Amen to that..👍

Amen to that.

Why is it if you only have a drop of black blood your considered black? But if you have a drop of white blood you're not considered white?

@ Linda Gill This may because the strong Black phenotype tends to makes most biracial people look more black than white. I have 5 kids. Two are mixed(Black/White/Choctaw-Indian) and my other 3 for the most part look black. Well when you see all of them it's very obvious which ones are mixed. My oldest mixed daughters are very light skinned, yet still look black..So maybe that's why..Also you have to remember this is a term racist white folks started to distinguish who they viewed as "Purest White" versus biracial blacks that were light-skinned ..

Amen 😩✊🏾✊🏾

Hello Songbyrd, I agree with your frustration, however there are a variety of reasons that this occurred. Firstly, black people have long been barred from higher levels of education and access to concrete records, journals, diaries, and primary sources. Secondly, and i am using my family and a few of the others I know personally, black people are not so ready to discuss these types of histories because it is sometimes painful reminders of what was. Oral histories are great, do not misunderstand me, but we must take into account that human memory is shaped by human emotion such as fear, sadness, and pride and may be exaggeration of truth. Records, bills of sale, ledgers, and other primary sources are definitive.

@@jordanrichardson5579 I think honestly that based on my research their are A LOT of people from this background who teach, have well rssearched, and know their stuff that get overlooked on purpose! We arw in the information age! Black knowledge on black culture is a white controlled mechanism! I hear what you are saying but, do more research for yourself! And....they still lie and hide info so the "oral history" fills In the blanks! You expect people who suppress others to liberate with real information? You're kidding yourself my friend and those same "emotions" you speak of is basically what europeans teach us from. Their who history is based on divide and conquer from EMOTIONS of hatred towards people of color. So who's to say their input is better than someone elses input on their own culture? Do we go to a NBA player for surgery? Or a banker for a hair do? Smh....I almost liked your comment! LOL😂😂😂😂

Songbyrd Jackson I understand what you are saying. There certainly are a lot of African-American and black historians/researchers, but as you stated access to who gets to tell history has historically been barred and still is, otherwise we would be seeing and reading their research coupled with oral histories. Also, I’m not so blind as to believe that the history from Europeans is not clouded with emotion, I’m well aware of that, and take it fully into account when conducting my research.

I’m working on that right now!! They don’t want to admit the city of New Orleans was built by blacks or creoles! So they call them white creoles that is where confusion comes in! Most of my family members can pass for white which happened a lot back then! We were always hidden and never got any credit for anything!!

Songbyrd Jackson I was just thinking the same thing. I don’t always trust it, if they weren’t able to write it out or white it out they control the narrative.

Desirea Winton I shouldn’t have to provide proof to another black person about my family’s history. I’m descended from the slave and free persons of color.....there were light and dark skinned among both groups in my family.

Right, we're still black. It's funny how most people think all Creoles are light skinned. My mother and grandmother are, but they love them some dark skinned black men..

What percentage of creole slaves never got there freedom until 1865? Reference the statistics you have on this?

Yes, we know those who were "free" before 1865 had an enslaved ancestor who had children with usually their white "owner." In spite of the fact the these white ancestors left money and freedom to them and their mothers, we understand it does not change their mothers were probably coerced into those relationships even if it was not brutal rape. Creoles know that but they can be still proud of their unique heritage/and very different culture. Honestly, the more I look at history, rape, seduction and statuary rape, has gone on since time begin. I am pretty sure not one of us would exist if an ancestress had not been raped. Men have always dominated women, way before they came here. Yes slavery was ugly but that is no reason for anyone to have to deny their culture.

I really wish people would stop with the light skin = rape. Each area had their own laws "Interracial" marriages. Basically anyone who was "non-white (Anglo-Saxon) could marry anyone else who was non-white. (Africa, Indian, German, polish, Jewish ECT.) We need to change this narrative as it is very harmful and creates unnecessary shame and trauma. And even if it was, noone needs or wants to be reminded that their skin is the mark of their ancestors rapist.

It means you're a white lady with some black blood...interesting.

