Got to give my highest respect to Dr. Maurice Martinez. Super smart and super funny. Those who know...knows. Bless.

dark people don`t come in all shades

Love the interviews w the ladies!

Dr. Don you are the Man !!!

Yet so many Black people wish they were Mixed-race. Most idolize Mulattoes and other Mixed-race peoples with silky hair and keen features!

I truly enjoyed this documentary. My family is Cape Verdean; we were the first Creole culture on Gods Earth… formed in the 1400s by Portuguese and Africans. I do want to explain some concepts to you guys that I think you don’t understand about being Creole. During our creation, Europe was basically being eradicated by disease. In order to attempt to repopulate, Latin monarchs and the archdiocese came up with an actual strategic plan using the African. See, Africans were already in Europe especially Portugal, Spain and Italy. We were surviving the he plagues. Anyway, both the Carnary Islands and Cabo de Verde were used as breeding spots, which is the literal meaning of Creole (Create/breed). On the Canaries, they literally either murdered the African or bred. This is a source of humor for us regarding Spaniards coming from the Canaries and swearing they are 100% Europeans. Anyway, once they achieved a successful format with Cape Verdean they knew they could apply it to other parts of the world… bc let’s be honest, Europe did not have enough ppl to populate three, no four, additional continents. So, what I am trying to clarify for ppl in Louisiana is that you have to have African and Latin blood to be Creole, Germans/Irish/Brits are not Creole bc they are not Catholic. They may have mixed ppl and Huguenots, but they are a whole different ppl. I think what happened in Louisiana and other colonies, is the antebellum notion of Creole… the word became sexy and elitist, and who would not want that. However, only there are “100% white” ppl considered Creole. Now, I know there that the word has been redefined many times to fit what the ppl in charge want it to fit. But, I hope and pray this gives you more insight into your actual historic origins and the Creole culture was literally started off the coast of Africa. Bear in mind please. So when I see ppl like that gorgeous older lady completely reject Africa, it comes off as ignorant and hurtful. -CVCruz

What a voice!

STOP THE MADNESS BLACK PEOPLE: The Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of a Slave. The letter is said to be a speech delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712. Lynch was a British slave owner in the West Indies. He was invited to the colony of Virginia in 1712 to teach his methods to slave owners there. In his speech Lynch said that he had a foolproof method for controlling Black slaves, “I guarantee every one of you that, if installed correctly, it will control the slaves for at least 300 years.” He said that his method was simple and that any member of the slave owner’s family or their overseer can use it. Excerpt from the letter: “I have outlined a number of differences among the slaves; and I take these differences and make them bigger. I use fear, distrust and envy for control purposes. These methods have worked on my modest plantation in the West Indies and it will work throughout the South. Take this simple list of differences and think about them. On top of my list is “Age” but it’s only there because it starts with an “a”. The second is “color” or shade. There is intelligence, size, sex, sizes of plantation, status on plantation, attitude of owners, whether the slaves live in the valley, on a hill, East, West, North, South, have fine hair, coarse hair, or is tall or short. Now that you have a list of differences, I shall give you an outline of action, but before that, I shall assure you that distrust is stronger than trust and envy stronger than adulation, respect or admiration. The Black slave receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self-refueling and self-generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands. Don’t forget, you pitch the old Black male vs. the young Black male, and the young Black male against the old Black male. You must use the dark skin slaves vs. the light skin slaves, and the light skin slaves vs. the dark skin slaves. You must use the female vs. the male, and the male vs. the female. You must also have a white overseer who distrusts all Blacks. But it is necessary that your slaves trust and depend on us. They must love, respect and trust only us. Gentlemen, these kits are our keys to control. Use them. Have your wives and children use them. Never miss an opportunity. If used intensely for one year, the slaves themselves will remain perpetually distrustful. Thank you gentlemen.”

my first time seeing warren bell in any medium than the news desk. always liked his reporting, clear and fair.

There is no black, that’s why we can’t see each other. Dark Europeans came over too and they got money and still got money till this day, plenty of em entertainers. They gave us colorism then the pale & nearly white British and French folks came for the racism. Divide and conquer.

