Poor Little Mixed Girl

KeKe Wyatt’s white momma likes to call her and other people NIGGA. Not NIGGER.

While checking the blogs this morning – one of the first I always check is Rhymes With Snitch because she has that “news from the bathroom wall” – I found the interview of R&B singer Ketara “KeKe” Wyatt from Essence.com. You may remember KeKe from the duet with Avant, “Nothing In This World.” She got sentenced to jail for stabbing her then husband/manager after he “put his hands on her” a few years back, but now she’s out and ready to release a new album.

Although KeKe is light skin-ded (yes, I DID type ‘skin-ded’), it never occurred to me that she was of mixed race, but she is. She speaks about it in her interview with Essence.com… that she’s 25% black and blah blah blah… the entire article is QUITE hilarious because it goes to speak – from my opinion anyway – on how SOME… and I repeat SOME mixed race children grow up without a sense of self and are confused, even sometimes delusional about race – including their own racial make up.

There’s a lot more of the interview and you can get it either over at Essence.com or Rhymes (Rhymes has the funniest comments on the article). I especially tripped out on how she said her white mother used to call her nigga and that her mom uses the word often when she’s talking to people. What her mom chooses to call people is really not that big of a deal to me (people are gonna say what they're gonna say), the part that got me the most is what I pasted below, she refers to black people with “they” and “their” and the rest I just highlighted because its all just so ridiculous! Her label PR person should have shut this shit down before it ever saw the net :-\

Interview:

Essence.com: Yes, and many people still believe that “ignorant people” equals “Black people.”

K.W.: At the end of the day, you’re the one who is ignorant. I don’t think people should use the word so much. I hate how everyone thinks that Black people are beneath them, even Asians, Whites and ...Mexicans. No, I’m not all Black, but I definitely stand up for the Black people. They’ve had it rough, they can’t help the fact that they’re skin is dark, or that their nose is a lil’ wider or that the curls in their hair might be tighter than yours. I don’t think that it’s fair for people who look like me with the light skin, pointy nose and the pretty hair to think that dark-complected people are any less than them. Who am I? I’m not better than you. I breathe the same air and I bleed the same blood. Nobody is better than anybody else. We are all in this struggle called life. I think brown skin is beautiful because people like me have to lay out in the sun to try and look like you. My best friends are Black-Black-Black—and I think that’s so beautiful. I think that’s why I decided to make my children Black. I could have married a White dude or got with a White man and my kids probably would have looked completely White. That’s not what I wanted. Now, they can go outside and get a for-real tan (laughs). I think Black is beautiful. I stand for the African-American people until the day I die.

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By the way… If you know KeKe’s mom, please send her a link to this site… ya know, since she likes the word nigga and all, she would REALLY like my blog ;-)

Here are some YouTube clips of KeKe. I thought it would be good to put up videos of her as well, because sometimes pictures don’t always give you a good sense of what someone looks like (you know with the hair and make-up artists doing their magic). LOOKS BLACK TO ME… but you be the judge:

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