So...Mixedish is a thing that happened. (Review)

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100% disagree with all the black youtubers who deal with black issues on the topic of mixed-ish. Sure you said some true stuff but some was way too overly critical. White shows don't get the same harsh criticism as much. Long story short I'm watching blackish, grownish, mixedish and every other ish they gonna do and majority of the other black shows on air; cuz I can easily watch a mediocre show about white people so I can definitely watch a pretty good or great show with black people. Want more black people on air then you gotta watch the show's starring them especially the ones where they are not poor and or are thugs and selling drugs. I don't like how every black show isn't doing blackness good enough type of critique. It's kinda over criticising it. Just saying.

[@Thisreadingcorner]

shantédidathing black content can be bad though. Universal support is a big ask and our only stick of comparison shouldn’t be mediocre white folks. It’s perfectly cool for there to be different kinds of black content, but asking everyone to support any and all things black people put out is silly

[@gabrielmichael3701]

You gaslight the mixed community at every turn. You went to Harvard? I’ve heard you refer to our experience as a thing of “myth” “legend”. Educate yourself.

[@racheljones2084]

At 7:00, I thought you could argue that the mother knew about race in society and hence wanted to get her degree, then seeing how even with the degree how hard the job market was they escaped to the commune where she put race on the back burner. Once they were back in public society the pressures of race resurfaced and she was back in her mindset from law school of wanting to escape the societal confines of race and lashing out at her husband.

[@christian_person5058]

For Harriet another flaw is that their last name is Jackson, but on Blackish Rainbow and her husband was arguing that she had the same last name and kept her “maiden name” Johnson. Black people come in many shades from vanilla to chocolate. Most black families have a variety of shades. My mother is caramel shaded and father is dark skin. The 5 of us comes in different shades. That’s real black America! What was phony about this storyline is that Rainbow’s mother was not aware that she had to change her kid’s clothes to send them to the new school so they wouldn’t be misfits. But suddenly she was conscious about about being black in America and had to change HER appearance to fit in at corporate America! Who is writing this show? White people?? They need to change the writers or this show won’t survive! It should be a combination of bi-racial and black writers since the mother is black. To get both perspectives.

[@SallowedSkies]

Not gonna lie, I thought Blackish was about being mixed...

[@MzDoctorStrange2u]

Yes, black, but not, really.

[@ellcally508]

If only they went with that concept.

[@chishasinyangwe4061]

SallowedSkies same here

[@blakrumba]

SallowedSkies Ddddaaaammmnnn!! 😂🤣

[@nakrwa]

It is...the mom.

[@michalapalmer8874]

found all those dark skin kids to pick on the poor little biracial kids but couldnt find any for black-ish or for other roles in mix-ish...ok

[@crissoa]

Michala Palmer ☝🏿☝🏿when they need mean kids, they know where to find the darkest ones... smh

[@Lulu060986]

So true! Arghhh the colourism on that show is disgusting!

[@TennisBarbie119]

Or grown-ish!

[@nicthommi]

Yup...they only want dark skinned people if they need bad guys at any age. Until then, they don't exist. Just reminds me how extraordinary Marsai Martin had to be case because many casting calls for "black" kids explicitly state skin color and hair texture.

[@jazzy1315]

The twins in blackish are dark skinned Diane has beautiful dark skin. Blackish has 2 dark kids and 2 light.

[@erickiam25]

Also not all mixed people are light skinned some are brown skinned as well!

[@stellabellafontay9366]

Yesss.

[@iamlaurengill]

Barack Obama is pretty darn caramel himself

[@BlendedBarbieDoll]

erickiam25 exactly the light skin type 3hair is what has become the idea mixed look but everyone doesn’t look like that. And a lot of mixed kids with white dads look more white sometimes too.

[@erickiam25]

Tiffany and Co. Look at Jordan peel and Michael Key they both have a white and black parent and both a brown skinned

[@ladybluelotus]

Well, they would never show that. People might think there's no difference between biracial people and black people. We can't have people positively associating with black people. Or not othering themselves.

[@bethechangeusee]

I also found it awkward there was no light skinned black people in the cafeteria scene, because it is perpetuating the narrative that half black automatically means light skinned, that fully black (american) only means dark skinned, and our history is way too complex racially to simplify that much. I also didn't like that they made the dark skinned boy aggressive. its all just meh.

[@joybanks4974]

The up side to that is at least some darker skinned black actors got jobs.

[@andrewcarson6925]

You bitches whine and everything it's hilarious

[@rockellebrowne7529]

@@andrewcarson6925 keep it cute...

[@JoshableJr]

I agree. I loved your take on this too Kim! And the way you tied in Raven to dismantle the narrative the cafeteria scene set up. Like you said, you can't expect this from a 30min major network comedy, but I feel like engaging with the complexities of skin tone, and physical features, and miscegenation in the historical context of the States is what Mixed-ish was (or should have been) trying to sell from the jump. Imagine a show consciously exploring the intricacies and minutia of being 'Mixed' with parents of divergent races and being 'Black' with generations of Mixed and/or non-black lineage and the differences that exist in those experiences.

[@alexisaspy2429]

Emma XTC well the shade room comments are filled with close minded idiots soooooo

[@murrvvmurr]

I don't think the ish shows are aimed primarily at POC s. They are trying to present a black experience to certain whites in a way that will not freak them out

[@stellabellafontay9366]

I agree. Making us tolerable to milquetoast palates.

[@queenmercuriruleroftheretr5775]

Murrv Vmurr They’re telling it wrong

[@kangel20]

Yes! This is what I've noticed too

[@kuroichan101]

Exactly because i cant see how someone of color can truly relate to these shows and enjoy it.

[@monica9070]

Thank you- this is exactly what I was thinking

[@TheMircakes]

“They have Just For Me on the commune??” 😂

[@Dgyrl4ever]

No, I think she forgot about hot combs tho, lol. Those were definitely around.

[@moded_corroded8132]

💀💀💀

[@OTMaraH]

She killin me wit these comments

[@FatherIimaginedyoutaller]

So this show has...mixed reviews?

[@TheModernGlitch]

Mixed-ish reviews

[@LeilaVividSounds]

😂😂😂

[@17yogabbagabba]

The ONLY comment on this thread I found entertaining.

[@PrincessKLS]

Melina Boasso 😂😂😂😂

[@niaavila5361]

LMAOOOOO

[@indigof2989]

I think the mother’s “racial awakening” makes sense because pre-commune life she was heavily aware of her race. While there she probably enjoyed the comfort & escape of not having to be defined by race. She probably didn’t feel as if the commune would be shut down so it wouldn’t be necessary to explain the kid’s racial identity to them. Once she returned to the outside world & her kids started asking questions she had to face reality thus bringing her back down to Earth. I don’t plan on watching the show but that’s an interesting writing point.

[@Sunfl0w33r]

Indigo makes sense 🤔

[@warriorgoddessyaaasantewaa4773]

You got it exactly right.

[@anelbre0904]

This is exactly what I was thinking!!

[@alohaXamanda]

That's an interesting analysis and I can say from my own experiences in commune settings that your view of the world and your place in it does shift after years (even months) of being in a closed thought loop 'utopia'. If she thought she'd live there forever (as many in Jonestown did), she likely didn't see the need to educate her children because it would have been counter-productive to their social functioning within the commune, as you mentioned. There's so much the writers can play with on this show, but if they can get views from people who just want to be entertained, why strain?

[@cee2cee]

Exactly !!!!!

