+David Castillo That's why this scene is so powerful. A white man in America with it's horrible past loves his Black wife and half black daughter. Bow (Tracee Ellis Rose) has an awesome relationship with her white jewish father in real life.
A friend of my daughter's has blond hair and blue eyes. Her children look a lot like their father who is South American.They have black hair, brown eyes and brown skin and are so beautiful. Stranger's have actually asked her what country did she adopt them from.
Yea. I hate how people in our community condemns them of they dont wanna chose a particular side. And with white people. If your not white (at least with friends)your not really apart of them either.
I agree. There are Black folks with two Black parents that look like the beautiful Traci Ross. As a race, we should never question a person on their race. Everyone has a story. Love Back-ish!
@@evakimia3468, Beau nor his dad Lloyd Bridges were ever looking like chopped liver as young men. it just might have been a photoshopped print from his younger days. fyi, Beau Bridges oldest Son Casey, was adopted late 60s early 70s, is said to be of African-American decent. i remember reading that story years ago either in JET or Negro Digest magazine.
i mean it's a little short sided saying "the whole world". in brazil a lot of people wouldnt really consider bow black. and people definetly wouldnt question a white parent with a dark child
Bar San as much as I'd love to believe the majority are that accepting of their African ancestry, or others with that background, it's just not true. I've lived and traveled abit... I knew a Mexican/ El Salvedorian girl who told me of childhood folk songs about "Little Black Girl." Told me how it was celebrated and beautiful. I have a Puerto Rican friend who believes his Black grandfather and Black brother in law are one in the same as Puerto Ricans... and it's beautiful! I've been to Spain where I was briefed on the history of When the Arabs ran the country, and white Spaniards mistreat darker ones as a result of It! Hell, I've been passed over several times at the bar there, bc Im Black. And the African man sitting next to me told me that it happens all the time... The most educated ppl in the world (Africans travel for school and they excel), can't get proper service... I digress. But if you ask someone in any part of South America whose complexion hints at African ancestry, they'll tell you a different story about the racism experienced in their own country. Look at the Dominican Republic. Some are really bad when they come to North America bc they want to assimilate.
JRZBELLE the fact that you ignored that I said Brazilian, and then start mentioning other nationalities as if latinos are all the same lolololol. Brazil's history, like everyone else's is unique. look it up instead of bringing up anecdotal evidence. anecdotal evidence that doesnt even pertain to brazil, just other latin countries/and one european one smh
Bar San I didn't ignore anything... I'm telling you that you're oblivious to the truth. Just like the others in my example who take pride in Nationality, while glossing over the racism. Please, go read up... Brazil is NOT exempt! Read more than one source supporting my position.
I think a lot of people have a misconception about the scene as the dad denying her white side, however, he’s not doing that. He tells her she should be proud of that side but calls her black because the whole perception of race is something that strangers use not family. He’s just saying that in the U.S people won’t look at her for her culture but her appearance, therefore, she gets classified as black.
William McAlpine you know people would look at her like that because you have net every person in the united States to know that . Hun if they were perceived has black "colorism" wouldn't exist or at least wouldn't be the way it is
@@honestbabe8581 White people see black looking half white,half black biracials as black.They only show favoritism to light skin blacks when they want to divide the black population.
Exactly that. Everyone over here will not classify you as what you are. Happens to even the Asians. Filipinos look a lot like Spanish people. I literally am asked what Spanish country I’m from. And I’m like no. I’m from the Philippines. If you look someway you are someway.
Beautiful scene. I also feel for the parents who are white with children that look more black and how they are condemned and judged for not knowing hot to properly raise them when they have all the love to give.
I'm a white British guy. My gorgeous fiancé is Mixed Race - British/Jamaican. When my lady and I travel to America it really does feel back in time. I remember being in queue for a snack at Universal Studios in Florida.. we were joking about my fiancé's hair getting even bigger and curly in the Floridian humidity - she has big curly hair anyway but this time it went huuuuge (which I think is adorable anyway) .. nevertheless, these two African-Americans ladies politely interrupted us and asked where we were from.. we replied "oh, just outside of London, England".. they replied "ahhh.. makes sense now". We smiled and went "uuuuuhhh...." and then one of them quickly asked; "so you LIKE her natural hair!?" - we were a little shocked. Regardless I eased the awkwardness with a little humour but straight up told her yes... i adore her hair. Its really at times like this I appreciate living in my culture. Its by no means perfect but bloody hell... its so sad seeing how damaged America still is. Love + hope can fix a lot of things though
@@GeekyMedia the UK is still a pretty racist place. They aren't as blatant with their racism but it's still racist. In fact the UK is less diverse than United States. Also African American people as an ethnicity is a mixed ethnicity. The average African-American is only 65% African, on average 20 30% European and on average one to 2% Native American. All of that together makes the African-American ethnicity. So we aren't fully black but we have the idea that we have a monopoly on Blackness. I've been to the UK and have tons of friends and some family from the UK. The most of them I know identify with their black side more because they knew if they try to identify as white that would never fly. A lot of what America deals with comes from Europe and specifically the United Kingdom. These rules set up by people from the UK and that has affected our history ever since. It was the British the French in the Spanish that were obsessed with hierarchies and that raped slaves so...
@@nikibronson133 We can agree that racism is an evil. In history it's fair enough that you may not refer to yourself as mixed race - pretty much all of humanity is mixed race at some point. But if your Father is white, and your Mum is black - you're mixed race. As for the UK, yes it still has some racist people here but it's incomparable to the US. It's a completely different culture and history. Furthermore, in regards to old European history all of this is true, but nations and cultures change. The Vikings from Scandinavia did some disgusting things to many people's... But now Norway and Sweden and some of the most tolerable and progressive societies in the world. Just a little fact too, that although overall the US is a lot more diverse than the UK (understandably), London is the most diverse City in the world.. overtaking NYC and Toronto for that title. It's the only City in the world where 300+ languages are spoken daily.
