Juliet Ibrahim frowns at being called Half-Caste

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Juliet Ibrahim

YouTuber, Ghanaian actress and model Juliet Ibrahim expresses dissatisfaction after she was labeled an half-caste and not a black woman.

The 34 year old said people like her are known as mixed race or multi-racial instead of a derogatory word like Half-Caste.

Read her message here…

I had a random conversation the other day with someone and it was appalling when he mentioned passively to me that he doesn’t see me as a #Blackwoman ! He argued, you are not “black enough” your skin isn’t dark enough, your hair not kinky enough. And thus my siblings and I do not “count” as Black.
Now this is Exactly, what we are fighting to correct amongst ourselves and the world at large. I am a black woman! When I’m abroad amongst the whites, I am classified and recognized as a black woman, however, right amongst us Africans I’ll be referred to as a Half-Caste! This is the most derogatory term to describe a person of mixed race or mixed ethnicity.
We are referred to as mixed race or multi-racial! Mixed race people are no less black than their dark-skinned counterparts. So, let’s all say NO to RACISM, TRIBALISM, COLORISM and SEGREGATION. Let’s teach and train our children to grow up and accept people for who they are and not by the color of their skin.

Juliet who is the first child and has two sisters; Sonia, Nadia and a brother, was born in Liberia to a Lebanese father and a Liberian mother.

The dictionary meaning of Half-Caste is a person whose parents are of different races.

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