[@NatalieM123]

"there are flat irons on the commune?" lol

[@yvvngmlaba]

Natalie McDonald I gagged 😂😂😂

[@SteadyNUnremitting]

Probably a hot comb

[@chelseashamim9148]

SteadyNUnremitting probably

[@Laura-vl6db]

Wasn’t Black-ish Mixed-ish? 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@TheThyckVixen]

I said the same thing! I was like what's the point of the ish then? Lol

[@conflictpersona8]

@Erudite di'Cosmos i think this is a fair critique

[@westafricana4343]

I dont reall see an issue with the idea of the show. Part of the reason for black female erasure in hollywood or the one drop rule being pushed is the fact that for a long time people rarely wrote roles for biracial people so what do they do? The write roles for black women but give them to biracial women. So i think its great that there are slowly more shows like this coming out. I do however think whats missing now is a black family show were really everyone is black lol. Black ish was about an interracial family with "black" kids. The typical mixed mum plus mixed dad dynamic witht the identity issues and all. And Mixed ish is about a white dad and black mom and their kids. I just dont understand the title considering the family is clearly mixed so whats the "ish" supposed to mean? Better black ish than netflix "black family magic"

[@BabyGirlTiny]

@@westafricana4343 rainbow is the only mixed character. Anthony Anderson's character isn't mixed, hes full black with light skin parents. These kids are more black than they are white. The family itself, mostly all black. Yet the kids are half black when they shouldn't be. Having a mixed parent doesnt make you biracial

[@em.415]

Homez18 Yara Shahidi is mixed in real life. And the son is super light skinned.

[@AJDwatching]

“I know a whole lot of middle aged black women. They’re my favorite demographic” a WORD, I tell ya.

[@mactrek2]

I'm a middle aged Black woman and I made sure to talk to my children, who have never lived in America but are both mixed race and mixed culture, about the aspects of race in America and their birth country. This show sounds like Blackish lite.

[@sandyg.8318]

Mine too. When a middle aged/elder black woman calls me “baby” it feels like a blanket of warm love.

[@NaeNae23]

@@literarylady1125 Why should they be raised in America?

[@NaeNae23]

@@literarylady1125 but you make the assumption that they come from America. There are black people who originate from other parts of the world other than America. In addition to your comment my parents are African and I am born and bred in the UK, you can still teach teach your children the culture if you live in a different country. Many live in other countries for different reasons such as work, military deployment, family support etc... I don't understand the emphasis in having to be in America to know your culture. But I agree black is subjective so whether you are African, North or South American, Aborigine, Caribbean the word black means different thinks to different people. I consider myself Black British similar to Idris Elba because we have African parents but born and raised in the UK this makes our black nuances different to my African cousins but it doesn't mean I don't know or know my culture fully.

[@emilylouise8208]

“They got just for you on the commune” took me out 😂😂

[@ayanna4729]

“ they have just for me on the commune” 😂😂😂. I’m sorry but that was hilarious.

[@AJ-cq5pw]

I saw promos for this on tv and was like, "Kim is gonna rip this show to shreds!"

[@porsche911sbs]

The actor is Gary Cole, a seasoned comedic character actor. He had memorable roles in _Office Space,_ _Talladega Nights,_ and _Veep_ to name a few. He's also a voice actor who's been in a *lot* of stuff for children and adults.

[@naturalQueeP]

He was in my fav movie Office Space.

[@thickbrownlegs1859]

Essess Nine Gary Cole is one of my favorite actor. When I first came to America I use to watch him on a show call Midnight Caller. He is funny as hell if he is on a show I’m watching because he will give you the funny one liners 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.

[@teemgee8605]

He was great as the dad in the Brady Bunch movie and tragically awesome in his arc on Entourage

[@agravery223]

Also in Pineapple Express!

[@thickbrownlegs1859]

Teemgee oh shoots I totally forgot he was in the Brady Bunch movies as the dad 🤣🤣🤣🤣 he was hilarious in that one 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lisawitcher6423]

As a mixed person, I respectfully disagree about a couple things. In my personal experience, people aren’t knowledgeable about the bi-racial experience so I can’t imagine how much harsher it would actually be to grow up mixed in the 80s. I looked a lot like Santa Monica when I was a kid and people would constantly ask me questions all the time. Growing up, people (black and white) would ask me “what are you” and NOT “what ethnicity are you” or asked the question in a way that resembled anything remotely educated about the way they posed the question. I think it’s gotten better in the last few years, but trust me when I tell you it’s a thing. Second, the whole “having to pick a race” thing is unfortunately very real and I related to it deeply. It’s very intimidating for both adults and your own peers literally wanting to know which side you like and/or identify with more. So, yes, the ending may be cheesy but definitely brought a moment of catharsis where both parents comfort Rainbow and let her know that only being herself is what matters and to not worry about choosing a side. ❤️ Lastly, I understand the frustration from people saying “black-ish is mixed-ish” but like it or not when you have a white parent and a black parent your experience IS different. Also, people are very quick to claim that Obama is the first black president when in fact he is MIXED so that whole frustration about mixed people claiming new strides on behalf of black people works BOTH ways. Again, not trying it or anything, but that’s my personal experience. 💗

[@sounds_4177]

I totally agree

[@scoops4490]

Agreed!

[@PattavinaFragolina]

Couldn’t have said it better!!

[@RockyStark]

As a fellow black/white mixed girl, I completely agree!

[@ED-ie3et]

@Planet Claire Has Big Hair why are you negative

[@bernice0308]

Love Tika but this ain't the show for me...

[@thelegendarymuva4126]

@Ella Hendrix So, you're spreading your "dark skinned women are jealous of us light skinned women" rhetoric everywhere, huh?

[@thelegendarymuva4126]

@Ella Hendrix Girl, Shan Boody isn't dark skinned at all and you were still spreading this nonsense. Just admit you give no fucks about being top tier on the colorism pyramid and keep it moving.

[@rahsaanification]

Ikr,they're tryn to promote shows like this for a reason,deeper reasoning!

[@ShannonDaKing13]

@@rahsaanification EXACTLY!!!

[@elbruces]

Yeah, they're talking about some people's lives. If that isn't your life, okay. If you don't care about those lived experiences, okay. So why did you take the time to comment and tell us all that?

[@starcherry6814]

As a lightskin person I hate to confirm it but in school I was always asked (usually by girls) *What I was mixed with* because back then people assumed black girls couldn't have long hair or lightskin unless they were mixed 🤷‍♀️ They were always so surprised to find out that I wasn't mixed though 😹 top it off I have two darkskinned BLACK parents!

[@starcherry6814]

Two very _beautiful_ dark skinned black parents actually 🖤

[@Diamonds232]

Yes, same experience here. That part was accurate. Everyone, black or white, assumed, and to be honest, still to this day assumes I’m mixed.

[@ladybluelotus]

That's only true by region.

[@raevinboyd5382]

Lol samme. I wish black ppl would stop asking that question, it's wild.

[@NaeNae23]

@@raevinboyd5382 I wish ALL people stop asking that question?

[@bert1029]

As someone who is white and comes from an incredibly white part of the UK, your videos are so helpful in educating myself on sensitivities of race. Thank you for doing what you do. Love your videos, I never miss a single one ❤️

[@bridgetrapp7993]

Stonecake Well, Kim is American so it makes sense that she discusses American issues.

[@kimwright6377]

Stonecake Where did you get that from? They are just showing you supposedly a piece of what it may be like for a particular group of people here in America.

[@sandrallewellyn2632]

@@stonecake313 It's tricky, because yes, other countries have their own relationship, histories and understandings of race; and as mass exporters of culture and influence the US has a tendency to impose its views on others. Facts. However, that doesn't mean racism doesn't exist in other countries(in really problematic ways), as I often hear people claim. Ex: places like the DR and Brazil will claim there's no racism and that they're "just Dominican" or "just Brazilian," but when go there the only dark skinned people you see around you or in the media are in service roles(at best) and NOT positions of political and economic power or desire, and not too many people see or acknowledge that very obvious disparity. Because of our different histories around race and how we view it and how we engage it, it's not fair to say that the brand anti-racism the US exhibits is THE only way(like telling folx in Latin America that they need to use the US-based term LatinX) to address these issues, because it would imply that there is a universal experience of racism and there's not. However many people who live in countries and cultures like the ones I named, including Europe, think there isn't a racialized and class based hierarchy because "we don't talk about it all the time like those Americans." As though they have somehow always been post-racial and the only reason racism or colorism exists is because Americans point it out. It's hard to see your blind spots and relative privilege when you're in it. Remember, racism and any other isms existed loooooooong before anyone put a label on it, otherwise there wouldn't be a label...

