The issue isn’t the blackness of biracial people. This woman isn’t 1/4 or 1/8. She’s fully white with blond hair and blue eyes and two white parents who told the world that she doesn’t even have a smudge of black in her.

The hard work for black women starts as soon as we’re born. None of us gets to choose the skin we’re born in. If that was the case I’m sure some of us would’ve rather been born a white girl from Montana than born a black girl(there’s only like 3) from Spokane.

how do you know they aren’t wigs. Jezebel never claimed that her curly perm was her actual hair.

filing false hate crimes makes her scum. Lying about having cancer makes her scum. Telling her brothers to lie makes her scum. And turning her son against his father makes her scum. The way she answered those questions in this interview is manipulative. This woman is a pathological liar and the few black people in…

She did file 8 hate crime reports with the police. And she did lie about having cancer.

I don’t think thats true. They adopted four black children. And they’re missionaries that went to South Africa. All of that could equal a very complicated and maybe negative relationship with black people. But I don’t think her parents are racist in the ‘I hate you kinda way’ maybe in the ‘oh bless their little hearts…

Now I don’t feel bad that I was oohing and awing at some of her hair styles. Don’t know if this will appear, but apparently in 2013 she was patting herself on the back for going natural, although we never see her with a relaxer(lol!)

I don’t think she grew up in an african -american dominated neighborhoods, She’s from Troy, Montana. But she did grow up with four black siblings in a very white community, probably got looks from everybody as she walked around town with her family. She probably was deeply effected by anti-black racist comments being…

do you mean a black woman trapped in a white woman’s body?

It would be really cool if Jezebel ran an article on whether or not its normal to charge a young woman with a felony for perjury in connection to their own victimization. Never heard of a rape victim or molestation victim or even a domestic abuse victim being charged with a felony.

accept this girl isn’t Salli Hemings. And she had way more agency in her relationship than Ms. Hemings ever had, especially considering the law actually prosecuted her abuser. Back in Salli’s day toddlers, male and female, weren’t even safe. (COUGH...you’re not the first white person to mention Ms. Hemings so no need…

So black women should avoid antebellum costumes? Even though our ancestors actually wore old dirty potato sacks instead of actual clothes?

Yes you would so be out of line. Just call him a pervert, a creep, a sex offender. But this young black woman doesn’t need you linking her relationship to slavery. A time period when our ancestors had no choice but to be rapped and our government wouldn’t even think of arresting their attackers.

Instead of over thinking it for her, maybe show a little respect and not run to that conclusion. It looks like they took a tourist trap, old-timey photo in historic costumes. Something millions of Americans do every year. And just because she’s black doesn’t mean she should avoid costumes from that era, with or…

Janelle is my girl, but I hate this song. Its bad enough that yoga has been reduced to just exercise in America when its a beautiful religious practice. She further reduced it to fluff with this cheesy, slightly porno song. In her attempt to crossover she’s trying to do mindless pop.

despite your confusion, at least you got six flags right. Without referring to slavery, antebellum, and Sallie Hemming.

maybe he thought that since the photo was taken in 2015 at a cheesy tourist spot where people line up for their cheesy photo that it wouldn’t remind the world of slavery because its.... 2015.

I had hope based on this comment. then i saw you posted a book cover about Sallie Hemming. Its good to know that your racism eventually led to a bunch of white people immediately linking this photo to slavery instead of the old-timey photoshoot stores that your mom would never let you do.

white people!!! stay classy.

really? do tell what historical implications you noticed? I want to see if you can word it in a way that doesn’t make you look like a prick.