Down With The Brown? Celebrities Who Look Black…But Aren’t

August 27th, 2012 - By Kendra Koger

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Dear Readers, we at Madame Noire indulge in a lot of things.  Mostly philosophizing, qualitative matters, and world situations.  But in the midst of all this deep thinking (“So, if we get the soda with the meal it’ll be cheaper?”) we know that sometimes delving into the world of frivolity is sometimes fun.  With that being said:

Within North America sometimes if a person is of color, but their nationality isn’t as obvious, people tend to just categorize them as black (or being “mixed”).  However, in this big Melting Pot we like to call the U. S. of A. there are so many different nationalities, and even celebrities can get classified as belonging to one group when they are actually proud members of another.

Along with this frivolity, you’ll have to click; a small price to pay.

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  • Nancy

    Indians are not Black. That can be the new “thing” that I learn for today.

  • http://www.facebook.com/keith.batchelor.90 Keith Batchelor

    Possible the most racist thing I have ever seen. I’m surprised they didn’t throw in the line “they all look the same anyway”.

  • Josh77

    The title and content of this article is the stupidest, most racist thing I’ve glanced at today.

  • Joshua Cornaglia

    There are no words to describe the level of dumb contained within this article. NONE of these people ‘look black’ as you put it….Channing Tatum? Really? The guy is barely tan.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1426982224 Melinda Otteson Gray

    None of them looked black, and the ones with darker skin were obviously Indian or at least from that part of the world.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RD2VSFIMFI32DMDHGXFE2M7SVQ Anarch

    OH NOES! These people aren’t blonde. That must mean they are black. Thank you so much for correcting our misunderstanding!

  • Mina B.

    The only two that I couldn’t figure out were Rachel Roy and Rita Ora. Everyone else looked race appropriate.

  • lewisjm

    Are you kidding me? not one of those people look Black and please try not to insult our intelligence ever again, Now if you say they are look White but are black that’ a different story. So sick of people trying to either deny or claim their blackness.

  • i hate this article

    This article is just as ignorant as the person who wrote it none of them look black!!!!

  • Duoyo

    Ok i’m sorry, but at no time did I think any of these people were black.

  • K.

    Why would anyone think Mindy Kaling is white. She’s obviously Indian.

  • GOLDiE

    This is stupid..Rita Ora is the only one who I can say looked mixed.. Everyone else looked the colour they are

  • Dustin

    How could anybody possibly think Channing Tatum is black?

  • Lola Waldorf.

    I am soooooooooooo SICK of the confusion between race and nationality.

  • Z

    From reading these comments, my thoughts are “What a mess!” No wonder people don’t know what to think or say anymore! People are so sensitive with EVERYTHING these days it’s like walking on eggshells constantly. How about “human”? You’re human. How about that? Please simplify. Crikey. Exhausting.

  • Annoyed

    Are Americans really that ignorant to thing that any of these people are black? Or is this article making us out to be? Come on madamenoire! We should all know that there are many different cultures around the world except for black and white. As a black person not from America I am deeply offended that you put the likes of Channing Tatum in this article just because he was in the movies where he dances such as Step-it-up and Magic Mike.

  • http://bpytsspot.blogspot.com/ the78msj

    Someone of color didn’t write this article because it was stupid. Not one person in this article looks black you have to have more than skin tone to look black smh some of the post on here stay reaching. Who in the hell would mistake channing tatum for black or jon b who is Italian smh ugh I hope someone didn’t get paid for this article because it was dumb.

  • renaissance24

    Hoda Kotb should be in the list.

  • UdonNo

    THIS ARTICLE SHOULD BE CALLED–PEOPLE YALL WISHED WERE BLACK.

  • confused

    what a waste.

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