[@pistaluv]

@@stonecake313 although history is important i don't see how you can avoid american history when you consume so much american media, its irresponsible to live in a bubble (this goes both ways)

[@kimwright6377]

AJB3 As a black woman my experiences support many of my feelings about whites.I just don’t understand why some like you are so resistant to what we tell you we experience.Where does that come from? It’s as if no matter what we tell you we go through or no matter what you see it’s denial.I really would like for you to help me understand your perception of black America.

[@Colie.2010]

You have to understand that a lot of these black men/women who marry outside their race do not speak to their children about things that go on within the community i.e. racism and colorism because they think it no longer applies to their family even if it applies to them. I can't tell you how many mixed people I know who still don't understand the natural hair movement or colorism smh

[@samstokes3693]

I was one of those kids, granted, I grew up in the early 90s. I still dont understand my hair, but I definitely understand colorism. That existed in both the white and black part of my family. I got lighter, more Caucasian features while my sister got only slightly darker, more African features and I was always considered the "pretty one".

[@quonya]

It really depends on the person. I would say in my experience the mixed people I know tended to identify as black and were raised accordingly.

[@arb6732]

I don’t think there a issue I’m Blaxican my father is Mexican, and my mother is Black. But one thing I can say is some black family don’t stick together , they only care about the Main family. My father side ,I saw family helping Family no matter what issues they was facing , and being close to my cousin I saw them as my brother, and sister spending time with them. I’m very close to both my family, went I see my mom family all at once either be Wedding , Funeral , and Reunion. When you are both race you see both culture , and interesting to see. I’m Blaxican and proud to be

[@NaeNae23]

That's not true, please don't generalize, everyone raises the kids differently.

[@davelundy5629]

I believe this is primarily true. I dont know how many times ive heard a mixed person say "we didnt have issues with race at home so we didnt really discuss it"

[@briarts]

As a mixed person who grew up in the 90s, I can tell you the "what are you mixed with" scene in the cafeteria is a constant thing from black as well as white people. I don't think I look racially ambiguous either but there were many people who had the generalized mindset that black or white people look a certain way, especially decades ago. This was seen more from kids but even adults did that. That was a very relatable scene in the pilot.

[@Oone2023]

Bruh I was so annoyed with bow in the colorism episode and so confused at baby bow suddenly having a dark skinned mom in the past but a light skinned mom in the present.

[@jusletursoulglobaby]

see I forgot about Anna D Smith until she was mentioned. I got caught up in pro-Tika love and maybe that's what they thought others would do? when kim broke it down I'm like humph... there was probably a more Hollywood-sinister motive happening.

[@donnapug]

I noticed that too (the mother colour switch...). Didn’t sit well with me at all

[@fredrika27]

Had Tracy's mum been as dark as in Mixedish, then she would have also been darker. Likewise, had her mother been as light as in Blackish, then Tracey would have been lighter. Either way, it would have been almost impossible for Tracy to have extremely dark kids like in Blackish. It would be like a very dark person of African descent having blue eyes. It happens only in one in about 100,000 people. Likewise, the ability to ''pass'' is also very low in people of color.

[@jusletursoulglobaby]

@@fredrika27 that's not necessarily true fam. more melanin is a dominant trait but given the permutations, her mom could very well be dark and have recessive "less melanin" traits in her makeup. the recessive ones could very well be passed to offspring. its plausible. we've seen those kinds of films before (old holywood) and in daily life.

[@HandleUnclear]

@@jusletursoulglobaby Agreed, I feel like many blacks tend to forget we are not pure Africans and our genetics is mixed with a multitude of people due to slavery. Meaning we as blacks have the capability of giving birth to a wide range of phenotypes; however it is also this knowledge that has always confused me about the necessary distinction between mixed people who look black and what we like to just call black. We as a people do not contain pure genetics and are therefore mixed by definition (not to any fault of our own, just our unfortunate shared history of the trans Atlantic slave trade), so why do we feel the need to further divide ourself? I can understand if the divide was solely based on what we call white passing, but it is not.

[@Itsme_1648]

That throwback of Raven made my heart melt. “You got the right one baaaabaay!” Just had a nostalgic moment. Lol

[@avalangrin4904]

I saw the pilot. It was not that funny. The children are wooden, and not natural. Tika and Mark Paul don’t have chemistry. I think plot was superficial in its attempt to navigate race within the black community. Also they don’t delve in the family’s transition and trauma from living in a cult to assimilating to every day society. The show needs work.

[@elkaydoug8863]

I agree Ava. I was hoping that the first show just takes a minute to gel

[@flaffycheez6899]

I feel it is a wee bit off course in my opinion, I don't get the ish part of the mixed show. Like in blackish I get it because both parents are black or sorta black and their children aren't actually considered mixed anymore because 2 black sortas, technically make a full black...but not really...ish? So I got the concept it's the same as most black families give or take where they are kinda sorta mixed but not really cause the mixation was so long ago in the generationsthat really it's hard to tell, especially this day and age where it's so hard to draw the line and hold onto your black card. Anyway the show mixedish I was expecting something else plotwise to make the ish, pilot just looked like mixed, PERIODT, I didn't see anything in it that made me question and think deeper about mixed people or their journey, I'm gonna keep watching for that ish part give the writers 10 episodes tops to show me the ish.

[@avalangrin4904]

Something is missing. I can’t put my finger on it. I do feel it has this family that is sort of a fish out of water story and instead of going heartwarming they are trying to go for slapstick. It’s not working.

[@erickiam25]

Disagree it was great

[@kaysmith8787]

Tika and Mark Paul ZERO chemistry and he has zero screen presence flat! kids are kinda weird.

[@bakergeetee]

As someone who grew up in this time period(I'm 2 years older than Tracey Ellis Ross), it just didn't ring true to the time period, even for a sitcom, which rarely ring true anyway. As much as I love Tracey and Tika, I'm not feeling this show. There were very cute moments, some chuckles, but I'm like Kim, this will not be a regular watch.

[@TNDCBaby]

Like what?

[@sekhmet2011]

T C For one thing, the cafeterias weren’t that segregated. Maybe because I was raised in a big city, but I always had an integrated table to sit at. Also, who would ask “What are you mixed with”? That came off as unnatural and odd.

[@TNDCBaby]

@@sekhmet2011 Says who? Did you go to every school? It's pretty well known that in some places they self-segregate. It can differ from school to school. They may mix it up at random times and it's not illegal to talk but it's something that kids do from time to time, even now. People ask that question all of the time. They know you're mixed. Probably assume that you're black so what's the other part. Google the phrase. It's not unheard of at all and it's the story of the wife of the creator so it's possible that they're pulling it straight from the horse's mouth.

[@bakergeetee]

@@sekhmet2011 thank you! That was one thing. The other was that there was no shade range of the black kids(no light skinned kids?), and the look that Bow and her brother and sister were the only biracial kids in that cafeteria. I didn't go to public school, however my small Catholic school was in the 'hood(grew up in Newark, NJ)and there were kids of every hue and color represented(still a handful of white kids, African-American kids, Latin and non Latin Caribbean kids, Central and South American kids.), as well as biracial kids. There were ALWAYS many tables of everyone sitting together in the cafeteria(there would be all girls and all boys sitting together more than self segregating by race, although it did happen too).

[@sekhmet2011]

Geri Miller Yes. I also agree with the shade range. Since most folk accepted biracials as black, the black groups would include every shade from high yellow to blue black. In fact if any one was bullied, it was often the darkest children.

[@dsalazarm]

“But its not my experience and who am i to say that experience does not deserve representation.” Excellent sentiment for any critical review.

