Tuesday, August 29, 2006

LISTEN TO BEYONCE'S NEW SINGLE CREOLE

Just when you thought she could'nt get any worse, Beyonce releases her crappiest song yet. She sings this song as a tribute to her "light skinned" creoles. So if you're a white, hispanic, dark skinned black, or an Asian fan, you can sit this one out because it is not for you. LISTEN TO IT HERE.


In other Beyonce news, PETA has blasted her once again for cruelty to the aligators she had in one of her recent photoshoots.

47 Comments:

At August 29, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh no beyonce girl you better not release that ignorant mess please

 
At August 29, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

pff really stupid a comment...u got nothing else tohate on her? she has no right according to you to say where she comes from?her origines? she has to put a song for everyone except her? i dont get it what the fuck is wrong with that??
now i admit that the song isnt great, it does not even appear on the B'Day soundtrack

 
At August 29, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

i meant B'Day tracklisting loool

 
At August 30, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

its not that she has to put out a song for everybody to accept. she does have to remeber that there r little black girls who have a hard time acceptig themselves as it is. For her to come out and continue the work that willie lynch started.
dont know willie look it up.

 
At August 30, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

the point is she is excluding certain people by making this song. if she wanted to represent her culture then she could have done a better job than that. besides, beyonce is not even a creole. her mother is.

 
At August 30, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Beyonce is one retarded lame bitch and i am glad people are finally realizing this.

 
At August 30, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

i dont like this song or the lyrics. it is very juvenile and backward. this is not the slavery days anymore she really needs to get a clue. I will not buy that album, its clear to me now.

 
At August 31, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

The song doesn't sound all that hot...and she could have used a better choice of lyrics...
But the song is dedicated to the women of the creole culture. It is not meant to diss anyone. Being a creole woman...I like the song...and I like the fact that she is representing our culture. I don't think she had to add that redbone, brownbone, stuff in there...But nevertheless, I can feel the song.
And Kim...beyonce is part of the creole culture. Her mother is creole and her heritage and culture is creole. So that makes her creole.
Being creole is not about being a race, or certain color...being creole is about the culture...the traditions...and so forth. So anyone with creole heritage and culture is creole.

Maybe you need to do research on the culture before you make statements like that.

Cheers

 
At September 01, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

took the words right out mouth.....@lali

 
At September 02, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am a dark skinned girl, I don't like the song but I believe that if it was a dark skinned girl singing about dark skinned people, no one would have a problem with it.

 
At September 04, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

^girl please ofcourse no one would have a problem with it because society looks down upon dark skinned people. so ofcourse they wouldnt care

 
At September 04, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

LALI

honey i know what creole is ok. creole is a group of people who decend from african slaves who were raped by french slave masters, and have mixed with native american blood. beyonce's grand mother was a creole, her grandfather was not. beyonce's father is originally bahamian. so please dont tell me to do research i know what i am talking about

 
At September 08, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Beyonces Grandfather was Creole.. Thats where she got her name from.. "BEYONCE" is originally a Last name and it was her mothers maiden name.. the family name was dying so her mother decided to name her Beyonce to keep the family name alive.. i like the song "Creole" im creole and i like that she represented.. u hear fatjoe yelling PUERTO RICO!! and no one says nothin to him.. people are just caught up about skin color which not all creole people have light skin..the are darker skined people in the creoles.. it is about the culture and where u come from because creole is all over the world like in jamaica, latin america, africa, france and asia... do u resarch children =)

 
At September 08, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kim...Your so called definition of the creole culture is wrong and ridiculous. I don't know where you did your research but it seems that you need to do it again.
Don't worry though...I don't expect you to know much about the creole culture or anything about it for that matter. I am not going to waste my time providing the real definition of what it means to be creole, because 1. I don't feel like it, and 2. You probably still wouldn't get it.
But just so you do know...Creole does not mean african slaves who were raped by frenchman and had mixed children. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that definition is false.
In fact, creole has nothing to do with being mixed or what race you are. It is a culture...a heritage...a way of life.
Again...do your research before you open your mouth and display your obvious ignorance on something you know nothing about.

