If I hear one more person justify Beyonce’s increasing whiteness by saying “she’s not getting white, she’s just Creole!”, I am going to murder every single person I meet for the next hour.
The term ‘Creole’ was originally used to describe olive-skinned folks from Louisiana who had some mixture of French, Spanish, Black, and/or Native American ancestry, and spoke a language of the same name. More recently, ‘Creole’ has become a moniker used by pompous light-skinned fucktards to justify buying into and promoting caucasian standards of beauty.
Figure 1: Shrimp Creole - the only acceptable form of Creole
Some of these motherfuckers running around calling themselves Creole have no ancestral ties to Louisiana. They don’t speak Creole. They’ve never even BEEN to Louisiana. But that won’t stop the local resident douchebitch who happens to have ‘good hair’ from dying it blonde, getting Japanese straightening or whatever the fuck it’s called, throwing in green contact lenses, and running around claiming (implicitly or directly) to be better than ‘regular’ black people.
If she’s a REAL cunt, she’ll give the name some weird spelling like ‘Kreyole’ or ‘Creyol’ when she fills out some government form that asks for your race. She won’t check black, or white, or native american - NOPE! She’ll check the ‘Other’ box and write ‘Kreyole’ in the space next to it because she’s way too exotic and special to be a nigger, redskin, cracker, or some combination of these played out races.
The following is the internal monologue of the fake Creole chick:
“If I say I’m Khreyowle, then people will think I’m sophisticated! They’ll think I’m descended from French people and drink martini’s with extra extra dry vermouth while speaking a combination of French and Spanish to my friends while cruising on my superstar athlete husband’s yacht.”
Figure 2: Delusions of a pompous shit-brick
“They’ll think that my freakishly straight blond hair with pubes that don’t match is somehow natural! I’ll also have skin that’s tan but not niggerish, and I can lighten it with makeup JUST enough to rise above my blackness, but fall short of being considered white! Yay, racial purgatory! They’ll fall for this even though I can’t distinguish between Creole and Cajun, have no idea that Creole is also a language, and couldn’t point out Louisiana on a map OF Louisiana.”
The following is the internal monologue of the pompous real Creole chick:*
“Mmm mmm mmm, I sure am FINE. I’m kinda black, but my hair is naturally straight, my skin and eyes are light, and the media has decided that I’m what everyone wants. Oh I know! I’ll leverage my blackness and start a music career! Just for good measure, I’ll make sure my backup singers are darker than me in skin tone and/or hair color so that little nappy headed girls all over the world will know that light skin and long light straight hair comes first.”
Figure 3: In case you hadn’t figured out who I’m talking about yet…
As I reach a wider and wider audience, I’ll lighten myself just slowly enough so the average idiot won’t be able to notice. This will make me more acceptable to white and international audiences, and I’ll just ignore the collateral damage it does to the body image of the black adolescent girls that got me where I am in the first place. I’ll contribute further to the decline of black people by encouraging use of the word ‘conversate’ and being in a relationship with a man whose success was built on encouraging young black men to be promiscuous, experiment with cocaine, and kill people. After all, the ends justify the means! TEE HEE! Despite my active and conscious participation in the erosion of the black sense of self, people will ignore and even defend my behavior because - GASP - I’m just Creole!”
I can’t write anymore. There’s a fucking fire alarm going off in the office, and the blood vessel above my right eye is about to burst. I fucking goddamn hate everything.
*No, I do not think all Creole women are pompous. Please get off my nuts.
where is grimm?
lol creole. hate that shit
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do you secretly love beyonce?
Oh, I’d like to add to the list of Beyonce’s attrocities, this little ditty:
“If his status ain’t hood,
I ain’t checkin’ for him,
Better be street if he lookin’ at me”
WTF!!! Yeah, way to give our young black men something to aspire to Beyonce’. Thanks.
“Yay, racial purgatory!”
Water is now on laptop screen from uncontrollable laughter
lol. as much as i like to LOOK at Beyonce’ (did y’all see her back in ‘98!?) i know she’s nothing but an optical illusion. In the morning she probably looks more like Jay-Z…
p.s. you gotta a new reader/poster outta me… be prepared.
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Sigh. you have done it again. Another great post. The discussion on here today is sure to be on fire.
