Why do they call Black people...black when we come in ALOT OF DIFFERENT SHADES..(Not Be Racist) Color does not matter.. but I was just wondering..
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-02-01/news_story8-1.jpg (Pictures of different skin tones of ''AFRICAN AMERICAN, AFRICAN.. PEOPLE.'')
(Anybody can answer this?)
2007-11-11 10:49:20 · 10 answers · asked by What? Do you know me? 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I AGREE... WHITE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE CALLED WHITE EITHER.. WHEN THEY ARE NOT!!!! THIS SHOULD BE A UP ROAR!!
2007-11-11 10:53:08 · update #1
FEE FEE.. I AGREE WITH THAT STATEMENT YOU MADE!! THANKS
AND TY EVERYBODY!
2007-11-11 10:56:50 · update #2
DOCTOR..
SOME OF THEM LIGHT SKINNED PEOPLE ARE FROM COUNTRIES IN AFRICA LIKE (SUDAN, CHAD NIGERIA.. AND SOME ARE JUST LIGHT SKINNED BLACK AMERICANS..ONE IS MIXED WITH WHITE THOUGH.)
2007-11-11 10:57:48 · update #3
KELIS.. ALL WHITES ARE NOT PINK.. THAT'S WHY IT'S STUPID TO CALL PEOPLE COLORS OF THE RAINBOW.. <,<
2007-11-11 10:58:43 · update #4
DOCTOR YOU DID NOT HAVE TO EXPLAIN WHAT YOU THINK THEY LOOK LIKE.. I ALREADY SAID WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE.. I GOT THESE PICS FROM A FORUM I WAS APART OF AND IT DESCRIBED EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THERE AND WHAT COUNTRY THEY WERE FROM....THANKS BUT YOU WASTED YOUR TIME FOR NOTHING!
2007-11-11 11:14:51 · update #5
Black is a political, cultural, and ethnic term--most people with even an elementary knowledge of Black history know that when people say they are "Black" it is NOT strictly meant that their skin is Black, but that they are a person of Black heritage. This is something very simple to comprehend. That is why a person like Gregory Howard Williams: http://www.lsu.edu/highlights/2006/10/images/williams2.jpg who is the author of the famous memoir "Life On The Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black": http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2002/oct02/issue/books-lifeonthecolorline.htm can say he's Black just as much as Nelson Mandela, an African can say it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela
Because Black over the years has been interpreted and displayed as a description of ALL people of African descent, regardless of their varying skin tones, hair textures, or eye colors. Black is a term to describe an ethnic group.
Latinos do a similar thing when many of them describe themselves as "Brown". Of course, they're not ALL brown, that would be ridiculous to assume. However, it is used as a general term to describe their kind of people and culture.
Common knowledge, this is.
2007-11-12 06:02:50 · answer #1 · answered by V.G. Grace 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just come in a light shade of brown...so I guess I am brown lol. But yea I agree...Ive never seen an actual white-white person like the color...or an actual black-black person like the color.
Myself though, I almost look beige..or some shade of brown.
Oh and I agree with you.
2007-11-11 18:57:45 · answer #2 · answered by Vampie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
umm I don't understand it either.
i mean if you say african american to a person who's not from africa then that's not correct
and if you say "black" or "white" that doesn't sound right for me..
so i have no idea why people call people that way..but i try to find the word that's most polite :)
2007-11-11 20:09:25 · answer #3 · answered by ♥ mimi ♥ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a light brown and I prefer to be called black if you are referring to my race. There is nothing wrong with being black or dark and I don't understand why a lot of people from all minority races hate being associated with being dark. People keep saying that we are not black we are brown and that is not the case with everyone. I know black people who range from pitch black to dang near white. i for one call myself black and I love being black.
2007-11-12 16:06:55 · answer #4 · answered by NorCal 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The word black just means dark/dirty anything darker than white just means black. You have a good point though and another question i always had is why do white people tan to make themselves similar to us? do they want to be black or what? but any who white people arent white either they come in all different shades to look at white people with red, blonde, black, brown hair, its just doesnt make any sense right? lol :)
2007-11-11 18:56:03 · answer #5 · answered by Fee Fee 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
I think it doesn't matter and it's just the descriptive term of the moment. Would you prefer Caucasian? That term is still used.
2007-11-11 19:00:07 · answer #6 · answered by that dead girl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you to we should not be call Black because are skin tone is not Black its Brown. White people should be call Pink
2007-11-11 18:56:57 · answer #7 · answered by Kelis Jordan 3 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Why do they call us white people when we come in ALOT OF DIFFERENT SHADES! (Pink, red, pale)
2007-11-11 18:52:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
your black black black black i love it and don't mind being called black it is a beautiful color
2007-11-11 19:07:19 · answer #9 · answered by roses 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
why do they call White people White, it ain't that serious....
2007-11-11 18:52:33 · answer #10 · answered by cai 4 · 5⤊ 3⤋