Storm from X-Men is canonically half African American and half Kenyan, but in the comics or movies they never explore the complexities of her multi-ethnic black experience. They only explore the fact that she’s African (in honestly extremely stereotypical ways) or they erase her Africanness at all, in the movies they even casted her as biracial TWICE. I’d love to see Storm’s roots in Harlem and Kenya explored.

"You shouldn't expect people who have less privilege than you to console you!" 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Bi-ethnic. I never knew how to explain it. My father is Ghanaian and my mom Black-American and the nuances of being in both spaces is wild.

My DNA shows that I’m 25% white. I would look crazy as HELL walking around saying that I’m white!

I thought it was just a TikToker mocking biracial slam poetry at first 😭

It's sickening to see people bending over backwards to claim a shred of Black ancestry because they think being "marginalized" gives them some type of social cred. And that poem was horrific.

As a Black man that loves black Superheroes seeing them drawn biracial Italian or tan white female irritates me because doesn't that shows Anti-Blackness

All i can think of is Drake and his son.

13:45 "People enjoy seeing white people (light skin/ambiguous people) as the image of blackness." That is deep! I heard someone say about their experiences in exclusive, high profile spaces that they, an ambiguous biracial person with light eyes, were always the blackest person in the room.

What’s particularly nasty about what Ms quadroon is saying about her “black identity” being negated is that she’s leaving off the asterisk. She isn’t upset that she doesn’t feel oppression. She’s upset that she doesn’t get to benefit from the cool parts of blackness as if you can just split that shit apart. I love being black, but I also know there’s a good chance someone might tell me they’re surprised I’m professional at work. (That is a REAL THING someone told me at my last job).

this conversation is so important!!!! i am biracial and “white passing” and i do not understand how other “white passing” biracials/mixed race people consider themselves to have ANYY of the same experiences as black people. we are not black !! and that’s okay. i feel like even speaking to my mom growing up i realized very early on that my experience in life is not the same as hers or other black people’s especially dark skin individuals. it’s insane to think otherwise and like you mention it’s completelyyyyy inappropriate to try to compare our experiences and speak on any black issues. the pedestal white biracials are put on is absurd

My son is half Asian and Half Black. He's only 10 and he's never struggled with his biracial identity and probably never will because I make it clear to him he's both and that's beautiful. This is 100 precent the parents fault. I love that you mentioned bi ethnic Black people. Im also bi ethnic, Black American and Puerto Rican and would love to hear more stories about that as well.

thank you for bringing up ethnicity. many people forget afro american is its own ethnicity and so is being afro american and white and ethnicity is more specific to your cultural background and heritage, whereas race is one big racist generalization

the eye makeup is giving

#protect black women’s identity # protect African women’s identity

Omg! When you said “you’re 50% ⚪️ and get with someone 100% ⚪️ why did you think that child would be a super knee-grow.” Liiiiiike, The race to make Megan Markle a sister was frustrating to me 😂

Thank you for pointing out bi ethnic. I’m African American and Nigerian and I feel like bi ethnic Black stories are overshadowed or ignored for biracial stories. Lots of spaces can be very polarizing within the diaspora as well. Think it has to do with our society generalizing blackness into one conglomerate.

“You know where they should be doing it, babe? At therapy.” HILAROUS AND TRUE.

I've noticed that when mixed people talk about mistreatment , black people are always considered jealous. But I never hear them say white people were jealous, which they also can be. Just because some black people didn't like you doesn't mean that they're jealous

When you said people love seeing white people as the image of blackness I started cackling because it’s so true and it’s actually ridiculous I’m just imagining if it were reversed bwahaha!

“Race is phenotypical. Race is how you are perceived” SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK !!!!

*I’ve never subscribed to the one drop rule. Show me your people (parents) and that’s who U are.*

One thing I notice with most if not all racialized black ppl (partially black ppl as well lol👀) is we don’t always wanna admit to our own anti-blackness when we bring up other black ppl’s anti-blackness . My dad’s igbo and my mom’s a black american (black descendant of enslaved Africans), so I notice both groups (me too sometimes) don’t always like to admit their anti-blackness.

