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Golden State Warriors basketball player Steph Curry is a household name (only bested by his ridiculously cute daughter, Riley) but apparently for some reason (we’re assuming it’s the color of his skin), folks have been mislabeling Curry and his family as bi-racial.
Back in 2013 Curry’s sister, Sydel Curry, set the record straight in a couple tweets.
When another Twitter user inquired what the family was “mixed with”, Curry let them know they’re just black with light skin.
Yet somehow, folks still didn’t get the memo, tweets as recent as three days ago still mistake the ball player as being biracial.
And for reference here are a few of the Curry family photos:
I mean did you see this?
Fresh white tall tees in the family photo? It doesn’t get any blacker than this!
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Mixed is the new Black.
lOl Denial in it’s finest, Sonya Curry is Black, White and Native American, her parents are both Biracial or MGM, Look them up.
Dell Curry is Black and Native American, his parents are both Biracial.
Even Ayesha Curry is mixed, she posted on her social feed that her dad is Polish and she thinks Black. Ayesha’s mother is Black, white and Chinese.
But I bet people will still claim Riley as being pure Black?
You’re obsessive about turning Steph Curry into a mix icon.
? Was just stating the obvious But just got informed that Mixed is the new Black
Except he’s not mixed and you’re insane.Lol
SmH, Ight?
You delusional weirdo.Lol
When has dell curry ever been biracial? He’s black and if sonya curry is half black then the kids would be about 75% black
Doubt it is 90% look at her mom
Vanessa Williams says she is ..
My DNA breaks down as follows: I’m 23% from Ghana, 17% from the British Isles, 15% from Cameroon, 12% Finnish, 11% Southern European, 7% Togo, 6% Benin, 5% Senegal and 4% Portuguese.
Yes, that’s her genetic background but she has always said she is black. I’m biracial, black mom and white dad. My brother did DNA testing and if I went by the test I’d have to claim white because 83 percent of my ancestry is European. I say I’m biracial but ppl assume Im Spanish or Italian. Genetics are funny.
Yo arse aint Black lOl.
I was speaking from a genetic stand point about Mrs. Curry but yes, I understand that people will judge one based on phenotype.
I am Biracial as well(48% white, 30% Black and 20% Native). I get confused for a Puerto Rican all the time.
I hate that shyt, it has become so annoying people walking up to me speaking Spanish. I used to claim Black Than they proceed to tell me “mami no you Puerto Rican” even after I tell them I am Black, wtF Puerto Rican ain’t even a race.
I stopped claiming Black and started claiming Biracial, now when I say I am biracial not Spanish they understand and it is less confusion.
I heard Puerto Ricans are Black, white and Taino, so I understand now the confusion because we have similar genetic make up I guess.
This is whats wrong with the black race. I mean no harm when I say this. But we continue to let white people tell us “what is black”. How can a half white, half black person be considered full black when both of my parents are black??? This one drop rule mess, doesn’t work in any other scenario in life. Try mixing a horse and donkey, and let that mule try to go hang out with the the thorobread horses. That mule will get laughed at. Try entering a mut into a dog show. Guess what you can’t. Mixing lowers ones value. Asians don’t consider half asian half other races asian. Your mixed or that other race to them. Its like that with everyone else but us. Yet we claim to have such a great culture thats come so far from slavery. But we still letting our oppressor tell us who qualifes as black. To further this, not only do we accept mixed people, but we treat them better than the real black people. All the men and women want the mixed ones because they are mentally enslaved into thinking whiter is right. We let anybody into our race, and this dilutes us. Making our women insecure because they can’t look like the mullato and quadroon women with straight noses and loosely curled hair. Mixed people speak about their struggles, but its always the same thing. Not being accepted by white people and some black people having the heart to say they are not the same as them. Mixed people and black people don’t have the same experience. Blacks are getting shot down in streets by cops, are mullatos and other mixed folks going through that? Are they being racially profiled??? I highly doubt it. I have no problem with Steph Curry and his family. but for them to claim to be fully black is a slap in the face to black america.. These people can claim your race and tell you with a straight face they are the same as you, despite them looking just a generation from looking fully white. His mom is white. She is worse than Gizelle and Robyn on Real Housewives of