THIS IS JUST A GENERAL QUESTION THAT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW DIFFERENT PEOPLE'S ANSWER ON: DO U CONSIDER YOURSELF AFRICAN AMERICAN? OR BLACK AMERICAN? I'LL BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT...

IF U COULD BE STRANDED ON AN ISLAND WITH 5 (AND ONLY 5) PEOPLE FROM TRD WHO WOULD IT BE AND WHY? AND NO U GUYS WOULD NEVER BE RESCUED AND THERE WILL BE FOOD FOR LIFE, CHOOSE WISELY :)

SO I GUESS ITS ABOUT TIME I COME CLEAN WITH EVERYONE ON TRD ESPECIALLY THE PEOPLE IN THE CHATROOM, LET ME FIRST SAY IN ADVANCE THAT IM SORRY FOR BASICALLY LIEING...SO HERE'S THE THE TRUTH, IM NOT 20 YEARS OLD, IM NOT EVEN 19 FOR THAT MATTER, I AM ACTUALLY 18 YEARS OLD, YEA I KNO. UR PROBABLY WONDERING "WHY WOULD SHE LIE ABOUT HER AGE?" AND TO BE COMPLETELY HONEST, I DONT KNO, ITS NOT LIKE I WAS TRYING TO BE OLDER OR SOMEONE THAT I WASNT, THIS WAS JUST ALL FUN FOR ME AND I DIDNT THINK MY AGE REALLY MATTERED THAT MUCH BECAUSE I DIDNT COME ON HERE EXPECTING TO HAVE SOME SORT OF ROMANTIC ENTANGLEMENT WITH SOMEONE, SO IT WAS JUST LIKE WHATEVER TO ME... I KNO THAT ALOT OF PPL MAY BE UPSET AT ME FOR THIS, AND ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT IM SORRY FOR LIEING, HOPEFULLY U GUYS CAN FORGIVE ME BUT IF U WONT BE ABLE TO THATS UNDERSTANDABLE

I WAS JUST WONDERING, WHY DO AFRICAN AMERICANS SO FREQUENTLY SEPARATE THEMSELVES INTO DIFFERENT CATEGORIES BASED ON THE COLOR OF THE SKIN, INSTEAD OF ALL OF US BEING ONE? IS IT BECAUSE WE WERE RAISED THAT WAY? IS IT BECAUSE OF WHAT WE SO FREQUENTLY SEE IN THE MEDIA? WHY IS IT THAT PPL ARE HOLDING DARK SKIN VS. RED BONE AFFAIRS? http://www.mediatakeo ut.com/2009/34247-hot_mess_atlanta_promoters_throw_the_first_annual_dark_sk in_vs_redbone_affair.html 

IT JUST SADDENS ME TO SEE THAT THIS IS STILL HAPPENING WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY, AND I THOUGHT WE HAD COME SUCH A LONG WAY :(

SO PPL JUST GIVE ME YOUR OPINIONS ON WHY YOU THINK THAT THIS IS THE WAY WE VIEW EACHOTHER, NOT AS ONE BUT AS DIFFERENT GROUPS, DO U THINK THIS WILL CHANGE?