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Originally posted by Dancefloor
Oh no. Clay's question: "the dark ones or the light ones?" is awful, and when Jace told him he liked black girls Clay made a grimace. GOOD-BYE.
Is mulatto a bad thing, though? I'm from Mexico and it doesn't have a negative connotation here, and I've never heard of "Redbone". Is that racist? Help me out with this American jargon.
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Mulatto is different in American history than it is in Central/South American history.
In the US, they had the one drop rule–any amount of black ancestry made you a black person and thus less than human. White slave owners would rape their Black slaves, and the resulting half white/half black child would be called "mulatto." Then you have terms like quadroon for children of one mulatto parent and one white parent, octaroon for someone with a Black grandparent, and mustefino/quintroon/hexadecaroon for those with one Black great-grandparent. These terms were used to separate and discriminate against those who were not "pure White." The terms are outdated and were snatched from the census in the 1930s. Anyone still using it in reference to Black women is TRASH.
Redbone is a term used in the black community, as is yellowbone, and there's a lot of controversy around it in the community because many feel it also degrades dark skinned women—a form of internalized racism. A white man has NO right to use those terms.
The clips were before the feeds went on-air though, so it's worth one watch through.
