes ever get a higher standard in society and the ODR abolished, this could potentionally make things harder and worse for blacks...for resentful mulattoes may come back with a vengenance...but once again, is it necessarily the race they hate, or the stigmas?

In the end, mulattoes could become the new threat to blacks, although I think it is highly unlikely that will happen.