Being Mixed Race ft. Sarah: Scottish | Nigerian

[@WoahhTeamJacob]

Her vibe is immaculate! I am mixed race and live in the US, so i appreciate hearing her perspective of being mixed race in Europe.

[@MissMorii]

Her vibe is always amazing and so is her perspective. Thank you for watching :)

[@sarahconnell]

Thank you Rose Ace, I really appreciate your words! You too Moresha

[@ltai-now]

I wish I can be interviewed, I am multiracial but I am unique in that I am darker skinned, I think I could bring out a different perspective of being dark and mixed race and what that feels like.

[@MissMorii]

Hi Bella, is there a way we can connect on instagram to see if there is a possibility to do a interview together?

[@malaikanaomi1408]

Did you ever get interviewed?

[@grinchmafia7295]

The world has always been diverse. People act as if mixed race people are a new concept. The term is new but differing groups of people have been mixing and exchanging since the dawn of man. A perfect example are most Central Asians are Eurasians, North Africans are a cross between many diverse groups, Indians are agglomeration of different groups, most latin Americans are Mestizo, Polynesians are admixed. Arabs are mixed.

[@MissMorii]

That is very true. We all are who we are today because our ancestors have been mixing ethnicities for a veeery long time. Nonetheless not to long ago mixed race marriages were forbidden, so it is important to talk about being mixed race in our society as it is now.

[@amalficoast6357]

Exactly...Brazil is the perfect example.

[@Mna-qc1fk]

I am mixed race too and I am proud of myself

[@Jlisa21]

I’m a black\biracial woman and it is frustrating to have an entire part of you invalidated just because you appear a certain way. I love my melanated skin but if I even acknowledge that I am mixed (I have one black parent and one biracial parent) I’m told I’m not allowed to because of my phenotype, i’m “black passing” in a way, a lighter skinned black woman. I hope that makes sense. Meghan Markle is “white passing” but everyone acknowledges that she is mixed. It doesn’t seem to work both ways. People think you have to be 50/50 or on the lighter side to be mixed and forget about the multi-generationally mixed and those mixed with non-white races that can appear less ambiguous.

[@acebutterfly2725]

If you have one parent that is Blk and the other biracial, by definition you are not biracial. A biracial person has 2 monoracial parents. Also, the reason why you likely get push back for identifying as mixed is because there are likely Blk ppl that are the offspring of 2 monoracial parents that look like you. So, ppl probably think that you are self hating when you claim a mixed identity because your appearance likely does not indicate a biracial parent.

[@catherinesterling1685]

Please tell me the advantage Because I haven't seen it I need to know

[@imjustwatchingyoutube8725]

Im afro-portuguese. Im proud of both my sides but sometimes i feel like i don’t fit anywhere not in my portuguese side or my african side.

[@MissMorii]

I completely understand that. It can be difficult at times but it really does get easier with time. Especially because you get to know yourself better and then become more comfortable with just being you :)

[@dennistunge7882]

I am black but when it comes to mixed race i love them because they unite us all from all backgrounds ❤❤❤❤

[@sarahconnell]

Thank you so much for having me Moresha, maybe next time you will be in front of the camera ? :)

[@MissMorii]

I will do a interview myself one day. But for now I’m confusing in other people :). Thank you so much Sarah! Xx

[@jeansven4061]

This woman is BLACK. Sis you look BLACK. I SEE A BEAUTIFUL BLACK WOMAN. YOU DON'T PASS FOR A WHITE WOMAN, like meghan markle for instance. Your skin is darker and that is beautiful too.

[@Woman_OfGod14.]

@@jeansven4061do you have this hobby where you go on videos about mixed people and spam this one drop nonsense

[@Justcanary8888]

@@jeansven4061 y’all will say they’re “black” until they “take” opportunities from black people. They’re mixed the end!!!

[@chenzenzo]

Fit like Sara. My Pa died when I was a boy. You're a great feckin kid. Being African is kinda beautiful. I'm Congolese, Nigerian and west African. Love everything you are. Be black and love it. Respect and love.

[@hannahduggan3599]

I'm American of Celtic-UK and Southeast Asian descent. I was born in America 🇺🇸. Daddy was born in America 🇺🇸 and has Celtic-UK heritage. Mommy was born in Laos 🇱🇦. Mommy's mother 👩, Grandma 👵, was born in Thailand 🇹🇭. Grandma 👵 died in America 🇺🇸. My 6 little brothers were also born in America. My ancestor Daniel Duggan had fiery red hair and blue eyes. Nobody in my family looks like that. Some of them have blue eyes, but nobody in my family have red hair. Daniel Duggan was born in Tennessee. His father was born in Ireland and his mother was born in Scotland. I think that one of my aunt's ex husband is part Italian and I think that my great aunt's husband was part German. And my cousin's husband is black. They have a daughter. Really? I have a mixed race family. Daddy and his siblings were born in America. Daddy's little sister (one of the twins) has a husband who was born in Laos, just like Mommy. Mommy and her father and siblings were born in Laos. Grandma was born in Thailand.