And Beyonce's creole heritage stems from her mothers side. Both her grandfather and grandmother on her mothers side were all part of the creole culture. They were from Louisiana. Beyonce IS creole because of her culture. PEOPLE!! CREole is not a RACE!! Just because her father's race is black does not mean she is not creole. Well..what is her mother's race?? Her mother probably considers herself black...and mult-racial. But her RACE IS NOT CREOLE. THERE IS NO SUCH THING as a creole race. Her CULTURE and HEritage is creole!!

GEt is straight...research before opening your mouth...read a book...read anything...

 
At September 17, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

This sucks and so do she!!!

 
At September 23, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Actually the last comment sucks (anonymous).

This is one of Beyonce's more creative efforts and probably will suck to those in favor of her more commercial mainstream music.

(and that being said, I'm no major fan of Beyonce)

 
At September 23, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I HAVE TO SAY SHE WAS REALLY BRAVE TO RELEASE THIS SONG. BEING A YOUNG LADY FROM LOUISIANA I UNDERSTAND THE FULL MEANING AND LIFESTYLE OF THE CREOLE CULTURE. FOR ONE BEYONCE IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING ANYTHING CREOLE. FURTHERMORE, IF YOU SEARCH THE WEB YOU WILL FIND MANY INCONSISTANCIES ON WHERE HER FAMILY IS FROM AND WHO IN HER FAMILY IS PART OF THE CREOLE CULTURE. CREOLE IN A MIXTURE OF SPANISH(SPAIN), FRENCH, AFRICAN, AND NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE. THERE ARE VERY WHITE CREOLES, VERY BLACK CREOLES, VERY SPANISH CREOLES, AND VERY NATIVE AMERICAN CREOLES. I WOULD SAY BEING CREOLE CAN BE LIKENED TO BEING CALLED AMERICAN. ITS NOT WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE OR YOUR RACE, ITS YOUR CULTURE AND WAY OF LIFE. BECAUSE OF MY HAVING PART IN THIS CULTURE AND FAMILY WHO ARE PROUD FRENCH-SPEAKING PEOPLE WHO HAVE MUCH VARIETY, I WOULD BE CONSIDERED CREOLE. IF YOU SAW ME I LOOK LIKE A TYPICAL BLACK PERSON, BUT IN MY FAMILY THERE ARE WHITES, BLACKS, NATIVE AMERICANS, AND WHATHAVEYOUS. BACK TO BEYONCE. SOMETIME PEOPLE TAKES HALFTRUTHS AND RUNS WITH IT. FACT IS THAT MANY PLACES HAVE THEIR IDEA OF WHAT CREOLE. BUT COME TO CREOLE COUNTRY(LOUISIANA) AND TASTE CREOLE LIFE FOR YOURSELF. YOU AND BEYONCE WILL FIND THAT THERE IS MORE TO BEING CREOLE THAN LOOKING HALF BLACK AND PRACTICING VOODOO, WE ARE A NATION WITHIN A NATION. A NAME NOT TO BE RECOGNIZED OUTSIDE THE BORDERS OF IT ORIGINATION

 
At October 07, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ummm...le terre bonne...Beyonce is of the creole culture. In fact...her grandparents were french speaking creoles from Lousiana. Her grandmother Agnes Dereon was from New Iberia, and her grandfather Lumis Beyince, Buyince, or Biyone...there are many different spellings...was from New Orleans. I have the census records to prove it. I do extensive research on our creole culture...and I have researched her family. I do agree with you that being creole is more than looking hald black.

 
At February 02, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

LISTEN UP!! This is for all of you lame, hatin ass BITCHES!!!! Let the girl do her thing.. you just mad you aint got it like her.. and acting that way you might never get it..you stupid hatin...stuck up hoes!!!!!!!!! get at me bitch!!!
Reggie
ps. CONGRADS Beyonce for doing YOU!!

