Reply #17: That's not necesarily the case. I've asked my mum about that as well. [View All]

[vaberella]

Actually most people don't believe my parents were mixed until they see the family pictures. What happens is that they look like other ethnic groups. I think people are set in the belief that mulattes fit a paticular "look" almost like the Shemar Moore style. Yet, if some were to look at Halle Berry, I never suspected her of being mixed and thought was Black. And we know there are others who look possibly like an entirely different ethnic group like Dwayne Johnson or Vin Diesel. For instance the colour variation between my mum and her brothers is extraordinary. One of my uncles was extremely dark skinned and most would never suspect his father was "white." While my mum's youngest brother is a polar opposite.

I think people are set in the way of what fits a stereotypical "mixed" look while reality says something else and definitely most Haitians have mixed lineage since the country has been continually taken over.

The key distinction of mulattes or the ruling class are always the "newbies" of money and most mullattes of power today are not of "Black and White" lineage (or it's very little). Now it's Haitian and some other Middle Eastern. Many of them are the "privileged" class now. I know way too many poor White Haitians and their children are regulars.

You should ask to see some of the Haitian's family pictures. It might give you another perspective. We're not shy about displaying them---they're littered everywhere. Also a thing to note is that there are, as I mentioned with my parents mixed kids marrying one another. Genetics give you different feedbacks.