[@thatoneoverthere3202]

Why her hair always so f ing cute!

[@saint_silver]

The problem with the mixed experience, and I am speaking as an half arabic and half black. It's that it pushes you to a very individualistic vision of yourself within society. There's a multitude of reason for that, but it's really easy for a mixed person to feel isolated on political standpoint, especially when race is involved. And that's why mulato were used as a class to maintain slavery in the Caraïbes. Because within the hierarchy of race at play in racist society, the mixed experience is one suffering but a suffering that cannot be articulated within this system. So mixed people are often very individualistic, and can go in this colorblind narrative. Because race talk is a painful experience of instability.

[@CiaoColeG]

Wow! You articulated exactly how I feel, but didn't know how to express! I'm half Mexican-American (indigenous and European descent) and African-American. What I like about being mixed race is that by being isolated or "othered", it has helped me be more objective and less emotionally-driven about race politics, relationships, etc...

[@bindu996]

This is a beautiful comment and so so true. I relate so hard I have to save it lol you articulated an overlooked part of the experience. Have you read any books that helped shape this idea or is it mostly just personal observation ?

[@Zeverinsen]

That's also why it's frustrating to watch the American "Black community" represent themselves as a group with opinions that affect everyone, but chooses to exclude light skinned and/or mixed people whenever it suits them.

[@blacklightning7022]

That cafeteria scene took me all the way back to school. Blacks, Whites and Hispanics all sat separately at my school; and to make matters worse, we were beefing at the black table. Those were some dark days.

[@AuthorLHollingsworth]

My school was like that, too. The late 80's and 90's. Race wars were something sad.

[@sammierose1150]

I feel you Kim, strongly. As a mixed person (one white parent, one black parent) I have never even tried to identify as a fully black female, because I am cognizant to the fact, that I have not lived that experience, and I never will. I’ve also always been hyper aware, for as long as I can remember, and can remember when I was younger, watching “black shows” that the difference in skin color (especially between wives and husbands) was so obvious and stark to me, that I just always thought everyone else knew these characters shouldn’t be playing fully black characters, because, well, biologically, they’re not fully black. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Don’t be fooled; it annoyed some of us mixed people too, our voices just weren’t as loud I guess lol

[@MelonBrews]

I was so sad when this video ended :( Kim has really been spoiling us with these hour long lives lately 😭

[@akheya4396]

she sould honestly be a director and have her own show

[@skyetranqille9534]

Right, I could listen to her talk about so many topics

[@cherishoneal9108]

Seeing Rainbow's dad and Grandpa had me chuckle because that's usually the trope of off-the-grid white kids. They act hippie, then you find out they have a WASP family and old money.

[@tdr.220]

Right! They have the flexibility to "act" poor because they have never "been" poor!

[@tylerhackner9731]

Black-ish is already Mixed-ish anyway. Half of the Black-ish cast is already biracial. I think, while it seems like it could be a good show, it seems unnecessary.

[@flaffycheez6899]

Cast does not equal story. In the story they are blackish not mixed. And in real life blackish people are just african americans who have who knows what running through their blood besides african and they look like everything!(including like mixed people when their family hasnt mixed for generations like most light skinned families) The casting may be very iffy but most of what I have watched from blackish at least in the earlier seasons is true to form of most black americans regardless of skintone. I do agree a show about bows childhood is not necessary but it's definitely NOT the same as blackish as having a mixed parent is different from having a white parent in the black community PERIODT. And there will be a different discussion and different viewpoint because of that and the time period. This show mixedish is poorly executed in this pilot for sure and it seems really too cliche, at least to me.

[@poodlekissesreborn3948]

Also this is taking place in the 80’s, and part of me just feels like if the show is going to be talking about race, then it’s already by its nature irrelevant. The biracial identity in the age of social media is a huge topic that nobody on TV right now is talking about, and would be a lot more interesting than retreading old ground

[@moifikea8288]

It's not unneccessary to tell mixed people's stories

[@digitalbritt2k]

@Moifi kea: Thank you. The amount of people in this comment section who are so quick to dismiss us and our experiences is very disheartening and frustrating. They’re all saying that we’re not actually bullied and making fun of the “tragic mulatto” thing too, without realizing that all of their comments about us are pretty dang rude...

[@moifikea8288]

@@digitalbritt2k I think it's because these people are adults and the hardest part about being mixed happens during one's childhood and puberty (when you're still defined by your parents or are trying to Figure out who you are) We know we have it good in terms of colorism, but there are other struggles in life...

[@91Vault]

Whenever there is a cafeteria in shows (schools or prison) it stresses me the heck out

[@91Vault]

@Emma XTC I think a lot of people find cafeterias stressful

[@nbucwa6621]

Same lol

[@juniorminjoonhope8030]

There name is Jackson in this 🤨 there was a whole episode of Blackish where Rainbow explains that she never took Dre’s last name when they got married. They just happened to have the same last name Johnson

[@mermaidtingzzz]

Yup! I remember that. I deeply dislike this writing team. They're inconsistent because they're full of shit 🤣.

[@Andrea51108]

I haven't watched it yet. I thought it had to be a mistake when Kim said Jackson. I remember the Johnson vs. Johnson episode of Black-ish too. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@teemgee8605]

Whew! I'm so glad so many others remember that too. There was a whole episode about both their last names being Johnson. A friend of mine is dating someone with the same last name and I brought up that episode

[@LGnLA]

@Charlene Warren 😲😲😲😲👀👀👀👀👀

[@jessiegutuza4782]

Lmao

[@scorpiusjones5436]

I actually feel like checking this out now. As someone who is mixed and raised in a weirdly similar circumstances, sounds like some of this is truly accurate. Showing the "mixed person finding their way" may be a troupe, but it's extremely accurate especially at a young age and I love them talking about that, even if it's not in an interesting way.

[@tylerhackner9731]

Yeah certainly. As a mixed race person (white Jewish father, dark-skinned black mother), I, and probably many other mixed like me, do identify with a lot of the challenges of “what and who do I identify with, how do I find my way?.” The only problem I have is that, with the Black-ish cast, many are biracial, so there’s a feeling of redundancy.

[@tylerhackner9731]

Also the other thing for me is the feeling of color-blindness. A lot of us mixed kids (not saying it’s the same for everyone. We all come in different shades and we all have different experiences), but we can choose to assimilate ourselves with white people and identify with them, but we will still experience racism. They’re all gonna look at us the same. Someone said this same thing in the comments, but that we can opt in and out of systemic and inter-personal oppression feels wrong to me. I feel like as the show goes on, it will address this. I do like how the show’s going so far, despite those qualms. I feel like the mixed experience on this show will be represented properly once they delve more into the characters.

[@r.pinheiro549]

Tyler Hackner there is already the mixed experience on Blackish. Alex Haley’s Queen was about this. Most black literature is about this. Most of HBCUs were formed by mixed people. That narrative is old and tired out. I don’t think we need to hear your narratives at all anymore. In fact we need less racial centered programming and more shows that just feature people of African descent in all our forms.

[@rockymaffitt3345]

As someone that grew up in the 80's and had bi-racial cousins and classmates, I found this show pretty familiar. I witnessed Biracial kids go through all of the situations in the show. My cousin Celeste literally dressed like Madonna so she could sit with the white kids at our school. I think this show is for Gen Xer's that wished there were shows like this in 80's. That being said, I don't think the 2 episodes I watched were good. It relies to heavily on it's premise (we get it, you are mixed). The characters are kinda flat. I love Tika but Gary Cole as the coke snorting grandpa is the only interesting character.

[@user-mb9nm7bq5e]

Ya, I was about to get annoyed with kim, but then she did admit that shes aware that she doesn't know mixed peoples experiences.

[@Intellectualrigor]

Lightskinned MGM mixture here. I'm the same age as Santa Monica in Mixedish. It was this horrible for mixed kids growing up in the 80s and 90s. The mixed and lightskinned people stuck together because we got the same crap. The messages here indicate that people just don't understand that experience.

