# All right, fess up! Who's black?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-black/386437>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 2, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-black/386437 "2007-01-02T17:32:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
**Page:** 6

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**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-black/386437/101 "2007-01-05T05:54:11Z")

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[QUOTE=grayhairedmomma]  
Did you grow up with both cultures?  
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I am biracial, not bicultural. Here everybody does the same thing. We don’t have different ‘cultures’ depending on skin color.

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**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-black/386437/102 "2007-01-05T19:21:11Z")

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[QUOTE=cmyk]  
I’m about a Pantone™ 480 U.  
On average anyway.  
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Hm. Then maybe your username should be c=4 m=25 y=27 k=24.

😉

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**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-black/386437/103 "2007-01-05T20:46:38Z")

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I’m Black Irish.

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-black/386437/104 "2007-01-05T21:10:52Z")

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I’m white, but I went to an HBU for grad school. Apparently, the funniest thing on the planet is watching me attempt to do the Electric Cha-Cha. It serves as a strong innoculation against “Jungle Fever.”

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**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-black/386437/105 "2007-01-05T21:19:18Z")

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I’m biracial. Mom is black dad is jewish. I consider myself exactly that - biracial, not one or the other.

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-black/386437/106 "2007-01-05T21:33:57Z")

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[QUOTE=romansperson]  
Hm. Then maybe your username should be c=4 m=25 y=27 k=24.

😉  
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well, I’d change it, but that’s too much of a _process_ for me to bother with.

😉 😉

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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-black/386437/107 "2007-01-05T22:22:07Z")

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[QUOTE=you with the face]  
**doh!** I think all the black people read you just fine, though.  
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Homie Simpson, is dat you?

Yeah, I’m black and (though you didn’t ask) gay and male.

Damn, am in trouble!

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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-black/386437/108 "2007-01-05T22:26:13Z")

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[QUOTE=you with the face]  
**doh!** I think all the black people read you just fine, though.  
[/QUOTE]

Homie Simpson, is dat you?

Yeah, I’m black and (though you didn’t ask, I’m fessin’ up) gay and male.

Damn, am in trouble (but I feel cleansed)!

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**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-black/386437/109 "2007-01-05T22:44:57Z")

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I’m more of a burnt pecan, actually.

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**Author:** ![goldenmean1975](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@goldenmean1975](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goldenmean1975)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-black/386437/110 "2007-01-06T18:22:15Z")

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I look like a total Irish whitebread “cracker”. But I’m a “passe du blanc” . I have green eyes, red/blond hair sickly white skin…

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