@@GeekyMedia London is definitely a very diverse City but it is not the most diversity in the world. It's actually Toronto in Canada and it's referred to as the most diverse and Multicultural city in the world by numerous sources. theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/articles/the-10-most-multicultural-cities-in-the-world/ www.oyster.com/articles/58015-11-diverse-melting-pot-cities-around-the-world/ If your parent is white and your father is black or any other different races, you are in the state of being mixed race but mixed race is not its own special category. Someone who is black in Japanese has nothing in common with someone who is black and white besides their Blackness. Another example would be someone who is Japanese and Swedish has nothing in common with someone who is Nigerian and Cherokee Indian. You cannot group all mixed race people together because they are not the same. That also denies them from being able to fully live in whatever their two ethnicities are by just writing them off as other. Mixed race / mix ethnicity people are not their own special category because they have language history or culture that is unique to themselves. Those are the things that define what an ethnicity is and race is mainly based off what you look like and someone whose biracial can come out looking completely white or come out looking darker than both of their parents because the diversity of the African gene pool. I work in the field of genealogy and mixed race people do not have a gene pool. Therefore they are not and ethnicity or their own special category or race. Being biracial or being mixed race is a state of being. Many people across many European countries including the UK and also in America typically Believe In The Narrative that there is such a thing called full black or that mixed race or biracial people are separate. A mixed person's race is whatever their parents are. They aren't neither, they are both. To say that they are neither but then turn around and say I'm mixed race which means you are both is in itself a contradiction. I don't think that people should deny any part of themselves but terminologies need to be corrected and clarify. Because if not, it can lead to a lot of division. Moreover black people who have a white parent are most commonly not seen as white because of their black parent so typically identify more with their black side in societal standpoint. In their own personal family relationships it's whatever that family has. There are many black children who will never know their white father so they don't even consider themselves White. Also many people in the United States and many people I've met in the United Kingdom because I've worked and lived there for some time know that white people do not accept them as white even though they are because they have this idea that they are mixed race and that's its own special category, which it isn't, and generally white people historically have never accepted someone as a white person unless they looked White or were close to 100% white as possible. And since you are a white British man as you described, I am a African American person that lived in London for quite a bit and Meghan Markle, a black American Woman married Prince Harry, she was hounded by so much racism in the Press so bad that the Royals had to make a statement to essentially tell the press to knock it off. I have definitely experienced tons of racism in London where I lived and in the country side of England. To say the UK is not a racist place would be denying the experiences of so many people when the UK is arguably just as racist as the United States. Brexit happened in large part because of the fear stoked of Syrian refugees coming over and Britain becoming less "Britain". There is a popular comedian in the United States who's from London and she is a Jamaican British person. She did an interview recently with two other black females that were british talking about what Meghan Markle means to Black Britain's and they spoke about how people in the UK like to believe that they aren't as racist as the United States or other nations when their racism is just more covert And comes in the forms of many more dog whistles. www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/jun/11/the-daily-show-gina-yashere-in-england-id-still-be-the-token-black-face-on-mock-the-week Her name is Gina yashere. Here is a link to the interview. czcams.com/video/pAwZHb_IkLw/video.html The United States and the UK are definitely different and how we handle the terms and topics of race. There are objective facts though. To say that the UK is not as racist as other nations would Just be play into the narrative that Europe as a whole isn't as racist as the United States when that is very much not the case. There is very much A great deal of racism but just in a different form. it's just there haven't been as many peoples of different colors and especially black people in certain European countries but also if you live in such a populated city like London you may not be aware of the racism that may exist in the countryside's or if you surround yourself with progressive people that reside in your own City. And also nearly every person whether they realize it or not has unconscious biases based on the society we live in. no one is truly color blind and even when white people say that they are color blind many people of color don't like that either because it acts as if you don't see the struggles of a person of color and you don't want to discuss it. Also high-key didn't Britain invade the entire world pretty much so to say that racist ideas or attitudes aren't prevalent or a big issue in the UK would just be false
This is the same conversation that Halle Berry's Mom had with her. She told her that she was both but, that the world would react to and consider her a black woman.
In U.K. People who are Biracial are called mixed race. I feel it's important to acknowledge each side of the person. I see a lot of young mixed race kids with their mums typically white and to ignore the influence of that and the culture of the mums is weird.
OH Martha i see what you're saying but no one has time to hold your hand and make you feel better by giving credit to both your parents that's your issue not the worlds.you will be identified by your phenotype( the race you physically resemble) even if you don't identify with it yourself.people love labels so....
that depends on where you live.This school of thought is unique to America-the whole one drop rule is actually quite unique to America.everywhere else in the world we see the mixture hence terms such as mulato,mixed,biracial,colored.Those terms acknowledge that a child has parents that have different ethnicity's.The one drop rule is the reason why you have people that are born white masquerading as African Americas.Its a ridiculous concept at this stage in history a child should be able to acknowledge the diversity of their family despite what they look like because i know white or black parents look at that child as their child and not their race which is essentially a social construct.I encourage you to challenge the status quo of constantly pigeon holing people into a race or a gender.
fancyface2111 couldn't agree more. I guess one needs to be enlightened with a different world to see it different. For some Americans that's the only reality they know. So for them the concept of mixed race is confusing and new, America will get where the world is about this subject, maybe in 50 years time. But you're comment is defo on point!!!!!
I Loved This- He is one of my favorite actors- I felt the same warmness when I found out he was Earl's father- On the show "My Name Is Earl! He is just Sooo Real! On any given day -He could be anyone's father. Regardless of Race, Nationality or Whatever!
I, on the other hand, feel very uneasy with this scene. Being mixed myself, my parents always saw me as mixed. And most of the world around me sees it that way, I do occasionally get people referring to me as black witch is part of who I am and I accept. But I think the reality portrayed in this scene is a good representation of this reality in America, where the one drop rule was culturally absorbed by both races. Across the world definitions of race can vary even based on behavior rather than just skin colour. Funnily enough I wouldn't find weird a stranger calling me black but I would find it very weird my mother or father calling me black. The real question every mixed race person always ask is, what is being black? Is it just my skin tone and full stop? Or is it my behavior?
StumblinIsNotFallin you're British too or did I miss read it? But yes it does show the American thought and how they struggle more than other nations with the definition of race.
I've actually seen that first hand. My brother's daughter looks white, as you can imagine mixed race man married to a white woman. And we were both at the shopping center once when a random female approached to ask for information then ask who were the parents of such a beautiful child. I laughed and mocked my brother saying that she thought that way because my niece is too pretty to be his daughter. But the reality was, she didn't think I've of us could have been the parent. And the other way happens as well. I went to private school and I'll never forget one day that there was an emergency and all parents from my year were called to come to the school. My dad was traveling for work so mum come alone and all my school mates were asking me why was my nanny their, because all mother's there were white. So it goes both ways. Society will perceive things according to the bubble they've grown up, that's why I'd find it strange for my own parents to call me either black or white when more than anyone they know I have elements of both, now how society will see me is down to the eyes and experience of those who doesn't know me to think whatever they want to think... 🙂
+Leo Justiniano I wish there were more open discussions like these. I believe ever since the first settlers came to America everyone was labeled. Where do you belong? America can't move forward without an explanation for how a person looks or acts so that people can know where to put them. If you're brown skin, oh ok then you're Black, but what if you are Jamaican, East Indian, American Indian, and White? Such as my case. My sister married a white man and her kids look Mexican and Italian. One has blonde hair. America can't just look at a person and say, WOW you're beautiful with an awesome background and how awesome your parents are beautiful and love each other. Exactly what happened to you and your brother happens to my dark-skinned sister and her Mexican-Italian looking kids all the time. It's nonsense!