Potomac. I predict she is about 75-90% white and his dad is probably like 10-25% black. Please stop. Creole is over used. Like someone else said. That just mean you spoke french and were US born. The term should really be mulatto and quadroom, octaroon. Steph is mixed. Thats fine, just be real about it. If mixed people acknoweged they were mixed and also acknowledged their priveledge we would be great. Its white privilege as well as mixed priveledge. Like I told my wife, if we don’t start speaking up and defining who is black and who is not for ourselves. It will come a time when steph curry and his family will be the standard of blackness, while the rest of us actual black people will be considered monkeys and animals. These mulatoos do have a long history of sticking with each other. Thats why you often see them in long succession and family history. Before the one drop rule and still after it, mullatos had their own separate culture from black people and had different lives. They could pass for white and we couldn’t so how are we both black??? Black folk are destroyed for lack of knowledge.. We are the biblical Israelites and must return to the covenant made between us and Yahuah(the father). We sinned and were cursed, read Deuteronomy 28, now we are in captivity but we must keep His commandments and have faith in Yahusha(the messiah) so we can retake our places on top. But Before we can even get into the real stuff, we gotta start loving our selves and truly learning about our history and respecting ourselves. How can we get to the real stuff if we can’t even get the simple stuff down pact. The blog was dumb. Totally stupid. They’re clearly biracial. This is what is the issue with society. Too many dumb people with the ability to show the masses their corrupted views. Come out of her my people.
Interesting. So then what about people like Condy Rice who has 50% African DNA. The rest I think is mostly white and a little NA. So technically she could be the same genetically as someone with one black one other parent. Does that make her biracial in your opinion? I read her bio and some of my family is from the same areas as hers so I’m familiar with some of her ancestry. No half white grandparents. On the other hand all my grandfather’s grandparents were biracial except one as in black/white, black/native and native/white. I see this as being mixed race based on the definition I have seen for biracial. I think one can be mixed race and not be biracial. but yes I could be wrong.
Sonya Curry is black like Rachel Dolezal is black. Just saying. Get the family genetically tested and you’ll see that most of their ancestry is European. There’s no way they’re not. Even Dell must be at *least* 1/4 Euro, being so light-skinned. Sonya is lucky if she has one black grandparent.
I don’t know how accurate that is because last year when he was on the NBA player awards on Bet he said he was half white I was surprised because I thought he was just light skinned. http://www.bet.com/video/the-players-awards/2015/acceptance-speeches/hardest-to-guard-stephen-curry.html
It seems that Curry was just joking there.
lOl Denial in it’s finest, Sonya Curry is Black, White and Native American, her parents are both Biracial. Look them up. Dell Curry is Black and Native American, his parents are both Biracial.
Even Ayesha is mixed, she posted her so
lOl Denial in it’s finest, Sonya Curry is Black, White and Native American, her parents are both Biracial or MGM, Look them up.
Dell Curry is Black and Native American, his parents are both Biracial.
Even Ayesha Curry is mixed, she posted on her social feed that her dad is Polish and she thinks Black. Ayesha’s mother is Black, white and Chinese.
But I bet people will still claim Riley as being pure Black?
Oh, so you thought he was “just light skinned”. Light skinned like him is MIXED RACE. The man is mixed race. Period.
This post reminds me of the Real Housewives of Potomac. Robyn and Gizelle got offended that people called them biracial even though they looked more caucasian than the girl on the show who was “actually biracial.”
To me, unless you’re referring to ethnic or cultural identity, the boundary between biracial and “just light skinned,” is a distinction without a difference. The elaborate algorithims for who is “just light skinned” and who is biracial… let’s just say they require an active imagination. In this day and age, to say that someone has a “black” parent, just means that their parent identifies as being black. If you lined ten light skinned people up and 9 were “just light skinned”
and one was “actually biracial,” I wouldn’t be able tell the
difference, and I wouldn’t care to. Self-identification as being black is only loosely correlated with genotype and even phenotype because I have met people who phenotypically appeared to be caucasian, but nonetheless claimed to have two black parents and therefore considered themselves black.
