Halle Berry Shows Her Racist Side

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[equaviator]

Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry have been at each other’s throats for what seems like an eternity. He’s supposedly acting like a racist pig, and the allegations that he loses it every time their daughter, Nahla, is referred to as "black" aren’t helping any. Halle seems to have had enough and is firing back with some racism of her own, insisting that Nahla be referred to as black -- and even invoking the one-drop theory.

The theory states that anyone who has even a single drop of African blood in them is black. It dates back to slavery days, when it was used to enslave as many people as possible, and to segregate the rest.

Why in the world does Halle feel the need to drag out such a negative historical reference?

It’s one thing for Halle to identify as black, but by invoking the one-drop rule, she’s essentially ruling out half of her heritage: the white half. Now she’s doing the same thing to Nahla. Of course, as her parent, Halle has the right to decide how to raise her child, but why is it so important to her to deny the white half of Nahla’s lineage?

We all know that both of them are part black. No one is disputing that -- except, of course, Aubry. What I don’t understand is the need to declare, via a racist "rule," that they are both all black.

In her vehement opposition to having Nahla referred to as white, Halle is doing exactly what Aubry is doing. She’s every bit as racist as he is if she continues to denigrate the white blood in Nahla’s veins. Dragging up such a hateful -- and hate-filled -- rule makes it even worse. Halle could have simply stated that she identifies herself as black, and her daughter as well.

A thoughtful commentary on why that’s important to her would hold much more weight than these spears she’s throwing. I can only hope she’s throwing them to get at Aubry, and not because she actually believes in denying an entire half of her daughter’s life.

[I Buried My Guns]

" a silly “proto-African” name like Shakeequ’ua "

I do believe you have just coined a new word.

After today, there's no need to put it in quotes!

[MrB]

We have some good friends that have adopted a rainbow of kids. When I was talking about them with a libinlaw, her comment was something along the lines of “I hope they are being taught about their culture”.

Whah? Their “culture” is the culture of the family they’re being raised in. It has nothing to do with the color of their skin.

This presumption that color determines culture is RACIST.
And you’ll be hard pressed to find a “liberal” that isn’t.

[DH]

“...Appropriately, a lonely desert isle of searing hot sand is precisely where one would expect to find a sheik....”

That’s not right. I found a box of them by the pharmacy at walmart the other day................LoL!!!!!!!!!

[Dr. Ursus]

Good points. The child’s name is Muslim.

[dps.inspect]

Yes, thanks 4 the correction... though that class imagine themselves as sheiks...

[wtc911]

A thoughtful commentary on why that’s important to her would hold much more weight than these spears she’s throwing.

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HaHaHa...I get it...'spear-chucker'.....Brilliant!

[PowderMonkey]

Same silly crap raged in my own family. My father was Swedish. Mother was from Spain. I was born Panamanian and Catholic, but raised in the Southern U.S. Am I a Hispanic Panamaniac, or a Redneck Swede? Next thing ya’ know I marry a Lutheran, but the kids grow up to be Southern Baptists! Then we discover my wife's family are descendants of Quana Parker. Just great. My family now includes Southern Baptist Panamaniac Swedish Comanches...you betcha' by golly! Worlds are colliding! Just what the dickens are we? Welcome to the Americas. We're Americans...

[Pan_Yan]

John Winger: Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out! The hell's the matter with you? Stupid! We're all very different people. We're not Watusi. We're not Spartans. We're Americans, with a capital 'A', huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts! Here's proof: his nose is cold! But there's no animal that's more faithful, that's more loyal, more loveable than the mutt. Who saw "Old Yeller?" Who cried when Old Yeller got shot at the end?

[raises his hand]

John Winger: *sarcastically* Nobody cried when Old Yeller got shot? I'm sure.

[hands are reluctantly raised]

John Winger: I cried my eyes out. So we're all dogfaces, we're all very, very different, but there is one thing that we all have in common: we were all stupid enough to enlist in the Army. We're mutants. There's something wrong with us, something very, very wrong with us. Something seriously wrong with us - we're soldiers. But we're American soldiers! We've been kicking ass for 200 years! We're 10 and 1! Now we don't have to worry about whether or not we practiced. We don't have to worry about whether Captain Stillman wants to have us hung. All we have to do is to be the great American fighting soldier that is inside each one of us. Now do what I do, and say what I say. And make me proud.

[LottieDah]

“If Halle Berry is so proud of being black, why didnt she marry a black man.”

She had married two. One of them beat the crap out of her and the other one was a sex addict who cheated on her. Talk about being unlucky in love.

[MrB]

[begin heavy dose of leftist “outrage”]

So, you’re saying she had to marry a white man in order to find a man of character? That’s OUTRAGEOUS! That’s RACIST!

[end leftist faux “outrage”]

Can’t you just hear it from the “I’m looking to be offended” crowd?

[LottieDah]

She wasn’t married to the guy she had the child with.

[MrB]

I could write another faux outrage post about your impugning of poor Halle’s character, but I don’t want to put the liberal “looking for offense” hat back on. It needs some Febreze, if you know what I mean... :)

[jimt]

In her case, she’s a racist, and has been for a long time. Remember the Oscars ?

She may be pretty, she may be a good actress, but she’s also a racist.

[Rappini]

I wonder if she would hold onto the One-Drop rule if Barry wasn’t POTUS.

[equaviator]

“If Halle Berry is so proud of being black, why didnt she marry a black man.”

She/he must think they’re doing their part in the race towards global multiculturalism and a One World future.

Young white girls in their teens and some college-aged libs are doing the same thing as a kind of fashion statement but what do they really know except that it feels soooo good...”Be the first on your block to have an interracial child. Be the envy of your friends and neighbors...”

They’re just swelling with pride over the fact that they dare to be different.

You don’t see it so much with young hispanic (Mexican) women...at least I don’t and neither does my good friend down in McAllen, TX who says they tend to stick with their own kind.

I’m not aware of any trend to bring Arab-Hispanic kids into the world...Hmmm...What’s up with that???

[Eva]

I don’t find anything wrong with this. This is a custody dispute, of course she is going to claim every single reason that she can think of to make sure she keeps her daughter.

[dfwgator]

Notice it’s always the lighter-skinned blacks that are always the most racist. As if they need to overcompensate for something.

[Mila]

"She ticked me off when she insulted her mother for being white at her academy award pesentation."

At the Academy Awards her mother sat next to her in the front row and when she accepted the Oscar her mother was among those that she thanked.

She said,"I want to thank my mom who's given me the strength to fight every single day, to be who I want to be and given me the courage to dream, that this dream might be happening and possible for me. I love you, Mom, so much. Thank you."

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/halleberryoscarspeech.htm

[Mila]

"She ticked me off when she insulted her mother for being white at her academy award pesentation."

At the Academy Awards her mother sat next to her in the front row and when she accepted the Oscar her mother was among those that she thanked.

She said,"I want to thank my mom who's given me the strength to fight every single day, to be who I want to be and given me the courage to dream, that this dream might be happening and possible for me. I love you, Mom, so much. Thank you."

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/halleberryoscarspeech.htm

[Mila]

Oops! Sorry for the double post