What a great way to describe Beyonce and Jigga man aka Jigga boo aka Jehovah..(I thought his name was Jesus…I stand corrected)
Surely people will attack this post by pointing out how much money Beyonce and Hov have made, they are moguls! blah blah blah. This arugment is probably from the same people blasting lil wayne’s Lollipop and wondering why thier 13 year old cousin just had a baby by Big T, the neighborhood dope dealer.
“I’ll contribute further to the decline of black people by encouraging use of the word ‘conversate’”
lmao… thank you for that.
whenever anyone (and I mean anyone. friends, family, random strangers on streets and public trans) says “conversate” i cringe, gasp audibly and yell “IT”S CONVERSE!! ASS!!”
ugh.
Khreyol!!! AAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!
“I’ll contribute further to the decline of black people by encouraging use of the word ‘conversate’ and being in a relationship with a man whose success was built on encouraging young black men to be promiscuous, experiment with cocaine, and kill people. “-Chris
This sentence makes my heart sing, birthday twin. People fail to realize that Bey and Jay are nothing more than the charasmatic neighborhood drug dealer and his pretty-cum-slutty wife, albeit with a whole lot more money.
Can I submit “And I’ll encourage little Black girls, even the darkies, to go out and get them a ‘Soldier’ like I did! ,“If your status ain’t hood, I ain’t checkin for you/Gotta be street if you’re checking for me”! Even though, by my own admission, I have never been to the ghetto and my daddy worked for IBM”.
Conversate is a word! Quit being so dramatical benjie
Also: who wants to cry?
Beyonce “Creole” lyrics!!!!
http://www.lyricsspot.com/beyonce-creole-lyrics-1062635.html
She is a walking quadroon ball. And proud.
@ Sister be quiet!
IBM is so hood. And Beyonce knows LOTS of thugs. Like 50 cent, Akon, Lil Wayne. Being around all those killers, Im sure she is hood too.
Its cool to be hood. Im going to give back my JD and rep the skreets, my niggas.
Grimm, where’s Grimm
Man……I was really feeling this blog before but this one is off the mark. Beyonce becoming white? With a name like Beyonce? With her music? And she’s married to Jay-Z?
Either this one’s off the mark, or I’m just out of touch with something that everyone else is out of touch with as well.
Fuck the bullshit, I still say Latoya was alwasy the best looking one. And that has to be one of the best pictures (of the thousands of coquette-ish photos Matthew Knowles had them take) I’ve ever seen of them.
Anyway, I don’t ususally hear people make the Creole claim if they have no family from LA, AL, or East TX. But the same general point you’re making definitely applies to folks in general who want to cite anything but their basic African heritage when discussing background. I asked this one cat in school where his family was from. Expecting this dude to be like “Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi, some shit like that. The nigga says “my great-grandmother was from Brazil.” And he left it at that. As if that 1/16 of his heritage represents the majority of what he descends from. We all rolled our eyes at the lunchtable and moved on to the next topic.
My thing is, if you couldn’t follow along with Jaspora, Yele, or track #24 from Wyclef’s first solo album, miss me with that shit. (j/k)
conversate is not a word it’s a slang word…a back-formation of the word conversation. Conversate isn’t in the dictionary
@ sister
yo those creole lyrics had me confused - is that a recipe gumbo or a human being she’s singing about?
* gumbo recipe
In defense, I’m always loathe to check racial boxes. Why is my race essential to every form I fill out? To help some jackmonkey play social mathematician with the statistics he conjures up. Sometimes I put in all sorts of stuff just to throw them off. I took a chili’s survey today and clicked a pay bracket of $100-140k, with a race of other (there was nowhere to fill in made-up one). Acting out isn’t always bad. What’s this obsession with racial statistics anyway?
@ I Love Fruity Pebbles in a Major Way: Cocoa Pebbles are better.
Colorism in the Black community is alive and well. Even the so called educated Blacks are guilty of this. Growing up I never had to deal with colorism issues because my parents weren’t having that. My siblings and I range from pale (my older brother) to brown (myself). Sadly when I went college, I had my first dose of colorism was when an ignorant Black guy said “I don’t usually date dark hued women but you are pretty for not being light skin” I was like WTF?! Was that supposed to be a compliment? Are darkies the fuglies of the earth that should bow down to our light skin counterparts? My cousin who lives in DC is very light and use to encounter men making a play on her solely for her light skin. They’ll make comments like ooooh I love that you look Creole and/or Mixed when in fact that both of her parents are Black.
