Mulatto and you

[Ed Anger]

You ass. I'm hungry now.

[garbon]

Told you
sweet mulatto Ice Cream Cake

"Sweet Mulatto" is also the name of one of your interracial porn series, fella.  Still not off the hook.

My mother just asked me if perhaps "breed" is a better term.

[Razgovory]

Love how grumbler dissects a post into half a dozen segments and replies to each yet still concludes its not worthy of a reply. 

Really?  He never does that to me.

[Scipio]

I teach history courses in 'Murican Hist'ry, so I use Mulattoe, and Octaroon, and Negro, when appropriate. 'Cause them are good words what explicate the dominant historical narrative, and shit.

[Ed Anger]

While dressed as Colonel Reb.

[CountDeMoney]

The War of Northern Aggro.  DPS pulled Ft. Sumter too early.

[Siege]

I was just at a holiday party (as a +1 to a friend's party) and had, as it happens, several occurrences of being asked my background / where I'm from. More than a few times when I explained, I got back "Oh so you're mulatto" to which I smiled my assent. One of the people was a black woman who then said, "Oh are we allowed to say that now?"

I realized that while I don't necessarily take issue with the term, it does feel dated / I don't use it personally as it makes me feel like a black person using slave terms.

What say you, Languish?

I have heard it before, but it sounds like a term from French, Portuguese or Spanish colonies.
I think the proper term in current polite society is "mixed heritage", but then, this is probably racist crap.
I don't know man. It is very confusing.

Americans call Black anybody with a drop of African.
And Mexican anybody with a drop of Spanish/Spaniard or whatever the eff it is called.

So to me Mulatto smells racist.

Why are people so bend in ethnically defining people they meet?
Aren't we post-racial?

[garbon]

I was just at a holiday party (as a +1 to a friend's party) and had, as it happens, several occurrences of being asked my background / where I'm from. More than a few times when I explained, I got back "Oh so you're mulatto" to which I smiled my assent. One of the people was a black woman who then said, "Oh are we allowed to say that now?"

I realized that while I don't necessarily take issue with the term, it does feel dated / I don't use it personally as it makes me feel like a black person using slave terms.

What say you, Languish?

I have heard it before, but it sounds like a term from French, Portuguese or Spanish colonies.
I think the proper term in current polite society is "mixed heritage", but then, this is probably racist crap.
I don't know man. It is very confusing.

Americans call Black anybody with a drop of African.
And Mexican anybody with a drop of Spanish/Spaniard or whatever the eff it is called.

So to me Mulatto smells racist.

Why are people so bend in ethnically defining people they meet?
Aren't we post-racial?

Well, drunkie, I already noted in the thread, why I think it happens.

[Eddie Teach]

So Siege is a Black Mexican then, like all Sefardi? 

[CountDeMoney]

He's a Jewlatto.

[dps]

The War of Northern Aggro.  DPS pulled Ft. Sumter too early.

Say what?

[Eddie Teach]

It's a gaming reference. DPS = damage per second.

[Siege]

So Siege is a Black Mexican then, like all Sefardi? 

I would have you know that the Sefaradi were the original colonizer of southern Iberian peninsula operating as private contractors within the larger Phoenician trading network that included many cities from northern israel like Akko and Haifa.

[Siege]

He's a Jewlatto.

Anti-semite!

[Siege]

The War of Northern Aggro.  DPS pulled Ft. Sumter too early.

Say what?

The War of Northern Aggression. Historical name for the ACW if the South had won.
DPS is a poster here and TimeTraveller who opened a different timeline by forcing an early start for the ACW.