I think this is somewhat sad and I say this as a black woman myself that if I were mixed race I don't think I could handle been seen as just black when I have this other part of me and I wouldn't even be here without the other half of me! Obviously you should be proud to be black but I also feel like you should also be proud to be white!
sonaliegh never did I say anything about her not loving her dad all I'm saying is if you are mixed...you are MIXED! I don't think you can just identify yourself as one but sadly society does that for u
really guys it's not a question of denouncing the rest of your lineage - it's always a question of whether or not you're allowed to feel like you belong
Mmmmm one thing I really don't like the states is the fact that if you are mixed, you are classified BLACK... how about acknowledging them for what they are..MIXED. Is kinda wrong to denounce the other side that makes them who they are
We've discussed this on previous comments. That's more of an American thing. I mean you might get that across the world but in a much smaller scale or countries that have only one race. Countries that have a large amounts of diverse races like the USA normally acknowledges mixed race, but there is different due to the intrinsic idea of the one drop rule.
Its more than the one drop rule as it's relevant in 2017. Being in the UK, being mixed raced is an established title as well as the fastest growing groups, every other black man has a white woman. Fair enough, however the reality is alot of mixed ppl get to enjoy the facets of being black like the success, culture, opportunities when it's convenient. At least in America they check that mixed raced privelege, which I guess forces some ppl to choose. For example Drake is mixed but Hiphop is BLACK culture.
In other parts of the world, that would be the case. In the UK, where I live, that's a thing. Britain, for all the terrible things it did, doesn't cling to the past in the way the US does. In the UK, racism wasn't generally codified into the law. Classism was instead. Status and wealth played a much bigger factor than race or ethnicity. So long as you owned land, you could vote, regardless of your skin colour. In the US, its legislated racism - as opposed to just a general sense of bigotry that is "Normal" racism, meant that it was necessary to codify what was considered "Black" because there were real legal ramifications to it, such as who you could marry, where you could go to school, if you could serve on a jury, etc. Like in South Africa. Its like the Nazi Blood Purity charts. In other parts of the world, this wasn't the case, and even where it was, it was abolished much sooner. I remind you that it was only in the year 2000, that Alabama amended its states constitution to allow interracial marriage.
sonaliegh I don't know who had an issue with her identifying herself as black, or mixed or white... And I think it's the right of the person to identify with what they feel closely related to. I think what most of us were discussing here was her father saying that he always saw her as a black woman but once again we don't know if he was just describing her physically or culturally. You're right she sould be able to identify herself whatever way she feels like. But this video is a classic example of when you're put in a box that you might not see yourself as.
I remember as a little girl while out with my dad some one thought he kidnapped me?! And as a child he told me that his white father told him (what Beau told Bow...) you know who you are, the outside world will assume who they think you are. (he is bi racial blk/wht but looks hispanic, My mother is african american). Real unfortunate situations living in USA, but they help to make you stronger in the face of adversity. #love #legacy
avilik13 i was like hold up is that a tapa cloth lmao Also there was a reference in like the first episode that bow looked samoan, someone on the set repping us lol
Naturally when a mixed person says they are mixed people like to say you're just ashamed of your black side or your white side or your Hispanic side or whatever nationality you are. You are who you want to be it's not what people say you are people just like to blow things out of proportion and classify everything
she is biracial. not sure why people feel a need to label themselves either ethnicity. That goes back to jim crow and that 1 drop rule. whites back then viewed any trace of another rac3 in their blood as something tainted. You could not be apart of their community if you even had 1 drop of something else. that's why I wish all biracial people would be proud of who they are and view themselves as individuals and stop trying to fit in with this group or that group looking for acceptance. all you need at the end if the day is to know what kind of person you are and that you're beautiful.
It is funny the same way people feel about me and my parents. My Mom is asian but with Dark skin and my dad is blonde and whenever i am with my parents they always asked them if they where my nanny because i look rather italian/turkish. Its really weird growing up mixed but its also soooo awesome i grew up bilingual and with two passports so since im older and understand more im really glad the way i grew up and the way that i am :)
So my mom remarried when I was 2, and my parents adopted children throughout their marriage, giving my family a white & black parent, 2 white daughters & 3 black daughters (all with different skin tones)...we’ve had our share of stares through the years but honestly we’ve just learned to laugh through what we can. Like when my dad & some friends had to pick up my sister from the airport, but forgot to mention ‘which’ kid they were getting...there were some confused looks as she walked to the car & all you could do was laugh at their confusion 😆
It's crazy that for mixed kids no matter which parent or culture they prefer or even if they love their both sides completely equally, it's society essentially complete strangers that decide where they belong and what they're gonna be seen as
This is America. To my knowledge other countries let you identify as mixed which I think is good. I’m just regular black but I don’t think it’s right to make a person choose. But racism is so strong here, that’s just what they do.
Its true. No matter your nationality, the world and the people within it will always try to generalize, stereotype and classify you into this nice little bubbles to make it easier to judge you. Sadly I went through it as well. Dark skinned, but half black, quarter irish, quarter native american, but was seen as a "Black kid". Even worse, because my mother made sure I have a proper education, I know how to articulate myself accordingly and because of that, I always stood out. Too smart and proper to be black as stated by most black kids I knew. But too dark and liberal thinking to be a white kid by most white kids I knew. People are so quick to want acceptance yet will always be the first to judge you and make you feel worse for being different. Its the world we live in.
Netherwolf6100 so you mean to tell me if the world considers you has 3/4 human does that mean that you should be okay with it because society considers you 3/4 humans. By you're logic you shouldn't have problem with racism either , since if society considers you something you are that thing 😂🤣
The thing is, nobody gets to pick their own labels. It's the rest of society that tells us "what" we are. That said, they don't get to tell us WHO we are.
I'm mixed ( white and latina) tho unless I start speaking Spanish most ppl wouldn't peg me as Mexican. my dad once told me not to let others make me feel like i don't belong.....but at times that is exactly how I feel as if I don't belong....
My son's family is hispanic/black. They are mixed race. I am black. His completion is lighter than mine. I get looks all the time. I have actually had someone come up to me while I was holding him when he was a child and ask me if he was my baby.
Hispanic isnt a race...we are already mixed race what makes us hispanic is the spainsh descent...but we are also partially native and in some countries part african as well...you can be culturally mixed as a hispanic/black as they are two different cultures, but not racially mixed as again hispanics are already mixed adding more of one of the mixes doesnt make you any more mixed.
The issue has always been, to me, the idea that mixed race people must be broken down into percentages to "decide" what they are if they are ethnically ambiguous or else "decide" based on what ethnicity society has stereotyped their looks to. Bow is black. Bow is also white. Bow is also mixed race. All these things can coexist as solid, indisputable truths at once if that's what she wishes. The racist society (that has spent cemturies torturing and traumatizing people of colour and mixed race people in a million mew, cruel ways, large and small) she not be the ultimate determinator. Only Bow gets a say on herself.
I think they shouldn't have killed off Bow's dad. I find her family something very interesting that takes on a new level on talking about mixed race. We don't see that much on tv shows and movies. I wish Blackish should show more on Bow's family on her side. I think we don't get to see much of them.