Although I don’t personally have self esteem issues with my skin color (which I absolutely love), I do feel for my dark skin Black women because as a group we get shitted on and viewed as less desirable which is bull because I’ve seen some HOT dark skin chicks. Another beef I have with some black people is the whole “Good hair/Bad hair” argument. My momma always said good hair is CLEAN hair! Black women should have to be defined by their hair. Someone tried that “oh you have good hair” crap on me before and I had to check them because it’s ignorant and perpetuates the self hate in our community. Kinky hair is beautiful, curly hair is beautiful, straight hair (Um sometimes because some Black women over do the perm leaving their hair stringy looking) is cute.
You just mad cause you ain’t Creole!(j/k)
Seriously, though, what I’m sick of are sisters and brothers with light contacts–I swear, green (or worse, blue) contacts in the eyes of some Kneegrow who’s about real dark just look WRONG. Wrong, Wrong, WRONG! And THEN, they have the au-fuckin-dacity to act as though those contacts are their real eye color.
lol @ dramatical
i had an ex who used to say irregardless. and basically use words incorrectly because he wanted to sound smarter…
yeah it didn’t last long
@Muse:
You know, you would NOT believe–or maybe you might–the isht I’ve dealt with because I’m light skindeded (j/k)…AND have light eyes. I had some nimrod back in college tell me that I was “typically fine.” Mind you, I was a stringbean for many, many years, and am a freakin’ nerd. I looked at, well, let’s call her “Heffa,” and asked “Huh?” Heffa follows up with, “You know, light skin, pretty eyes.” I’m like, “Thanks…I think?”
Fast forward to Atlanta (home of the pretentious fuckwad) and I meet this guy at a club. We’re talking and then…”You’re just the kind of boy I like; light skin, pretty eyes.”
Uh, first: “boy”?? And then you reduce me to your fetish? “BOY??!??” And THEN, another fool another time tells me, “Oh, light skinned guys aren’t ‘in’ anymore.” Like I can go to Wal-Mart or something and just pick up another skin or something. Excuse me, do you have a Perry Ellis in Negro?
I went to high school with a girl who would tell you, to your face, “I’m not black. I’m Creole.”
Tracey T., this blog is for you. Please, please please, get the fuck over yourself.
Thank you, Chris.
OMG Muse!!! I feel you on that Good hair/Bad hair thing! I have a hair texture that allows me to be real straight or real curly whenever I want! For this I get the “you must have good hair” bit. I find that sooo offensive so I usually respond like “Good hair as opposed to what…bad hair? Oh so you’re saying God gave you bad hair?” Someone actually responded “yes” to that. I was too through! (as we say in the dirty, dirty).
So its Creole now huh? Back in the day it used to be we got “Indian” in our family!
http://blacksnob.blogspot.com/2008/05/miss-usa-crystle-stewart-and-stock.html
One of the most moving pieces I’ve ever read. Honestly, just raise our children to see the beauty in themselves and then to move on to what really endures.
Love this disclaimer.
I should mention that it doesn’t stop at Creole chicks, or those who are light-skinned.
I went to high school with two (count ‘em two) people as brown as me (peep the snapshot) who would openly refute their blackness in casual conversation (read: no one was directly saying “you are black” or asking what race they were) by saying they were Creole.
When asked “so what about being Creole doesn’t make you black?” they couldn’t answer. Sigh…
Thanks for this topic! You really hit the nail on the head with this one!
To be honest with you, I never even heard of “Creole” until I started reasing this board and a frequent visitor (who shall remain namelss) was spouting this bull.
To me, this term is just as offensive as Cabaclasian, or whatever else black celebs want to call themselves to keep from being stigmatized. Bey and Tiger both deserve a good swift kick in the ass for this one!
This is a complicated subject. A lot of people have self-hate issues. When I run into a Black person with these issues I always hope they will, in time, learn to love themselves. I know that sounds corny but they are the ones who truly suffer.
And we aren’t the only ethnic group that deals with this stuff. Just look at Mexican media, see all the light Mexicans. Or South Asian media, Indians are more colorstruck than we are.
And have you seen the Asians walking around with umbrellas on sunny days?
The Europeans did their dirt all over the world, we tend to think we have been the only ones effected by it.
Roger,
I feel bad for light skin guys because it does seem like ignorant Black women will date them in hopes for a light skin baby or for good “hurr” LOL.