I would also be lying if I said no one in my Creole family discriminated against me. I had a relative they had a separate set of toys for the dark kids than the light kids and we weren’t allowed to play with the newer toys and this was within the family that had moved to Los Angeles bringing that colorism mess and making it even worse. Dark skin family had to fight for everything we had while the lighter were given financial opportunities, funding, support.

Colorism is about data and outcomes in housing, policing, educational opportunities, sentencing, etc, not hurt feelings because someone called someone a name or not dating/marrying someone. Like racism, it’s systemic but too often we get into discussions which are not about systemic inequity but personal preference. I’m darker than the speaker and yet I’m Creole but don’t announce it and my parents left Louisiana so they could protect us from colorism but it was worse on the West Coast (go figure).

Créole and Kreyol which are synonymous is associated with Afro descendants in the Americas. White folks cannot claim it. From Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique etc, the créole culture thrives. Quit trying to steal a culture that is not yours

I am the 6x great grandson of coincoin and 6 or 7thx great grandson of Angelique Hasinai

This is about my people

14:40 people will still be complaining about this a million years later 😂

Chile it’s 2023 and idk who that “high yella” man in that Bill Cosby sweater is but he is annoying me with his dismissal of colorism.

Proud Creole here..grandparents Romain Benoit Darensbourg Jackson..all from New Orleans except for grandma marguerite Jackson from Baton rouge I grew up in Los Angeles...my folks moved there in 40's and 50's...had some passe blanc family.. but we were french Creole/black identified...folks sure were confused re us..hahaha

I’m becoming more interested in my creole heritage. I appreciate this video.

What happened is, the type of colorism that came out of Haiti from the Mulattos (Black creoles) who migrated to Louisiana, these Mulattos were placed ABOVE the black slave class in Haiti. So they brought that same mentality and culture to Louisiana. The white French didn’t consider the Mulattos as white, but they also didn’t label them as black. I think their form of colorism also permeated nationally even amongst those who weren’t mixed with white French into being political, the mindset that mixed race black people are “better” Smarter, look better, and genetically better than black people. What these “creoles” also fail to mention is how mixed race women where mostly pushed into prostitution in brothels to “service” white men. I guess because white people choose them to “serve up” white men, these people were of the mindset that they were better. Lastly, what somewhat changed to turn the creole into black is when the British or America took over Louisiana, they didn’t consider creole people anything other than Black. To the American whites (British), creole were just light skinned black and they treated them as such. Which put the mixed race black creole in the same box as black.

I'm proud to be creole and I love black people

My great grandma was a Choctaw Indian, my grandma was the daughter of a French slave master and Choctaw, my dad was Cajun and Choctaw, he looked white, my momma was Irish slave master and African American, she was high Yellow, me their offspring I claim to be Creole, even though I was born in San Francisco CA but my family is from VillePlatte Louisiana and Edwards Mississippi. I'm high Yellow too!

Why come it's so well known in New Orleans that explains light skin blks I don't want my son to be shame of him blk mother me do most of the creole act better are they picky.

This video reminds me of Tisha Campbell-Martin and Tichina Arnold being compared. Almost everyone says Tichina looks better than Tisha. I find this strange because it’s not as if Tisha is an ugly woman. Don’t get me wrong Tichina is a beautiful woman and I get why some people think she looks better than Tisha. Then again many people say Tichina looks better just because they don’t want to be labeled colorstruck if they were to say Tisha looks better. There is nothing wrong with saying a light skin person looks better than a dark skin as long as you say it in a respectful way.

Yup, deconstruct history while the Disrespectful Caribbean's and Africans re-write it and take ownership of New Orleans history, culture and cultural foods. WAKE UP!!! These disrespectful Caribbeans and Africans are here to erase and replace the American native born black New Orleans. We are NOT Africans, we are Americans. Pan Africanism has destroyed the minds of my people.