[@jupitergonewild4933]

I'm Nigerian and Irish I feel more spiritually connected with the Irish side of my ancestry because I hate the way black women and girls are raised and treated in the black community.

[@seyanuagboola2912]

So irish women are treated right, or are they just treated yt.

[@spike2227]

You aren't Irish stop trying to cultural appropriate my peoples identity

[@maureenbennett809]

Why do mixed race women always assume that they have the nicest hair and the nicest complexions being dark skinned doesn’t equate a bad complexion black people also have beautiful complexions - Not to mention we age at a much slower rate. I am not mixed and my hair is absolutely stunning which I inherited from my father who was very dark and handsome I always get complimented on how nice my hair is by men and women of all races, even Indian people admire my hair which is rare as indians are obviously known for their beautiful long hair. That’s because my hair is extremely thick, coarse, shiny, curly and glossy that most of the time people think that I am wearing a wig. I have never worn a wig and I also speak for black women in general who have good hair and I wouldn’t swap my hair for mixed raced hair for the world as my hair is a much better texture and very unique (don’t mean no offence - just saying) ❤️❤️😄

[@sarahconnell]

Hi, I definitely thought that in the past and have met many mixed girls with that opinion. I suppose that as we grew up (talking of my generation only), we only saw relaxed hair or loose curls on TV, so that was seen as more beautiful. Not to even include the invitation/pressure to chemically relax our own hair by our peers. Ever since the natural afro hair movement in the early 2010s, I feel like a lot of people with curls of every types of tightness got to embrace and actually love their own hair. But I definitely get your point, and was definitely one of those people in the past. My own hair wasn't good enough.

[@AngelicaEstherxo]

How is your hair COARSE AND SHINY at the same time? Coarse hair is not shiny… coming from someone with 3c/4a curls. Also, how can you know what mixed people think? Is not mixed people who think they have the best hair or complexion… its OTHER PEOPLE who tend to say that to them.

[@exoticallovergirl]

She feels that way because black people reinforce it, and buy the fake hair that looks like this. Why shouldn’t she feel pride about her looks? You said yours is better anyways, why is it ok for you?

[@Claudio55278]

You are right. She is also right. Beauty is everywhere. In all people. Its not only property of biracial people, or black people or Indian. Its all over. I am 25% african and 75% white and i apreciate beauty in all women.

[@godschild4988]

Beautiful Young Lady 💕🌹

[@MissMorii]

She is, isn't she :). Thank you!

[@maureenbennett809]

It’s not right to say mixed raced women are more presentable than black women. I’ve seen women who are as black as coal and who are the most STUNNING!! Women in the world without even trying -Think Angella Summer For example on KZbin. Also another example of gorgeous hair 😁😁

[@MissMorii]

It wasn’t said that mixed women are more presentable because that just isn’t true at all. And I couldn’t agree more that black women are stunning! That is not what this Channel is about. This channel wants to highlight the experiences, struggles and lifestyles of mixed race people :)

[@jayjayhibbs]

If you had any brain cells you’d know that she wasn’t saying that from how she feels but she was actually highlighting the colourism in industries such as modelling. She quite literally said herself that it’s wrong. So what a useless comment you made.

[@abbysands9510]

Agreed. Also, to me different cultures isn't mixed race. What do I mean? If you have a white person who is from Scotland and a white person from Russian or a black person from Jamaica or a black person from America - to me that is not mixed race. Mixed race to me is too different races whether that is black or white, white or Asian, white or Chinese, black or Chinese, etc

[@nappykite7132]

Light wood and light wood , bamboo and desert wood , but desert wood isn't...

[@MultiSmartass1]

Nice young lady here but the questions asked are too cliche and stereotyped . Biracials are not all generally confused or all about racial and ethnic identity . Biracial people are like any other people. Yes they have dual ethnicities and races and perhaps issues st time with that but biracial people aren't some unique exotic thing.

[@MissMorii]

Thank you for your feedback. We will look over the questions in the future. I agree that mixed race people are like any others but growing up with dual ethnicities is unique and can be tough to navigate at times. But that also depends who you are and what your surroundings were like.

[@jeffreyAdewaleIge]

as so called " mixed " is also within a spectrum of skin colors and facial features ( and body). i find the term itself problematic to lump people and experiences in the context under white supremacy that we all live under ( to say the lease ). I do not identify myself as " mixed" ! but having said that i am very proud of my both my parents different "racial" / Cultures/ heritages .

[@KS-qz2vo]

To be honest she looks Horner like North Sudanese, Somali, Eritrean or Ethiopian !

