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Originally Posted by Acajack
I am admittedly a few steps removed from U.S. racial politics and considerations, but I always thought Mariah Carey was white. (Simply based on what she looks like.)
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Her much older first husband was her producer and also white. It was his marketing of her and in the beginning she never really would give a direct answer to what her racial makeup is. Although black folks know their own and wasn’t fooled by the avoidance to say she was black. Once she divorced her first husband, she basically started claiming her blackness.
I’m bi-racial, mother is black, and father is Mexican-American. I don’t look black at all, but I identify as black and that’s how I see myself. The weird thing is I forgot sometimes how I look to others because of how I feel inside. Many times people see my wife and I together and think we are a interracial couple.
People see me and mistake me for Mexican, White American, Armenian, Greek, in New York they tell me I look Puerto Rican, or Italian. Usually the only people who get it right is Black folks. As I said before, we generally pick up on it right away. Sometimes it can be something very subtle as the way we carry ourselves, but other things I can’t explain. Example I had a black lady come up to me in a train station in Fresno CA, and asked me if she could ask a personal question, and wanted to know if I was Black. I was sitting down by myself quietly and I guess she picked up some sort of vibe.