@@alphabogeyman7462 No. Any kind of White person has two White parents. There's no such thing, at least in America, as being of African descent and being White; you're either simply mixed-race or a White person. I am recently part African-American on my mother's side, part Italian-American on my father's. I am mixed-race. Both parts of my ancestry have been very important to me and shaped both my upbringing and identity so mixed-race, not white and not black, is the only thing that can describe my culture, heritage and DNA. We are a specific group of people of varying appearances and percentages of Blackness, with our own set of experiences and our own collective narrative. I think it's more than time for America to make room for another group of people whose backgrounds don't fit into an either/or paradigm.

Victoria Grace Creole is a bunch of confused”blacks”.

@@lexbogie1 I don't think that's fair to call them confused. Race relations in America in of itself is confusing, the way people on the border line were treated. I'd say that many Creoles were mixed heritage people (although far from all, Creole is more of a culture and encompasses both Black and part Black, dark and light-skinned people) who were a part of larger Black America but had their own culture and customs...kinda like Irish and Italians (my father's people) were a part of larger White America but had their own distinct customs and way of life. These are all what I view as sub-groups, part of a larger ethnic group or race.

@@RETROGEMS you sound like me

This sounds like me lol

Me too.

Oh my God I am fascinated by the speech that wasn’t English!!😢

@Maryann Hayes I don't see why people that look are not considered white. If u look u are white..who cares if u have another race..u know how many caucasians have black but they consider themselves white.

A very common phenomena. Racial passing was done for a variety of reasons, access to better economic opportunity is definitely one of those reasons. Thank you for sharing :)

@@cherimila I get what you're saying but honestly I don't really know of anyone of known/recent Black ancestry who skips over it to consider themselves white because of the history of race relations in this country. Most people like that may not identify as Black but they certainly identify as biracial/mixed. Ironically, even though I grew up in the late 80s and 1990s, being part African American influenced every part of my life. There was no area of my life where I felt that I was treated as a White girl or viewed myself as such. Growing up in the South, the spirit of segregation was still lingering over the heads of both White and Black people. Nobody considered me White, I didn't either (but that was primarily due to my family, culture and upbringing) and I saw first-hand how Whites treat mixed heritage. I witnessed everything from medical professionals giving me bad treatment once they saw my non-white mother to losing out on keeping up music lessons because it was difficult to find a teacher who wasn't bigoted as hell. Even when I moved to NY state, I saw some gross things like a doctor acting as if he barely wanted to come near me once he realized I wasn't completely white, a racist trying to drive me and my family off the road, not to mention the crap I went through online from White people like being openly degraded and threatened with violence because of my race. I don't mean to share a sob story or anything because I don't view a mixed identity as really being based on negativity but on love and respect for Black American heritage but I just mentioned these things because you asked the question "who cares?" Well, a LOT of people care and there's honestly little reason for mixed heritage individuals to somehow battle these bigots for acceptance. In my experience, it's just more honest to identify oneself as mixed-race and call it a day instead of forcing yourself into a community with a frightening and destructive history of racism. There's no point in insisting on a white identity under those circumstances. Particularly because many of us may not remotely WANT White acceptance and may want to cling to our African American heritage,because we're indignant at the way we see the Black folks we're connected to being treated in this racist society, and do not wish to align ourselves with that larger collective of 'whiteness' because of it. While certainly not all White people are racist, not by far, the concept of whiteness itself has been used as a weapon against the very people we descend from.

Yep, there is the familiar brown paper bag test... And, strangely, I see tidbits of that happening (in a different way today), but, nevertheless, it still happens.

@@RETROGEMS I'm half black half white. I 100% feel what you wrote.

Amy Thibodeaux/Clemons The Ville!

I live around the Baytown area. I hate it like hell lol. I'm still figuring out my ancestry!

Being proud to be Creole is being proud to be black. Creole is always been a subculture of the African-American experience. Signed Louisiana Creole

Right, so you're mixed with Spanish, French and Black. I'm a dark skinned Creole, but it don't make me feel like I'm better than no one else.

My daddy and I found out from our family reunion that our ancestors came down to Louisiana. They’re Acadian French so my family on his side is a big melting pot so as on my mom’s side. They look very Native American, mix with African and Spanish. I’m an Arceneaux by the way. Been meaning to take a DNA test to know my actual percentages.

Your mother is mix creole os a race

How's your father a AFRICAN AMERICAN when the name is only 39yrs old?

No such thing as a Afro-Creole you either just Creole or not.