[@unapologetic7281]

Those people in the horn are mixed too

[@grinchmafia7295]

@@unapologetic7281 They ain't all mixed. Cushitic phenotype is quite widespread in East Africa and has existed for thousands of years.

[@seyanuagboola2912]

​@@grinchmafia7295not all but most

[@raloway2955]

She pretty ash 🤎

[@TheCandiShop]

We are black. I am also Nigerian and Scottish. I would never fix my mouth to say I am not black.

[@teeade]

One of the great debates at the moment

[@teeade]

I just call people who have Black blood in them African to save the headache.

[@michaila8]

I agree

[@justmebeinghonest]

You are. Stop forcing other people to identify as black.

[@ReinaAfricana]

​@@justmebeinghonest she's talking about herself anywho we would never force that on anybody. As somebody who does have a mixed background but mostly claim black that's what I do. Nobody saying to claim Blackness because many of us are gatekeeping it. Many of you want to be black when it's beneficial know you're biracial stay in your lane

[@lokkomotive8153]

“I’m not black” girl I look at you with my eyes and you are black

[@KingNeutral1]

You think she looks blk because society has erased the image of full Blk ppl. It’s common for multiracial to play the roles of bIk women so this is what you now see as bIk. Put her in a crowd of Ghanaians and Senegalese people and she’ll stick out like a sore thumb.

[@Woman_OfGod14.]

Okay and your perception means nothing your opinion means nothing your perception doesn’t change her dna your a random person she’s both no matter what you say or do she will always be both bc she came from 2 parents with different races didn’t it take both of them to make her exactly so I don’t get why you guys cling to the one drop rule she looks mixed, mixed looks like any thing literally any thing doesn’t change the fact ur mixed I’m sure you wouldn’t say “girl I look at you with my eyes and you are white” to a white passing mixed person doesn’t change the fact there dna says other wise

[@Woman_OfGod14.]

Hun skin colour and hair is all you payed attention to look at the features there mixed

[@HigherLearning222]

@@Woman_OfGod14. Her skin and hair is mixed too, lol.

[@nappykite7132]

Bon ovwir, our Chinese side excepts only Chinese as a tree monkey to d beat, Chinese monkey piiyu, plus real Chinese show which I will be playing the role of But as mulatto truly don't have sex from mixed males, so that makes it easier to no have sex sex sex all the time....just throwing that out there

[@nappykite7132]

Breath both si, d hair

[@jeansven4061]

This woman is BLACK. Sis you look BLACK. I SEE A BEAUTIFUL BLACK WOMAN. YOU DON'T PASS FOR A WHITE WOMAN, like meghan markle for instance. Your skin is darker and that is beautiful too.

[@wokefromhome7389]

She can’t identify with Culture she didn’t grow up with. She isn’t that light skinned in the state’s she would be treated very differently and probably go through shock.

[@blaqueruby4946]

She does not look blk. She looks mixed. Lupita looks different to her... there is not thing wrong with that...

[@wokefromhome7389]

@Halima Shehu she looks like most light skin blacks. Mixed culture and mixed features are two different things so I don’t fault her for not identifying as black however it is naïve for her to assume that people would just see her as mixed and not monoracial.

[@MissMorii]

It’s about self identity. It is up to the person to identify as black/white or mixed. Of course the outside world will categorise a person based on their looks but as a mixed race person I know where I am from and I have to right to claim both sides.

[@jeansven4061]

@@MissMorii That's right, BOTH sides. Meghan passes for a white woman due to her skin tone but this girl passes for a black person with a light skin tone. And they are both really beautiful shades. None is better than the other.

[@AprilN]

Hi! I'm half Ukrainian half Ghanaian, currently based in Ghana but have lived in both countries and in Russia as well. Loved this interview, she's absolutely right about the biracial experience and no we're neither black nor white and shouldn't be pushed into 1 category. Would love to be interviewed if possible . Here's my IG: @aprilnutakor

[@MissMorii]

I’d love to hear your story. I’ll get intouch with you via Instagram :)

[@AprilN]

@@MissMorii great! Thank you))

[@malaikanaomi1408]

Hi April! I’m half Swiss and half Rwandan living in Switzerland and I totally respect you identifying this way but it’s important to let mixed people identify how they want. Most of the time I identify as Black and sometimes as mixed. For me it’s about finding a label that helps me connect with people who have similar experiences.

[@rl.8011]

@@malaikanaomi1408That’s really disrespectful towards black people. Being black isn’t something you just hop in and out of, it’s its own experience. Mixed people have privilege over black people because of their proximity to white people. So identifying as a minority whenever you feel like it, is very disrespectful

[@nappykite7132]

Light wood and light wood , bamboo and desert wood , but desert wood isn't...