 
At February 06, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Guys, it's sad that as citizens of what many considers the greatest country in the world, that Blacks still cannot get over being victims of everything.

Louisiana Creole, as an ethnic group, predates the constitution of the United States of America (1776). It furthermore is held together by a well-defined language, Creole (which for the record is NOT a dialect or a patois, but a bona fide language). Actually I'll throw some dates at you, and this thread wouldn't exist if Americans were more educated about their own land: Louisiana was founded in 1699 by René-Robert CAVELIER, Sieur de La Salle. First shipment of west African slaves arrived in 1721. Contrary to popular belief, Africa is a continent, not a county or state, composed of thousands of ethnic groups defined by thousands of languages. While most of Louisiana's slaves did come from Senegal, Mali and the Gambia, and thus they spoke several different languages, none mutually intelligable, other slaves trickled in from the Bight of Bénin, the Belgian Congo, Angola, etc. I'll throw in here that the French were extremely tedious at documenting everything. Colonial civil records reveal that already in 1748, fifty years after the colony was founded, and 20 years after the first shipment of slaves, there is evidence of a Creolized language spoken among the slave population in and around New Orleans and Mobile (now alabama). By 1758, ten years later, another testimony by a slave of the Bambara nation in Africa in a court case in New Orleans reveals that the Creole language was alive and well as he spoke in fluent Creole for the testimony in Court. That aside for a second.

Louisiana was initially a French colony for fifty or so years (1699-1753), then Spanish (1753-1800), then French again (1800-1803). Under the Spanish régime the colony prospered. It was under the jurisdiction of La Habana, Cuba and traffic between Cuba and Louisiana was frequent. But the lingua franca of the population in Louisiana remained French and Creole until well in the early 1900s. "Race" mixture was common, just as it was in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Venezuela, Martinique etc.

Whites and Blacks of Anglo-Saxon culture and language have since Louisiana statehood attempted to eradicate the local culture and language. Almost did so. Only 20% of the population of the state still speaks Creole at home, 40% speak French still and the younger generations of Creoles do not speak the language. But that still doesn't remove them from the Creole culture when they walk, dance, eat and sleep like any Creole would. They eat gumbo and smothered okra for Xmas, not baked Turkey. As a snack, boudin and gratons (hog cracklin) are favorites, not domino's pizza. In spring, Mardi Gras is celebrated leading to the Easter season. English spoken in south Louisiana is mostly directly translated from Creole and French (so we'd say, I've to go MAKE GROCERY, instead of I've to go grocery shopping). This is shared by ALL Louisiana Creoles.

If the Creole identity has a skin color connotation, then it's because Blacks from outside of Louisiana created it. In this case, Blacks are as bad as the same people who stripped their ancestors of their african identity, doing the same thing, attempting to strip Creoles of a culture and language that's rightfully theirs to adopt a culture that, for the record, is as bland as baked chicken minus the seasoning. Just as Anglo-Saxons TOLD slaves who they were, what their new identity was, Blacks have begun to do the same thing, assigning identities to others: this isn't a movie with roles to assign.

For the record, Beyoncé, as someone stated, is Tina Knowles' maiden name (actually spelled Boyancé, but pronounced the same) and BOTH of Tina's parents, also mentioned, were Creoles (Lumas Boyancé and Agnès de Rouen, both from Iberia Parish in Louisiana - The Knowles corrupted Agnès' name for legal reasons, but do a white page search od people with the DE ROUEN and BOYANCÉ spelling compared to the DERÉON and BEYONCÉ spelling and see what it yields if you're curious). Those families are STILL in Iberia and Vermillon parishes and still identify as Creole.

Someone mentioned earlier that no one yells and screams "don't want to be" this and that when fair complected puerto ricans or mexicans or colombians sing reggaetón, bachata, salsa or whatever. It's the same deal.