I think Blackish keep focusing way too much on the dad, Andre. We see so much on his point of view on political, racism, family values and other things. And I want to see more on Rainbow's point of view on those stuff. I also want to see more on Bow's white side of her family. Like when see her family (both black and white side), Andre always bad mouth them and we only see her family like 60 seconds. Bow should just stood up and tell him to get use to her white side of her family. She should said to him "My family is your family too." Tracee Ellis Ross is really funny and I want to see her comedy in that show. Also Blackish need to show more on the kids and the grand parents.
Bae Lay But still Blackish needs to show more Bow's point of view on today society as a grown up. Not just always Andre. The show needs also to show every character side in today's society. I know that Bow has her spin off Mixish, but my previous comments were from early last year way before Mixish was happening. But still Blackish needs to show more of his family and friends because I think the show kinda loosing it touch and they need to level up on each character personalities of their pov.
Biracial isn't a race it's a state of being. And you're not the only one that thinks that. Literally nearly every person in the black community thinks that.
It's like my whole family!!! Biracial people in my family have been marrying other biracial people for Generations. sometimes I don't even know what to call my self.!!!
JW you look black and if I saw anywhere l would say "that black lady over there." The anti blackness in America among black people themselves is sick. You people are a lost cause. White people have really made you hate yourselves. Reading these comments makes me see it's worse than I thought, they ruined you. You all run to distance yourselves from your black side saying "you can't choose," when genetics already chose for you. If you look white like Rashida Jones that a different story. But most of you look like light skinned black people. Your culture is not your race. You can have a Russian parent and eat Borscht every night. But if you look like Will Smith or Alicia Keyes and go out into the world what people see are black people. You seem devastated to be called black which indicates your lifting up of whiteness. You people are weak and have been mentally colonized.
@@lf1496 if they were lifting up whiteness they'd call themselves white. They're not denying their blackness but acknowledging their whiteness. Why is that so hard to understand or accept? You are coming from a false narrative that assumes that "black" is a thing that overtakes all other aspects. White supremacists say that black blood/genes taint the white gene pool; black supremacists say that melanin is dominant 🙄. The assumption is that there is such a thing as "full black" or "full white", smh. Now *that's* white supremacy messing with with ppl's heads 👀
It’s crazy how reversed it can be too. I’m mixed and the world sees me as black. But my kids are white. I mean they are part black but skin color is white. We get stares and people assume they are not mine.
Same thing with my sister. Her oldest is black skinned but the youngest two are whiter than white. Blond hair, blue eyes, skin as white as snow. Everyone assumes the younger ones are adopted.
Yes it can be reversed, my daughters are basically 75% European and 25% African, and look more White, fair skin, youngest with blue eyes and curly brown hair and the oldest with green eyes like me, straight golden blonde hair. They are grown now, we have gotten a lot of questions over the years here in America.
It's actually weird to see this sort of thing because where I'm from no one sees mixed people as different if we see a Wight women with a colored child or something like that we wouldn't blink an eye we even welcome mixing between races because our families are so large you may be marrying a family member without knowing it.
For all of the people saying that biracial people need to appreciate both of their ethnicities, stop. We're not neglecting half of ourselves. But you saying we need to appreciate both sides of our heritage is just as exhausting and annoying as the people who try to put us in a box. We are going to choose what makes us comfortable bc it is our right and we shouldn't have to change because you can't get it through your heads.
My dad is white, mom black. We don't really think about appearances. But we are aware of discrimination when it happens. Once someone thought i wasn't his at the airport lol he was like "traveling with you is scary"
It’s scary trying to tell people how you identify as a mixed person because if I say I’m black some black folk will say no I’m not but if I say I’m mixed they’ll say I’m ashamed of my black side. So it’s a lose lose situation.
It must be a surreal feeling having your daughter look nothing like you and people treating her differently than they would treat you.
+David Castillo That's why this scene is so powerful. A white man in America with it's horrible past loves his Black wife and half black daughter. Bow (Tracee Ellis Rose) has an awesome relationship with her white jewish father in real life.
You get used to it.
Makes me wonder if my dad got funny looks with us. :(
I'm white and my sons are biracial. I love my babies, but I also know that they will catch crap I never will.
A friend of my daughter's has blond hair and blue eyes. Her children look a lot like their father who is South American.They have black hair, brown eyes and brown skin and are so beautiful. Stranger's have actually asked her what country did she adopt them from.
That guy wins Father of the Year.
Nealon Miller blue + yellow doesn't make blue or yellow it makes green
Nealon Miller to bad he dies😔
Rip 😔
How?
I like him here better than on Greenleaf
This was a great episode, it really shed light on the struggle of navigating a biracial identity in America. Really well done.
Stephanie Ikr. It’s great.
Yea. I hate how people in our community condemns them of they dont wanna chose a particular side. And with white people. If your not white (at least with friends)your not really apart of them either.
@SpankBuda most black people are accepting of any race, we don't disown our kids or try to have the other person rid of.
I agree. There are Black folks with two Black parents that look like the beautiful Traci Ross. As a race, we should never question a person on their race. Everyone has a story. Love Back-ish!
She can appreciate her background & be proud of who she is & her father supported her. That’s a healthy perspective. 💕
Beautiful scene, horrible digital work with the photograph though.
MalakianM2S
It looked like they copy-pasted Brad Pitt's face on that man's body 😂😂😂
MalakianM2S It was funny! Lol
@@evakimia3468, Beau nor his dad Lloyd Bridges were ever looking like chopped liver as young men. it just might have been a photoshopped print from his younger days. fyi, Beau Bridges oldest Son Casey, was adopted late 60s early 70s, is said to be of African-American decent. i remember reading that story years ago either in JET or Negro Digest magazine.
Eva Kimia HAHAHA
Even funny since the new spinoff is coming out. It’s weird the actress for the younger mom looks nothing like the older mom
I absolutely love this scene so real and so raw
i mean it's a little short sided saying "the whole world". in brazil a lot of people wouldnt really consider bow black. and people definetly wouldnt question a white parent with a dark child
Bar San This is because many of them deby their Blackness at all costs. But 90+ percent of enslaved Africans were taken to South America...
Bar San as much as I'd love to believe the majority are that accepting of their African ancestry, or others with that background, it's just not true. I've lived and traveled abit... I knew a Mexican/ El Salvedorian girl who told me of childhood folk songs about "Little Black Girl." Told me how it was celebrated and beautiful. I have a Puerto Rican friend who believes his Black grandfather and Black brother in law are one in the same as Puerto Ricans... and it's beautiful! I've been to Spain where I was briefed on the history of When the Arabs ran the country, and white Spaniards mistreat darker ones as a result of It! Hell, I've been passed over several times at the bar there, bc Im Black. And the African man sitting next to me told me that it happens all the time... The most educated ppl in the world (Africans travel for school and they excel), can't get proper service... I digress. But if you ask someone in any part of South America whose complexion hints at African ancestry, they'll tell you a different story about the racism experienced in their own country. Look at the Dominican Republic. Some are really bad when they come to North America bc they want to assimilate.
