lol stop, I see that all the time in commercials. Darker dad, lighter mom, child with light hair and green eyes. Now I know it's possible, but are the commercials promoting the rare or something else? BUT it's awesome they used a darker little girl. I don't see so many little girls like her on campaigns/pictures. -I'm biracial, and I notice it too. @BangBadBxtches
@BangBadBxtches you can't be serious? 100% Black people come in many different shades and with different hair textures without needing a parent of a different race. My niece was born really light with loose wavy hair. My sister is 100% black and so is her child's father. His mother made him get a DNA test and my niece is his child. My sis is dark with kinky hair and so is he but he keeps his dead bald. There are black people out there who are born with straight hair and both parents are black.
@vishna I've been seeing that in a lot of commercials too lately, I think it was a chips commercial, the parent's were both black and the kid was clearly biracial. It feels disingenuous, you couldn't just hire a black kid or mixed parents?
I think biracial kids are very often labeled as black, just with a lighter color (more marketable in America *coughcough*) but really, it's so ughhh. I know it's possible for parents to have kids that are fairer than the two. But that's not what happens most of the time, and the companies consistently use children that do look typically bircial (light skin, light hair, sometimes light eyes) when neither of the parents is like that. I would love to see more diversity in the children models. @shadiamond I get where you're coming from. Black is not one look. I don't think he's saying that though. I think he's calling out the fact that whenever a black couple is used, especially in ads/tv, the children most often don't look like the parents, the children look... biracial. I see this a lot at least. There's no real effort on the casting agent's part.
I honestly hate it when black people demand calling biracial kids black. No we're not, we're mixed. There's a difference between a black kid and a mixed kid.
Some mixed people prefer to be labeled as only black and some don't. I don't label people something they don't want to be labeled tho. I get stares because my skin is dark but my eyes are really light, it's huge contrast. I get the mixed questions due to eyes and hair texture (my hair is loosely curly) and people always asking me why my skin isn't as light as my eyes or what kind of 'mix' am I. Sigh. I feel annoyed sometimes when people think black can only be kinky hair, dark eyes with dark skin to match. Sorry for ranting.
I don't post pics on gags but u can Google examples of dark skinned people with light eyes and you'll see their parents are 100% black. Your surprise is quite interesting tho. Maybe you don't live in a very diverse area.
@shadiamond You're lying then. I live in one of the most diverse states and it's EXTREMELY rare to see, as you describe, a dark skinned person with light colored eyes and loosely curled hair, unless you're some type of East African.
@BangBadBxtches dude, I was on your side until you called her out on her body like it was impossible, that was just rude man... ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Now I feel silly.
No, I definitely don't. But.. there are people in the world who look like she says she does. Even if you doubted, you could have not been so blatantly rude about it "I smell bullshit." I mean, jhdfjhdsjfjkshfjshjkffskdks dude.
I can't comment directly to cookiesandmilk because she blocked me awhile ago (lol) but race is based entirely on skin tone. so a little mixed kid with dark skin is black when talking about race.
LOL same I didn't mean it that way. That word actually gets to some people though doesn't get to me because i would most definitely want to be black than anything else lol.
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Amen.
But I see some of the comments here are completely ridiculous
Stop being a sissy, and don't get offended by everything. It's just a damn word.
What crawled up your ass and died
@LilWeezey your boyfriend did.
@LilWeezey
helping you out op... also, that response was dope!
Haw. But why are you getting offend by my comment with such as nasty reply.
Its just a comment.
@LilWeezey not offended , just answering your rhetorical question.
Some help again would be appreciated xD
@LilWeezey
*flies away*
I love anon people who try and be hard asses.
Its the cutest
Lol, why is there a biracial kid?
why not? be real, he's considered black racially.
lol stop, I see that all the time in commercials. Darker dad, lighter mom, child with light hair and green eyes. Now I know it's possible, but are the commercials promoting the rare or something else? BUT it's awesome they used a darker little girl. I don't see so many little girls like her on campaigns/pictures.
-I'm biracial, and I notice it too.
@BangBadBxtches
@BangBadBxtches you can't be serious? 100% Black people come in many different shades and with different hair textures without needing a parent of a different race. My niece was born really light with loose wavy hair. My sister is 100% black and so is her child's father. His mother made him get a DNA test and my niece is his child. My sis is dark with kinky hair and so is he but he keeps his dead bald. There are black people out there who are born with straight hair and both parents are black.
@vishna I've been seeing that in a lot of commercials too lately, I think it was a chips commercial, the parent's were both black and the kid was clearly biracial. It feels disingenuous, you couldn't just hire a black kid or mixed parents?
I think biracial kids are very often labeled as black, just with a lighter color (more marketable in America *coughcough*) but really, it's so ughhh. I know it's possible for parents to have kids that are fairer than the two. But that's not what happens most of the time, and the companies consistently use children that do look typically bircial (light skin, light hair, sometimes light eyes) when neither of the parents is like that. I would love to see more diversity in the children models.
@shadiamond I get where you're coming from. Black is not one look. I don't think he's saying that though. I think he's calling out the fact that whenever a black couple is used, especially in ads/tv, the children most often don't look like the parents, the children look... biracial. I see this a lot at least. There's no real effort on the casting agent's part.
I honestly hate it when black people demand calling biracial kids black. No we're not, we're mixed. There's a difference between a black kid and a mixed kid.
Some mixed people prefer to be labeled as only black and some don't. I don't label people something they don't want to be labeled tho. I get stares because my skin is dark but my eyes are really light, it's huge contrast. I get the mixed questions due to eyes and hair texture (my hair is loosely curly) and people always asking me why my skin isn't as light as my eyes or what kind of 'mix' am I. Sigh. I feel annoyed sometimes when people think black can only be kinky hair, dark eyes with dark skin to match. Sorry for ranting.
@shadiamond Can I see a picture of you? I'm smelling bullshit.
I don't post pics on gags but u can Google examples of dark skinned people with light eyes and you'll see their parents are 100% black. Your surprise is quite interesting tho. Maybe you don't live in a very diverse area.
@shadiamond You're lying then. I live in one of the most diverse states and it's EXTREMELY rare to see, as you describe, a dark skinned person with light colored eyes and loosely curled hair, unless you're some type of East African.
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Not African. Both parents are black.
@BangBadBxtches dude, I was on your side until you called her out on her body like it was impossible, that was just rude man... ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Now I feel silly.
@vishna So you believe everything people tell you on the internet?
No, I definitely don't. But.. there are people in the world who look like she says she does. Even if you doubted, you could have not been so blatantly rude about it "I smell bullshit." I mean, jhdfjhdsjfjkshfjshjkffskdks dude.
@vishna I guess I'm not accustomed to the new sensitive direction our generation in society is heading.
I can't comment directly to cookiesandmilk because she blocked me awhile ago (lol) but race is based entirely on skin tone. so a little mixed kid with dark skin is black when talking about race.
I think some people have access to the internet but live under a rock lol.
It's just a word.
Lol shut up
@Feels Actually, since I am a n** myself, I think I will say that "niqqer" is just a word as much as I want to.
LOL same I didn't mean it that way. That word actually gets to some people though doesn't get to me because i would most definitely want to be black than anything else lol.
@Feels Oh, my bad, man.
Yeah, I don't see what the big deal is. It's truly freeing when you don't let a word get to you.
It means black in Latin.
Really nice