I’ve dated my fair share of light skin guys. Some of you guys go into relationships surprised that a girl likes you for you not because you can pass for white LOL. Based be your past trauma hahahah.
I meant to add that one of these two “Creoles” was male.
LOL…there was a discussion on another message board I frequent where we were discussing the “Creole” thing. Apparently, “Creole” is more of culture (imagine THAT) than an actual racial category (you don’t SAY). Dipshits need to study before they go claiming something they know NADA about. Having a faux French name (Mama Tina, are YOU listening) does not make one Creole, Cajun, or any other culutral melange folks wanna claim. I mean, seriously, if I just WANTED to, I could claim the Creole thing based on the fact my daddy’s fam is actually of Creole cultural heritage (both sides). However, that’s just LAME…and when the yt folks see ya…you STILL Nigra LOL!
You really hit the nail on the head w/ this one. I am Louisiana born and raised, and I’m truly astounded by the number of negroes who go around claiming everything but their blackness, though in the northern part of the state it’s less “I’m Creole” and more “I got Indian in my family.” I want to take a minute to bastardize a quote by Paul Mooney: “Creoles ain’t nothing but niggas who can speak French.”
Who’s Bey?
Inbred racism…the worst kind. I get so tired of hearing that “You cute for a dark skinned girl” from black men. It never occurs to some of these empty-headed pieces of light-skin fluff that they’re claiming a culture and heritage they would probably ridicule if presented with it face to face. Being a born and bred Nigerian, I didn’t experience any of this promoting the European standard of beauty nonsense until I got here. Man, white people sure have done a swell job of brainwashing the entire fucking world.
As ever, your entries never cease to amaze. Colorism is a problem that as many of you have noted, ironically becomes more pervasive as we get older, go into university etc.. and she/the media aren’t helping things. I personally preferred Kelly Rowland. I will admit however that Beyonce’s thighs are out of control. Even if she can’t claim any Chinese ancestry, they should definitely cast her as Chun Li in any future Street Fighter movies.
@ urbantongue -
I get the ‘pretty for a dark-skinned girl’ thing a lot.
I’m black American. I also have been told that I can’t be just ‘regular black’ because I’m dark and [they think I'm] pretty, so I must be Caribbean.
Same deal with my hair (and it’s not even all that long). I’ve (seriously) been told that my hair is fake because “dark-skinned girls aren’t supposed to have long hair.”
Zoso is a Communist.
@ ST
Please tell me that those lyrics are a joke and that there is not a song called “Creole” by Beyonce?
In terms of the word “creole”…My ancestry is Cape Verdean-American. While I was born here in the states, both of my parents were born in the Cape Verde Islands (geography lesson on the day). When telling people about the culture and language we speak, I make the comparison to a “Haitian creole” which was to signify a mix between African and French mix, our country has a African and Portuguese roots.
I think in the US there is a big issue b/c in the states, we (well, the less informed, ignorant, and/or white folks) are lazy and rather than learn about people ethnicities and embrace/appreciate, we are just quick to label someone “black”, ‘hispanic”, etc. It is always easier to just group people into one group and assume everyone is the same. So, I know that people from my ancestry, there are some who come into the states and make sure to emphasize that there are different. And there are times where I will educate folks on the true roots of my people, but here in the US, at the end of the day, I am straight up Negro, -er and that my role is help others understand that all our struggles are the same here in the US.
@urbantongue:
Whoa!! How old were you when you left Nigeria? I’m not questioning your personal experience, I will just have to say that that is the exception and not the norm. Africans, and specifically for the sake of this conversation, West Africans, DEFINITELY have issues with European standards of beauty and white superiority/black inferiority. We’ve already discussed the trend of “fanta face, coca cola body” on this site. And while I haven’t been to Nigeria YET, Ghana is my favorite place on the planet and I see the psychological remnants of colonialization every time I visit. Not to mention my best friend who was recently disowned by her Nigerian father when she got engaged to an American descendant of African slaves (since we are so “label averse” on this site.”
Bey=Beyonce…and yes, she really does have a song called ‘Creole”…the lyrics are nonsensical as are all her lyrics are…
Waitaminnit. Are you guys telling me that pop music doesn’t have relevance or logic at its core? Time for me to go and burn all my Mariah and MJ now.
