Yes, it is neat. I have a biracial great-niece, and I think she is the most gorgeous child ever born on this earth.I love the wind that blows on her. We stress that she is BOTH, no way am I going to let her discard one racial heritage in favor of another.
Berry looks biracial. But if she were as light as her mother and had no black features at all, she would most probably still call herself black. I guess I don’t get the ‘power of the one drop’ theory.
You could be a blonde, blue eyed Swede, but if you had a black ancestor 10 generations back you’re black??That would be like me saying I’m Chinese because I had a Chinese ancestor( I don’t) and don’t look Oriental at all.
I think I’m offended that-in a bi-racial situation- it is the Caucasian side that is almost always discounted entirely.
Still wonder if some of the people who do that though do have racism as a motive.....
And agree with you that Berry or other 'biracial' people should not denounce their European heritage. Personally don't view Berry or others as having done this just because she views herself as black. She can consider herself black and yet she readily is seen with her mother, and acknowledges her European ancestors as much as her African ones.