Being neither mixed, nor light, this is a bit confusing to me. Is it erasure to observe that you have racial mixture in your lineage? Is that really taboo when so many blacks go out of their way to remind people of their mixed heritage? Perhaps the perceived erasure is a cultural erasure, because being mixed somehow carries with it the negative connotation of dilution of black culture? Maybe this is analogous in some respects to “biracial erasure” whereby mixed blacks feel that their non-black heritage is erased by the one-drop paradigm?
The only problem with this perspective is that it ignores the existence of “phenotypically Black” people’s with biracial/multiracial heritage. Are they allowed to opt out of the heritage discussions because they’re brown-skinned or dark-skinned?
Personally, I feel that self-inentification is personal, and unless someone is pulling a Rachel Dolezal, it’s non of my business.
Love to see blacks own their blackness. You can always tell the upper class blacks. They know their family heritage and history so no one can tell them who they are and are not. The colorstruck priceless blacks will always mention some other race or group above their own.. Always trying to separate themselves.
I still have questions. It is great that they culturally identify as black, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that there is not biracial ancestory. All this article did is show pictures of immediate family. I don’t think anyone is questioning whether they can claim black since both mom and dad consider themselves black, but people are making an honest mistake because of how light they are. So my question is, what happened? Why are you so light? What about your family tree? You can choose to reveal this or not, but I don’t think you can blame people for making an honest mistake. Ya’ll light as hell.
I’ve been saying this for years:
If you have an African ancestor who was enslaved in North America, the odds that you also have at least one white ancestor are pretty good. Some have more than others and it shows…while some have more than others and it DOESN’T show. I’m dark enough such that I get mistaken for native West African on a more-or-less regular basis but even I have at least two nonblack (probably white, though folks keep trying to call them Native American, lol) ancestors that I know of.
Put another way: Genealogically, we (AAs) are all mixed. However, for a lot of us, the African shows enough such that we *are identified as* black. This isn’t the same thing as identifying as black, but that said — as I used to say about Obama when white folks were whining “But he’s half white! Why does he call himself black?” — it sure makes things a lot simpler when you also choose to identify as black.
Ultimately, though…it’s OKAY to say you have nonblack ancestors and still claim black. What’s not okay is when you have NO black ancestors, try to claim black, and then try to diss actual black women for not being black enough (see: that former Spokane NAACP head who I refuse to name because I’m sick of her).
Right? And i have encountered all types of racial ambiguities in my life time. Girls who identify as white all the while being consistently cast in black roles in theatre. My niece and a student of mine who are technically biracial making and active choice to identify as black (and this they are doing before their teens years). I know race is more complicated then what is and what is not, but I expect people not to “clapback” and/or play dumb when it comes to certain preconceptions of their race. This article makes it seem like people are stupid for ever thinking that Curry was biracial and that this host of pictures of him and his family being light, bright, and two shades from white prove something. Are you kidding me? Race is a social construct anyway, so there is no genetic material that is pinpointed toward race. In contrast, it is actually just the expression a thousands of random genes, but as it is socially constructed, the Currys have some explaining to do. I”m not saying they can’t identify as black. In fact, i agree, but there still are valid questions.
i agree. people need to separate cultural and biological/ethnical when they wanna be technical. Clearly his mum is not not pure black. and maybe its white maybe its not. but they’re not just black with light skin. it had to come from somewhere. I dont know about anyone else. but “blackness” is different for everyone, everywhere. I mean think about it. to be black in america, in the caribbean and other places of mixed heritage means basically “to have black ancestry” we aint touching one drop rule and all that yet. that’s basically it. but when u look at most of us in those areas, some of us at least, look far from our ancestors from western africa. not just in the tones of our skin (which is scary cuz that’s all we seem to care about) but the shapes of our noses, our body structures, textures of our hair. etc. point is. being mixed does not solely mean to be bi racial, u can also be multiracial having lines of other ethnicities trailing behind you. what do u say mychael?
