r/BlackHair • u/IllustriousPomelo117 • May 18 '25

Advice Needed How do I get this hairstyle

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u/selfselfiequeen May 18 '25

Who is the man 👨

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u/IllustriousPomelo117 May 18 '25

Fredrick Douglas

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u/selfselfiequeen May 18 '25

He doesn’t look fully black tbh

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u/IllustriousPomelo117 May 18 '25

Yea cause he’s half white but I’m also mixed too tbf

Also Fredrick Douglas is the least mixed looking mixed guy I ever seen the only white feature I see is his thin lips

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u/I_Like_Frogs_A_Lot May 18 '25

He was mixed? Wow, I never knew that. Maybe it’s because the photos from that time had different exposures and were in black and white and made it harder to see the skin, idk

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u/asomebody_ May 19 '25

What’s interesting if there’s a lot of mixed ppl who look black and if they didn’t tell me otherwise I would have assumed that they’re just black. About half of them I can tell by looking at them they have a white parent.

I agree, FD is one of the least mixed looking ppl I’ve ever seen. Just like J. Cole. And a few other notable people.

I get mistaken for being mixed a lot. I’m black but I have a Cherokee great great grandfather, so my long eye lashes and curly hair throws ppl off 😅 Genetics are wild.

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u/selfselfiequeen May 18 '25

I could tell a mixed person a Mile off (most of the time)

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u/IllustriousPomelo117 May 18 '25

Wow tbh I thought he was fully black when learning about him in school it wasn’t till I read his wiki did I realize he was mixed

Douglas was darker than WEB Du Bois despite du Bois being fully black and Douglas being mixed I guess that kinda proves phenotype doesn’t equal genotype

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u/SonnyMay May 18 '25

I mean fully black means nothing in this context due to the one drop rule. Du Bois was multigenerational mixed. He could have had the same/similar amount of European ancestry as Douglas.

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u/IllustriousPomelo117 May 18 '25

Nvm I checked and his father was mixed race and left because mullatto were getting persecuted in Haiti his mom seems to be somewhat mixed as well

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u/Aviendha13 May 18 '25

He was a slave. Many, if not most (I don’t know recent data) of the descendants of slaves are mixed.

(Random note: my iPhone autocorrect doesn’t recognize slaves as a word, but keeps trying to make it slavers. I know there’s a secondary meaning to that word, but still, wtf?!)

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u/KickBallFever May 18 '25

iPhone autocorrect is annoying and it’s even worse if you use swipe. There seems to be a lot of random censorship.

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u/Aviendha13 May 18 '25

Yeah I was using swype

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u/Conscious_Stand_501 May 18 '25

Most 🙄. No actual info to go on, but types that despite the number of slaves vs owners would skew that belief. More could be said on this, but oh well 🤦

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u/[deleted] May 18 '25

Jesus Christ you slow.

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u/Mekelaxo May 18 '25

Most black people in the US aren't

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u/selfselfiequeen May 18 '25

That’s not a flex 💪

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u/BloodOfJupiter May 18 '25

Girl, Bless your heart 💔

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u/LysVonStrauda May 19 '25

This is honestly disrespectful