JRZBELLE the fact that you ignored that I said Brazilian, and then start mentioning other nationalities as if latinos are all the same lolololol. Brazil's history, like everyone else's is unique. look it up instead of bringing up anecdotal evidence. anecdotal evidence that doesnt even pertain to brazil, just other latin countries/and one european one smh
Bar San I didn't ignore anything... I'm telling you that you're oblivious to the truth. Just like the others in my example who take pride in Nationality, while glossing over the racism. Please, go read up... Brazil is NOT exempt! Read more than one source supporting my position.
I think a lot of people have a misconception about the scene as the dad denying her white side, however, he’s not doing that. He tells her she should be proud of that side but calls her black because the whole perception of race is something that strangers use not family. He’s just saying that in the U.S people won’t look at her for her culture but her appearance, therefore, she gets classified as black.
William McAlpine you know people would look at her like that because you have net every person in the united States to know that . Hun if they were perceived has black "colorism" wouldn't exist or at least wouldn't be the way it is
Society may view her as that, but that’s society. It doesn’t take away what she really is. Not everyone will see her as just black.
@@honestbabe8581 White people see black looking half white,half black biracials as black.They only show favoritism to light skin blacks when they want to divide the black population.
Exactly that. Everyone over here will not classify you as what you are. Happens to even the Asians. Filipinos look a lot like Spanish people. I literally am asked what Spanish country I’m from. And I’m like no. I’m from the Philippines. If you look someway you are someway.
Rouskey Carpel don’t act like black people don’t do that more. 
I wanna see more of bow and her dad
Mixed-ish
@@luislieuw3959yeah, but they both look different from the photos and flashback.
Can't wait to see the spin off Mixed-ish with Bow's family growing up
I like how he just happened to have the photo album! Like my daughters coming to visit time for the emotional pep talk!
"That's what you are, sweetie" - cut to me sobbing.
Beautiful scene. I also feel for the parents who are white with children that look more black and how they are condemned and judged for not knowing hot to properly raise them when they have all the love to give.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar & Beau Bridges play the same person
It makes so much sense!
Oooh Bow's dad is Beau
HAHAHA so True!
That's good/
Whichever side of your family makes the better food, that's what race you are?
Yes I'm in total agreement 😂😂😂
Damn so I guess black people hands down LOL
@@nikibronson133 Italian/Greek food.
😂😂😂
Can't decide 🤨Italian and Ethiopian food
I'm a white British guy. My gorgeous fiancé is Mixed Race - British/Jamaican. When my lady and I travel to America it really does feel back in time. I remember being in queue for a snack at Universal Studios in Florida.. we were joking about my fiancé's hair getting even bigger and curly in the Floridian humidity - she has big curly hair anyway but this time it went huuuuge (which I think is adorable anyway) .. nevertheless, these two African-Americans ladies politely interrupted us and asked where we were from.. we replied "oh, just outside of London, England".. they replied "ahhh.. makes sense now". We smiled and went "uuuuuhhh...." and then one of them quickly asked; "so you LIKE her natural hair!?" - we were a little shocked. Regardless I eased the awkwardness with a little humour but straight up told her yes... i adore her hair. Its really at times like this I appreciate living in my culture. Its by no means perfect but bloody hell... its so sad seeing how damaged America still is. Love + hope can fix a lot of things though
I digressed a little.. but i genuinly cringe when people don't say Mixed Race to a MIXED RACE person.
@@GeekyMedia the UK is still a pretty racist place. They aren't as blatant with their racism but it's still racist. In fact the UK is less diverse than United States. Also African American people as an ethnicity is a mixed ethnicity. The average African-American is only 65% African, on average 20 30% European and on average one to 2% Native American. All of that together makes the African-American ethnicity. So we aren't fully black but we have the idea that we have a monopoly on Blackness. I've been to the UK and have tons of friends and some family from the UK. The most of them I know identify with their black side more because they knew if they try to identify as white that would never fly. A lot of what America deals with comes from Europe and specifically the United Kingdom. These rules set up by people from the UK and that has affected our history ever since. It was the British the French in the Spanish that were obsessed with hierarchies and that raped slaves so...
@@nikibronson133 We can agree that racism is an evil. In history it's fair enough that you may not refer to yourself as mixed race - pretty much all of humanity is mixed race at some point. But if your Father is white, and your Mum is black - you're mixed race. As for the UK, yes it still has some racist people here but it's incomparable to the US. It's a completely different culture and history. Furthermore, in regards to old European history all of this is true, but nations and cultures change. The Vikings from Scandinavia did some disgusting things to many people's... But now Norway and Sweden and some of the most tolerable and progressive societies in the world. Just a little fact too, that although overall the US is a lot more diverse than the UK (understandably), London is the most diverse City in the world.. overtaking NYC and Toronto for that title. It's the only City in the world where 300+ languages are spoken daily.
@@GeekyMedia London is definitely a very diverse City but it is not the most diversity in the world. It's actually Toronto in Canada and it's referred to as the most diverse and Multicultural city in the world by numerous sources.
theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/articles/the-10-most-multicultural-cities-in-the-world/
www.oyster.com/articles/58015-11-diverse-melting-pot-cities-around-the-world/
If your parent is white and your father is black or any other different races, you are in the state of being mixed race but mixed race is not its own special category. Someone who is black in Japanese has nothing in common with someone who is black and white besides their Blackness. Another example would be someone who is Japanese and Swedish has nothing in common with someone who is Nigerian and Cherokee Indian. You cannot group all mixed race people together because they are not the same. That also denies them from being able to fully live in whatever their two ethnicities are by just writing them off as other. Mixed race / mix ethnicity people are not their own special category because they have language history or culture that is unique to themselves. Those are the things that define what an ethnicity is and race is mainly based off what you look like and someone whose biracial can come out looking completely white or come out looking darker than both of their parents because the diversity of the African gene pool. I work in the field of genealogy and mixed race people do not have a gene pool. Therefore they are not and ethnicity or their own special category or race. Being biracial or being mixed race is a state of being. Many people across many European countries including the UK and also in America typically Believe In The Narrative that there is such a thing called full black or that mixed race or biracial people are separate. A mixed person's race is whatever their parents are. They aren't neither, they are both. To say that they are neither but then turn around and say I'm mixed race which means you are both is in itself a contradiction. I don't think that people should deny any part of themselves but terminologies need to be corrected and clarify. Because if not, it can lead to a lot of division. Moreover black people who have a white parent are most commonly not seen as white because of their black parent so typically identify more with their black side in societal standpoint. In their own personal family relationships it's whatever that family has. There are many black children who will never know their white father so they don't even consider themselves White. Also many people in the United States and many people I've met in the United Kingdom because I've worked and lived there for some time know that white people do not accept them as white even though they are because they have this idea that they are mixed race and that's its own special category, which it isn't, and generally white people historically have never accepted someone as a white person unless they looked White or were close to 100% white as possible.