Muse-” I feel bad for light skin guys because it does seem like ignorant Black women will date them in hopes for a light skin baby or for good “hurr” LOL. ”
And vice versa girl. WTF kinda pickup line is “What are you mixed with baby?” As if implying that I have less Negro blood in me is some sort of compliment.
aceklub- Come on, this IS Beyonce we talking about! And you see how she slipped in the “brown bones” so nobody would get offended! EPIC FAIL.
This is the same girl who wrote, “I don’t think you ready for this jelly.” So really, nothing should surprise us.
Seriously Chris, it brings tears to my eyes to know that somebody out there hates Beyonce’ as much as I do.
Ya’ll know ya’ll ain’t right. I was having a big argument in my head about not picking on Grimm again when two people already beat me to it. Terrible.
Bey and Jay are so the average ghetto love story, well exsept for the fact that Bey is someone’s middle class cousin whose parents sent her to the hood for the summer to learn humility or something.
Ever tell you about the time I was arguing with some fool who kept telling me I was mixed with something or the other. i continued to tell the fool that I’m black, when finally i just said: “Hey fool, I’m sure someone somewhere down the line experienced a rape or two but it’s not the type of thing I like to dwell on!” Damn Fools and this hyper sensitivity to mixing shit.
One more thing.
I was in Cuba last month for 10 days. There they have their own racial breakdowns: white (think Fidel Castro,) black (think Faizon Love - he’s Cuban,) and mulatto. I discovered that in Cuba I’m a mulatto. I was thoroughly shocked by this because I’m a firm brown-skinned. The way I found out was when my hostess was talking to my Puerto Rican friend who was with me. Before she knew my name, she was referring to me as “El Mulatino.” She was talking so fast that I couldn’t discern it. My friend was like “you heard her calling you a mulatto, right?” I was like “what? how? why?” I mean, depending on the brand, I might very well fail the brown paper bag test.
Point being that in different disaporic cultures “black” is only the darkest of the dark. I.e., the One Drop Rule is not universal. That said, Beyonce still ain’t got no excuse.
Well to the Cape Verdean person, in the United States you are BLACK, so don’t get it twisted.
Sister Toldja (16:01:14) :
Also: who wants to cry?
Beyonce “Creole” lyrics!!!!
http://www.lyricsspot.com/beyonce-creole-lyrics-1062635.html
She is a walking quadroon ball. And proud.
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That song can’t be for real. Shit’s horrible.
Sista Toldja…..I LOVE being Dark skin. It’s awesome. Nothing against my light skin counterparts but I really don’t get why us darkies low on the totem pole. My mom is in her mid fifties and passes for 30 on a bad day. In fact I hate on my mom daily LOL. Then again Black don’t crack as long as they aren’t smoking it. Bahahaha.
OMG those lyrics. I actually did cry. I can’t accept this.
“If I say I’m Khreyowle, then people will think I’m sophisticated! They’ll think I’m descended from French people and drink martini’s with extra extra dry vermouth while speaking a combination of French and Spanish to my friends while cruising on my superstar athlete husband’s yacht.”
NOT THE APOSTROPHE! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! *pours Visine into eyes, goes back to finish reading*
@ Lindsay So True! I’m straight African American, and people INSIST that Im from the Islands or African because I’m attractive.
It’s like African Americans can’t be pretty! Maybe that’s why people feel the need to make up some bs phrase to justify their beauty. When people get it twisted, I love saying “no, I’m African American, family from Alabama and North Carolina.” That changes their perception a bit.
I don’t get it either, Muse. *sigh*
@ Dom -
It’s sad that it has to get to that point.
I was getting some braids put in and the shop owner asks me “where are you from?”
me: Largo [Maryland, in PG County, for those out-of-area-ers]
her: by way of…?
me: um…Virginia and North Carolina?
her: No, I mean, where are your parents from? What’s your background?
me: They’re both from Northeast Washington.
her: oh, I thought you were from Guyana or elsewhere in the Caribbean. …she goes on to gather affirmation from onlookers that I don’t “look” black American…
Bey and Jay are so the average ghetto love story, well exsept for the fact that Bey is someone’s middle class cousin whose parents sent her to the hood for the summer to learn humility or something.
OKAY…Beyonce grew up in a straight middle class area…and yet you’d never know it based on how horrible she speaks. Why she hasn’t had the COMPLETE Eliza Doolittle treatment by now amazes AND irks me. I just want her to keep her mouth unless she’s attempting to sing.