[@user-mb9nm7bq5e]

@@Intellectualrigor I gotta say, whenever ppl play the worlds smallest violin for light skinned ppl are jerks.

[@Intellectualrigor]

@@user-mb9nm7bq5e, which I totally accept. However, we have to side eye why people are so keen on censoring the accurate explaination of that experience. What are they hiding?

[@user-mb9nm7bq5e]

@@Intellectualrigor facts!

[@rockellebrowne7529]

when a light skinned girl came to my school she was known instantly the boys would sneak in other classes to tell they friends how pretty she was and when I went to a white school they like her too but in a fetishizing type of way teachers had kinder faces as well so its just not realistic at all

[@braidedgirl757]

Exactly that was my experience too...the bi-racial girl was never made fun of but rather prized by the boys and sometimes even the girls who admired her "good hair"

[@westafricana4343]

I saw something different at my school. Liked by boys but not always liked by darkskin girls. I saw that and i also saw the lightskin or biracial girl who didnt like darkskin girls. Its interesting how you only speak on the treatment of boys when favourtism amongst boys is the first thing to fuel jelousy when it comes to girls in the first place.

[@rockellebrowne7529]

@@westafricana4343 i spoke on boys bc there was no conflicts with girls edit actually they like her bc boys did and the good hair thing and they didnt wanna seem like haters soo..

[@westafricana4343]

@@rockellebrowne7529 where exactly is the "conflict" in boys finding a certain kind of girl attractive. Keep it real. You spoke about boys to put empaphize on them getting more attention almost making it seem as though if a person is liked by boys they cant possible endure hatred, jealousy or bullying. I dont even see why boys or men always have to be the first topic brought up when it comes to the experiences of mixed race or biracial women. I will tell you why. Its because of jealousy. Just in another comment section a biracial women spoke about having being bullied by some black girls growing up and black women just managed to say "no thats not true" and bring black men and boys into the mix eventhough the topic is BULLYING. I think thats the thing. I think thats the thing. Black women or girls always wanting validation from men or boys. You think someones happiness has to do with the validation from men. A biracial woman cant have it had because she is liked be men.

[@laurenpatterson7659]

@@westafricana4343 aà

[@ginaschlitz6337]

“What are you mixed with” is a question my sister was asked when we transitioned from a military school in Germany to a predominantly Black school in Compton. This was in the 1970s. It was not an uncommon question in the pre-weave era if your hair had a looser curl pattern. It was not so much about color.

[@StarLight-rq8eh]

Exactly, also that question really hasn't gone anywhere in today's society either. Growing up my family and I moved almost every year so that meant a new school every time, and with every school, I've always had people ask me what I was mixed with or where I was from. I literally had the same reaction and response as Rainbow in the show when I attended an all black school for the first time, it was literally the first time I realized that I was different and this was in the 90's and early 2000's. Even today, I'm almost 30 and grown people at my job always ask me the same question "What are you mixed with?", "What are you?", "Where are you from?". It gets old and tiring having to explain to people, why you don't look like you belong to one particular racial group of people. For me I really related to a lot of the issues brought up in the show, a lot of their experiences I had growing up.

[@CiaoColeG]

Yep, if you looked mixed at all, people, usually black people, will ask even if they can clearly see you have African features.

[@TheDarkAgez]

But is it something strangers would come up n ask? Unless they’re being specifically combative. It’s one thing in a friend group or ppl getting to know u, but this felt so random?

[@kennywright2934]

@@TheDarkAgez 2 years late but yes this is something strangers ask.

[@nromk]

As a Hispanic born in Mexico, people in highschool, college and now work have all asked me: are you Russian, South African, Brazilian, Felpino, Austuralian, Italian, the Arab. Like those questions have always taken me out of my state of mind.

[@poohdabear71]

I'm sorry but I have to say that in the 80's ,when I was a teen, to wonder and ask someone "What are you mixed with" was a normal thing.

[@DaGoodVybe]

poohdabear71 in the early 2000s too‼️

[@poohdabear71]

I actually like the show myself 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@cannibalisticrequiem]

An actual video that's not a livestream? I'm shocked! 😉 (Love your content!) Also the actor you mentioned is Gary Cole. He's a character actor, and has done a lot of TV shows, and smaller roles in movies. The role most might know him for is Bill Lumbergh in Mike Judge's (creator of Bevis and Butthead, Idiocracy, and Daria-- the character) Office Space.

[@lenieserose2038]

Yeah I don't plan to watch this. It's weird for their dark skinned mom who doesn't talk to their kids about race. I have a black mom and white dad and my mom always prepped me about race, discrimination and colorism. She explained to me that I was biracial early on and she taught me that me being biracial is my identity. She also taught me that I can sit at the black table but I can't represent the black table (if that makes sense). Even my dad works on educating himself on black issues. Yeah maybe my family was different because they were southern so they dealt with a lot of racism but, I just assume the black parent would try to educate their biracial children.

[@Jaimelikegem]

I dated a mixed boy who's dark skin black mom didnt talk to him about race. It was weird and I ended up breaking up with him bc a lot of our issues involved his ignorance and self hatred towards race and blackness, but yeah it happens. I had dinner with his family early on and i was asked if id traveled outside the country before and I said jokingly all Haitian people live in Canada, so I go there to visit my fam sometimes. And literally everyone froze as if I'd just started brazenly talking about my sex life at the dinner table. I realized then that their entire family completely ignored race and ethnicity and talking about it even harmlessly or jokingly is considered a nono. Sometimes these black people that marry white people are just something different.

[@msandrews87]

Hey Kim! It's likely I wont watch this show but I will tell you that it's not far fetched. My black, baby boomer, Texas raised parents never spoke to us about racism. And they certainly didnt tell us about colorism (probably because they also participated in it). As long as we assimilated, it wouldn't affect us in their eyes. Smh

[@conflictpersona8]

This is a valid point we cant operate under the assumption that all black people are giving their kids seminars on race its not true.

[@tylerhackner9731]

So happy you’re back! Love that flawless hair! On the show itself so far I don’t like the “color-blind” aspect either. I have a dark-skinned black mother and we both know that we don’t just shy away from race. (She was born the year interracial marriage was legalized). The whole “kumbaya” and “we’ve transcended race” thing just never clicked with me.

[@truesttome]

When did Raven Symone admit to being Aftican? I thought she was still "just American."

[@meikoblock]

right

[@stellabellafontay9366]

She flubbed and said that she was from every continent in Africa or some such nonsense. 😩

[@ilovedeactivatedaccounts]

She is from “Every continent in Africa” I hollered

[@davelundy5629]

If i remeber correctly she said she identified with everyrace and she rejects lables lol.

[@lavarockzz]

She actually did say this on the View I believe. I believe her words were misinterpreted from her lack on how to present verbally what she meant. I think she meant race isn't her concern. Labels do not matter to her racially wise. She is just American. I believe she is trying to express that regardless of race all Americans are simply Americans there should not be a division. We are all equal in race. The only way equality will happen if race is taken out of the question.Unfortunately this is not our reality and she did not express this properly.

[@starzzzy22]

I thought the cafeteria boy asking "what are you weirdos mixed with?" Knew they were black and wanted to know what else they were. I've literally seen that in real life.

[@booklover466]

I tried watching it just to give it a chance and I couldn’t get past 10 minutes of the episode. It was really bad.... just terrible and unnecessary since half of Black-ish casts are biracial already.

[@BonnieBunny883]

Right. Black-ish is already mixed-ish.

[@hulee1968]

🤣 I know I'm not watching the show because I don't care but I love your avatar. It's hilarious

[@DynamicUnoTea]

There's Just For Me on the commune? Lol. Just for meeeeeee, the no-lye conditioning relaxer creme.

[@Imthemary]

Secarah you just took me all the way back! 😂

[@ericthomas4055]

A continuity issue... Rainbow last name was Johnson before she met Dre.

