Halle Berry covers the March 2011 issue of EBONY magazine. Inside, she discusses the ongoing public custody battle with her ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry over their daughter Nahla, 2.
Regarding Aubry’s orders not to call his daughter black, Halle says, “I feel she’s Black. I’m Black and I’m her mother, and I believe in the one-drop theory.”
The archaic one-drop rule refers to the racist law passed in the 1920s to describe someone who isn’t 100% Caucasian.
Halle is wrong, of course. Her argument is based on an archaic law that is not even valid and no longer in use in today’s society. I’m embarrassed for her.
Anything that is mixed is no longer original. Anything that is put together to make a whole is still a sum of its parts. I’m not agreeing with Aubry, because he is misguided too. What is wrong with just accepting the fact that their child is biracial: a combination of their races?
Halle recently sat down with EBONY‘s Editor-in-Chief Amy DuBois Barnett in Chicago to touch on her recent Golden Globe nomination, motherhood, marriage and what motivates her to continually challenge herself in every aspect of her life.
“Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now. Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother. That’s the most important thing I’m going to do in this life at this point,” she said.