Yonnie3k (15:51:07) :
Oh, I’d like to add to the list of Beyonce’s attrocities, this little ditty:
“If his status ain’t hood,
I ain’t checkin’ for him,
Better be street if he lookin’ at me”
WTF!!! Yeah, way to give our young black men something to aspire to Beyonce’. Thanks.
Between this and that Fantasia song, I’m going to start my own music career. Songs include, “Can I Get a Brotha with a Job?” “You Went to an HBCU? Me Too!” and “You Drive an Escalade and Live in the Hood, That’s Why I Won’t Holla at Your Silly Ass.”
Above…should be “keep her mouth SHUT”…hit submit too quickly…
Those song lyrics really upset me. Thanks a lot.
I don’t think Grimm will ever return, not after the way you guys treated her
Ace, I appreciate what you said about learning about where others come from, personally that’s something I love to do, but unfortunately in The States if you look Black, you just Black. We all have diverse backgrounds that get ignored each time we fill out a form, but that’s the culture, everyone must fit in a box, no matter how small.
LOL @ Merri Lee. I will buy your album. Which Fantasia song are you talking about?
I’m buying Merri Lee’s album. can a sista get a guest spot on “You Went to an HBCU? Me Too!”?
How about these hood song titles…
“I love my three baby daddies”
“My weave is tight and so his my puss”
“My blue contacts are checking you boo”
I don’t understand this whole I’d rather be anything but black when that’s what you clearly are. This standard of asking if you are mixed with something being a pick up line is absurd. I had some random dude ask me if I was Spanish, after I said no, why? and looked at him confused as hell, He said, oh you just look like you could be, then I realized he was looking at me and smiling as if I’m supposed to take it from there and serve him my panties on a plate……Ummmm no it doesn’t work that way….I walked away shaking my head, he was clearly black as am I, why would you thinking I was Spanish make me pay you any more attention? was that supposed to be a compliment?
On another note I had a dude I went to grammer school with named Andre, transfer into my high school sophomore year and all of a sudden he was calling himself Andres and saying he was hispanic…..not true at all, I’ve met both of your parents they are black and so are you…..you best believe I blew up his spot every chance I could. Whatever happened to black is beautiful?
Grimm needed to take a break from the blog and work on her personal issues…. because i was working on my New York connections to see about getting her “inpatient” if she kept talking crazy.
Fantasia “Hood Boy”
Man, you are all freaking me out. I thought that asians were the worst for hating on each other but the comments that some of you have relayed are just as bad as any I’ve heard from koreans, chinese, japanese, vietnamese, etc. when speaking to and about each other.
When I used to do business in Japan, many of them would say “ooooh, you’re so pretty you must be japanese”. I would thank them and reply that “no, actually I’m mixed korean/chinese/hawaiian/white” and after a few times of getting the “did you just fart in my FACE??” look in return I learned to just smile and say “thank you”.
My recent fave was asking a korean store owner where the nearest good chinese restaurant was and she leaned close, after checking to make sure noone could hear, and said “I don’t know, I don’t …. like the chinese so much. You know?”
“I LOVE being Dark skin. It’s awesome. Nothing against my light skin counterparts but I really don’t get why us darkies low on the totem pole. My mom is in her mid fifties and passes for 30 on a bad day. In fact I hate on my mom daily LOL. Then again Black don’t crack as long as they aren’t smoking it. Bahahaha.”
Muse I feel you, well not all the way lol, but I hear you. My mom is dark skinned 64 freaking years old not a wrinkle on her face not one! I’m gonna wrinkle before she does, and lets not even get started on the fact that her breast are super perky. PERKY! And she’s 64 years old! (that mofo loves to brag about it too) Growing up my dad has always talked about how beautiful black women are, but especially dark skinned women. I look at other folks, no offense I’m sorry, but the puerto rican mamis have to drag that butt along the floor by 45. And white women forget about it, their face starts melting by 35. The other day i met this columbia student and we are just chatting it up and then she asks me what year i’m in. I said girl I’m about to be 30! Of course she’s shocked then makes me uncomfortable by saying: “I wish i was black”. (but whatever we know she doesn’t really wish such a thing). I don’t understand nor have I ever understood why people get all crazy about anyone other than black women.