Had a “friend” like the slam poetry girl. Had to block her ass after some shit happened like this. Why do they wanna struggle and be oppressed SO BAD.

I hate when people play in my face.

They try to act like black rejection is worse than white oppression and that pisses me off

Literally was just having this conversation. I will never cry over mixed tears when they talk about not being “accepted” by black people. You’re not black, you’re mixed and that’s okay. Stop trying to pander to black people and equate your middle school bullying to the black experience in the world

Logic is delusional 😮

Is the black in the room with us?

It's a bit of a mindscrew that she also is using a very African-American/Black American style of poetry popularized by Sonia Sanchez then imitated in the 90s by a new crop of Black youth with parents from everywhere. Her pauses, flair, movement-ALL Black American- her "rejected" side but no smoke for Whites who tend to be afraid of potentially dark kids.

Your channel is very educational, Mayowa!! I’m black and native Brazilian, and you helped me deconstruct my own colorism, which is a HUGE problem here. (I think you mentioned in another video a short documentary about how a Brazilian black woman was severely bullied and lost her title as a Globeleza during Carnival for being dark skinned. It didn’t change much since then, and that happened in 2016). Thanks to you I realized how badly I tried to mask my black features to be treated better (such as my 4b hair that I struggled a lot to embrace), and how that by itself is a privilege. Also how to use that privilege to help and empower other black people around me that unfortunately only have access to the mostly anti-black media we have here. Please never stop posting videos!! They’re incredibly necessary 🙏🏽

I’m also annoyed by the self absorption and self importance of these narratives. The “woe is me” leaves zero room for recognition or acknowledgment of the real lived visceral Black experiences Black people endure. I’m half Black American half South Asian and I look predominantly Black (dark skin, West African features, tighter curl pattern) and even my ass knows that I’m afforded privileges and seen in a VERY different light when people find out I’m mixed… spoiler alert, I get treated better!!!! This reeks of self importance and “look at me look at me I’m Black can’t you see!!!” Like why don’t yall stop asking Black folks to validate your identity? Don’t you think they’re doing enough? Don’t you think it’s a little self centered? To me it speaks to deeper sense of entitlement - that your lived experience deserves more exploration and recognition than others. This is why I’ve stepped away from participating in mixed race spaces. I have found them to be tone deaf far too often. I also struggle with these spaces given the way I look i.e. not looking “mixed enough” whatever that means. Well we all know what that means. I’m so tired of this narrative. Thank you Mayowa for all the amazing work you do 🙏🏾 been watching for a minute and felt so compelled to comment on this one.

13:04 Yes! Knew this woman in college that constantly talked about being oppressed but looked like a 100% white woman, I didn’t even find out she was black till a year later from a friend. Not only would she constantly talk about being an oppressed black woman herself, she also said this about her kids. I thought that maybe her kids father was black but found out from another friend that those kids were straight up white. All in all, I just wish they would acknowledge that they easily pass for white and that it is extremely offensive to black people.

“WRAP IT UP” 🗣️

As a mixed person (half rwandan and half swiss) I would also LOVE to hear more stories from bi-ethnic people. I have someone in my family who is congolese and rwandan and there is so much difficult history between these two nations and it would be interesting to hear stories like theirs.

My favorite is Logic's lyric that says his dad is "black as the street."

This Logic man is laughing in our faces

As a Black and PR poet, There are spaces that I deemed safe for me and other black ppl, but noticed that there is a push towards allowing very pale or just YT women (never the men) in these spaces. It's for the mainstream appeal, the poetry has become so cringe it's uncomfortable. I have tried to avoid these spaces but the lack of gatekeeping is real.

I love the eye shadow! Reminds me of pretty stain glass windows.