So my question is why can't Blacks allow ANYONE to be proud of their backgrounds without feeling threatened?

I too applaud Beyoncé for finally publically acknowledging her Creoleness.

To bien fe chère. M'a courri acheter to cd jiste parske to te pas fe sa le moune ap'ole to fe. Bravo et felicitasyon.

I realize that this is tabloid drama, and that probably nothing that's said will be considered, but if one mind can be changed, then my job's done.

Jacques DE ROUEN,
Abbéville, Louisiana
Creole, Alive and Well.

 
At February 16, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jacques, you pretty much summed everything up about Creole, but let me add to the history. According to my research, Creole was a race. Creole means free people of color. Europeans, didn't know what to call these beautiful and exotic people so they called them Creole. Creole people did indeed have there own heritage, and culture.

In those times, there were Creole, Mullatto,and Blacks. The difference between these races was color. Creoles didn't want to be called white or black. They were too light to be fully black, and they were too dark to be fully white. Because of this race they were excluded from being slaves. that's why they were called free people of color.

Mullatos were too dark to be called Creole, but to light to be called black. They were also free people of color.

Blacks were black and they were slaves.

When I read this in the book Creole by Sybil Kein, I was amazed. I was also amazed when I went back in my own family history and found that as early as my great grandmother on my mother's side race recorded was Mullato. I went on my mom's dad side and her grandfather's race was recorded as Creole. If you don't beleive me go to the couurt house and look at old records. These were actual races.

When I first heard the origin of Beyonce's name, I automatically knew that she had Louisiana roots. People from Louisiana can tell by the last name if you have Louisiana roots. For example, De Reoun, Gougis, Lavalais, Babineaux, Quexadeaux, and so on.

I believe that the way the internet words Beyonce's family history is confusing for some. For Example, they put that her grandmother was French speaking and her grandfather is pure African American.They also say the same thing for Beyonce's cousin, Angela Biyince, that her father is of Creole descent and her mother is pure African Americn. So they are acknowledging that Creole is a race, and because people don't fully understand this unique culture, they are lead to believe that Beyonce' is mixed: half Creole, and half black. Maybe we should get together and start doing research on Creole, Mullato families.

 
At February 21, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm from Louisiana and I come from a Creole heritage. What it is of French and Spanish descendants. It suprisingly has almost nothing to do with African! I love beyonce and I can see French in her look at her middle name Giselle and her siter's middle name Piaget. i know some of her people are from New Iberia, L. And she got her name from her maternal grandfather. my last name is french it is Gros pronounced Grow meaing fat!

 
At February 23, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Daylon Gros,
Please read the two comments before yours. They give a great explaination of what Creole really is. It has everything to do with African because of the different mixtures. Go read that book. Creole and tell me how it describes being creole. Creole, a heritage, a way of life, and color. Being mixed with just french and spainsh will not produce the beautiful exotic colr they were referring to.

 
At April 15, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

well i think beyonce is doin' her thing why shouln't she sing songs about her creole heritage. people are most probably hatin because she is beautiful and so all th black people want to claim her and can't except the fact that heritage is very mixed. i am actually a black teenager from london so i have no connection to this creole buisness but let beyonce do her thing.

 
At May 16, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dylon Gros:
If you trulu believe that being Creloe has nothing to do with African then you are sadly mistaken. Creole is African, Spanish, French, West Indies, Haiti, and etc. Please read or do your research before you post something like that. I'm of creole descent but I'm African american and proud of my hertiage. It seems to me that you may be trying to omit your African side,if you are black, but if your not black then you would be considered Cajun. My last name is french as well.

 
At August 08, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah. I do notice the lighter skinned girls thinking that they are better. I am a brown0skinned creole girl with hazel eyez, so they are not all light. In that case, don't say you're "black" like me when it's convenient. Call yourself CREOLE ALL THE TIME. Fake ass.

 
At September 03, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well I have become very interested in the light skin creole, French heritageas of late. Especially after seeing the Show Time movie "The Feast of All Saints".