Amarie,
You are incorrect about White girls. Their faces start falling apart at 26/27. If they baked in the sun when they were younger, these broads start aging by 23. Most of my White girlfriends are already starting to get crow’s feet. The only exception is my Russian friend but she stays out of the sun and wears SPF 1000 every day LOL. Her skin is goregeous.
scarletjones said
I’m buying Merri Lee’s album. can a sista get a guest spot on “You Went to an HBCU? Me Too!”?
Word…I wanna be on the super duper remix version of this!
I went to school in Louisiana, don’t get me started on fake Creoles and their Franglish. But, I sh!t you not, if you fill out a race check box in Louisiana, you will have there choices: Mulatto, Quadroon, Octoroon, Creole, Spanish Creole, French Creole and, of course, Cajun. The funny thing is the Spanish and French Creoles hate each other. Mind you, these people are white, it’s their names that give away their races. They also hate WASPs and WASCs (Catholics). It’s all about the order in which Louisiana was colonized, and the Catholic vs Protestant beefs. And they hate Cajuns (who are also white) because they are “from a low class breed.” All the various degrees or negrocity hate each other because of their ratings on the melanin meter. Crazy ass place.
@ Lindsay
You literally just described a day in the life of me! And dont let me have cornrows or micros.
@ Merri Lee
Let’s not forget Fantastic Fantasia’s chart topper “Baby Mama.” Inexcusable.
@ Anything black- you have a tool, I am getting a tool too.
I was so dis appointed when a black french footballer had the gall to call himself creole.
I hate the country France, it is the most racist place I have been to .
I have a lot of Franco phone Africans and to tell you the truth these guys need to have a brain check. The French hate you more than us, This stuff is ridiculoius, the French llok up to you if you speak English. The more you speak French the less respect they have for you.
Many of these Francophone cats teach their children French before African languages and English. How can you have a Black African Kid living in England and not speaking African or English? Please these people hate you, they will always hate you, stop kissing up to them!
You will hear a of these Congolese, say you English to me. Brother, you cannot be English and Black. I speak English and live in England but these people will never let me be English.
That is why they bleach their faces red.
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*shaking my head* @ Merri Lee’s last statement. What the hell is wrong with us?
….my people are same way as well. There is the dark skinned with the kinky hair or light skinned with softer hair. As kids if you are dark some kids make fun of you. My father is super dark (blue black LOL) my mom is very light skinned and they grew up in the country side. Her parents were utterly upset and didn’t want her to marry him ONLY based on his color….needless to say love sees no color
Hilarious and spot on post. I’ve had several incidents in which I’ve been asked “where are you from”? I’m from NYC/Harlem via, N.C, VA and Africa if you must know. What’s wrong w/being an American Negro?
…is it wrong that i have the Creole song on my ipod??
*waiting for the death threats*
lol
How about these ghetto song titles?
Hood Nigga
Baby Mama
911 is a joke
Thug Passion
Push it
Im a G
…oh wait those are already songs huh?
well the name of the album could be
Tha Chronic
Straight outta Compton
The Block is Hot
Thug Walkin
dayum! those are taken too…
Well at least we could name ourselves something cool like:
Ying Yang Twins
The Hot Boys
Flo-Rida
Chamillionaire
SHIT! Those are taken too!
Beyonce’s ass can barely speak english, always claiming “Creole”..let me see her conjugate a verb first in English.
Lolo
Please excuse my ignorance, there are few asians in SC. I am truly not meaning to offend you, but I know there are at least 200 people wanting to ask this after reading your post.
(Disclaimer, yes it is a scientifically proven fact that other races really have a hard time distinguishing people of another race, which is a big reason that most eyewitness testimony across colors lines is not used in court, but damn people…)
Why do Asians hate each other so much? They all look SO MUCH ALIKE? I can tell the difference between Koreans and everyone else, but past that?….
Esquire,
The Japanese gave the Nazis a run for their money in terms of mayhem, mass rape, and destruction throughout Asia for the first half of the 20th century. Alot of Koreans still refuse to buy Japanese cars.
@ lachickforever
Oh no doubt, I acknowledge in the US, I am seen as a nigger and “I don’t mean that in the nice way”. However, you have to remember that people who are immigrating here from another country where they had years and years of cultural pride infused in them, to come to the US and with a snap of the fingers, all that culture is null and void, it is gonna cause backlash and take years to adjust. It is like telling someone who celebrates Carnival in Trinidad or elsewhere, “nah, you can’t celebrate that shyt” they would look at you like “nah, son. Fall back on that, b/c I am gonna “eat me goat roti, drink me rum punch and enjoy de bashment”
AHAHAHAHAHA@Ace. You must know too many Trinis! I think Asians hate on other Asians for the same reason Latinos hate on other Latinos - for spite.
