Tika
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posted 19 September 2002 10:47 CET
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Marion Ferreira
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posted 17 July 2002 18:18 CET
Thanks James for printing my Petition re Mother Delille's ethnic misidentification as a Native Born African American. I had an interesting experience on Saturday, July 13, 2002 when I attended and participated in the Creole Family History Convention. I had a display of Mother Delille's history and a display of my ancestors and family pictures. I heard that there would be a session with Dr. Charles Nolan, the biographer for Mother Delile at 2 pm and I was interested in attending and confronting him about the Mother Delille situation. I went in about 15 minutes before the session was over. Sat through about 5 minutes of pros and cons re Mother Delille's attributes. When I got a chance to speak, I confronted Dr. Nolan regarding the misidentification of Mother Delille. He stated that Mother Delille was a Free Person of Color but that she had been adopted by the African American community. I said why should she have to be adopted by any community, she had parents of her own when she lived. I said then it follows that if she had been adopted by the Spanish Community would she then be a Native Born Spanish American? Or Asian, or Phillipine, Japanese? It's evident that the Southern La. white man does not want to admit that Mother Delille was a Creole then it would bring in the fact that her parentage was of mixed races and that's what they want to hide. That's why they worked so hard to brand all Creoles in 1896 as Black. They don't want to admit that they were wrong nor do they want to glorify anyone with one drop of African blood as anything but an African. It would seem that they still want to carry down the falacy that a Creole could only be of pure French or Spanish blood. |
Rowena
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posted 16 July 2002 03:05 CET
Love the Site! |
Bonnie
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posted 4 June 2002 03:32 CET
Ever since I was old enough to take standardized tests and fill out forms, I've hated those little boxes. Race is one very small aspect of who a person is. People are obsessed with race to an extremely unhealthy level. This obsessive racism is just as rampant in society now as it was two hundred years ago, the only diffence is that today it's disguised with fluffy terms such as "ethnic pride." Segregation is still practiced under the flowery concept of "maintaing diversity." College students join fill-in-your-race student unions and bookstore shelves are packed with books containing the gathered works and narratives of fill-in-your-race authors in American during X era. People accuse people of other races of oppresing them, while those accuse others of trying to destroy them. It's a vicious and laughable cirlcle that even the most educated, enlightened people fall into. Matter of fact it seems rampant among many academic circles. |
mike
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posted 17 May 2002 03:18 CET
i want a woman to share my love with.
Reply: Good luck in that respect Mike. However, The Multiracial Activist is not a dating site. I believe what you are looking for is elsewhere. |
Marion Ferreira
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posted 11 May 2002 04:18 CET
I have just clicked in on this website which I was referred to by a Creole relative of mine. It is good to find a site that makes one feel it isn't wrong to be who you are interracially and not want to fit in anyone's Black or White box. I am circulating a petition of protest against an order of nuns who are advertising Mother Henriette Delille for canonization as a Native-Born African-American when in fact and in history, she was a Free Woman of Color/or in those days considered a Creole. I need as many signatures as I can to impress the Pope of Rome that this is not fair to Mother Delille or to the Creole descendants of America and other parts of the world. I will be glad to forward the Petition to anyone who wants to help me. My e-mail address is Redbino9@aol.com. Thanks in advance. |
loreen Theveny
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posted 19 April 2002 21:00 CET
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Bryan Potts
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posted 18 April 2002 07:59 CET
Great site! I'm a white man married to a black woman, and have found this site to be extremely useful in gathering information on biracial families. Keep up the good work! |
Tony Covin
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posted 1 April 2002 19:16 CET
My wife and I are trying to start a local support group for multiracial families. We are at the very early stages. Any input would be appreciated. thank you. |
tauna kemp
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posted 30 March 2002 10:44 CET
Great site. lots of good information. thanks for taking the time to share this. |
Robert
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posted 25 March 2002 16:58 CET
I found this site incredibly informative and was able to identify with many of the social and intellectual conflicts that were expressed. I myself am of black/white(european)/native-Amer. ethnic makeup and have a twin sister who is about 4 shades lighter than myself.