And since you are a white British man as you described, I am a African American person that lived in London for quite a bit and Meghan Markle, a black American Woman married Prince Harry, she was hounded by so much racism in the Press so bad that the Royals had to make a statement to essentially tell the press to knock it off. I have definitely experienced tons of racism in London where I lived and in the country side of England. To say the UK is not a racist place would be denying the experiences of so many people when the UK is arguably just as racist as the United States. Brexit happened in large part because of the fear stoked of Syrian refugees coming over and Britain becoming less "Britain". There is a popular comedian in the United States who's from London and she is a Jamaican British person. She did an interview recently with two other black females that were british talking about what Meghan Markle means to Black Britain's and they spoke about how people in the UK like to believe that they aren't as racist as the United States or other nations when their racism is just more covert And comes in the forms of many more dog whistles.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/jun/11/the-daily-show-gina-yashere-in-england-id-still-be-the-token-black-face-on-mock-the-week
Her name is Gina yashere.
Here is a link to the interview. czcams.com/video/pAwZHb_IkLw/video.html
The United States and the UK are definitely different and how we handle the terms and topics of race. There are objective facts though. To say that the UK is not as racist as other nations would Just be play into the narrative that Europe as a whole isn't as racist as the United States when that is very much not the case. There is very much A great deal of racism but just in a different form. it's just there haven't been as many peoples of different colors and especially black people in certain European countries but also if you live in such a populated city like London you may not be aware of the racism that may exist in the countryside's or if you surround yourself with progressive people that reside in your own City. And also nearly every person whether they realize it or not has unconscious biases based on the society we live in. no one is truly color blind and even when white people say that they are color blind many people of color don't like that either because it acts as if you don't see the struggles of a person of color and you don't want to discuss it.
Also high-key didn't Britain invade the entire world pretty much so to say that racist ideas or attitudes aren't prevalent or a big issue in the UK would just be false
Jamaican is not a race, it's a nationality.
This is the same conversation that Halle Berry's Mom had with her. She told her that she was both but, that the world would react to and consider her a black woman.
Good job abc I live this show and you’ve managed to split it into two other shows so cool people need to see and hear this
The writing on this show never ceases to amaze me.
In U.K. People who are Biracial are called mixed race.
I feel it's important to acknowledge each side of the person.
I see a lot of young mixed race kids with their mums typically white and to ignore the influence of that and the culture of the mums is weird.
OH Martha i see what you're saying but no one has time to hold your hand and make you feel better by giving credit to both your parents that's your issue not the worlds.you will be identified by your phenotype( the race you physically resemble) even if you don't identify with it yourself.people love labels so....
that depends on where you live.This school of thought is unique to America-the whole one drop rule is actually quite unique to America.everywhere else in the world we see the mixture hence terms such as mulato,mixed,biracial,colored.Those terms acknowledge that a child has parents that have different ethnicity's.The one drop rule is the reason why you have people that are born white masquerading as African Americas.Its a ridiculous concept at this stage in history a child should be able to acknowledge the diversity of their family despite what they look like because i know white or black parents look at that child as their child and not their race which is essentially a social construct.I encourage you to challenge the status quo of constantly pigeon holing people into a race or a gender.
agreed
I feel like it should be up to the person.
fancyface2111 couldn't agree more. I guess one needs to be enlightened with a different world to see it different. For some Americans that's the only reality they know. So for them the concept of mixed race is confusing and new, America will get where the world is about this subject, maybe in 50 years time. But you're comment is defo on point!!!!!
I Loved This- He is one of my favorite actors- I felt the same warmness when I found out he was Earl's father- On the show "My Name Is Earl! He is just Sooo Real! On any given day -He could be anyone's father. Regardless of Race, Nationality or Whatever!
I love this video
One dropping how cute and self loving
I, on the other hand, feel very uneasy with this scene. Being mixed myself, my parents always saw me as mixed. And most of the world around me sees it that way, I do occasionally get people referring to me as black witch is part of who I am and I accept. But I think the reality portrayed in this scene is a good representation of this reality in America, where the one drop rule was culturally absorbed by both races. Across the world definitions of race can vary even based on behavior rather than just skin colour. Funnily enough I wouldn't find weird a stranger calling me black but I would find it very weird my mother or father calling me black.
The real question every mixed race person always ask is, what is being black? Is it just my skin tone and full stop? Or is it my behavior?
StumblinIsNotFallin you're British too or did I miss read it? But yes it does show the American thought and how they struggle more than other nations with the definition of race.
StumblinIsNotFallin thankfully you haven't seen all situations, I have been questioned before if my twins were mine, because they're white passing
I've actually seen that first hand. My brother's daughter looks white, as you can imagine mixed race man married to a white woman. And we were both at the shopping center once when a random female approached to ask for information then ask who were the parents of such a beautiful child. I laughed and mocked my brother saying that she thought that way because my niece is too pretty to be his daughter. But the reality was, she didn't think I've of us could have been the parent. And the other way happens as well. I went to private school and I'll never forget one day that there was an emergency and all parents from my year were called to come to the school. My dad was traveling for work so mum come alone and all my school mates were asking me why was my nanny their, because all mother's there were white. So it goes both ways. Society will perceive things according to the bubble they've grown up, that's why I'd find it strange for my own parents to call me either black or white when more than anyone they know I have elements of both, now how society will see me is down to the eyes and experience of those who doesn't know me to think whatever they want to think... 🙂
+Leo Justiniano I wish there were more open discussions like these. I believe ever since the first settlers came to America everyone was labeled. Where do you belong? America can't move forward without an explanation for how a person looks or acts so that people can know where to put them. If you're brown skin, oh ok then you're Black, but what if you are Jamaican, East Indian, American Indian, and White? Such as my case. My sister married a white man and her kids look Mexican and Italian. One has blonde hair. America can't just look at a person and say, WOW you're beautiful with an awesome background and how awesome your parents are beautiful and love each other. Exactly what happened to you and your brother happens to my dark-skinned sister and her Mexican-Italian looking kids all the time. It's nonsense!
Does the world sees you the way you see yourself?
I like Bows Dads motorhome. I love lots of stuff from the 1970s.
My heart is happy :)
This scene makes me emotional
Love Beau Bridges!
I pull up this video at the exact same time I’m watching the rerun when Bow calls Dre and tells him her father died.
Great scene.
Very good 👏👏👏
I think this is somewhat sad and I say this as a black woman myself that if I were mixed race I don't think I could handle been seen as just black when I have this other part of me and I wouldn't even be here without the other half of me! Obviously you should be proud to be black but I also feel like you should also be proud to be white!
sonaliegh never did I say anything about her not loving her dad all I'm saying is if you are mixed...you are MIXED! I don't think you can just identify yourself as one but sadly society does that for u
Well you need to take that up with the next white people meeting then... Cuz I don't think the Klu Klux Klan members would be too happy about that
really guys it's not a question of denouncing the rest of your lineage - it's always a question of whether or not you're allowed to feel like you belong
This hits harder after watching mixed-ish
Mmmmm one thing I really don't like the states is the fact that if you are mixed, you are classified BLACK... how about acknowledging them for what they are..MIXED. Is kinda wrong to denounce the other side that makes them who they are
We've discussed this on previous comments. That's more of an American thing. I mean you might get that across the world but in a much smaller scale or countries that have only one race. Countries that have a large amounts of diverse races like the USA normally acknowledges mixed race, but there is different due to the intrinsic idea of the one drop rule.