I hate that I get seen as jealous for simply being darkskin lol when I Love my melanin. 😂I use to wish I was darker like my mom/big sises whom I looked up to. It’s projection.

Such a great vid! I'm reminded of when I was living in Austria and was attending this majority Black women's meeting and the topic of mixed raced kids came up. A lot of the Black women there have kids that are half Black and half White. The way the conversation went...all I can say is I can understand why these kids grow up with weird ideas around their race. I'm a firm believer that it starts at home for most of these problematic folks

I feel like I just had an out of body experience watching that "confessions of a quadroon".... like for a moment I thought I was still watching an episode of Abbot Elementary because I cannot believe what came out of that woman's mouth

That poem gave me a physical reaction for sure, but, probably not the one she wanted lmao. Literally had to throw my self on the bed and writhe around . Thank you for walking through the discomfort here. Mayowa's World Rocks 💗💚💗

you are a treasure to this world and this internet

Gorgeous makeup, and your hair is 🔥!

This video was 1000% on point. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

25% white here. I've only been perceived as such one time in my life. A Latin woman asked me if I was Latina because she thought I had "Caucasian features," Regardless, I've never felt this about myself, and again, it was one time. It would be ridiculous if I expected people to know or made it life's mission to claim whiteness. I don't know what these people have to gain by proclaiming their blackness other than entry into spaces they’re not allowed, recognition, money etc They all want to be Drake at the end of the day.

OMG, yes to everythinnngggg. I once had a little argument with my friend about J. Cole's race. He had called J. Cole Black and I'd said, nah, J. Cole is biracial. Like he has a whole white parent. Why are we so quick to claim half Blacks and quarter Blacks as Black??? It's giving insecure. Also, it's disrespectful to their white parents and ancestors. As always, I love your look. You look like a water spirit. 😍

I am so glad you made this video. I have biracial family members, and may have biracial children and I do my best to help them understand how privilege works and why Black children may be hostile to them, and kinda how they get tunnel vision. They focus on the Black kids not accepting them and not on how their white peers push away the Black kids in the first place. There's also this entitlement to being accepted when Black people aren't even accepted by other Black people, and same with white people. Like, not everyone is going to be your friend and that's okay. Bullying is different but a lot of the time they're not bullying, they're just not putting them on a pedestal.

The way this rule makes no sense to me🙄. In my country mixed people don't have these problems, they admit they are mixed ( In most African countries i guess). I agree with everything you said cause if someone says they are 30% white they'd never claim whiteness so, why are you as a very mixed person claiming just one part of you? People can be mixed but you're going to be more of something than other, and I need to hear the nonsense of some black people saying "black people come in all shades"🙄girl bye that's not a black lightskin person we need to have a convo about how mixed people are not just being the face of blackness but also the representation of lightskin BLACK people. You forgot to add the " black people say I'm too white to be black and white people say I'm too black to be white" maybe cause you're MIXED🙃 AND THEN PROCEED TO SUCESSFULLY ENTER BOTH PLACES, MAINLY BLACK SPACES, BEING CONSIDERED THE PREFERENCE AND THE EXAMPLE OF "GOOD" HAIR AND SKIN AND HAVE A CAREER PROMOTED BY MOSTLY BLACK PEOPLE🥴. ATT: I do understand the struggles that mixed people have and i see them as a part of our community but that does not take your privileges and make you a FULLY BLACK PERSON AND THEY SHOULDN'T GET OFFENDED BY IT.

"You know where you should be doing that, at therapy" exactly!! you have a way with words!!