@@TheCreoleGentlemanoh shut up

@@Afrocreolebombshell shut up for what? Because I said something that is actually a fact? You consider yourself a Afro-Creole which means your a off-brand of the people who just consider themselves Creole.

@Mark Ulis really? How do you know? Do you work in the field? I’m curious to know, bc I was a skeptic at first but the only reason why I believe it, is because I knew where my great grandparents came from and after doing the DNA extraction they told me my ancestors likely came from Louisiana. How could the scientists or dna analysts know this????

Congratulations, where shall we send your trophy?

@@chykim1 Chile shut up! Aren’t you proud of your heritage? DAMN!!!

@@chykim1 lol

Me too sis my folks are from Thibodaux

@@chykim1 Right! 😂

Your not Creole . French and Spanish born in Louisiana is Creole

Jojo Saylor You're a boring troll that doesn't know the difference between Créole and Criollo.

So you saying creole people weren’t mixed race?

right . the title itself threw me off , "Creoles of Color" . it's redundant b/c Louisiana Creoles ARE people of color . my family traces back before the end of the Civil War to , and a large portion still resides in , Vacherie . Vacherie is an extremely rural geographic area an hour West of New Orleans . from the aesthetics to family names , it's safe to assume we (most families in Vacherie) are descendants of Creole settlement , but we don't separate Creole from Black . if anything , Creole is a subculture of Black . *Louisiana Creole = Black*

THANK YOU! Finally, I am of Louisiana Creole descent but I've always been taught it was a culture. We are black people. And if anything it's just a subculture of African American like the Gullah people.

Jordan Richardson my Mothers side of the family all live in Louisiana and georgia...I never knew my mother growing up but i got to meet and talk to her mom..my grandmother on her side...She explained to me that we were Creole...But Lots of Creole people have lots of Different variations of Ethnicities....Example....My grandmother on my moms side is Hatian...French and African and Native American......But my grandfather on my moms side...Was Half Choctaw Indian and Half Creole....But my Grandfathers Creole was more lighten because he had French Canadian and African......So my grandmother was Dark skinned...My grandfather was much lighter skinned...So My Mom ended up Having Choctaw Indian...French...Canadian...Hatian and African blood...My grandmother on her side said that lots of families vary in so many ways that it was easier to just say Creole and they understood what you meant..😂😂😂 But i never got to speak to my grandmother until i was an Adult......When i was a child people called me yellow all the time because i didnt look like anyone...Not even mixed people...And all the kids in class wanted to know if my mom was spanish or Indian or African ect...I never had an answer and just said Idk...Because my father is 2nd generation irish and hes 100% Irish and his side of the family havent even been in America that long and knew nothing about Creole or Native American so asking him he would just say...Idk she had dark skin Could have been many things...😂😂😂 It took almost my entire life to get any sort of meaning as to my mothers side of the. Family and im still trying to learn more till this day but since my grandmothers gone now and i never knew my mom...I dont have any way to seek out my mothers side of the family because i dont know their names.....And it kills me because i wanted to learn about the Culture so much more and meet them and spend time with them.....All i know is irish Culture and there is more to me than that....

Jordan Richardson thanks!

Jordan Richardson We white Creoles didn’t adopt the term. We were the first to use it in North America and we invented the term. Acosta in 1590 stated that Creoles were Spaniards born in the American Indies. The French copied that usage for themselves, but also used it to mean native born. However, the earliest account of a witness giving a definition of creole in Louisiana were from a New Orleans white creole in 1751 named Guy Soniat and also a Frenchman named Jean Bernard Bossu living in New Orleans in that same year. They both defined a Louisiana creole as native born whites in Louisiana. Sometime in the 19th century, Free People of Color adopted the term.

Jordan Richardson Thank you for the video. I appreciate your knowledge and pride in your heritage. Its getting old that Creoles (or any other mixed race group) has to keep apologizing or explaining their pride in their heritage to other blacks, especially for things that happened 150-250 years ago. The constant reminders of slavery and rape are just to make mixed looking blacks feel less than, but all it does it make the person bringing this stuff up look extremely jealous to the point of mental obsession. Please don't ever buy into their insecurities, jealousies, and bullying by ancestry shaming. The goal is to shame and bully mixed people into denying their heritage and make them fearful to speak openly and proudly of a heritage the bully wishes they could claim as their own. Its about jealousy, pure and simple.

