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It seems the custody battle of Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry‘s daughter is just going to keep getting uglier. It seems that the actress has now spoken out that she considers her daughter to be black. Berry is both on the cover of the new issue of Alma and Ebony this month, where she reveals much in the latter.
This comes after the allegation that Aubry once used a racial slur against the actress…
In the new issue of Ebony, Berry discusses her daughter:
Berry, 44, says: “I feel like she’s black. I’m black and I’m her mother and I believe in the one-drop theory.”
When asked to define her daughter’s race, Berry – who has both white and African-American heritage – tells the magazine: “What I think is that that’s something she’s going to have to decide. I’m not going to put a label on it. I had to decide for myself and that’s what she’s going to have to decide – how she identifies herself in the world. And I think, largely, that will be based on how the world identifies her. That’s how I identified myself. But I feel like she’s black.”
She also spoke about interracial relationships, adding, “Well, first thing I want to say is that I’m very connected to my community and I want black people to know that I haven’t abandoned them because I’ve had a child with a man outside of my race and I’m dating someone now outside of my race who is Spanish and French. I have never been more clear about who I am as a black woman. The people I have dated sort of hold up a mirror to me and help me realize more of who I really am.”
I’m surprised that she even felt she had to explain her beliefs or justify who she dates. She doesn’t. Who cares? That’s her business, not anybody else.
her kid is a quarter black, 3 quarters white; maybe her daughter will feel like she’s more of a white person when she grows up, she should let her decide how she percieves herself; btw why is it cool for her to say her daughter is black, but it’s racist for the baby’s father to say he sees his daughter as white? I don’t get it..
If you read the quote she states that identity is something Nahla will have to decide for herself but she personally feels her daughter is black.
I agree with you Jean. Since her daughter is 3/4 white, I believe that she should embrace both heritages. Also, she is half Canadian and half American. Let her live her life and enjoy the best of all worlds, not just one because she has a drop of black in her. If a white person ever said these things things about their half black child, it would be considered racist. I am black and I think here in America people are more hung up on skin color…Hell, we are ALL AMERICANS! Let’s just say the baby is half Canadian and half American and leave it at that. Her skin color doesn’t make a difference.
This issue brings to light the most fundamental problem with ‘racial identity’ in the United States. Basically, people treat it as if its something that can be shaped. Halle talks about ‘feeling’ and ‘believing,’ but the issue is that race or ethnicity simply is, it doesn’t depend on what people feel or believe in. For this reason, the issue with multiracial people is not whether they ‘feel’ or ‘believe’ to be one race or another; their ‘race’ was decided on the day they were conceived and is guarded in their DNA, regardless what they or anyone else ‘feels,’ ‘believes,’ or thinks about this. The real issue here is whether she (and all multiracial people) have enough love, respect and dignity to accept themselves for what they truly are or to continue living in denial. Denying one part of your ancestry is a total disgrace. I’m multiracial and perfectly content with myself.
Also, the One-Drop-Rule (ODR) is the most stupid concept to have ever been invented. Back in slavery/segregation days, blacks and biracial people were considered 3/5th human. Why don’t I hear anyone (black or otherwise) claiming that African Americans are only 3/5th humans because ‘back in slavery time’ that how it was? So why do people insist on the stupid ODR, using the ‘back in slavery’ nonsense as its defense? The ODR is stupidity at its finest.