I agree, but what people must also realize is that any talked of genetic or biological structures that denote race are moot (beyond biological observations). Race exists exclusively as a social construct, so technically people can identify as whatever they want, but if it doesn’t fit within the construct then there are going to be questions. The one drope rule (for good or bad) is a part of that social construct. Hence why i don’t mind Curry identifying as black; the problem lies in the idea that they would act incredulous when people say or imply that they are mixed or biracial. Plus, families that are consistently light skinned through multiple generations do also make me nervous… i’m just like, really? Ya’ll couldn’t find one dark skinned brother or sister someone liked? Is there some genetic albinism that is going on? I just have more questions. I’m not satisfied with the “Actually we’re black. We’re just light skinned” response.And it is not their job to satisfy me, but i just want it on the record that i am unsatisfied. Lol
lol that last line killed. and i agree with the identify as whatever thing. I am black but i dont identify as that on forms. now before you think im tryna not be black or whatever, If u look carefully its also chinese, american indian, japanese (and possibly white idk. i have a white ancestor in there somewhere -_-) so its not just about saying, “o i dont wanna identify as black cuz im shadowing that side of my identity, i.e. i dont like that side, im ashamed”. I dont have to prove a thing to anyone. that’s what i know now. me saying im just black would not be being true to myself. i remember self conflict going on within myself. asking myself over and over what should i identify as. now that im older and i know better.. well the rest is history. she doesnt have to prove shit to no one. if she mixed but not bi racial psshhh girl go head on. if she wanna say she black (like u said according to the one drop), then ok. I love my black side but i also like my other bits too.
The term biracial means you have parents of two different races. If you don’t then you are not biracial no matter what you look like or what ancestors you have farther up the tree. I have close relatives who are this shade and they are not biracial. there are biracial people who are darker than Curry. So I don’t think skin color is a reliable indicator of who is biracial and who isn’t. I recently went to see J. Cole. Until seeing this article I had no clue he was biracial.
But because of the one drop rule there are loads of “black” people who are multiracial and even biracial. So to say that that you have parents of two different races doesn’t really say much because as you point out there are people who look nearly white and whose black ancestry is more apparent than the people who according to your logic would be “biracial.”
The situation is far too murky to be propounding these formulas, that presuppose an environment of racial purity. The black people you reference can often be “less black” phenotypically and genotypically than the biracial people.
Remember “biracial” people in America were de jure and de facto black people for centuries. The term “black” in America is simply a catchall for a range of racial combinations, some of which produce people who are actually quite white skinned. I think this formula of needing to have one white parent to be mixed is something that light skinned blacks use because they feel that they need to justify or defend their blackness. But the truth is they don’t. If Steph Curry’s says he’s black, I’m fine with it. If he says he’s biracial I’m fine with it. What you call it makes no difference, because sociology taught us long ago that “race” is construct based on perceived qualities. Your recipe for blackness doesn’t actually change that.
Actually I gave the definition of the word “biracial” according to the English dictionary. It gives the definition as having parents of two different races. When I want to know exactly what a word that isn’t slang means I go to a dictionary. My comment was based on a neutral source and not my logic or my opinion. If you want to argue with Webster then feel free. light skin people with two black parents have every right to say they are not biracial if by definition they are not biracial.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/biracial
Personally I would never take his mom for a white woman. Now that is my opinion.
Also I don’t automatically associate the word biracial with having any particular racial combination. Your posts deals only with people with black ancestry which is not needed to be biracial. Any of my best friends have one Asian parent and one Caucasian. Also I have a friend whose mother is Native American and father is white. They are biracial and no part black. And I know people who are black and Asian.
As for this:
“I think this formula of needing to have one white parent to be mixed”
Nowhere in my post did I use the mixed race. was not giving a definition for mixed so why are you bringing it up. I specifically said biracial for a reason that was on purpose. I don’t use those two terms interchangeably. I am mixed race which can apply to ancestors, not biracial.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/mixed-race
Actually, the term biracial is defined by “of two races”. There is no subclause about parentage or percentage in the technical definition.
So yes, while the majority of us like to pretend otherwisw, most African Americans are biracial or multiracial. Percentages and further delineations are just sociopolitical..
I’m Black with 2 Black parents and 2 sets of Black grandparents, but I’m not going to pretend that being 30% “other” is insignificant. I’m not saying that everyone should feel the same, but I think it’s silly to pretend that 30% of my genome doesn’t exist.