V. Cherry But Creoles are not a mixed race group. It’s a collection of groups in Louisiana that descend from colonial Louisiana settlers. When you make reference to “Creoles” as a mixed race group, you are referring to the group of Creoles known as Creoles of color, whom are of European and African mixture. However, there are various white creole groups in Louisiana such as the French creoles, Spanish Creoles and German Creoles. I think this needs to be stressed more because it’s not being stressed and those not familiar with Louisiana history make the mistake to think all Creoles are mixed race, when that’s just not the case. I myself, am a white Creole and it’s very stressful to have to explain what creole really means to folks that think creole is only a mixed race person, when it’s not. This is the product of teaching the wrong things.

I'm also a Lafleur with my father from Louisiana

@@ErynElayne you prolly know Danny and Sam

It's so cool white Creoles was it Formed until after the Louisiana Purchase when English the singer started moving into Louisiana and wanted status so they changed it that anyone born in Louisiana that was is European known as Creole

@@kaleahcollins4567 Actually it's a bit different than that. The term creole was used in colonial Louisiana to mean "born in the new world of old world ancestry" and it was primarily used by the white population of Louisiana for themselves, however it was used sparingly for blacks and mulattoes during that time. It wasn't until later when the English speaking population moved into Louisiana as a US state that they referred to all peoples of colonial Louisiana heritage as creoles, regardless of race. Since the English speakers moving into Louisiana after statehood didn't use the term creole for their new world born population, the term creole solely existed to distinguish the colonial Louisiana descendants, regardless of race. However, products, produce and livestock was not bound to these post statehood limitations.

Sorry but as an artist, white is actually the absence of colour

I'm so proud of my authentic LaLwizyàna Kréolité (Black-LaLwizyànan) ethnic group's ancestry here in Louisiana.❤🔱🖤

No problem whatsoever, I hope that it leads to compelling and deep discussions!

J B This Louisiana Créole culture should never die. I wish you could develop more relations with Guadeloupe and Martinique. Those 2 French Carribean islands have a culture extremely similar to yours.

I want to reproduce with a Creole. I’m a mixed Creole and I want to keep this culture alive

I have to agree. My father was born and raised in southern louisiana he is creole. We grew up eating all that delicious New Orleans food.

I know it is so sad! My grandmas generation is in their 80s and 90s and my generation does not care about preserving our roots! I am trying to keep creole culture alive! I educate everyone I come in contact with! We were always hidden and our people have always felt ashamed and punished because the way were treated! I hope that we can all come together!

@@terioze9 our history is so similar even the food

There speaking from a historical context ....We don't need true statement to be turn into a naive remark

Black is not a color, Creole is both a somewhat dying language dialect of French. Race doesn't matter anymore but when speaking within historical context it's appropriate.

Tell that to the police

That's not reality, color means everything if it didn't slavery would have never existed and black people would have the same opportunities as whites but we don't and its because if the color of our skin

@@thelmathomas8414 Reality is that all humans distrust anybody who does not look like them and think like them. We will one day grow out of that, but it will take a long time. In the meantime, you must stand up for your rights against the mob. There is no guiltless race or culture on this planet.

All creoles were not mixed

@@thelmathomas8414 creole mean mixed

@@augustoluimbo2627 All African americans have some sort of mixture due to the slave trade my mother and both of her parents are Creole, we are definitely black

Not really

@@thelmathomas8414 just because y'all look predominantly One race doesn't mean you don't have many other in your veins it just depends on how they present.

U so right

She wasn't from New Orleans then.

Creole is French... More than likely they were tied into the French since that's who we originally bought Louisiana from.

thank you. My whole life, I've cringed at this. It's a easily defined word. Why the confusion?

My great grandparents were from Natichitochis cane river I’ve been there twice , I was a teenager the first trip there was nothing to do there 1975, we would go to a pool by hall called The white Elephant, second trip in 87 we gave my great grandmother a party for her 100th birthday!!!! She almost made it to 101, she had her mind and memories still in tact.