I have been doing extensive research (which I am by no means finished). I also read the book "The Feast of All Saints" and just finished reading a book called "Cane River" written by Lalita Tademy who is of Creole descent. In my research I have come across quite a few definition of "Creole" one of which are White French people from a certain area of France and it mostly pertained to the men. These are the people who settled in New Orleans along with the Haitians after the Haitian/French revolution of 1841 and "Gen de Coleur" which means "people of color". In this instance in meant the offspring of the "White French Creole" men and the Hatian women. So Creole is not neccessarily the "mixture" of white and black people from New Orleans as most people believe it is. In New Orleans it would be the mixture of a white creole frenchman and a black woman (for a black man or a man of color mixing with a white woman was unheard of at that time). But the person who said that Creole is a mixture of Spanish and French are also correct as is the person that said Creole is rooted in Africa as well as many Africans have mixed with the offspring of the French Spanish and even Hatian people. There is one ironic link here....as I mentioned little earlier every mix that included a black person....that black person was always a woman. I'm not talking about the interracial relationships that we have today where of course there are black men and white women that mix, I am talking about within the "Creole" mix the woman was always black and the reasoning behind that my friends is a whole other story. Like someone mentioned earlier....do your research.....It's out there.

 
At September 03, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well I have become very interested in the light skin creole, French heritageas of late. Especially after seeing the Show Time movie "The Feast of All Saints".

I have been doing extensive research (which I am by no means finished). I also read the book "The Feast of All Saints" and just finished reading a book called "Cane River" written by Lalita Tademy who is of Creole descent. In my research I have come across quite a few definition of "Creole" one of which are White French people from a certain area of France and it mostly pertained to the men. These are the people who settled in New Orleans along with the Haitians after the Haitian/French revolution of 1841 and "Gen de Coleur" which means "people of color". In this instance in meant the offspring of the "White French Creole" men and the Hatian women. So Creole is not neccessarily the "mixture" of white and black people from New Orleans as most people believe it is. In New Orleans it would be the mixture of a white creole frenchman and a black woman (for a black man or a man of color mixing with a white woman was unheard of at that time). But the person who said that Creole is a mixture of Spanish and French are also correct as is the person that said Creole is rooted in Africa as well as many Africans have mixed with the offspring of the French Spanish and even Hatian people. There is one ironic link here....as I mentioned little earlier every mix that included a black person....that black person was always a woman. I'm not talking about the interracial relationships that we have today where of course there are black men and white women that mix, I am talking about within the "Creole" mix the woman was always black and the reasoning behind that my friends is a whole other story. Like someone mentioned earlier....do your research.....It's out there.

 
At October 19, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Beyonce just wants to be white. She's got the fake blonde hair

 
At October 26, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow...while this is quite educational (thanx to the ppl who KNOW what they're talking about), it's also sickening. why can't we as human beings just be who we are?
why does everything turn into an argument about skin color or being
'mixed' or having 20% this race, etc etc. this nation, as racially mixed up as it is, still can't get along. these argument, stamping ppl
this race or this level of beauty vs. the 'other' level of beauty just breeds hatred and animosity. be glad for whatever u are cause God made u that way, no matter what ur 'mixed' w/or not mixed wth!
beauty comes in all skin tones, mixtures, sizes, colors and all that good stuff. y does it matter so much that we put labels on each other as if to make certain ppl
'better', so to speak, than others?
i pray that we all can get along and just appreciate the vast array of beauty that God has put on earth
for us to celebrate...not separate.

