What race do you consider me?

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Two questions:

1) A. Before you got the DNA information what did you put on forms?
B. On your driver's license?
C. How would your parents describe you?

2) After you got the DNA what have you put on documents/forms?

I think calling someone a "Tragic Mulatto" is demeaning as fuuck, b/se the phrase puts the onus on an individual that had zero control on their genotype or phenotype. It's more so the "Tragic Society" that a multiracial person has to navigate through with their inner and outer conflict, that's the issue.

That's the nature of the beast though, "Tragic Mulatto" is just a centuries old way of describing what society recognizes will be the inner turmoil a person of that background will have at some point. Nobody alive created it. We all just live in the aftermath of it and work to make the society hospitable to all within it and hopefully not over complicate the complexity aka Cablanasian :dead:

Call yourself whatever you think fits.
 
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In terms of what I look like had one person say I look like an obese version of Kitt Harrington. Another person said I look like an obese Dwayne Johnson.

hope you’re working on your health/weight brudda-brudda. if you hate the idea of a gym and being judged, start doing calisthenics at home in addition to eating less breads and (added) sugar.
 
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I think there's 3 angles to racial identification:

How people perceive you based on your phenotype/looks.

How you perceive yourself.

What your DNA breakdown shows.

I'm 88% West/Central African, reasonably dark-skinned with nappy hair and a family that barely has any light skinned people. Lightest person is my mom (think Beyonce or Tina Knowles color)...but she's somehow MORE African than I am at 90%.

For me....it's easy to say I'm Black/ADOS/African American.

Folks that are more mixed or racially ambiguous looking? They gotta actually think about that question.
 
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