I'm a French Creole and I'm white

I am from Memphis, but my grandparents were both raised in both Mississippi and New Orleans. They are Creole. My grandfather was very dark and spoke French or a French dialect. Grandmother was very fair and was the granddaughter of a long line of slavers. My suspicion is that her mother was Malaysian, due to my DNA and the physical features of my aunts, uncle, my daughter, and grandson. I am dark and grew up being subjected to the paper bag test. Once I darkened beyond that sack, I was no longer accepted, just as my younger brother, who had never been accepted.

Don`t get mad cause light skin people want to be with each other.

I'm light skin, Creole and cocky about it because I think I'm that ninja. I would have dark skin kids crying after I roasted them when they would come messing with me lol

a coyoutie,lol he's making his own gumbo for saying that.

lol he said when a coyote make love to a poodle his wife is the offspring.

I’m one of the little girls in the playground scene lol! This is sooo old. Bought back so many memories!!!

Beautiful! Didn't want the lesson to end!

Creole's be like oh no girl I'll let cha know when I'm done 😂😂😂

Proud to be Creole

More cousins who live as white than as creole🤔interesting. 34:30 the saints and churches

I have relatives named Baham who live in Madisonville La. I wonder if he's part of that line of Baham's.

This video got Make us 💪💪💪 is only one r human in this world 🌍 only be United we can do better for our next generation arriba Raza United matter

The truth is different people like or are attracted to different things & people or certain ethnic features ,, the sad part is to show hatred or discuss for differences your not attracted to

I'm born and raised creole in New Orleans and I love my ppl dark skin and light skin

Jack and Jill club, a Black social club in the mid Atlantic states, was a very popular, exclusive Black , elite social group. The rule to belong to this club was, if you were darker than a paper bag, you could not be considered to join Jack and Jill. And this club still exists today!!!

I'm always called creole, because I'm light skinned. My grandmother is from New Orleans. She could pass for white, because her father, who nobody knows who he is, was white. Creole, half white, masse blanc, I'm just not into none of that. It's very irritating and it has caused the colorist throughout the Black community to this day. Light skinned is not the best skinned. All our skins are beautiful and non is better than the other.

Amongst us people of hued complexions. Where Eurocasians have view us; The lighter your skin, the quicker you are in! Many caucasians that I've asked the question, the response was that; The lighter the skin and more euro-featured a negro/african american appears, the more they are subjective to be more suggestive to their way of thinking, living, and separating themselves of people of darker hue. That's been the history of this country by the "European Colonists" since the day Columbus place foot on these shores, and the following eurocasians got off of them ships! I guess for some, the truth hurts😤😩

42:56 HOLLYWOOD!!

Brainwashing and self-hate persist! Wake up people. They’re still controlling you centuries later.

And you introduce the video with the mythical Willie Lynch letter, that did not exist. You need to stop. We brought the Colorism from Africa with us.

Haiti played such a big part in the NEW ORLEANS! WE KNOW THE CATHOLIC CURCH STARTED THIS KRAP!

Dr. Jeff is the TRUTH. We miss him dearly. A real leader of our community. Just like his daddy, Morris F.X. Jeff, Sr.

Africans come in light and dark shades without any admixture. This Willie Lynch ideology is taught. It is a slave mentality. It divides the world. In some Asian and some African nations this is taught but many do not see it is a legacy of some form of colonialism.. In my youth I never noticed this in my country. Some tribes were lighter some darker, but all had light and dark people. People would have their individual preferences in terms of beauty but never was intelligence or progress associated with skin color. That would be to me like a mental illness? Slaves were taught to think like this and its continuation is the possession of a slave mentality be it in an African, Asian or someone from the American continent. For the European it is a mentality of ignorance or the promotion of a divisive agenda. Many of us who think this way must decide if we really want to participate in such a divisive agenda. To the European you must realize such an ideology can be used against you as well. All races have different shades and features within the racial group. Let us embrace this diversity not reject it. This is the true mindset of a free man!

As a NYC High School teacher I saw it on a daily basis from the students. Divide and conquer is a real threat to our survival unless we stop it. WEB DuBois and Marcus Garvey are prime historical figures who were too stupid to see it or just didnt care to end it.