passin fe blakk

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wan aff mii favarate miss lou poem iss passin fe white. itt bout da advantage wan lite skin blakk ooman trii fii gitt bye passinn fee mzungu. still wii rarelee chatt bout mzungu woo pass fe blakk? let discuss mzungu woo pass fe blakk ann y dem doo itt?



wat iss da diffarance blakk wey pass fe mzungu versus mzungu woo onlee appear fee bee blakk? on wat basis doo yu sey de wannabee mzungu iss reallee mzungu ann da wannabee blakk reallee blakk?

[blugiant]

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In the fall of 1959 an obscure white journalist and novelist named John Howard Griffin, a native of Texas, went to a dermatologist in New Orleans with what can only be called an astonishing request: He wanted "to become a Negro." A man of conscience and religious conviction, he was deeply troubled by the racial situation in his native South. He was "haunted" by these questions: "If a white man became a Negro in the Deep South, what adjustments would he have to make? What is it like to experience discrimination based on skin color, something over which one has no control?"

The dermatologist agreed to cooperate with Griffin's project, darkening his skin "with a medication taken orally, followed by exposure to ultraviolet rays." Griffin, who had arranged with the editors of Sepia, the prominent black magazine, to write about his experiences, was in a hurry to get started and asked for "accelerated treatments," which he soon supplemented with stain. He also shaved his head, "since I had no curl." He did not look in the mirror until the process was complete, and when he did, he saw "the face and shoulders of a stranger -- a fierce, bald, very dark Negro." He was stunned:

"The transformation was total and shocking. I had expected to see myself disguised, but this was something else. I was imprisoned in the flesh of an utter stranger, an unsympathetic one with whom I felt no kinship. . . . I looked into the mirror and saw reflected nothing of the white John Griffin's past. No, the reflections led back to Africa, back to the shanty and the ghetto, back to the fruitless struggles against the mark of blackness. . . . I had tampered with the mystery of existence and I had lost the sense of my own being. This is what devastated me. The Griffin that was had become invisible."

Thus began Griffin's six-week odyssey through the South, a journey that took him from New Orleans to Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. In March of the next year Sepia published his story, and in 1961 an expanded version was published as a book, "Black Like Me." The cumulative effect of the magazine story, the book and all the attendant publicity -- Griffin was interviewed by the television journalists Dave Garroway and Mike Wallace and featured in Time magazine -- was astonishing. The book became a bestseller. It awoke significant numbers of white Americans to truths about discrimination of which they had been unaware or had denied.

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[RichD]

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yuh remember the eddie murphy skit form SNL where he made up as a white man?

[RichD]

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seet here (not sure if it work because it wont stream in canada)

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/white-like-me/278837/

[Peasie]

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Also Dave Chappelle's 'Clayton Bigsby' character of a blind Black White Supremecist. Hilarious!

[blugiant]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">seet here (not sure if it work because it wont stream in canada)

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-li...ike-me/278837/ </div></div>

wat da diffarance between blakk actinn like mzungu stereotype fii laff versus mzungu actinn like racist blakk stereotype fii laff

diffarant ting. wen yu doo wan search pon blakk passinn fii white yu gitt a latt aff hits butt yu gitt veree few hits dealing widd mzungu wey pass fe blakk

wat mii tryinn fii xxamine iss y blakk passinn fii mzungu iss discuss a latt butt deer iss rarelee tredd pon mzungu passinn fii blakks

[RichD]

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but yuh answer it yuh slef already

[blugiant]

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Passing for black? Some scholars have argued that the photograph of Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins (left), included in her first novel ''Megda,'' would have announced her as a black author despite the fact that her novels featured apparently white characters and lacked the themes of racial uplift found in the work of contemporaries like Pauline Hopkins (right) and Frances E.W. Harper (second from left). The work of all three women was included in the landmark Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers, named for the black bibliophile and historian Arthur Schomburg. (Courtesy of the Schomburg Collection)







Mistaken identity
What if a novelist celebrated as a pioneer of African-American women's literature turned out not to be black at all?



At first, I wondered if Kelley-Hawkins and her family were only ''passing'' as white. However, the fact that both of her parents were born in Dennis-a small seafaring community-and that all four of her grandparents, along with a sizable extended family, lived there makes it unlikely that they could have falsely represented their racial identity to the town clerks at the time of their marriage, the birth of a child, or on the censuses. Both sides of her family had roots in Dennis, and one of her grandparents would have presumably been designated with an ''M'' for ''mulatto'' if there had been any question regarding his or her racial heritage.

Of course, it is impossible to say definitively that Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins had absolutely no ancestors of African descent at some point farther back than the record shows. The ''one-drop'' logic that has long dominated American understandings of race can cast doubt on the racial identity of any seemingly white person. If we understand race as a social construction, there is no biological truth to uncover, just a social tradition that considers parentage the deciding factor when skin color proves inconclusive. Kelley-Hawkins was as white as anyone whose parents and grandparents claim to be white, and clearly identified herself as such when given the opportunity throughout her adult life.

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With the mystery of Kelley-Hawkins's basic biography solved, another mystery remains: How have her overwhelmingly ''white'' texts successfully passed as black for so long in the absence of any corroborating historical data? And how does this discovery change our understanding of African-American literary history?


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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">How have her overwhelmingly ''white'' texts successfully passed as black for so long in the absence of any corroborating historical data? And how does this discovery change our understanding of African-American literary history?
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wii knoo pon da net yu ave mannee mzungu wey pass fe blakk wey write ting fii diss blakk peeps? ow does ovatandinn dat affekk da way yu process mzungu argument beeinn passed aff as blakk ting