You should have your wife do her Genealogy because she might have Irish Ancestry. 95% of Jamaican Ancestry is European not African and I'm not talking a white Europe. Sephardic/ Huguenots/Marranos/Crypto Jews. They were Swarthy (Black). Jamaica was a safe haven for Jews who were being persecuted from the Spanish Inquisition. Christopher Columbus/ family owned Jamaica up until 1655 when it became a subject to the UK. No war was fought, just a bunch of rich families coming together and negotiated with Cromwell to let Jamaica be a subject to avoid persecution from the Spanish. I skipped a lot info but I'll end it with this. Dunn's River in Ocho Rois, is named after the Dunn's. They're Irish Black people. The family lost ownership in the 1920's, a drunk Uncle did some bad dealings and ended up losing the land. They had another family member Robert Dunn if I'm not mistaken was some big politician in Louisiana.

Mizz Melan I would suggest you visit New Orleans if you haven’t already, you’ll learn and feel the culture. Also, research Acadiana Region of Louisiana because the culture and cuisine is a little different from NOLA. My paternal Grandmother is Creole and her family resides in NOLA and the Acadiana Region of Louisiana. Look up Zydeco on KZfaq because that is a music genre created by Creole people in the early 1900s.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pcWiZrN8rpjPmo0.html

@@brielax4441 I have family there I love new orleans

True. In another area in the Americas , e.g. the Dutch Caribbean one could recognize a free person (besides paperwork) by looking at the feet. Enslaved people were not allowed to wear shoes. Before the Emancipation and definitive abolition of slavery, the free blacks or free people of color in the Dutch Caribbean wore shoes, but they did not have the same legal position as free whites. They were "in between" freedom and enslavery.

YES THERE WERE "FREE WHITES", IGNORANCE ISN'T ATTRACTIVE. PLEASE GO STUDY

White men were also slaves or slavs.

Tristen Middlebrooks exactly and the blacks in the comments are triggered because they don’t study/ comprehend and know the difference between connotative and denotative language. You are correct in a sense it’s free white person and white was A STATUS! Nothing to do with the shade of your skin. Color means to hide or conceal and these clueless people still calling themselves people of color and referring to their ancestors as that foolishness. Just basking in and protecting the ignorance.

The term was intended to differentiate between enslaved people (who might have mixed ethnicity, but were still legally enslaved) and free people who happened to be Black or have mixed ethnicity and POSSIBLE slave history or descent. Prior to the Louisiana Purchase slaves had more legal rights and protection, including limited rights to property and to earn wealth. Since slavery was GENERALLY associated with Black racial type, many ignorant people assumed ANY Black or mixed race person was enslaved. “Free Colored” was an ethnic and legal identifier.

Louisiana Guh' My family is from Haynesville & Homer!!

Call it for what it is if you want the world to take you seriously. White looking black people are obviously mixed. Most likely of Iberian and French descendents. People from all over the world come to Lousiana to see, learn, and take interest and of what the "French, Iberian, Europeans" left behind. Either through the French influence, the French-creole language and French/Spanish architecture. Nobody goes to Lousiana to say they want to see Black culture, they go there to see what the French/Spanish descendants left behind that birth modern day Lousiana. It's about time you Lousiana creoles get over this forced Black only identity and start embracing your European side as well by identifying as mixed. Once you folks have a clear understanding of that then your identity will be compatible with the culture and preservation of the heritage will be ensured.

​@@thetimeliver6788 You're an idiot lol

If you look Arabic or Hispanic than how are you “black” African Americans don’t look like Arabs or Spaniards 🤦🏽‍♀️

Wealthy Blacks who discriminated against poor blacks .

@@wattakesselly6463 I know. They need to show it.

Really? Are they descedants of Saint Dominican refugee?

Raymond Petit Creole is both culture and a mixed race ethnicity defined by DNA companies, genealogists and historians. A person can be Creole by culture because they speak the language (Haitian or La. Creole) and practice the lifestyle (cook the foods, listen to the music, participate in Creole religious and holiday traditions). The ethnic La. and Haitian Creoles are black people with significant French, Spanish and Native American dna. That's why they can look mixed race. So a person can be Creole by culture, ethnicity, or both and both groups are black.

V. Cherry No it's not , if you have a significant amount of other things in you besides black then you are not Black you are freaking MIXED stop this one drop bull shit . If you have someone who is say half black and the other half is say French and Spanish while the 50% black is very significant so is the other 50 freaking percent , if you have someone who is 60 % French And 40% black they are FREAKING MIXED NOT FREAKING BLACK , if you have 35% black and the other 65 % consist of French and Spanish then that is freaking mixed , the only way you would get black out of that is if you used the one drop rule to classify them as black .