Honestly, how can one sit there and claim only one aspect of themselves? As if the other race(s) they’re mixed with are nullified; it’s dang bonkers. Side note: the colors you chose for your eyeshadow is giviiiiiiiing!! So radiant🥰

NO NO CAUSE THIS THING ABOUT PLUCKIN THE ANCESTORS OUTTA THIN AIR TO PROVE BLACKNESS IS SO SILLY. My parents are both white puerto ricans so obviously I'm also a white puerto rican, but awhile ago I found out that my mom lowkey IDENTIFIES AS BLACK. I was applying for college and put white & hispanic, and she scoffed at me and was like "we have black in us. think of your grandparents." BB WE GOT A WHOLE WALL MIRROR IN THE LIVING ROOM IN FRONT OF US. DO WE LOOK LIKE MY GRANDPARENTS? NO. Omg. I was flabbergasted.

Another great video 😍👏🏾🥰👏🏾 thank you Mayowa

Not only perceived but who your parents are….

😂😂 I love how you straight up asked for compliments on your looks at the end. Girl you know your makeup is always a hit! Your hair looks beautiful too. 💛

THANK YOUUUUUU, the one drop rule is racist why keep it?!?

giving wonderful commentary on colorism as usual

There are some points I agree with but I don’t necessarily agree with all. It’s not always about systemic oppression it’s a sense of belonging. Biracial people can feel ostracised by both races (blacks and whites). Anyone can experience racism and it does happen to biracial people. I do understand that some biracial people are white passing but those who are not don’t always navigate so easy.

your makeup always eats, love what you do ❤

I luv your style like you’re posts/videos give me so much inspo🤍🧚🏿‍♀️

mayowa!! i love the look SO MUCH! the orange is absolutely gorgeous and honestly ur makeup style is so inspiring! 🧡🦋

Your makeup and hair is always on point, and I love the intro to your videos.

Thank you. Finally someone talking about this!! I remember talking to white ppl who said my opinion about extremely lightskin/white passing 'black' people was racist, they looking in my eyes, as a dark skin black woman that grew up in a surrounding where the only thing about me people saw was my darkness, the tightness of my coils etc telling me that me thinking we not the same is racist

😂😂😂😂😂 I’m sorry the poetry makes me want to vomit

Makeup is 🔥 love your videos!

I found also that a lot of people don't know the difference between bi-racial and mixed race. Mixed race can be any person mixed with 1 or more races and can include biracial people. But bi racial is only a person who is literally half one race and half another race. I have seen several people like Logic who claimed to be biracial but actually their parent is biracial and that biracial parent then married a non black person. So Logic is a YT man with black ancestry. So is Mariah, Amber Rose, etc. Sometimes people will argue that we are all mixed but have 5, 10, 17 percent ancestry does not make you able to claim a race. At least not in the case of black ppl. They like to use the excuse that nobody is truly purely one race. That we all are mixed with something. By that logic american black people should be able to claim any race since we are all so mixed up. I also notice that a lot of ppl pick and choose who to claim as black and who to reject. Usually mixed women no matter how white she presents gets to claim black while a mixed guy like Logic has to "fight" to claim blackness. So I do see where some of the mixed ppls confusion and frustration lies amongst the other identity issues they face.

Wow… “White people as the image of blackness” I have chills and I am processing that!!! Thanks! Got a new subbie

Your make-up is a feast for my eyes and the video was also eye opening!

Loveee the makeup! Those colors suit you so well and this was great commentary as always ❤

"That Quadroon experience "....😂😂😂

Lightskins going wild online......

Ooh girl I’m earlyyyy 🎉. I’m SEATED each and every time my fav wash and go girlie posts 💗💕

Thank you for speaking sense!❤

I agree with everything you said, especially as a dark skinned woman, who is the darkest in my colorist a$$ family. I think you should give Logic a little grace, however. His mother is white, yes, but she was horribly abusive to him, calling him the n word and many other slurs. His half brothers, on his dad's side were much darker than him, and if I can recall, they wholly embraced him and treated him like an actual human being. So in his case, I can completely understand him talking about his half-blackness and being much closer to black culture as opposed to white. By default he absolutely does have certain privileges, but I don't think it's fair to place all light skinned/white passing bi-racials under the same unbrella. I can't believe I'm saying this because I have a plethora of negative stories and issues concerning them, but fair is fair, and they go through a lot of ish too.