I have to ask…why on earth would anyone care what someone as inarticulate and vacant-eyed as Beyonce thinks or says? Has anyone ever listened to her or her mother speak? It’s excruciating. You can literally see how painful it is for them to think of words and put them together coherently. I’ve always thought that’s why her interviews are always so scripted and controlled. She and her mother just strike me as halfwits…nice house, nobody home.
Esquire - It’s because your from SC. Since I’m surrounded by Chinese (who are of a zillion ethnicities), Japanese, Filipinos, Laotians, Thais, Vietnamese and Cambodians, I’m fairly good at telling them apart. i’d say 7 times out of 10 I’m right, 3 times out of 10 it’s one of the SE Asian countries.
And another Beyonce note - is she the reason Kelly Rowland completely destroyed her once pretty face with that jacked up nose? And don’t get me started on the silicone. Oh, poor Kizzy…
LOL @ as much as i like to LOOK at Beyonce’ (did y’all see her back in ‘98!?) i know she’s nothing but an optical illusion.
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Does Beyonce claim to be creole?
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@ Merri Lee -
intentional?
“And another Beyonce note - is she the reason Kelly Rowland completely destroyed her once pretty face with that jacked up nose?”
If so, kudos on the wordplay. If not, kudos still.
“I have to ask…why on earth would anyone care what someone as inarticulate and vacant-eyed as Beyonce thinks or says? Has anyone ever listened to her or her mother speak? It’s excruciating. You can literally see how painful it is for them to think of words and put them together coherently. ”
VACANT EYED!!!! That’s it! That’s the thing that’s strange!!! Vacant EYES! Gosh I’ve been plagued by this question in my mind forever. I accused myself of hating or something but it’s the disconnect from the world that’s turns me off from this girl.
Once again you guys have stopped another one of my “in my head” arguments. Oh I’ve said too much.
the first person i remember who referred to themselves as a “creole” was Sabrina LeBeauf (sondra) from the cosby show….according to wiki she is a louisiana creole…since i don’t hear that term at all in boston, that’s the basis of creole i’m going to go with…when i hear bouncey, i mean beyonce use creole to desscribe herself when i see her big black daddy in the background, i just shake my head…it’s very similar to tiger woods and the cablasian or whatever he calls himself….tiger looks very much like my brother and i KNOW i’m black, so i’m confused why these people are confused…
@ Lolo
Yes I had just read Black snob’s blog and it was good.
Kelly Rowland got a nose job? I knew she got new boobs, but a new nose, too? Why do Black people (outside of the Jacksons) get cosmestic rhinoplasty? Plastic Surgery is creepy, sorry. Is Beyonce’s shadow that cold?
@ Lindsay. It was an accident (I was about to ask what you meant, then I remembered that’s a DC song.)
@ Anmarie - have you ever seen Miss Tina’s fashions on HSN? (Or is it QVC?) It’s hilarious until you realize your IQ is dropping.
I tried to read those song lyrics, but I could not get through it with the fear that my brain would explode and ooze out of my ears and nose. Scary that pop music is so bad now that any incoherent babble can be recorded and sold as the “NEW HOT SHIT”! God, I hate pop music. These niggas have completely brought the sambo form of entertainment. IF white kids did not spend their allowance and lawn mowing money on this shit, maybe talented musicians can actually be played on the radio instead of songs like “Thuggin Luv” and “Move Them Butt Cheeks!” (little Boondocks reference)
Merri Lee,
yes, this is true. We really have mostly blacks, whites, and hispanics here in SC. I BET you cant tell the difference b/n a GA peach and a SC peach???? can you can you?…well neither can I but anyway…
Ignorantly, from the outside of asian culture looking in, it seems that if there were some sort of war, hypothetically, Japanese vs. Chinese, that there would be a lot of friendly fire. How in the hell would you be able to tell who you’re fighting?
I know I know, there are differences..but from afar…
Dag, Anmarie…wanna talk about it?
So Sabrina LaBeauf AND Lisa Bonet are Creole. Damn Cosby Show and his brainwashing! I’m writing a letter!
Kizzy before and after. She’s actually had even more lopped off of her nose, but I don’t hav