Its more than the one drop rule as it's relevant in 2017. Being in the UK, being mixed raced is an established title as well as the fastest growing groups, every other black man has a white woman. Fair enough, however the reality is alot of mixed ppl get to enjoy the facets of being black like the success, culture, opportunities when it's convenient. At least in America they check that mixed raced privelege, which I guess forces some ppl to choose. For example Drake is mixed but Hiphop is BLACK culture.
In other parts of the world, that would be the case. In the UK, where I live, that's a thing. Britain, for all the terrible things it did, doesn't cling to the past in the way the US does. In the UK, racism wasn't generally codified into the law. Classism was instead. Status and wealth played a much bigger factor than race or ethnicity. So long as you owned land, you could vote, regardless of your skin colour.
In the US, its legislated racism - as opposed to just a general sense of bigotry that is "Normal" racism, meant that it was necessary to codify what was considered "Black" because there were real legal ramifications to it, such as who you could marry, where you could go to school, if you could serve on a jury, etc. Like in South Africa.
Its like the Nazi Blood Purity charts.
In other parts of the world, this wasn't the case, and even where it was, it was abolished much sooner. I remind you that it was only in the year 2000, that Alabama amended its states constitution to allow interracial marriage.
sonaliegh I don't know who had an issue with her identifying herself as black, or mixed or white... And I think it's the right of the person to identify with what they feel closely related to. I think what most of us were discussing here was her father saying that he always saw her as a black woman but once again we don't know if he was just describing her physically or culturally. You're right she sould be able to identify herself whatever way she feels like. But this video is a classic example of when you're put in a box that you might not see yourself as.
True. I'm white, spanish and black. Only two of those are acknowledged, guess which ones.
Very good
Makes me wanna cry thats almost taken from My life om half egyptian mlm Black and dad White as snow and almost 20 years older than My mother
Came back here after the Mixed•ish trailer!
Beau Bridges was so great in this role.
What episode was this?
@@lauradonaldson3269season 3 episode 8
I love that rainbow is leaning back on a Fijian tapa cloth aka Masi.
I remember as a little girl while out with my dad some one thought he kidnapped me?! And as a child he told me that his white father told him (what Beau told Bow...) you know who you are, the outside world will assume who they think you are. (he is bi racial blk/wht but looks hispanic, My mother is african american). Real unfortunate situations living in USA, but they help to make you stronger in the face of adversity. #love #legacy
Is there a Pacific Islander who works on the show or something because I'm wondering where they got that ie lavalava elei draped over Bow's chair lol
avilik13 i was like hold up is that a tapa cloth lmao Also there was a reference in like the first episode that bow looked samoan, someone on the set repping us lol
Jojo haha saw that scene. Damn Bow stealing our scholarships.
avilik13 the patterns on that look more Fijian
look up Zoey's "White Guilt" College Essay vid, she's part samoan
MLTT it does hence why I didn't specify and said Pacific Islander.
Naturally when a mixed person says they are mixed people like to say you're just ashamed of your black side or your white side or your Hispanic side or whatever nationality you are. You are who you want to be it's not what people say you are people just like to blow things out of proportion and classify everything
@MyTribe T.V All Out Attack didn't say it was nationality and race are different and I used Hispanic as a descriptor
i need to call my mom now. i had no idea. wow.
When the girl i once loved Marissa broke my heart and dream. I told my Pop Pop
After Mixed-ish 👏🏽
🙏✌️bows dad
Wonder if this reflection of a real conversation she had with her real dad?
she is biracial. not sure why people feel a need to label themselves either ethnicity.
That goes back to jim crow and that 1 drop rule. whites back then viewed any trace of another rac3 in their blood as something tainted. You could not be apart of their community if you even had 1 drop of something else.
that's why I wish all biracial people would be proud of who they are and view themselves as individuals and stop trying to fit in with this group or that group looking for acceptance. all you need at the end if the day is to know what kind of person you are and that you're beautiful.
It is funny the same way people feel about me and my parents. My Mom is asian but with Dark skin and my dad is blonde and whenever i am with my parents they always asked them if they where my nanny because i look rather italian/turkish. Its really weird growing up mixed but its also soooo awesome i grew up bilingual and with two passports so since im older and understand more im really glad the way i grew up and the way that i am :)
Wow!!!! 😃
Maybe her dad should go back his day job as the commander of stargate command
Gasp! Beau Bridges is Bow's dad!
So my mom remarried when I was 2, and my parents adopted children throughout their marriage, giving my family a white & black parent, 2 white daughters & 3 black daughters (all with different skin tones)...we’ve had our share of stares through the years but honestly we’ve just learned to laugh through what we can. Like when my dad & some friends had to pick up my sister from the airport, but forgot to mention ‘which’ kid they were getting...there were some confused looks as she walked to the car & all you could do was laugh at their confusion 😆
It's crazy that for mixed kids no matter which parent or culture they prefer or even if they love their both sides completely equally, it's society essentially complete strangers that decide where they belong and what they're gonna be seen as
claps!
Why do people have to judge by how we look on the outside?😖
This is America. To my knowledge other countries let you identify as mixed which I think is good. I’m just regular black but I don’t think it’s right to make a person choose. But racism is so strong here, that’s just what they do.
Its true. No matter your nationality, the world and the people within it will always try to generalize, stereotype and classify you into this nice little bubbles to make it easier to judge you. Sadly I went through it as well. Dark skinned, but half black, quarter irish, quarter native american, but was seen as a "Black kid". Even worse, because my mother made sure I have a proper education, I know how to articulate myself accordingly and because of that, I always stood out. Too smart and proper to be black as stated by most black kids I knew. But too dark and liberal thinking to be a white kid by most white kids I knew. People are so quick to want acceptance yet will always be the first to judge you and make you feel worse for being different. Its the world we live in.
Netherwolf6100 so you mean to tell me if the world considers you has 3/4 human does that mean that you should be okay with it because society considers you 3/4 humans. By you're logic you shouldn't have problem with racism either , since if society considers you something you are that thing 😂🤣
Netherwolf6100 exactly.
WOW
"Before you had the chance to decide for yourself, the world already made that choice for you."
Most powerful line.
Can any one tell me what season and episode is they have the funeral for bo ‘s dad
Watching this episode again, enhance my understanding of the things biracial children goes through.
What episode is this?
@@ktbigdog4718 I am sorry I don't remember.
Since they’re recasting the dad on Mixed-ish,, they should cast one of Beau’s sons, kind of like how “Young Sheldon” cast Laurie Metcalf’s daughter.
The thing is, nobody gets to pick their own labels. It's the rest of society that tells us "what" we are. That said, they don't get to tell us WHO we are.
Beau Bridges
Rip Rainbows dad😓
I'm mixed ( white and latina) tho unless I start speaking Spanish most ppl wouldn't peg me as Mexican. my dad once told me not to let others make me feel like i don't belong.....but at times that is exactly how I feel as if I don't belong....
