Lightskin people AREN'T REALLY Black. {For the dummies...Im being sarcastic]

[IllmaticDelta]

I'm starting to doubt, or at least question the commonly held belief that the average African American is 70-75% black - 25-30% white. I think that model's outdated, and with updated data/measures, the number is probably closer to 85% +. I mean this girl is very light skinned/mixed looking, and still ended up 75% African. I know phenotype can be an interesting thing, but you also had some Coli member post his results and he ended up 90% black.

phenotypes can be deceiving

these girls (twins) can pass for african biracials

but look at their parents

or

Ice Cube's older son




for context

his other son

both sons

 

[IllmaticDelta]

They're not Black. But they're African American. Step your cultural anthropology game up. It's not worth explaining if you don't get it. It's as simple as knowing the difference between there, they're, and their. Threads like this one remind me why I hate discussing politics and culture with people. Education matters. It really does.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

They're not Black. But they're African American. Step your cultural anthropology game up. It's not worth explaining if you don't get it. It's as simple as knowing the difference between there, they're, and their. Threads like this one remind me why I hate discussing politics and culture with people. Education matters. It really does.

One of THE dumbest posts I've read in 2016

 

[filial_piety]

One of THE dumbest posts I've read in 2016

Nah what I think he's alluding to is that you can be AA(culturally) but not necessarily "black" by genetic standards if you exclude the one drop rule. He has a point. Some of the US's leading AA figureheads historically weren't "black" but culturally would have been AA

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Nah what I think he's alluding to is that you can be AA(culturally) but not necessarily "black" by genetic standards if you exclude the one drop rule. He has a point. Some of the US's leading AA figureheads historically weren't "black" but culturally would have been AA

no such thing as an ethnically non-black, AfroAmerican

 

[Poitier]

no such thing as an ethnically non-black, AfroAmerican

Yup unless looking at it through another culture's gaze.

 

[filial_piety]

no such thing as an ethnically non-black, AfroAmerican

Sure there are, you had thousands of octoroons, quadroons etc with majority Caucasian ancestry who culturally identified as AA.

Like I said, unless you're applying the one-drop fallacy, they aren't genetically "black"

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Sure there are, you had thousands of octoroons, quadroons etc with majority Caucasian ancestry who culturally identified as AA.

Those are/were AfroAmericans by definition aka "americans of african descent"

Like I said, unless you're applying the one-drop fallacy, they aren't genetically "black"

they were genetically afro-european, a representation of their roots and american reality/history.

 

[filial_piety]

Those are/were AfroAmericans by definition aka "americans of african descent"





they were genetically afro-european, a representation of their roots and american reality/history.

That doesn't address anything though. AA is the culture, black is the ancestry and typing it in bold doesn't make your logic any more definitive.

 

[Poitier]

"Black" has never been a genetic science.

 

[BruhManFromTheFifthFlo]

Stop. If one of ya parents is white then you are not black

 

[IllmaticDelta]

That doesn't address anything though. AA is the culture, black is the ancestry and typing it in bold doesn't make your logic any more definitive.

AA is the culture that was created through the bond of shared racial origins in "black" or subsaharan africa in the USA, which is why there are no ethnically non-black AfroAmericans

 

[filial_piety]

"Black" has never been a genetic science.

"black" is the pseudonym for West African ancestry ( in this case anyway). Unless you're saying that there is nothing that distinguishes "blacks" from "whites" genetically then I don't see your point.

 

[womanareliars]

She has eyebrows like the nikka that killed Tupac.

 

[Poitier]

"black" is the pseudonym for West African ancestry

it isn't.