The white passing mixies need help.... Not from us though....

Slayed the makeup as always babes 🩵🧡 Thank you for always having the best conversations!

Omg i love how your eye make-up always glistens on your skin! and i love your full dark hair 😍 This discussion was needed!! Love from your Eritrean sis.💖

My daughter asked my husband and I what race her children would be and, in sync, my husband and I said it depends on the race of man you marry and have children with. My then 7 y/o daughter understood that concept. I don’t know why these adults have such a hard time understanding the same concept. If you can’t teach your children their true racial identity, you should not have children with a person of another race. The kids grow up being confused and traumatized.

At the front of this panic is Tracey Ross and Tia Mowry

As always I adore the eye artwork !!! The makeup is 🎉🔥😻

Ty Myoma and love. The makeup it pops offfff♥️

I'm St. Lucian & Guyanese, but ppl like to lump it as you're Caribbean without realizing that the culture from one country to another differs. It's funny you mention mixed ppl tend to date mixed. I married someone who is Japanese & Filipino.

I am with YOU ON YOU I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOUR STANCE. 👍🏾👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

I wished your videos were longer Mayowa! I could listen to you all day the way you just dissect these issues is astounding you’re a very beautiful intelligent woman ❤❤❤❤

Your content is so informative, thank you for sharing with us . I always pick a leaf .

excellent video!

Not Blues Clues 😂😂😂

😍😍😍😍 love ur make up. So adventurous. Inspired 💜💜💜💜

Gurl, I love your videos so much!

The makeup is beautiful. You are definitely working the eye shadow and blush ❤. I'm conflicted on the mixed race dialogue. I think it really depends on where they live. I'm originally from the deep American South where the one drop rule was strictly enforced. Now, I live in the American Southwest and it seems like the growing minority is mixed race (mostly black and Hispanic).

I think about cultural/ ethnic identity frequently. I'm a Black American woman raising a son who is half Nigerian. I feel guilt at times that I can't teach the language and culture of his dad. My ex is around, but we disagreed about how important it was for our son to learn Yoruba, so he didn't teach it to him. He's only 5, but it already feels like it's too late. My son rejects a lot of his dad's culture because it feels unfamiliar. I hope they'll get closer as he gets older. I love the culture I share with my parents. It's essential.

The look is giving life, per usual🎉 great topic

your makeup looks amazing!!

My children are half Caribbean half Nigerian born and raised in London. Boy oh boy is all I’m gonna say 🙌