Funny how Beau Bridges played both Rainbow's and Earl Hickey' dad.
damn thumbnail looked like Henry Winkler
My son's family is hispanic/black. They are mixed race. I am black. His completion is lighter than mine. I get looks all the time. I have actually had someone come up to me while I was holding him when he was a child and ask me if he was my baby.
Hispanic isnt a race...we are already mixed race what makes us hispanic is the spainsh descent...but we are also partially native and in some countries part african as well...you can be culturally mixed as a hispanic/black as they are two different cultures, but not racially mixed as again hispanics are already mixed adding more of one of the mixes doesnt make you any more mixed.
Anyone know what episode this is?
What episode yall?
The issue has always been, to me, the idea that mixed race people must be broken down into percentages to "decide" what they are if they are ethnically ambiguous or else "decide" based on what ethnicity society has stereotyped their looks to.
Bow is black. Bow is also white. Bow is also mixed race. All these things can coexist as solid, indisputable truths at once if that's what she wishes.
The racist society (that has spent cemturies torturing and traumatizing people of colour and mixed race people in a million mew, cruel ways, large and small) she not be the ultimate determinator. Only Bow gets a say on herself.
damn
It just hit me. That's Jeff bridges brother
That's Earl's dad!
I think they shouldn't have killed off Bow's dad. I find her family something very interesting that takes on a new level on talking about mixed race. We don't see that much on tv shows and movies. I wish Blackish should show more on Bow's family on her side. I think we don't get to see much of them.
I agree with you 100%the show is called Blackish they should show her white family to
I think Blackish keep focusing way too much on the dad, Andre. We see so much on his point of view on political, racism, family values and other things. And I want to see more on Rainbow's point of view on those stuff. I also want to see more on Bow's white side of her family. Like when see her family (both black and white side), Andre always bad mouth them and we only see her family like 60 seconds. Bow should just stood up and tell him to get use to her white side of her family. She should said to him "My family is your family too." Tracee Ellis Ross is really funny and I want to see her comedy in that show. Also Blackish need to show more on the kids and the grand parents.
Bae Lay But still Blackish needs to show more Bow's point of view on today society as a grown up. Not just always Andre. The show needs also to show every character side in today's society. I know that Bow has her spin off Mixish, but my previous comments were from early last year way before Mixish was happening. But still Blackish needs to show more of his family and friends because I think the show kinda loosing it touch and they need to level up on each character personalities of their pov.
Unless you are Mariah Carey "light" with the features and all I don't care how light you are, the world will ALWAYS see a black person.
I'm not all that concerned whatever people "identify" with. I'm not focused on differences but similarities.
She is Mulata.
@James Cannon u think they look black because that's how white supremacy programmed Ur mind to think
Eli Schrugs???
Interesting, because in Latin America, at least in Venezuela she will be "Morena" (Mixed) a whole new race for us.
Exactly you may see light skinned, brown skinned and dark skinned but all they see is black.
I might be the only one who thinks this but I think u can be black and biracial at the same time.
Biracial isn't a race it's a state of being. And you're not the only one that thinks that. Literally nearly every person in the black community thinks that.
I'm mixed and look just like my parents.
It's like my whole family!!! Biracial people in my family have been marrying other biracial people for Generations.
sometimes I don't even know what to call my self.!!!
JW you look black and if I saw anywhere l would say "that black lady over there." The anti blackness in America among black people themselves is sick. You people are a lost cause. White people have really made you hate yourselves. Reading these comments makes me see it's worse than I thought, they ruined you. You all run to distance yourselves from your black side saying "you can't choose," when genetics already chose for you. If you look white like Rashida Jones that a different story. But most of you look like light skinned black people. Your culture is not your race. You can have a Russian parent and eat Borscht every night. But if you look like Will Smith or Alicia Keyes and go out into the world what people see are black people. You seem devastated to be called black which indicates your lifting up of whiteness. You people are weak and have been mentally colonized.
@@lf1496 o just stfu she is mixed race period
@@lf1496 if they were lifting up whiteness they'd call themselves white. They're not denying their blackness but acknowledging their whiteness. Why is that so hard to understand or accept? You are coming from a false narrative that assumes that "black" is a thing that overtakes all other aspects. White supremacists say that black blood/genes taint the white gene pool; black supremacists say that melanin is dominant 🙄. The assumption is that there is such a thing as "full black" or "full white", smh. Now *that's* white supremacy messing with with ppl's heads 👀
Somebody tell Bob Marley that I found her sister.
It’s crazy how reversed it can be too. I’m mixed and the world sees me as black. But my kids are white. I mean they are part black but skin color is white. We get stares and people assume they are not mine.
Same thing with my sister. Her oldest is black skinned but the youngest two are whiter than white. Blond hair, blue eyes, skin as white as snow. Everyone assumes the younger ones are adopted.
Yes it can be reversed, my daughters are basically 75% European and 25% African, and look more White, fair skin, youngest with blue eyes and curly brown hair and the oldest with green eyes like me, straight golden blonde hair. They are grown now, we have gotten a lot of questions over the years here in America.
So Bow’s Dad Real Name is Beau!?!
Got it....
It's actually weird to see this sort of thing because where I'm from no one sees mixed people as different if we see a Wight women with a colored child or something like that we wouldn't blink an eye we even welcome mixing between races because our families are so large you may be marrying a family member without knowing it.
For all of the people saying that biracial people need to appreciate both of their ethnicities, stop. We're not neglecting half of ourselves. But you saying we need to appreciate both sides of our heritage is just as exhausting and annoying as the people who try to put us in a box. We are going to choose what makes us comfortable bc it is our right and we shouldn't have to change because you can't get it through your heads.
Eli Scruggs ?
To think he used to look like Mark Paul Gosslar.
Now it doesn’t really make sense because of the new tv show
My dad is white, mom black. We don't really think about appearances. But we are aware of discrimination when it happens. Once someone thought i wasn't his at the airport lol he was like "traveling with you is scary"
l Esposito aha same thing happened to me. I got pulled aside by this random women to ask if i knew the man i was travelling with.
You are what your father is the woman nurtures the seed. It doesnt matter what soil you plant an apple seed in it will grow to be an apple tree.
Humans are not plants it takes half the fathers chromosomes and half ur mother to make a person.
Don’t have to be either one you’re mixed.
Once you go black you never go back
It’s scary trying to tell people how you identify as a mixed person because if I say I’m black some black folk will say no I’m not but if I say I’m mixed they’ll say I’m ashamed of my black side. So it’s a lose lose situation.
Yea , idk why black people feel the need to push that EVERYONE.
Get over it.
Andre Suston no
@@antagonisticmedusa yes
@@sharpaycutie2 They don't.
So what happened to Bow's mom?
Is this what Zack Morris is going to look like 30 years from now?
Lisa H aha i can kinda see it ya know
greatest comment ever. i came to see if anyone would say something
This guy looks like the guy from mixedish
He is the dad