Which famous men are white but not considered by some to be white?

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Op, your unhealthy obsession with white, white adjacent, yellow skin, white passing...is really out of control, we know time is hard, the social distancing only aggravated your mental state, but please try to control yourself!

Obama is as white as he is black but he is never thought of as white. Clinton is white but was thought by some to be the first 'black' president.

All these years on DL and I still don't know what "red bone" and "yellow bone" mean.

Race relations require you now to say a person of color not a colored person R4. Will you get with the program please?

Neither do I, R4. Neither do I.

Donald Trump.

R4 a lie told to keep the conversation going. Fap fap fap

Comedian Lavell Crawford on Obama and Trump:

R4 do they have google where you live?

What R2 said.

I have never had any trouble from anyone for saying Black or White. If you get into African-American, for instance, you may have all kinds of problems eg if you say that about Obama - most whities understand that some do not but it's safer to say black, if you accept that Obama is black rather than white. Don't say boy or uppity even if it is accurate.

Who are "some," OP? White supremacists?

[quote] All these years on DL and I still don't know what "red bone" and "yellow bone" mean.

One of the most bizarre things I’ve seen on DL (and I’ve seen many) were references to “white yellow bones”. That no one has explained, and I doubt an answer can be found Googling. .

Nigga: do not say that unless you is a .. nigga.

BTW Negro is out too. Branching out, I would say you don't say Red Skin these days or even Indian but Native American. Get it?

R5, tell the NAACP.

NAACP? What do you mean R17?

A more interesting question would be: why do biracial, black and white people, consider themselves black? When they are clearly not 100% black?

Lots of biracial people, black and white people, actually look more Hispanic than black.

r12, You want to know whats funny about that. Obama is literally AFRIKAN-American. He is literally what the word means.

Not OP here but let's get to the point: Dean Martin, Anthony Quinn, Cesar Romano. This is just to start.

Obama

During slavery, all were considered to be the race of the mother who bore them.

R23 will not address the question.

Aristotle Socrates Onassis

Here is the rule... the world determines what you are.

Obama and Halle Berry are black because they look black.

Halsey, Jennifer Beals and Wentworth Miller are white because they look white or at the very least "ethnic white". And before anyone saw Meghan Markle's mother, they all thought Meghan was ethnic white. And for those who don't know ethnic white is white with some flavor as opposed to lily white.

John Legend

Henry Fonda

Idk about men but I can think of a few white women who people think aren’t white because their background is latino

Al Sharpton is a white Republican

[quote] white with some flavor

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Abe Lincoln

"Spicy white", WTF does that even mean? LSA posters love to use that term. For a black message forum geared to black women, they seem overly obsessed with white people. I lurk at their celebrity gossip forums, most of their threads inevitably turn into discussions about white people. Weird.

R4, Yellow bone (plural yellow bones) (African-American Vernacular) A light-skinned person of mixed ethnicity including black.

R4, Redbone is a term historically used in much of the southern United States to denote a multiracial individual or culture. In Louisiana, it also refers to a specific, geographically and ethnically distinct group.

Yellow bone people tend to have yellow undertones to their skin so I wonder if redbone's have red undertones.

The dancer with the yellow skin.

The OP

In the American South:

Redbone = black mixed with Native American blood

Yellowbone or "high yella" = black mixed with European blood

What I find very interesting is that “colored person” has been considered offensive for many years now, but “people of color” is now the standard socially responsible term. I’m curious to hear from someone who know better why that is. It seems like virtually the same thing.

Octaroons

[quote] The dancer with the yellow skin.

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[quote] Octaroons

I was once banned from DL for a few days for using either "octoroon" or "quadroon". Funny thing was that I was responding to an actual racist poster and used the word ironically in response to his post.

mustiphini

quintroon

mustee

DLers so easily fall for race baiting.

Wesley Snipes

Sylvester Stallone

[quote]What I find very interesting is that “colored person” has been considered offensive for many years now, but “people of color” is now the standard socially responsible term.

People from outside the US have difficulty with this. I've heard Europeans say "colored" when they mean "people of color" and they honestly thought they were using the correct term, they weren't intentionally being offensive.

[quote] I've heard Europeans say "colored" when they mean "people of color" and they honestly thought they were using the correct term, they weren't intentionally being offensive.

Benedict Cumberbatch, an alien in human form residing in Britain, was one of these.

Just use black and white. Stop with the moronic euphemisms like 'people of color.'

There is a black comedian--I think it's Chris Rock, but I am not 100% sure--who has a whole routine about trying to explain the difference between "people of color" and "colored people" to his grandmother.

It's also a common slip-up for people who are not native English speakers, especially if they are not living in the US and aware of the distinctions.

Darren Criss People seem to make a big deal about how he's half Asian and it's often written into plots. However, I'd never guess that just by looking at him.

MSNBC likes to use the terms "blacks and browns" and POC.

[quote] There is a black comedian--I think it's Chris Rock, but I am not 100% sure--who has a whole routine about trying to explain the difference between "people of color" and "colored people" to his grandmother.

I gotta see this. Link please R50. Presumably the grandma was black and thought the difference a load of baloney.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

The best thing Chris Rock ever did was "N------ vs. Black People"

Tom Jones?

Dr. Paul Nassif?

R38, "In the American South: Redbone = black mixed with Native American blood Yellowbone or "high yella" = black mixed with European blood"

Appreciate your corrections to the info I Googled.

Do you know what per cent of Native American Blood one has to have to be considered Redbone?

Would Yellow bone apply to someone who has a tiny bit of Black ancestry mixed with European Blood?

Notice that genetic members of the same family often have different complexions and skin tones.

Tom Jones yes!

People from India are CAUCASIAN but are generally NOT considered white.

Hate to bring them up but, Khardashians: not black. But not white either.......

Bill Clinton is considered by some to be the first black president.

A gay man, regardless of his ancestry, will never be accepted as fully white. A gay woman can, but only because society trivializes women's sexuality, making it a non-issue. Ironic, in that most lesbians - even the racist ones - abhor these subjects and would never defer for access to that Inner Circle.

It is the main reason why gay men and women cannot get along. Gay women know that gay men have no virtue and would betray their most faithful confidante for a seat at high tea, and this (very regular) topic is proof of it.

[quote] Bill Clinton is considered by some to be the first black president.

Including, perhaps, by R3.

So what’s a “white yellow bone”?

Haha!

r19, it's more about how you present.

There are some racially mixed people that present as white - Halsey, Mariah Carey, Tori Kelly, wentworth Miller, Rashida Jones and then their are those that present as black - President Obama, Halle Berry, Tracee ross

r61, Please seek professional help, and find your medication.

I have never heard the term "white yellow bone". To the best of my knowledge, yellow bone or high yella has always been a black person with very light skin. The hair is usually the give away, but many have what is called "good hair". Which takes you down another rabbit hole in the complicated racial history of this country. Back in the day, a yellow bone with good hair could pass. Movies like Imitation of Life and Pinky weren't that farfetched and reality in many cases, the only difference being no one was exposed unless they wanted to be exposed.

I forgot to add, check out Pernell Roberts.

R68, I preferred Gregory Harrison.

Purple bone is a very interesting color.

Is this the same as so-called “spicy white”?