This has always been a source of conflict and conversation over the years so it's nice to know that the conversation is actually one that many contribute to and continue to learn from. |
GARY BOWDEN
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posted 19 February 2002 03:57 CET
no comments really,just some shameless plugging! I have a club called "Interracial Lifestyle Connection",which is a correspondence club for couples/families,biracial adults,mothers raising biracial children and penpals.Also,it's a dating service for singles. Free lists. Nationwide. Founded in '91.Make new friends and/or that someone special.e-mail:garyb04@yahoo.com p..s...great site!! keep up the good work!remember:we're all in this together,so we must stick together! |
Tori
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posted 2 January 2002 17:16 CET
I have checked out tons of books from the library about the mythical nature of race and can't wait to dig in! |
Ronnee Johnson
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posted 12 December 2001 04:12 CET
Great resources and links- start emailing me some more info! |
A.M. Goto
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posted 11 December 2001 16:37 CET
Great site! I feel that racial and ethnic animosity and hatred, past and present, have a common underlying cause. I have created a web page in which I express my belief as to what this underlying cause is. Please check it out. You may find it interesting. Thanks. |
Michele Marsh
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posted 25 November 2001 10:12 CET
Once we start realising the problem is not race at all we have already resolved the racial issue. Once we realise we're more similar than different that we can indeed relate to a number of people across the globe transcending religion, race , gender and other divisive categories we're evolving. People still stuck in old world views need the psychological and emotional support to firstly start loving themselves, gaining better self-esteem, accepting change before extending tolerance to others. It truly begins from within. Having lived in 5 different countries in the Americas, UK, Asia, Africa and Australia and travelled extensively, I know fear,inability to accept change, ignorance, low self esteem and worth all contribute to being an insecure defensive person and the kind who would love to continue abitrary divides and classifications based on race. Travel, see the world, meet people and most of all listen. |
La Hapa
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posted 17 November 2001 01:52 CET
Half Japanese Half Caucasian, wanting to maka a move. Proud to be a hapa. |
LaToya
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posted 16 November 2001 13:27 CET
Hello, I would like to say you have a nice website. I have found access to it via search engines quite a few times but never have visited for one reason...your target audience is for those who are multicultural and in my opinion them only. This leads me to wonder if you are fighting so hard to be granted the option to call yourself white as well as being excepted as such. Now don't get me wrong, I do agree with you on some issues. I do not feel that anyone should be made to choose a race to identify with, I believe that is the choice one should make for themselves. But I also disagree with any type of labels that are heaped upon Americans(e.g. white, black, gay, straight). I would also like to ask why would you want multicultural people to unite as one race, when a lot of you do not even possess a set amount or a particular mixture of races? Actually I believe you would find more support if you fight for the right to be thought of as human. God knows I would love to be just human instead of black or female. Maybe you have approached these issues, maybe not, I am only judging what I have read thusfar.
In closing I have one more thing to add that is concerning Jill Scott. She and I as black women of darker tones have a problem that you will never face. That is the fact that being of a dark skin, in a world where fair skin is conceived of as beautiful, is hard. You all talk about problems, well, try being in a family where 'light skin' and 'good' hair is beautiful and you have everything, but, that. Try listening to black men exclaim how proud they are to be with a fair-skinned woman with straight hair and how they would never date a dark skinned woman. You will never understand this, and that is why in all of your fights for the right to call yourself a seperate race you'll never understand that there are people of other races who unite based upon race rather than character. We, as black people, are not proud of who we are and that leads a lot of our brothers and some of the sisters to go outside of their race to marry. That is where I draw the line. Love is an emotion that one shares with someone because of who they are not the amount of melanin in their skin. That is what I believe she was referring to. But this is just my opinion. I look forward to a response if you choose to do so. |
Miranda
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posted 16 November 2001 01:58 CET
I just wanna say that I am impressed to see that someone has stood up to make progress toward the acceptance of interracial people and relationships. I have been in an interracial relationship myself and I know how much ridicule you can get. I will be glad when the day comes that we can be with whoever we want...regardless of whether our skin color is the same or not!!! |
Pammi
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posted 12 November 2001 22:54 CET
I dink it's koo dat peepo are multi-racial..it'll be phat if I had some frenz dat'z multi-racial... |
