Am I first?! The pressure! I am always advocating understanding people who are different from oneself, but never underestimating them. It’s not about pity, we can all gain from the contributions of people with different challenges because it brings new perspectives to problem solving.

The fact that a relationship between a biracial woman and a man with (presumably) one more white parent than her is considered “interracial” in 2017 should get everyone off their high horses.

Ah, I’m feeling nostalgic for “Flavor of Love: Vanilla.”

I briefly dated a guy whose cat hated the hell out of me. It was clear she wanted to be the only lady in his life. Her stink eye was quite clear. She only stopped when he picked her up and told her how much he loved her and what a beautiful tail she had (it was a nub and she was sensitive about it). Then she would…

Mine will just head butt the door until they get in. It’s swollen and doesn’t close completely, but it takes some force to push open.

My you yet cat does this. She scoops up a piece of food, looks at it, then eats it. Not always, sometimes she eats directly from the bowl. A friend was over once and saw this. “Does she realize she’s a cat, not a person?”

My you yet cat does this. She scoops up a piece of food, looks at it, then eats it. Not always, sometimes she eats directly from the bowl. A friend was over once and saw this. “Does she realize she’s a cat, not a person?”

That was funny, but far more tame than I expected from the TV ban.

Mind blown.

Totally. I’m also more sensitive then, so it’s win win win win!

My closest cousin is actually a step cousin. When I go out with his oldest daughter, people say we look alike. There’s no reason we should! We are both half black, but her other half is white and Filipino. I dated a guy and his sibs all looked different, and had 4 different last names. Never saw a closer family. Looks…

The parent’s coloring doesn’t always determine the child’s. Tow brown eyed people can have a blue eyed child. Joe Jackson is quite lighter than Katherine and had green (someone else said blue) eyes. Since most black people in the U.S. have white ancestry, they can pass on only light skin genes or any combo. What…

The parent’s coloring doesn’t always determine the child’s. Tow brown eyed people can have a blue eyed child. Joe Jackson is quite lighter than Katherine and had green (someone else said blue) eyes. Since most black people in the U.S. have white ancestry, they can pass on only light skin genes or any combo. What…

Then you should be well aware that skin color is determined by 3 alleles from each parent. Given that somewhere north of 75% of black people in America have European ancestry, it’s entirely possible for a black person to contribute 1 or more white or light skinned alleles. That is why mixed couples usually have kids…

A friend had mentioned that one of her daughter’s friends was like this pale, recessive gene seed that passed through her mom, who is a medium brown Mexican lady. I later happened to be visiting when they stopped by and even me, biracial collector of my fellow mixed folk, was taken aback.

Depends on the pic and time. When Rashida’s character on “Boston Public” said she was black or mixed (don’t remember which it was), I was in disbelief. Same with Jennifer Beals. Didn’t clock it in “Flashdance,” but my granny did. But she is porcelain white at times in “The L Word,” but looks mixed to me in “Devil in a…

Yeah, I used to mock his paternity. Then I saw Prince and Blanket at the funeral and I can see it, totally.

Indeed. As the biracial person everyone thinks is 100% black, I’ve had other biracial people befriend me in part because they saw tribe. Me? Thought they were Hispanic and, in one case white (had only met her dad, she had blonde hair, green eyes, and pale olive skin) was shocked when her BFF told me her mom was black…

Never knew that. Wish I had in the 80s!

His actual coloring is irrelevant to which 3 skin color alleles he could pass on to offspring. A black person could pass on three genes for light skin, or any combination of any color they carry. His father had light to medium skin tone and green eyes.