In some cases, these kids are right. Bc I am that very mixed guy that had it extremely bad from both sides. I actually AM oppressed, both threateningly and even physically by force, to not do or be anything black today. I'm from the time it was basically illegal to mix. And I was ripped from my black side of the family by Jim Crow Laws and thrown to a pro-segregation white family (that did not want me) that believed I was a monkey. Bc my white mother was kidnapped and murdered. You would not believe the racism I have endured both sides. Yet still was mostly raised black bc I was neglected by my adoptive family. With all that murderous hate, that poverty, and trauma I became a thug, a robber, and entered gang activity (tho was not in a gang myself). Eventually grew up, and flipped my life around almost in one day. To be a good man, a husband, and father. What the black generation around me now sees is someone who they think is TRYING to be black and thug, but in reality I'm recovering and stopping myself from being it. Meanwhile they flaunt and wear it like it's an aesthetic, all without having lived any of the trauma that perpetuates it. (They're suburbanites from loving homes and never starved a day in their lives, nor lived much, if any, racial injustice) I have found my biological black family, even my father, after being ripped from them, and I love them more than anything. I wear clothes I've always worn, clothes I was made to wear growing up, by the black community. And now it's not allowed for some reason? I wear all the heritage clothes of my multi heritage of cultures I've participated in with them throughout my life, and ppl think they have a say in it now? They act like every black thing about the way I act, is brand new and just got started and they try to stamp it out immediately. Aggressively even. They say i want to be black, when I'm very happily mixed, bc my parents were rebels and I'm proud of that and will always do my best to emulate them and their courage. They were/are both wild childs all their lives and I will be too. So I completely understand the... EXTREME racism blacks are expressing towards us. I'm currently living it right now and it's friggen exasperating. I'm just living my life and out of the blue they will gang up on me to tell me to stop doing something I wasn't even aware was a "black" thing due to the line being blurred as a mixed person. Now old me would straight up murder them for threatening and putting their hands on me and shaking/shoving me around, but I can't do that. But when I'm in a murderous rage I get quiet, clench my fists, and concentrate to stop myself. Which I'm sure looks like something else to them, like fearful submission. I refuse to hurt ppl again, and they're much younger than me afterall. The black they are trying to be isn't even about being black, it's fake, it's enforced misery. Posers. Being thug is just a person traumatized by life in poverty, a pathetic loser that hurts everyone and everything they touch. They WANT to be miserable, they WANT to be treated with disrespect racially and the thing is where I am... they RARELY get it. Being racially biased against, it's so rare they treat it like it's a competition. They compete in racial microaggressions done to them. Not even real active racial bias towards them, they don't get that stuff hardly at all. So it kinda makes sense when I start talking about my experiences, which is... basically my whole life, they get upset and invalidate it, cutting me off too. They get real physically aggressive about it even, shoving me outside like I make them look bad or am lying... or both. But I'm from a different time, like you are not supposed to WANT to be treated the way we were. We bore that pain and struggle so that they didn't have to. You are NOT. SUPPOSED. TO. WANT. to be treated with racism. I think today... black kids are just messed up. They see how bad the world is, and think they have it so terrible, but where I live currently. They are treated so equally, so loved, and without stereotype. It makes no sense. Even the Republicans where I live, they treat everyone with cautious respect, celebrate your blackness without touching it themselves, even your pronouns! And it's the DEEP south. So literally wtf? It's the BLACK kids that are disrespectful towards everyone else, racist, and LGBT+ phobic to an extreme. In fact, most complaints of racial discriminations in our workplace, is of almost 97% blacks. It's NOT supposed to be that way. I just... don't get it. Well that's a lie, I do get some of it. A lot of the media they consume elaborates on the problems with corporate picking "lightskinned" over them, and while the message is to go after corporate, these kids turn around and take it out on every mixed person they know. me included. I know this bc I not only watch the same material, I SEE them watch it too, then turn to me and any other mixed person and give us a contorted face of hate and treat us terribly. Like that was not the message those videos were trying to give. I have struggled my whole life, even today, a lot of it due to race. And they have an easy ride everywhere bc ppl WANT their diversity. Black is CELEBRATED, and mixed is just a leftovers dish of ambiguous race. At least where I am. It's funny... bc all of my races that make me, including further back, they are all about their roots culturally. Including blacks. So why can't mixed ppl be about their roots? Why are oppressively forced to be only one over the other? When we are both. We may even love both, I sure do. So i guess I get these mixed kids saying, "I'm black!" against this extreme hate we're getting. Bc you do need to hear it. Some of us DO have it worse BOTH ways and come from a very unique perspective because of it. One that shouldn't be invalidated or ignored just bc they are mixed. We do NOT deserve the treatment we are getting. Everytime a mixed person wears braids or talks/acts/dresses like one of their parents, I hear strings of responses like "Mulatto menace!" "They wanna be black so bad" like bitch they HAVE black. They have MORE than black and that's okay. Like do you see yourselves? Being the very evil you want the world to be rid of? Or did you just want to get rid of it for you so you could do it to everyone else? There is no way to do the wrong thing the right way.

Love the creative makeup!

I love that you do these no script!

Not "Blue's Clues mystery case observation" 🤣🤣🤣

This concept gets crazy when you bring up being Native vs being mixed with Native.