 
At October 26, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow...while this is quite educational (thanx to the ppl who KNOW what they're talking about), it's also sickening. why can't we as human beings just be who we are?
why does everything turn into an argument about skin color or being
'mixed' or having 20% this race, etc etc. this nation, as racially mixed up as it is, still can't get along. these argument, stamping ppl
this race or this level of beauty vs. the 'other' level of beauty just breeds hatred and animosity. be glad for whatever u are cause God made u that way, no matter what ur 'mixed' w/or not mixed wth!
beauty comes in all skin tones, mixtures, sizes, colors and all that good stuff. y does it matter so much that we put labels on each other as if to make certain ppl
'better', so to speak, than others?
i pray that we all can get along and just appreciate the vast array of beauty that God has put on earth
for us to celebrate...not separate.

 
At November 10, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why anyone would want to celebrate and sing a song about being a mutt is beyond me.

 
At November 13, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

who cares where beyonce comes from and to which culture etc. she belongs.. please get a life!!

 
At November 14, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Many of all are mixing the different definitions of creole. Louisian creoles are different from Haiti creoles. Haitians speak creole which is more like an Africanized French. The orginal creole term was anyone born in Louisiana with french or spanish blood. But natural African and native american quickly became part of what a creole is just like many of the famous delicacies like Jambalaya, Gumbo which both have strong african roots.
The browned skinned girl with the hazel contacts said that creoles need to stop being fake.
Well creoles, far the most part, general identify with black ,due to jim crow laws and other things, but are creole which makes a big difference. When I am in Louisiana people know I am creole so I dont have to proclaim it. But when I am in Texas and just say I am black people think I am nuts. I am very light skinned with dark hair. So I have to school them on my creole heritage.

I dont feel that beyonce is alienating anyone by being proud of herself. Didnt Indie Irie have a song about dark skinned girls. Didnt 2 pac say the darker the berry the deeper the roots. I didnt hear any lighter skinned folks crying over it.

Your favorite rappers dog out women on every song and you want to give Beyonce a hard time for being proud of her Mom and their roots.

Typical

 
At November 14, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Black people dont be upset but..

Tiger Woods is half Asian.

Barack Obama is Half white.

and Beyonce is Creole to the bad bad bone.

 
At January 20, 2008, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah,i hear she is has blood haitan ,why don't she just said THAT OR TELL EVYBODY HER ORIGINE.AND I SAW HER MOM IS HAITIAN DOMINICA.

 
At July 30, 2008, Blogger creole princess said...

Creole does not mean the same thing everywhere. I'm Haitian and the term was used to differentiate blacks who were born in the colony from the ones who came over from africa and then we had the mulattoes (offspring of black and whites....up to the 8th generation. Like, you could be one eighth black (looking pure white) and still be called a mulatto. In Louisianna and some of the other colonies, it was any descendant of a french person that was called creole. But creole is a very mixed way of life. In Haiti, we maintain very strong african traditions and yet are very proud of the french language. We speak a creole that's mainly french, but full of african, spanish, and english words. We dance Ibo (west African) along with Polka (northern France). We listen to 'chansonnettes francaises' and Konpa (african influenced) and meringue. Our cuisine is mixed. Black people, lighten up! No one is ashamed of the black race. I am personally proud of the african americans' achievements. But, I don't feel that my culture is the same as that of an African American. In fact, I do not connect with most African americans I've met so far. I connect better with a french person or an african person. Even the African culture is not the same as the african american culture. I am always hesitant to check african american on a form and I know I am Black. My children whose father is caucasian even have less in common culturally with african americans and they do not like to be called just black. I am not offended by it. People should be able to celebrate all parts of themselves without politics. It's not fair to tell people to deny part of themselves to make you feel or look good. It's not the slavery days anymore when people would tell you who to be for economic gain or social status.

After 1804, many Haitians migrated to Louisianna. I read in the wikipedia that Beyonce's mom is of Haitian decent. If she was raised in that tradition, she's really not going to feel that she's just african american...and it's not even about the colour.
Si Beyonce fiere de kulture kreyol li et li vle honore li, oui se tres bien. Se bel!