MixedWhisper1977 Maybe you should cut and paste your comment to the person you intended. People reading won't understand why the one drop rule reference.

V. Cherry Oh shit I'm sorry , it ACTUALLY WAS MEANT FOR YOU , there is another commenter in this thread that I had in mind when I thought I posted it to the wrong person , you and this other commenter sound a lot a like in your thinking I still stand by what I said, if you have significant ancestry of other things besides black then you are mixed not black , it sounds to me you are for mixed = black The only way a heavily mixed person would be black " officially " is if you used the standard of. Hypo decent A.K.A. The one drop rule ( one drop of black blood and you So- called black . A lot of L.A Creoles are heavily mixed race , the ones in Haiti are predominantly Black, so both creoles WOULD NOT BE BLACK , sure you have L.A Creoles who are not mixed .... but MOST are heavily mixed .

MixedWhisper1977 I don't believe in the one drop rule but In the US, even of you are only 30% African, you're considered black.Maybe somewhere in Europe you're not, but that's just that way it is in US. I consider myself black and proud to be, but no one will take away my pride in my multiracial heritage.

I think there is difference between creole people in the US and creole speakers in the Caribbean.

Thank you for acknowledgement.....same goes with montreal and french guiana.

U are so right .I love u .wasnt no white people over New Orleans . That's why we the boot .We kick u out if u want right, or try to take over .But we always welcome others .Creole is not a race .And we know more than anyone . Smart people .They wonder why success follow Louisiana. They wonder why we dominate others , They wonder why men and woman love us . they wonder why we worship The most high God like we do .And we eat well

Stanley Dougé Creole culture actually means those born in the French or Spanish colonies. Louisiana was colonized by the French in 1682, Saint Domingue (Haiti) was colonized by the French in around 1660. Most of the colonies on this side of the world was colonized in the 1600s. No one stole Haitian culture. When the Haitians came here after the Haitian Revolution, people in Louisiana was already speaking French and Creole. We were already cooking Gumbo, Jambalaya, red beans and rice. The city’s architecture was already built (French Quarter). So no one stole anything from Haiti. Haitians came and blended into the Creole population that was already here because the French pretty much ran their colonies similarly. So know one over here had no Haitian contacts until the 1800s. Just stop !

@@slarvadain188 thank you for educating her/him 👏🏾 most people think that all Creoles of color from Louisiana have Haitian in them. When that's not entirely true.

I have some Ancestors who were from Haiti and came to New Orleans.

I have Haitian ancestors from St Domingue! We are Original New Orleans creoles dating back to 1700s

I think there's a difference between creole people and creole speakers!

@Kimmminem West nice picture

Everybody is Beautiful in this world!!!

The prettier women are Latin Americans

Put the Hatians in that mixture .they are the mines of Louisiana. They can tell u what the moon says . The Lord wants , they know .So it. Was birth into Louisiana .Carribians in that mixture .mix it up and I get creole

All the wealthiest parts of New Orleans are inhabited by white folks. Most of the people waiting in the fancy restaurants and working in hotels I saw were black. Now there's definitely a disparity between black and whites there.

You pretty damn 😍

Gtfoh

Hi Doranda, thanks for your comment, but let me convey to you why its problematic. 1. I work in higher education and am on networking terms with many African American professors across the states, and you are correct that there are many of us, however compared to the amount of white scholars in this field, African Americans remain a minority. 2. Lets not assume that all African American historians are studying subjects that relate to African American history or the Black Diaspora, some are studying different caveats of history just as some White scholars/ historians are studying AA history and providing interpretation from their viewpoint. you're welcome.

@@jordanrichardson5579Well you have given some focus. I wasn't aware of how much white scholars have taken over. So how does one insist on having AA history from a black perspective? Would even attending an HBC assure that today? I am for diversity but we must remain vigilant about the narrative we accept.