[@joadeyemo8160]

This did come up on an episode of Black-ish though. Both Dre and Rainbow happened to have the same name.

[@boricua584]

A non live video ! Yayyyy. I like the lives lol. But I love this format more.

[@user-mb9nm7bq5e]

gosslear is like half Indonesian IRL, so those kids are really mixed

[@samielee2233]

I think Gosslear is 1/4th Indonesian. Maybe a little less?

[@ashleymailer6376]

Samie Lee his mother is half Indonesian, so you are correct

[@nothingbettertodo7398]

“On the top of the ship” LMAOAOAOOA I CANT 😭😭

[@chrysalisamidst]

this is like a quip that is so dripping with history and irony

[@nothingbettertodo7398]

CHRYSALISAMIDST/#AuntieAntebellum !!!! THAT PART!!!!

[@cherishoneal9108]

I caught that when he said it.

[@tdr.220]

Isn't this also struggle love, but just with a white man instead?

[@pinklady2994]

Exactly! I know Kim didn’t want to go there but....it rubbed me the wrong way that Tika is working and her husband isn’t and that bw always have to do everything lol

[@crystaldblevins]

You are so right. Black Women are always doing the most for their families being the breadwinner and all of the above to make ends meet. Here, they had an opportunity to flip the script and show the man being the provider. They did not, instead she has to do it all.

[@joeking8789]

@@crystaldblevins Are you joking? Do you live in a bubble? Have you ever looked at a statistic in your life? The vast majority of black women with children are unemployed, how are they breadwinners? The men and the government provides the vast majority of income/support to mothers and single mothers. What a joke.

[@scholasticbookfair.]

@@joeking8789 Black women are the most educated group in America. Maybe you should look at statistics.

[@joeking8789]

@@scholasticbookfair. Now i know you're joking...

[@DBMe33]

Im calling CPS on any parent that I find out named their child 'Santa Monica.' Setting that child up for some serious crap when they get to school. 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@Drewski217]

There's just nothing that interesting alone about these mixed race childrens' experience. Frankly I wish the show instead was more autobiographical and perhaps was this mixed existence but with the child of a very famous black woman, their white dad and having to navigate that field of finding black identity while also holding privilege over other black people and just the acknowledgment of that.

[@eternalluv3r372]

Drewski217 That’s an awesome idea.

[@Intellectualrigor]

I'm lightskinned, MGM mixed and a child of the 80s and 90s. Santa Monica and I were born the same year. I'm going to have to disagree with you on a lot of points here. In the 80s and 90s, mixed people WERE considered pariahs and asked what they were mixed with. I'm not even racially ambiguous and Black people ask me that weekly. While I was always comfortable choosing friends based on interests, a lot more of my biracial peers struggled because they didn't fit the mold. Sometimes, parents who were Black and White didn't want us playing with their kids because of what we represented. Like Rainbow, we usually hung out with the other "unusual" kids. They definitely got that part right. The fact that the parents really didn't discuss race meant they were choosing escapism. The commune was their retreat when the world got too tough. That's why Rainbow's aunt and her grandfather are hard on her parents. They want them to make more realistic choices.

[@NamiBluee]

Chile they always erase us 😹 and if we are apart of a show/movie we are depicted as jealous mean or evil .. its quite tiring tbh we just need to start making our own movies/shows 🤷🏾‍♀️ young darker skinned kids especially girls need to see themselves in the media 🙄

[@ejfhill]

There's no dark skinned women in media? BS! How about: Viola Davis, Tika Sumpter, Lupita Nyong'o, Gabourey Sidibe, etc. Colorism within the black community makes this a beef that needs to die with the white supremacy that created the beef to begin with.

[@fredrika27]

@@ejfhill Add to this the people of color who keep it alive by making color important. This includes entertainers that put one skin type over the other and parents who tell their children not to bring potential mates who are too dark skinned or ''act or look white'.

[@thefuture3376]

Yeah create your own shit and stop asking the slavemaster to paint you in a better light because it’s getting boring and laughable black people need to stop projecting their insecurity on mixed people too that shit ain’t funny

[@NamiBluee]

The Future Bitch hush🙄 I’m Eritrean and Cuban did you forget you can be mixed and darkskin as well? Idiot idk why you chose to come on my comment but i can and will light your dumbass up

[@saeon4427]

@@ejfhill stop lying stop trying to pacify us stfu

[@NatalieM123]

This is why I don't watch Network television lol. Honestly, this stuff is pretty cringy overall and it feels very tone deaf and not representative of the experience of black people, or mixed race people.

[@StrawberryFeildsforNever]

8:38 that’s just not black life for you. I’m “light skin” and I’d get picked on for being “white” or “acting white”. Along with the darker skinned girls being colorist too. But it all just depends on the person.

[@dymond4207]

I'm not a mixed race woman (meaning both parents are black) but I'm fair skin w/ white ancestors. One of Great grandfather was polish & one the other was French. They had kids for a Native American woman and a black woman. I'm from the Louisiana & I have experienced some of these things. I've had dark skin girls bully me, I've had people come up to me and say "What are u?" I've seen light skin girl group off with white girls or group off by themselves. I lived with the stereotype that if u r dark skin your mean & if your light skin then you're uppity. My mom has had older women ask her what she's doing at the black school, she needs to be with the white kids. My grandfather would only eat with the white workers at his job but both his wives were brown skin women. He also asked my mother why she was marrying that "Black Nigga". I think all sides of people's lives need to be told. I think light skin kids & mixed race kids need to know they can be proud of their skin without having to apologize for being proud of their skin. All of this doesn't negate every issue that brown & dark skin ppl face & how they are represented but I think both sides should get to speak to their experiences.

[@MClement21]

"They look like Roots!!" 🤣🤣🤣

[@polisigh216]

The issue is that eventually Rainbow chooses blackity black Andre. So I am not understanding little Rainbow.

[@lisacox3750]

Chant Bagby...I think that's why they felt the need for this show. To show where Bow came from and where she is now.

[@mikochild2]

"What are you weirdos mixed with?" I lived this. I was fair but not as light as those children, but I still got this question as a child. That scene was pretty realistic.

[@youalreadyknow9617]

If I were to watch “mixed-ish”, I’d suffer blindness from all of my SEVERE eye rolling...🙄

[@deidraleitner5787]

You Alreadyknow 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@digitalbritt2k]

Why? Why is a show about our experiences something to eye roll about?! Y’all don’t even realize how rude you’re being...

[@digitalbritt2k]

@James Leon: Um, what. Are you trying to say that there are no shows about black families out there?! Like, seriously?

[@digitalbritt2k]

@James Leon: I completely agree with this. It’s always been this way, going all the way back to the Cosby show, etc. But this is why I’m happy that Mixed-ish is a thing, so that biracials are actually playing biracials instead of black people. Biracials playing black people is just another form of whitewashing and I always talk about how it needs to stop and how we can’t be the face of black representation. BUT, shows about black families starring black people (+ biracials) do exist. Yes, it’s messed up that some of the characters are played by biracials, but the stories/content is still written for you. I can’t think of any shows off the top of my head that have been specifically meant and written for biracial people where biracials are actually playing biracials. I’m hoping that a show like Mixed-ish will help people realize that there’s a difference and we (biracials and black people) can all be represented accurately. The problem also stems from the black community often “claiming” biracials or telling us that we’re black, though. That needs to stop too. Because as long as Hollywood thinks that the black community believes and promotes that biracial = black, the more they’ll cast us in black roles. Again, that’s why I’m happy Mixed-ish is a thing. I just hope they stay on the path of Bow and her siblings standing firm in their Mixed-ness, if they ultimately decide in the end that biracial = black, it’ll be a waste and send a message that helps none of us.