Generational admixture is very real, and ignoring it is an erasure of the brutalities of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the antebellum South, and Jim Crow.
Yes I understand. I identify as black although I have blood relatives who are white because of relationships a few generations back. but I am not biracial because my parents are not of two different races. The definition for the term biracial that I have read specificies that is what it means. Perhaps there are dictionaries I haven’t seen that say otherwise.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/biracial
If both parent’s are biracial, I believe their kids would be considered 2nd generation Biracials or MGM
I think you’re wrong on this one. If I have one parent who is half black / half white and another parent who is half black / half white, but they both identify as black, I am still going to be 50% black and 50% white (pretty much biracial) even if both of my parents identify as black. I am still just as white as any person who has one white parent and one black parent.
Thank you, the mother looks like Vanessa Williams imo. Who is half white. Light eyes+light skin means some racial mixture obviously. I’m glad they’re not Tiger Woods ignorant and black identified not appeasing the white racists that want to claim Stephen because he’s so great. If he was a murderer, drug dealer on the news these same whites would call him a nigger, he’d be straight black then.
Vanessa Williams shows much more African phenotype than Sonya Curry does. Sonya is clearly in denial of the fact that she has at *least* 75% European ancestry. Probably closer to 90%.
Both of Vanessay Williams parents are black.
Imma just vome out n say it: HIS MAMA LOOK DARK WHITE. She literally looks like a tanned white woman…
This is ridiculous! She said they are mixed with nothing, how would they describe their mom then? Black? Some times it’s hard to tell someone’s race from appearance but this is NOT one of them.
How anyone considers them back is beyond me. All they are doing is erasing part of their whitness
We are all beautiful colors of the rainbow! No one is pure….ENJOY “us” as is.
Definitely a mixture of something on mom’s side but does it matter………no
His mother is “Creole” and his father is “African American”
http://nbainternational.blogspot.com/2014/01/is-stephen-curry-black-or-white-race-or.html
right …so black and black
I don’t live in the US so I’m quite confused. Is creole “black”?? What I’ve heard is that is a mixed of french, spanish / Native American but I also heard that its just another term for biracial?? :/
from what u said it sounds like mixed to be. its quite confusing. they’re blacks, creoles and yet they’re still another group of mixed people? someone needs to do their homework and stop with all these catagories.
Creole in its original meaning just meant people of French, European descent who were born in North America, that’s how they distinguished themselves from people who just came from France or Gabon. So you had black creole, white creole etc… it had nothing to do with biology, it was just a cultural definition, because even if they were white of French descent, they spoke creole French, which was mixed up with English, Spanish, different african languages, while a French person from France would struggle to understand. Anyway that’s what I learned from my French education.
You are spot on. The term Creole at least for the Lousiana was not originally connected to race but it seems to have evolved into it. I have read books and seen documentaries about rich white LA plantation families who called themselves Creoles because they were people of French descent born in the New World. Some of these people were the first generation to be born in the Americas and had no African ancestry yet they were considered Creole. I think of Creole as more of a cultural thing. I know a wide spectrum of people who are LA Creole but it gets stereotyped only people who are a complexion like Beyoncé.
Black and proud? They are all very light.
Sometimes when every generation of a family is light, I tend to believe people are deliberately choosing lighter skinned partners.
How can u be black and proud but only love people who are in fact barely black? Except the dad, they could all pass a paper bag test.
please, stop.
-proud light-skinned BLACK WOMAN with a dark father and dark fiancé who finds you absolutely ridiculous and totally 1940 with your paper bag reference. you are a part of the PROBLEM.
this is nothing new…has been going on since…
Who says they only love light? And why are they diminished for being light and Black. You know Africa produces many skin tones, hair and eye colors. You can’t determine how black a person is by phenotype.
I dont think it’s about shade it’s just about the ethnicity, my mom is light skin and so is my brother I’m pretty sure they would pass a brown paper bag test but it’s not like they would mark “mixed” or “lightskin” when it comes to applying for a job.
Does his mom age, though?!
Yea