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Berry's black sure wish
Apr 20, 2006, 11:52 GMT
Halle Berry. © Scott Alan / Photorazzi
Halle Berry used to pray she would be 'cured' of being black.
The stunning actress dreamed of finding a pill to turn her skin white when she was a child, according to Britain's The Sun newspaper.
The 39-year-old - who was the first black woman to win an Oscar, for her performance in 'Monster's Ball' - is quoted as saying: 'Being a black woman I've struggled with that my whole life - feeling that if I changed, my life would be better.' Meanwhile, the 'X-Men' star has also confessed she is insecure about her stunning looks - despite being one of the most beautiful women in the world. The actress claims the fact she is frequently included on lists of the sexiest actresses doesn't changed her mind about her appearance. She said: 'Although such things do wonders for my confidence, I'm never able to take them seriously. 'If they really knew me, they'd realise that I'm far from secure about my looks.'Copyright 2006 BANG Media International
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It's such a same she's just not proud of who she is...
Halle Berry is a cool individual and yes stunningly beautiful. But she's like many bi-racial women. Halle suffers from identity crisis, low self-esteem and lacked acceptance from African-Americans and White society.
Remember Mariah Carey's Bi-racial 'Breakdown' on The Oprah Winfrey show a few years back - before her REAL breakdown a few months later?
Mariah has always dealt with looking 'white' & proving herself to black people.
Halle has always dealt with looking 'black' & proving herself to white people.
In other words, this world of ours treats you by how you look.
So if you look more African that's the card you're dealt & vice-versa.
Halle has a white mother & a black father who like many wasn't in her life. It would have probably helped the girl out if dear old Daddy took part in her childhood.
Lets face it for the millions of brown & black people out there WE are proud of who we are. There is nothing more beautiful on this planet than brown & black.......so many different exotic shades, full lips & high-cheek bones etc....there's nothing better. But this ole world is run by white people who reminds us on a daily basis that their standard of pale skin is the epitome of beauty. Puleez. Yes I know it ain't true but that's what's pounded into us. So when I was younger I wished for THAT magic pill too. Really I was just looking for peace from prejudice! Now I'm proud & walk tall for who I am. Keep Goin Halle. We've all been there at one time or another.
Hmmm man what color does to people in this society. Mixed is mixed.......black is black. It annoys me to hear your mom is blank and your dad is black or your mom is black and you dad is blank but you still black NO YOU ARE NOT. You are always going to be and are 50% of your mother and 50% of your father. Racism is an ugly thing that sadly Halle had to experience....and I've never heard mixed or bi-racial black used so interchangeably........it's not the same thing.
THE HELL WITH HELLE BARRY SHE IS ALRIGHT NOT ALL THAT SO LETS KEEP IT MOVIN AND.... I ALWAYS KNEW SHE WAS A FAKE BLACK B**** ANYWAY .MONSTER BALL'S WHORE YOU DESERVE THAT GRAMMY B****.
Why being a coloured-person is such an issue now? Why being bi-racial still be the issue till now? How hard that can be? Complaining about how hard being a colored person is just wont solve any problems. In fact it just increase your tension and put you in misery.
What a cliche. I am an Asian from the South East part..sometimes when I travelled abroad to Europe for example, people treated me differently because of my features and color. However, did I care...certainly not! Do I ever complain..no! Do I feel miserable if a woman from different race do not want to seat beside me in the bus? Please herself. Do I understand why people act that way...YES! I mean 'disrimination and inequality' happen everywhere. Just because one person/someone else from other races treated other colored people like me differently..doesnt mean that person is racist. They are the one who are insecure, prejudice and ignorant. But life goes on. In fact the hardship and challenge makes me a better person. I dont scared being called names, I wont feel bad for a week if nobody wants to talk to me. They the one who has problems..not me!
For example, inequality happens within white community or even in my own race itself. My boss have granted a promotion to my co-worker who is an asian too when I feel like I am more derserving and work hard for my company. Do I call it as a disrimination and racist? Above all, people use the word disrimination as a tool for escape-ism. Moreover, people tend to use it against each other freely. No matter what color you born to this world, you still going to face this issue everyday. Deal with it. Why complain. I have doubts about Halle Berry intention for this matter. What's the point? Do I have a sympathy for people like that especially as beautiful and successful as her. NOT! The truth is..learn to accept who you are, be proud, stop complaining and prove to yourself that you have surviving skills in this volatile world. You have to respect yourself 1st not a layman on the street.(Sigh)
Hummmm...... Let's see, I never read anything about Halle wanting to be white until she started dating her white boyfriend. What's that about????
It's easy to criticize but YOU haven't experienced her life. Most of the problems if not all that we incounter as an adult are rooted from our childhood experiences. Dispite the reassurance and the love that parents gives their child, society and discrimination can leave a hell of impression. A basic human need is to feel accepted not just by your family, but by your peers/society. Dispite her obvious outer beauty, she is still scarred with the insecurities of not being accepted or 'good enough' from her childhood.....I know two stop-the-traffic, gorgeous, dark-skinned black women who still struggle with the 'dark-skinned' insecurities because the childhood ridicule and to this day, they question their beauty, migrate to light skinned men with the idea that they don't want to have dark-skinned children (don''t want their child to go thru what they went thru), etc.......it's boils down to the same problem with Halle and the race acceptance issues.
Halle, you are in my prayers! J
I dont blame her for dating a good looking white dude, come lets face it so far he is the best looking guy she ever dated, besides her children will definetely come out really beautiful and posible white, if you are mixed doenst make any sense getting married with some one dark, then your children come out dark and black, what black girl would not want to date halle's boyfriend? if I were black i would definetely be with a latino or white man, i would want my children to be white or very light, not dark.
what kind of shit is that...talking about you dont won't dark babies fuck you and your mother bitch. BLACK IS WONDERFUL.
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Hey snap out of it!!Apr 20th, 2006 - 16:00:43
You people are not the only bi-racial people around, if your parent did a good job of raising their children, they would not have such a hard time being biracial, its no biggie. Know who you are first, and firstly you are black accept that then you are half way there, irregardles if your Mum white, you are black, if your dada white you are black, other children are just jealous, integrate yourself with different friends i.e. white, black, spanish, indian, asian, just don't have one set of friends, thats trouble in the making because 100% to betsy they are jealous of your attributes.
So just snap and stop harping about you being different, the world has change and changing their are more mixed children in it.
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