@@dorandacolbert5973 We need more Black scholars who are interested in studying caveats of Black history across the board. This has been hard to do because of the way history is taught at younger ages. Speaking for myself, k-12 was so repetitive and I learned the same facts over and over again; I can see how anyone would get bored especially with history lessons that include black representation once a month, negatively, or not at all. I had an amazing American history teacher who would give me extra reading assignments and told me to go beyond what was accepted as "truth" and only with that mindset will anyone want to learn different interpretations of history. Also, it was not until I got into my higher level courses in college that the material migrated from summaries of history to interesting topics like the histories of a particular person or groups of people. I am a proponent of oral histories and information passed down but the drawback in that is that we get that information from our families who want to protect us and love us and in doing so they can and have omitted sensitive information that could make themselves look bad when they were really just people reacting to then-current events. Think of this situation as disciplining children. You may have gotten in trouble for something you discipline a child for, but you discipline them because as the adult you know and want better for them, however you leave out that you did that very same act because it may be embarrassing. When you leave out information like this in the field of history it opens the doors to realm of uncertainty that documents (especially written by the person at the time) can deny, and even then there is a process to vet what is written because people are people and they have agency. I am more likely to believe something written in a personal diary than a historical newspaper because the nature of a diary is personal and the person thought no one else would ever see that info. The same with personal correspondence.

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tina king Creole is French and Spanish born in Louisiana.. Your not Creole

Jojo Saylor. dumb ass i know exactly what i am and where im from you sound real ignorant..only Creole born in Louisiana..smh..i know my history and my ancestors have pictures of them also..my people are full blooded. go find you something to do with your time

and you don't know me or where i was born..get a life

You're referring to Cajun not Creole....Creole has mixed African Ancestry

One's outer color matters not, what matters is the color of your soul.

Semira because creole is not a race!!!! And why are you do angry with black people? You are a part of black race you just don't want to be!!!

@@lolajoselin7134 WE ARE TECHNICALLY A RACE! A SPECIFIC BLEND OF PEOPLE UNIQUE TO A SPECIFIC AREA! WE CAN'T HONESTLY SAY WE ARE ANYTHING OTHER THAN CREOLE, PERIOD! A MIXTURE AND A DISTINCT BLOODLINE COMPLETE WITH A PERSONAL HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, A LANGUAGE, CULTURE, FLAG, ETC. WE ARE OF THE COLORED DIASPORA WHILE REMAINING DISTINCT. WHY SHOULD WE HAVE TO ACCEPT JUST SAYING "OH WE'RE BLACK" AND IN DOING SO, COMPLETELY DENYING OR HIDING THE FACT OF A WHOLE CULTURE THAT WE'RE A PART OF???

I'm a mixed person of color and I'm sorry you get attacked by ignorant and bigoted people. I support Creole people and what they stand for. To me you are an ally and beautiful. Stay strong.

Smh there were creole in America before the Haitian revolution

lexbogie1 the Haitians created Creole before the Haitian revolution stupid😂😂😂😂 because they had to teach everyone the language first before they started the revolution and also their were Haitians that took from Haiti by the French and bring them to Louisiana and bring all the culture and language there😂😂😂😂just like Beyoncé grandparents😂😂😂you guys wish y’all create our language

Wdf is talking about

@@carlosmilord2931 How rude! 😬 Try being more humble.

Y'all have African ancestry 👏🏿

Regardless

LOL WHY ARE YALL SO MAD? WHY DOES IT BOTHER YOU SO MUCH THAT PEOPLE OF COLOR CAN BELONG TO SOMETHING OF THEIR OWN THAT ISN'T NECESSARILY "BLACK"? WHY IS EVERYONE FORCED INTO YOUR JIM CROW MENTALITY? I'M CREOLE AND THATS IT. PERIOD

@@semiramisbonaparte1627Thanks for sharing. Do you mark Creole on documents, Black, or White?

@@wattakesselly6463 I put "other" and write in Creole or I put two or more races

I'm from New Orleans and in this area, New Orleans was more Creole than all of St. Tammany. I don't know one Creole on the northshore tht spoke Creole. There's more Creoles in known areas all over southern and southwestern Louisiana. Pointe Coupee Parish, St. Mary parish, Iberia PArish, Opelousas, and Lafayette....Lacombe, La may be one of the few places on the northshore with a Creole population.

My great grandpa was Creole and we he married my grandma her family was considered colored n it was tension between her family

Creole means your French or Spanish born in Louisiana!!! Has nothing to with African or Native Indian biracial race

Jojo Saylor do u have to be born in Louisiana in order to be a creole?

Jojo Saylor Créole is a culture in Louisiana. It doesn't have the same meaning that Criollo in Spanish-speaking countries. Every single Créole of color in Louisiana has French and Spanish ancestors even though the French element is more prominent than the Spanish element in their genes. Also, some have Native American ancestors, mostly Houma.