[@BabyDoll-bu7ce]

@@digitalbritt2k they dont care how rude they're being because it's all about them and them only. No one suffers as much as they do in their head and that's all that matters to them. The show has to be about them and their struggles only or it didnt happen or shouldn't exist

[@gwendolynhampton1789]

Idk about your point about the black child asking “what are you weirdos mixed with” because I’m a fully black light skinned girl that gets asked that a lot from black ppl, and I don’t even look mixed??? I’m just light lol. In my opinion, those kids do appear mixed though. It’s honestly pretty realistic that they were asked that question. I agree with the rest of the video though

[@milkandspice1074]

Also, Raven played a biracial girl in Queen. Just a little sidenote, lol.

[@mermaidtingzzz]

I agree, Black people have never been shy about asking if someone is mixed, my mom literally just got asked by a new friend the other day. But I think the real issue is the tone of the question and even the use of "weirdos". Just off my hair texture I've gotten the question and it's never been accusatory or demeaning nor prefaced or followed by an insult. The "-ish" writers imo have always been tonally off in really subtle ways and that's one of them. On top of the fact that they're perpetuating the idea that light brown Black folks just became a thing in the 60s/70s. It actually would've been great for Bow amd the sibs to realized a light skin Black person wasn't mixed like them.

[@iguessitsokyungrichbaby2813]

It’s the tone and the use of weirdos and lets be honest if a black male is asking what are you mixed with it’s with excitement not disgust. It was just asked in a very unrealistic way

[@MissMeMe343]

They definitely looked mixed. None of them are passing for just light skinned.

[@germanshorty09]

I think what she meant was it's obvious that they're "white" so him asking what they're mixed with is ridiculously because they're not racially ambiguous, clearly they're mixed with black

[@KingofReads]

Almost at 100k 🙌🏽

[@joeannchaney1219]

HEY JUSTIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@JustJohnda]

Actually your age is showing here in the cafeteria scene. It was 1985, colorism was HUGE. Light-skinned girls were considered to be the pretty girls, so they did not always hang with the dark skinned girls. I am Rainbow's age. So, this is absolutely the case. People did assume that those with "good hair" were mixed or "you got Indian in tour family." Brown girls were not even in style within their own families. It was typical for those of us Brown girls who were considered to be attractive to be told, "you are cute for a dark-skinned girl."

[@teshara]

My mom went mental when she found out found out the teachers were making me eat lunch in the library because other parents didnt want me exposing their children to mixing and thinking it was OK. One of my classmates came to schooI talking about how her family was talking about my race at the dinner table and were making bets and could I please confirm who was right. I started school in 1980. Every single mixed kid I knew was adopted because they families were ashamed no matter what the mother's race. Still not watching the show. It seems way too fluffy.

[@conflictpersona8]

In glad ppls rainbow's age are giving their insight bc whether we agree with kim or not im enjoying reading other peoples experiences none the less.

[@nakrwa]

I dont remember that. Maybe college age young people....and in Hollywood. Black was Black were I was. Shrugs.

[@tarawalker7193]

Agreed

[@LGnLA]

@The Beautiful One AND so what if 'she's very dark'??? DAFUQ, what kind of BS statement is that in 2019?????? Have you seen Lupita's BEAUTIFUL DARK self???? Grow up, please and thank you! Sheeeesh...

[@ADavis-rx2fi]

I get that point about the lack of dark skinned cast members in blackish, but y’all gotta remember that bow is MIXED which means that the kids CAN be a variety of shades (aka they can take after their mother and have lighter skin, or have darker skin). Just a lil something To think about.

[@ogbobbyjohnson2456]

Right

[@polisigh216]

Also why is Aunt Denise the TSA worker? The one with the proximity to whiteness is the educated one.

[@sorzin2289]

Why is she a TSA agent? The TSA was formed after 9/11.

[@latasha1426]

She's not a TSA worker, she just had the bossy personality of one...

[@sorzin2289]

@@latasha1426 oh that makes more sense.

[@LGnLA]

💯👏👏💯👏👏💯👏👏💯

[@anaugustvirgo]

I love watching your videos Kimberly! I've learned so much watching you, this inspired me to write a blog post on mixed-ish. I watched the first episode and wanted to write about it as a black woman who is half white. Thanks!

[@roxannevicious]

Awesome review!! I really appreciated your insight -- I hadn't decided whether or not to give this show a try and this helped me figure out that it's just not for me. I find it pretty problematic that the children are shown to have that much agency in choosing whether to be black or white . . . . this seems kinda victim-blaming (for lack of a better term) to me. Some mixed and black people happen to be "light" enough to pass for white, and for those specific individuals there is more of an option to make some superficial and some deeply physically and mentally harmful changes and "pass". But that's rarely a real choice for most mixed and black folks -- and frankly any of those children can choose to sit at the white table and assimilate, but they will still experience racism. Maybe the show plans on exploring that -- I hope so. But as it stands in the pilot, I think that's a pretty horrendous message to send to young black children (of any skin tone); that they have the power to in any way opt out of systemic and inter-personal oppression. This seems borderline abusive to me. Totally agree with you that the goal we should focus on is liberation from racism, not color-blindness. History and culture matter, and our differences should be seen and respected, not swept up as part of the inequality we must destroy. Every time you pop up on my notifications I get so happy!! How wonderful to hear your thoughts and see your lovely face -- thanks for sharing your brilliance bebe -- you shine, we shine.

[@augustlove6862]

Maybe Mixed-ish is to speak to the mixed experience. What's wrong with that? I'm not mixed so I can't relate but it's nice to see a different perspective told. If you take 5 mins to read down your comments, plenty of mixed people are agreeing with what's being said in the show. So maybe this show is relevant after-all. Rather than taking on this very specific show, perhaps we can revisit all the black shows from the 90's that had mixed people playing "black" people...

[@EloiseInParis]

I knew from the promo's I wasn't watching the show. The kids are weird because they were on a commune, that should've been the focus. Adjusting to real life and realizing race is a thing. Not having to choose, but realizing in the 80s (or to be honest now, unless you are white-passing) there wasn't really a choice. The parents just having those conversations is assinine. There is no way two people in an interracial relationship who were at Berkley in the '70s didn't discuss race. Yes, the father should be having a rude awakening, but you're right the mother would know better. Maybe they didn't have those conversations with the kids because they were in "utopia", and there should be a lot of guilt on the mother's part for not preparing her kids for the world. Maybe they will explore that, but I won't be watching. It seems like they don't want to make white folks uncomfortable, and that's the only way to really handle the subject matter.

[@NKN112011]

Yes, I thought this too when Rainbow's character was talking about choosing her race as if she had a choice. She could choose not to associate with black kids, but she couldn't choose to be white because she doesn't look it.

[@TNDCBaby]

I can see it if they sought solace in each other to escape racial issues. If Berkley was more or less accepting and you never really moved in spaces where they openly questioned you and then you went to a commune it could be easy to avoid it for quite some time.

[@EloiseInParis]

@@TNDCBaby Berkley was a school known for the "radical" ideas of its students during the '60s and '70s. I can see how they would've been able to date on campus and run off to a commune. But never discuss race? Especially as law students. So what they skipped all the protests that in any way could be race related? They never encountered Black Panthers on campus? She wasn't part of the Black Student Union or any Black organizations? No white people said anything rude or crazy? They moved to the commune to have an idyllic life, but never discussed why the commune would be such a safe space? White people may not have to discuss or think about race, but black folks don't have that luxury.

[@TNDCBaby]

@@EloiseInParis I know about Berkley. Yeah they could go to the rallies and yell. No discussion of deeper topics needed. She could have been apart of all of the above by herself. They were at Berkley. It's easy enough to be in a nice bubble. It wasn't hard to understand why in the middle of a war and all of the world's craziness one might want to move to one. We are talking peak commune time. Black folks can think about it but we all have the luxury of picking and choosing who we get into deep discussions with about it and that includes when you're confronted by it head on. It's not unheard of for people to avoid deep and uncomfortable conversations. It's not the healthiest but it's pretty easy to be dismissive or have surface level convos.

[@littleeva]

That actor is Gary Cole. I first saw him in a show called Midnight Caller.

