I notice that at sometimes on the Rundown that alot of people categorize on whose black.  Especially Hispanic backgrounds.  It seems like that if you have bage skin that you are either light skinned or latino but if you are latino youre not black but half. So I wonder at times that to be black do I have to be a certain shade of a darkness. My mother and her side of the family had to deal of being a lighter color through their whole lives because of my grandma's cherokee background.  My Mom's 9 brothers and sisters were either dark or light because my Granma's is Lightskinned and my Grandpa was a darkman so the nine kids were all mismatch color.  My point is that why do we choose whose is black or not because of certain distinction. When mean distinction meaning that if someone has a small nose, fair smooth lips, slanted eyes, with caramel skin ; she or he can't be really black, But tell what the hell do you have to do to be really black. " But the light skinned dude hair is not nappy or that darked skinned girl hair is naturally long with light brown eyes they can't be fully black, can they?" That is some bullsyt. What if one of the same person I just describe had a brother or sister from the same mother or daddy that is a black man  or black women that had wooly hair with some round lips. "Yeah that's black" bullshyt.

We just following the  Willie Lynch Plan or  that person has Willie Lynch Syndrome. 

If you have never heard of this it was about a man who came to America who was a slave owner from the West Indies.  He came to Virginia to teach the slave owners to make the slaves obedient to their masters. Like one of the examples were

"Pit the OLD black male vs. the YOUNG black male, and the YOUNG black male against the OLD black male"

"You must use the FEMALE vs. the MALE, and the MALE vs. the FEMALE."

and Last "You must use the DARK skin slaves vs. the LIGHT skin slaves, and the LIGHT skin slaves vs. the DARK skin slaves."

Or is it because of the slavery in America. Is that's really black? See the problem is the average blackperson knows slavery from TV but not from books.  They were slavery in other countries like Brazil , Puerto Rico, and etc.  They were slavery in England so are they black or not really because they have a different accent. Lot of south americans are Black because of Slavery but if they came to america speaking   portuguese would he be black or would you call him something like Half Black Half Brazillian. In Puerto Rico they were African settlers who were there before slavery in the 1500's. That's why alot of them are dark, because they're BLACK.

Just Tell me this Have you ever thought about some of the Africans who judge on us african descendants  . To a good amount of them we are the lost children of Africa or Mutts.

WE ARE AKATA. In africa that means "AMERICAN COTTON PICKERS".  

So What I am trying to say is who are we to catorgorize on who is really black becasue of the lighter skin tone, non african appearances or background. If its like that so tell me this? Why did you vote for Barack Obama. It isn't because He's Black. I mean he's High Yellow. Lived with his White Family most his lives and he talks proper.  He's not really Black, is he? If anything he is more African than most the Blacks in America.  There isn't any cotton Picker in his blood.

So All I'm saying is that Black is black. and we should accept our brother and sisters who is or were black with any African descent or the common African features.  Lets be proud and stand up. YES WE DID.

-Hanmahayes

proud black man with Cherokee, and African descent.