 
At October 15, 2008, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have Creole blood from Louisiana, and French Guiana in South America. The original definition of creole was the offspring of Spanish or French settlers. The present day definition is so muddled it is ridiculous. The creole french spoken in French Guiana, Martinique, and Guadalupe sound almost the same, but like someone else posted Haitian Creole is the most Africanized. I have no problem with Beyonce, because a lot of people are ashamed of their African roots, but it doesn't matter because we all have them.

 
At November 21, 2008, Anonymous Anonymous said...

The previous comment is right,the definition of Creole has become so muddled. Being from the french WestIndies,the island of Dominica (notDominican Republic) located between Martinique and Guadalupe, Back in the days of the sugar cane and cotton boom, Which lead to the slave trade,the meaning of Creole was the offspring or descendants of European settlers born in the islands or New world.Because they were not born in Europe they were not considered Europeans by other white Europeans.
Josephine Bonaparte , Napoleon's wife was Creole from Martinique,she was not of mixed race.She was the offspring of white French born in Martinique. Back then mixed blacks were broken up differently,
Mulattos- offspring of white and black

Quadroon- offspring of mulatto and white

Octoroon- offspring of a quadroon and a white. Although Octoroons could pass for white,they were still considered colored. It was against the law for any free woman of color no matter how black or white they looked to wear their hair down. Their hair was to be wraped up in a tignon(kerchief) at all times .
With time, and so much racial mixture in the islands the word Creole was/is used to identify a culture.We also speak a second language we call Patois or French Patois/Creole,like Louisianna but different to the creole the Haitians speak. Many west indians migrated to Louisianna back in the early days when it was founded adding to its melting pot.
So the word Creole is not only linked to Louisianna. If you vist the Caribbean especially the French West Indies the People will say, "We are Creole" no matter the race, the hue,the shade.It is their culture, their heritage, their history, their mixture.

 
At December 30, 2008, Anonymous Anonymous said...

My Maternal Grandfather and Grandmother are of Creole Descent. I guess back then he would be considered an octaroon? And my Grandmother would've been considered Mulatto? This is really strange. I've recently discovered this. So I'm completely reading everything I can.

Anyway, when I was younger I generally put other as my race, as I got older I started to mark down African American. I don't identify with creole or spanish, or african, or french at all. Not even my strong Native american roots. I should but the sad part is I don't. If Beyonce does that isn't for us to scrutinize her for it. I am a little bit Jealous (yes I said it) that she's able to identify with a culture that I should've know all about a long time ago.

So what about her roots. Where are most people roots these days? So what about her skin? Do you know how I was picked on about my light skin in my child hood? My "different long thick hair"? I appreciate anyone that is proud of that I never had that. I hated my skin complexion for so long because there wasn't anyone that treated me normally. Kids at school, that were darker treated me like I was stuck up. (I was a tomboy)Pretty much impossible. My family at home would compare me to my sister and cousins and have whole conversations about my hair texture and skin complexion. Pretty much making me the least favorite among most. Anytime I do get a little haughty and feel like I really got it going on, I have to pull back for fear that I won't have any friends around and people will judge me wrongly. I'm the most down to earth person I know and when I walk into any environment feel pretty much judged wrong. I get way too many people telling me after weeks of seeing me around, then finally talking to me. "I thought you were so much different"! As if that's even a compliment anymore in my mid 20's.

I applaud Bey for doing her thing..... Now I can't hear the song right now so I can't make a comment on the words as of yet. But if I wanted to make a song about being black no one would even say anything. If I wanted to make a song about being a redbone Creole, well that's just racist huh? LOL!

Reality is my ancestors are made up of slaves, slave masters and free people of america. This country is built upon race, "
Most of us are ancestors to people that bred to gain status and that is that people. So the hate has deep roots and that's because we didn't love ourselves in the begining. We are all in this country together so we need to try and get along no matter what our race, heritage, color, or place of birth.

So if someone comes out singing about their roots don't be mad. Be mad at the people singing about finally bombing our country.

 
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Continue to love your beauty from within...it is time good people move forward and ignore the ugly and miserable heart that breeds destruction and hate.

 
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