[@JaysWife]

He was the father on the Brady Bunch Movie 😂

[@Bronwyn-cf3um]

He’s also the boss in Office Space. He’s a great actor.

[@victorialove7844]

So I’m mixed raced and light skinned so I just wanna quickly tell my opinion to all the people in the comments who don’t understand the problems of being mixed race. I also wanna clarify that people who have dark skin have a harder time and colorism 100% exists. I grew up in a mostly white area so being different really sucked. I was mostly bullied by white kids but every know and then I would get bullied by a black girl. I had such a hard time trying to find my place and just about in the last 1-2 years have embraced both sides of my family. Almost if not all mixed kids go through an identity crisis and feel so insecure because they don’t feel accepted by either side. Some white people view me as too black, and some black people view me as not black enough. I’m in high school right now I’m pretty young. I had to stop public school and start online school because I was bullied so much. The only representation I had growing up was Zendaya, she was the only girl on Disney who looked like me. I don’t think the show should’ve had the mean kids be dark skin because it just sets a bad example. Lots of mixed kids are bullied by dark skin kids but I still don’t agree because it still gives negative representation. I just think that mixed kids go through so much internal stress and insecurities so the people in the comments saying we don’t go through stuff really sucks. Thanks for listening💞

[@MamaSitaGarcia]

Thank you for sharing your experience.

[@maryriver2311]

I have some biracial friends who went through this and it really affected them. I definitely think your struggles are real and valid.

[@westafricana4343]

I noticed a huge difference with my friends among the ones who were raised to pick one side and the ones who were raised to understand and embrace the fact that they were biracial. Interestingly enough the ones who were raised aware of their biracial identity never suffered with their identity as much as the ones who were forced to identify as black or those who were forced to pick their white side more. And yeah back at my school i did witness those same things. I personally dont think its fair to always have the one sided discussion of mixed race or lightskin girls being mean to darkskin girls because it honestly goes both ways and one discussion shouldnt be ignored just because one side feels they have had it worse. I have seen both happen so i understand completely. Im glad you can finally embrace both sides.

[@nyanzarojas8776]

This is why biracial ppl need to embrace being biracial. If they did that they would not have the need to belong to one group or the other.

[@truvy_5544]

Ppl just need to realize it all depends on your neighborhood. Growing up colorism wasn't a thing at all until I saw it on media in 2018. I've experienced texturism and pretty privilege & favoritism (from both whites & dark skins). I've heard ppl say they'll rather date a brown skin than a dark skin and shame light skins because they thought all black light skins was cocky & ugly.

[@gabrielmichael3701]

This experience happens all the time though! I don’t know a single mixed person who tells me that it’s just a myth.

[@WhiteRaven696]

I agree with you about not liking the whole kumbaya “race shouldn’t even be a thing” vibe some media seems to peddle. Race is a thing, culture is a thing, ethnicity and nationality are things. They shouldn’t be erased because people want to hide from the past. We should teach everyone that racism is bad and to embrace their different cultures and backgrounds, not teach them that race itself is bad. That just homogenizes culture and no one wants that.

[@adleyjoseph1384]

I'm so happy for you! You're so close to 100k subs. I love your channel❤

[@humayyyra]

There's flatirons on the commune 😂😂😭😭

[@archerrising9947]

Mullatto tragedy trope evoked x 10. Side note, Mixedish is still relying on specific narrative experience of blackness despite being about being mixed. Being black and mixed is just not the same as being mixed with ethnicities that are closer to whiteness in proximity.( Y'all can follow Me on KZbin though) lmao

[@goldyd144]

@Ella Hendrix They are, tho? Literally every time dark-skinned black women talks about dating, people like you swarm in to mock them and act like colorism doesn't exist.

[@analuizanoleto9705]

Inconsider myself white, mostly because I look white, but my paternal grandmother is black, and now, as an adult, I feel like avoiding this part of my family and history is wrong, still, most people would never accept if I embraced black culture because of my fair skin and straight hair, so yeah! Being mixed is not the same as being black!

[@r.pinheiro549]

Ana Goldstein yes but you truly mixed. The average mixed person still presents black. Also if this was 60 years ago you would have just been black and it’s all nonsense.

[@coolyhighflow1267]

Lilly Rose Pinheiro no she wouldn’t, she would be considered white passing

[@FTKComputer]

So happy you’re back! 😀 love the hair btw!

[@jada7323]

As a biracial person, I feel as if that scene where he asked “what are you weirdos mixed with” is true. TO AN EXTENT. Yes all the time I get people coming up and asking what am I mixed with but it’s never in a rude or harsh demeanor. They genuinely want to know. So I feel like they could have set that scene up differently.

[@FreyaEinde]

There was a way to do this, but they botched the execution on every level. I do think the POV of mixed people is a legit thing and a worthwhile narrative but...this is kinda all over the place.

[@blairsmith296]

Fleabag is my show! I'm sad it's over, but glad that she finished off the series strong instead of dragging it out. I haven't watched Blackish; and I'm not motivated to watch Mixedish either. I enjoyed your review per usual.

[@thotcrimez4252]

Girrrl yes. If you’ve never seen a check out absolutely fabulous because that is also a very good show! Flea Bag also deserves more awards!

[@blairsmith296]

@@thotcrimez4252 I think I may have seen it playing on BBC. I gotta check it out now. Thanks for the recommendation.

[@stellabellafontay9366]

Same here. Haven't watched either. I assumed that black-ish meant "not that black" anyway. 👀

[@WilliamsPinch]

AND I’m happy you came back with another video bc we’re almost at 100k!

[@deevah2450]

The black woman says 'f*ck it, I'll do it.' ... since the beginning of time. Amen.

[@MadeleineSwannSurreal]

Fleabag is amazing! I wish I'd seen the original show. The trouble I find with mainstream US TV is the simplicity but also the obsession with high school. TV writers need to get over high school!

[@ellcally508]

Its the execs. They think thats the way to pull youth in. Even though teens and kids have moved on to vines, or whatever SM app.

[@MadeleineSwannSurreal]

@@ellcally508 true

[@arriston3862]

Gary cole (the grandfather) plays in the Good Fight which is also a predominantly Black Show and one of the best Political Drama on Tv. I highly recommend it

[@user-dq7cm6ug4h]

And The Good Wife and Veep!

[@arriston3862]

@@user-dq7cm6ug4h Yeees! Veep is sooo good

[@girlwhomustnotbenamed4139]

Finally someone mentioning The Good Fight and The Good Wife! 😁 I was looking at these comments like really? Everyone knows Gary Cole from sg else?😆

[@MyeshaSkye]

I WAS WAITING ON THIS

[@dessythatmessyb-]

another continuity issue in the show that I noticed is that their last name was Jackson. In Black-ish there was an episode where Dre found out that Bo's last name was ALWAYS Johnson and that she never changed it when she married him since they had the same last name.

[@RichardWritesOn]

How they gonna explain the Mama being light skinned in present day? LMAO! This is what I wanna know.

[@jolondabarr3480]

T.M.M. Richardson vitiligo?

[@125loopy]

🤣🤣🤣 your face on the thumbnail is killing me

[@sharamusica]

Just watch the trailer. I left after the water fight set to “walking on sunshine” 🤨

[@em.415]

Shara Adams 😂

[@kiaraharris5767]

I thought the ‘ish’ part stood for them being mixed & the kids not growing up around “typical” black culture

[@amy675fly]

Thank you Kim Foster for watching this so I didn't have to; I can't wait to see your reaction vid!

[@corneliojerez1791]

Propaganda is pushed through entertainment, too. Just like we feed the body, we feed the mind. What are we feeding our mind?

[@aryanne5012]

LOL! I thought I was the only person who assumed all light skin people were just light skin black people. I'm from New Orleans, so all the light skin and racially ambiguous people I've known were always black. It wasn't until I moved out of state that I met light skin people that did not have two black parents.