WTH is a REDBONE?

Dionysus · #1 08-08-2005, 04:41 PM

Someone's username is Redbone Zeta on another greek forum. I heard of the word redbone some where else too. I would ask on that forum, but I don't want to get clowned, cuz peeps on that forum can get sheisty at times (except for starang

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The Truth · #2 08-08-2005, 04:45 PM

light skin

ladygreek · #3 08-08-2005, 08:07 PM

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Originally posted by The Truth
light skin

But not as light as "yellow".

Pearls4Life · #4 08-08-2005, 08:48 PM

Now , yeah they might have clowned you for that.....you safe here with your peeps...Don't tell no body you did'nt know what that meant....you black right? (cracking up)

Just kidding

Dionysus · #5 08-08-2005, 09:09 PM

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Originally posted by ladygreek
But not as light as "yellow".

Hmmmm...between "high-yellow" and "brownskinned"?

Someone PMed me a different definition. I guess this word has more than one meaning, like "hoosier" (not the poster, lol).

luminarysoul · #6 08-09-2005, 12:16 AM

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Originally posted by The Truth
light skin

yea thats the definition I am familiar w/
someone who is very light skinned

Dvyne Evolushun · #7 08-09-2005, 12:22 PM

Old Folks would call Faith Evans, maybe Halle Berry and I'm thinking Beyonce a red bone.

Alicia Keys would be "high yella". I originally came from NY, but was raised primarily in the South. I got so sick of those terms - esp. when used as an insult.

Intense1920 · #8 08-09-2005, 12:24 PM

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Originally posted by Dvyne Evolushun
Old Folks would call Faith Hill, maybe Halle Berry and I'm thinking Beyonce a red bone.

Alicia Keys would be "high yella". I originally came from NY, but was raised primarily in the South. I got so sick of those terms - esp. when used as an insult.

Do you mean Faith Evans?

ClassyKitty05 · #9 08-09-2005, 12:26 PM

Yeah I was confused on the Faith Hill example too...

Dvyne Evolushun · #10 08-09-2005, 12:29 PM

Oh lord... LOL! Yeah - Faith Evans. I guess Faith Hill would be - um - really high yella. Let me go edit.

btb87 · #11 08-09-2005, 02:08 PM

I've had people call me a redbone, but I am not light-skinned. I have sandy colored hair (with a natural reddish tint, no help from Soft & Beautiful) and light brown eyes, and medium-complexioned.

It may depend on where you're from as to whom the term is referred.

ladygreek · #12 08-09-2005, 03:29 PM

I have been called red-boned, too, but I am not light-skinned. Light-skinned folx were referred to as yellow or high-yellow.

DC_Zeta1920 · #13 08-09-2005, 04:07 PM

I too have been called red-bone but I am far from it. Hell when I tan I get dark.

I think those terms are so effin stupid

Dvyne Evolushun · #14 08-09-2005, 09:55 PM

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Originally posted by DC_Zeta1920
I too have been called red-bone but I am far from it. Hell when I tan I get dark.

I think those terms are so effin stupid

Me also. And I get dark if I get too much sun riding in a car.

Steeltrap · #15 08-10-2005, 11:48 AM

Well, my father, before he got dark (he was a CPO in the Navy and later a letter carrier in sunny Kollyfornia), was referred to as a "Tennessee red (expletive)."
I've been called high yellow. I shrug it off.