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Halle Berry: Nahla is black
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Halle herself has a white mother and Nahla has a white father and 50/50 mother. Surely this would make her 3/4 white and 1/4 black. To be honest, I don't really care and Nahla can choose to identify herself however she wants when she's old enough give a crap but I get the feeling that Halle is only making an issue of this now to get at Gabriel, which is pathetic. I used to like Halle but this stuff lately is making her look really petty.
Halle herself has a white mother and Nahla has a white father and 50/50 mother. Surely this would make her 3/4 white and 1/4 black. To be honest, I don't really care and Nahla can choose to identify herself however she wants when she's old enough give a crap but I get the feeling that Halle is only making an issue of this now to get at Gabriel, which is pathetic. I used to like Halle but this stuff lately is making her look really petty.
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'By choosing, I've often [wondered]: "Well, would that make her feel like I'm invalidating her by choosing to identify more with the black side of myself?"'
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she makes it sound like a fricking chore....... she can say what she likes, but the fact is, she is mixed race and her child is predominately white.
Seems to me, she is trying to prove something to the black community via 'Ebony'
She references the one-drop theory too, one drop of black makes you black. I heard of that, but I thought it was an old white racist classification that had been stamped out?
She sounds like she's a mess. Little Nahla had better not start trying to embrace her white side:eek:
Her histrionics at the Oscars several years ago when she was banging on about how it was for "every woman of colour " who had a dream ...... she won because she was the best, not because she was black.
She has a beautiful daughter, the only one who cares what colour she is seems to be her mother.
Halle did NOT give the best performance. Her win was politically motivated. She won because the Academy wanted to award black actors that night, period.
Spike Lee could do the wedding video.
And to be honest in this day and age should it really matter what your heritage is? Surely making a big fuss about who is black and who isn't actually makes a racial divide?
I don't kow what went on behind closed doors (and don't care!) but maybe Halle should shut up and be a mum.
Doesn't matter what colour Nahla is - she has two parents and both will have a role to play in her future.
And IMHO - Nahla is mixed race..not more black than white..I never got how Halle was banging the race card and considers herself a black woman..she's as much white as black! (it's not racist it's Maths!)
However, just to be the devils advocate, can you imagine if she came out and announced her child was 'white', surely that would be jumped on as 'racist', because she said black its fine though. I personally don't see how the childs ethnic backround matters, she is a beautiful little girl who is getting pulled into an argument between her mother and father and quite frankly they should know better!!
In America, persons of mixed heritage rarely, as far as I can tell, use the term. The stratified and often caustic politics of race in USA virtually requires you to claim your heritage as Black, Hispanic, Korean etc. even if there are generations of white parentage in your genetic history.
The "black community" (groan) doesn't care. Seriously, black people have a lot of other shit to concern ourselves with and Halle Berry's child is waaaay down on the list.
I have mixed race kids and they can call themselves what they want. If they identify as black, fine. If they feel white, fine, if it's neither, fine.
But Halle Berry is mixed race herself. So Nahla is the daughter of a white man and a mixed-race woman.
I find her comments tasteless anyway, if a white person had made them they would have been point-blank accused of racism. It also seems like she's trying to say Nahla is hers, not Aubry's.
In America its still some what of an issue to see a mixed race couple walking down the road together wtf is that all about. Halle Berry has the right to call her daughter what ever she wants, But at the end of the day the child id Mixed race and should be proud to be both white and black.
There's nothing to be ashamed of in being mixed race and the sooner the likes of Halle Berry realise this, the better.
How do you define "one drop"? That would probably make the whole world black if you go far enough back.
That's a good point, most of us have no idea about our ancestors back further than a couple of generations.
I think the defining yourself by race thing seems very out of date and unnecessary. I find myself getting annoyed when asked my ethnicity on forms. Why?
Let's hope that in the future our children don't feel they have to label themselves.
He is still her father and their daughter has the right to embrace both sides of her family without feeling that she has to 'choose' between being black or white.
Halle just seems a little hung up on the race factor, when she is fortunate to have a healthy young daughter with two parents who presumably want the best for her.
One rule for one and another rule for another.
No it isn't. Jade Goody was the product of a mixed-race man and a white woman and was always referred to as white. Ryan Giggs and Carol Channing and Carole King are three more, though I think Giggs acknowledges his mixed-race parentage.
Halle Berry's own mother told her she was a black woman. It was nothing to do with discarding her parentage or anything like it, it was the reality in the time she was growing up. Race is still a contentious issue in the States.
As a parent of kids with two different races and nationalities, I see them one way, their dad sees them another. I tend to think of them as Americans, while their dad thinks of them as British, and more than that, Scottish.
All the hand-holding and "colourblindness" won't make a damned difference to how they are percieved by the outside world. If you look at my children, they look like fair-skinned black boys. No one would assume that they are anything else.
Britain is not off the hook when it comes to racial issues either. Many a time has my husband been asked are his children adopted when he's with them on his own, despite one of them looking like his clone.
I'm mixed race my mum black and my dad white. My mum was mixed race as well, her Mum white and dad black. Well I say black, She is the same colouring as Halle, and me about the same as her daughter, and I don't consider either colour black, but I think thats just me and how I see myself.
I always found it so weird when I was called black as a kid. I didn't see the colour black in my skin at all. I still don't to be honest.
I saw light brown as my skin colour 'the colour of caramel' as a child. The same colour that most people go when they go on holiday for a tan, and nobody ever called them black when they came back. That is always how I felt as a child.
As I got older I learnt the importance of both. I learnt to embrace and love having both a part of me, rather than pushing anything away. I was only able to do that by having great parents that taught me that my colour wasn't something they saw. It was never an issue. It was just a part of me, something that I should be proud and lucky to have and inherited from both of them. It's how I see it too, and what I would do with any children I have as well.
I'm only bringing it up because it's why I find it slightly worrying that Halle, seems to be, and I really don't like judging other people and how they raise there kids and not knowing the facts, but like making her daughters colour such an issue for her, rather than something that is just apart of her being, and comes from both her parents. The worry being that as she grows up she might see it as a big issue, when really your parents should be the ones help you understand and embrace your identity for everything it is. Thats all I wanted to say really.
what baffles me is sloopy, the two broke up last year and were getting on just fine raising Nahla together...She was saying how much of a great father Gabriel is to her daughter and wanted to continue raising Nahla together amicably
...Then, it went all 360 when he filed for joint custody and recognition to be Nahla's father and she filed for full custody shortly after, he wanted to continue to raise Nahla with Halle and spend more time with her by making it legal and she wants full custody so she could call the shots on when Gabriel can see his own daughter??
Their statements in their press, I think Gabriel took a more appropriate stance in regards to this matter whereas Halle should have not addressed what is a private matter between the two parties in a public domain...
Nahla's parents come from two different hertiages, I'm sure she will raised no doubt to appreciate both sides of her parents backgrounds rather than one side and embrace them
Unfortunately there are ignorant people everywhere!