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What's up with Halle Berry? Accusations of 'racism' thrown at her daughter's father.
Read this:
http://www.tmz.com/2014/11/24/gabriel-aubry-halle-berry-court-daughter-nahla-hair-dyed-straightened/
Also this:
http://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-news/halle-berry-secures-court-order-to-stop-ex-gabriel-aubry-changing-daughters-hairstyle-30775611.html
Halle calls herself 'black'.
She clearly isn't as she's of mixed-race. Her mother is Caucasian & her father is Africian-American.
Does anyone think Halle comes across as being mean-spirited & petty out of this court case? Was she right to pillor her ex & her daughter's father by accusing him of being 'racist' over the child's hair straightening? Personally I think her claim is rather OTT.
I see that Halle is trying to reduce the child alimony payments to her ex as well.
http://www.tmz.com/2014/11/24/gabriel-aubry-halle-berry-court-daughter-nahla-hair-dyed-straightened/
Also this:
http://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-news/halle-berry-secures-court-order-to-stop-ex-gabriel-aubry-changing-daughters-hairstyle-30775611.html
Halle calls herself 'black'.
She clearly isn't as she's of mixed-race. Her mother is Caucasian & her father is Africian-American.Does anyone think Halle comes across as being mean-spirited & petty out of this court case? Was she right to pillor her ex & her daughter's father by accusing him of being 'racist' over the child's hair straightening? Personally I think her claim is rather OTT.
I see that Halle is trying to reduce the child alimony payments to her ex as well. 0
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Also, is Halle teaching her daughter that she is black only, or did I read that wrong? As far as I'm aware, her daughter is mostly white.
Halle comes across as somebody who jumps on the 'race' wagon very readily.
Berry's not a nice looking woman outside of the Storm X-Men wig and leather. Perhaps she should be more concerned about doing something with her own hair instead of going around with that awful man's haircut, and having some cosmetic surgery to remove that constant "black woman with attitude" look off her face.
I might be wrong, but it seems to me that its Halle who is always the one taking potshots at Gabriel over everything and anything?
Halle is American and over there the 'one drop' rule applies and is very much based on your appearance. She has always chosen to identify as a black woman. She has even said that her mother mother raised her to be a 'black woman who has a white mother' (or words to that effect). She can identify however she likes.
Now the straightening thing to me would depend on how he did it. If he used a chemical straightener on the child then I would have a serious problem with that as it would be the equivalent of bleaching a child's hair.
Halle is unhinged for sure. Am I the only one who doesn't even find the woman particularly attractive? Can't wait for the drama which ensues when she splits from the father of her son, LOL.
I think she's an extremely vindictive woman. She treated him and his relationship with his daughter like an inconvenience when she hooked up with Martinez. And this latest taking him to court crap over something that could/should have been sorted out privately is just another example of Halle trying to direct the narrative and make herself look like the concerned parent.
If Gabriel is now playing dirty as far as maintenance is concerned, so be it.
Hi,
I should have been a bit clearer. For a 'black' woman or woman with naturally curly or frizzy hair to permanently straighten her hair a chemical process called a Relaxer (containing sodium hydroxide) has to be applied it. If that's what he did then that's roughly the equivalent of having hair bleached. If he did it temporarily with a blow dryer or straighteners then I don't see the problem.
Or it could be a case of Halle finding out that her daughter's father had her daughter's hair straightened without even asking her.
Do you think she rings him everytime she curls the child's hair? Or braids it? Cuts it?
Co-parenting is just that, and no parent should have more rights than the other. Her white heritage should be just as important as her black. As should her sense of self away from those two labels.
Beyoncé had straight blondish hair for years and she has never denied her heritage.
So Halle being annoyed is understandable if anything permanent has been done but I do think that equating any changes to racism is a bit much.
Why should he need permission? He's her parent too
I have to admit that I'm confused by this. She seems to have a close relationship with her mother and if her mum is white, why does she ignore that side?
I have mixed race in my family and I understand where the mother of HB is coming from. Its not denying your white heritage, just acknowledging that the wider world will invariably see you as black.