Timothy Okeefe Here's a great place to start - take the ancestry.com dna test. They will break down your ethnicities and list all of your relatives who've also taken the test. It also has a map showing locations where all of your ancestors lived within the last several hundred years at least. The list will be several hundred people and they can email each other to try to figure out how their related.

Scott Benlevi bro mi cousin is african from native American and european decent so is she considered créole? Please help

When did you read this

Black people enslaved there own people as well and not all black was slaves.

we are not black

@@taneishaoverstreet946 We are Black. Our ancestory stems from Africa but when our ancestors were brought here they were intermixed with various races of Native American, French, Spanish. We are Creole but because of the one drop rule, we identify as African or Black American.

@@taneishaoverstreet946 Your self-hatred is showing. What's wrong with being black? Did you not watch the video? It's a shame, you don't even know your history. Creole is not a race of people, I'm sorry you lack comprehension skills to understand this. Taneisha, please read a book.

@@utubechannel3846 French and Spanish are both languages not races. There are black French people. Creole is not a race of people. The one drop rule comes from Jim Crow laws. These days the one drop rule is no longer accepted. If you are less than half black, you r not a black person.

Not all of them were black

Exactly lol

Money Talk with Don Lyons most people don’t even know about Creole.

JoJo Beauty hi my cousin is west african of European and native american decent is she considered créole? Please help

Thank you...

A thorough disgrace.

Hello!! 🤔

Lannel Bishop not always.

My mother is Creole AND Choctaw American Indian.....From the Choctaw Tribe.....I never got the Chance to grow up with her or Meet her but this much i know for a fact because i did have the chance to talk to her mother...on My moms side of the family Is pretty much Half her side of the family are Choctaw Indians and the other half of her family are Creole who live all over Louisiana and Georgia...I never got to grow up with that side of the family and i wish i knew there names so i can find them and learn more about who my anscestors were.......All i know about my family is from my dad and hes 100% Irish....Second generation American.....But what pisses me off is when people like me want to celebrate our heritage or to find out more people make fun of us and say we aint what we say we are and make a joke about where we came from....I aint European...I aint German...I aint a damn Nazi...ect...When i was a kid i was called Yellow and everyone always asked if my mom was spanish or black or indian ect....And i never knew how to answer because i never got to grow up with my mom..But regardless of how any of us look....Most of Americans are mixed with many cultures or ethnicities....I know a very dark skinned African American who found out one of his great grandparents was a white frenchman.....You never know until you look...

I know a guy Named Spencer Elliot whos Mother is African American......And she has like 8 kids.....He is literally the Only White looking guy in his family....The rest of his brothers and sisters have almost the exact same complection as their mother does....No can you imagine when he tells people his mom is black? When he looks even whiter than i do....People be like....gtfoh with that shit boy...You white...your momma aint black....So black people might make fun of him....So what if he says it to white people.?....Then white people be like yeah right and start laughing.....Until they see family pictures.......Like i said before...Damn near everyone in America got some white...some black....some brown....some spanish....some indian...some hatisn or jamaican ect in them......Then you will always find some arrogant asshole thst grew up with both parents and know their culture very well to ask the guy to prove it...or try to call him out.....SMH.....nobody cares if you dont believe them.....They just wanna learn about their roots like everyone else..We aint all hitler ass european ass Brittish ass English ass Conquerors...........Im Half Irish...And my other half is Choctaw Native American/Creole.....And i know that for a fact...so stop hating.....I been yellow and olive my whole life...never had to get a sun tan....People hate because of my smoothe skin....Always look like im glowing and ish.....Im 35 and people think im 25.....Thats what you get when people start comming together and mixing it up....Its called Evolution..😂😂😂 I dont burn when i go out in the sun and im happy for it and proud.....So to all my creole brothers and sisters....💖💖💖 And to all My Native American brothers and sisters...💖💖💖 And to my Irish warrior Brothers and sisters...💖💖💖 I Cherish each part of my family and hold my head high because of it..

Not always. Some are solely mixed Native and some are Mixed Native and African- Ie: Creole...

Amber Westholder And some are just white, such as white Creoles. Three types of white Creoles exist mainly in Louisiana: French Creoles, Spanish Creoles and German Creoles.