White Woman Finds Out Her Mother Was Hiding Her True Roots As A Biracial Woman

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The amount of 'passing' that was going on in the 30's through the 60's was crazy, a lot of white people in America have a brother or sister somewhere on the family tree.
So why are white Hispanics “other” and American whites are white?
 

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Here's how you know if youre Black in the American sense

A cop will shoot you for holding a toy.

People in retail establishments and eateries will treat you with suspicion.

Your employer will deny you opportunity

Basically of you appear to be any part African

If you do not appear to be any percentage African then the hard part of being Black does not apply to you.

I say those people become white once they look white.

If one of the white looking people who have a Black grand or sumn decides to be down with the obviously Black people, then cool - in my book.

Are you down? Do you know the time? Do you put in work? These are my litmus test. So Kaep and Malcom and whoever are all Black to me. Barack too.
so blackness in usa is defined by white people, insane.
 
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The amount of 'passing' that was going on in the 30's through the 60's was crazy, a lot of white people in America have a brother or sister somewhere on the family tree.

There's plenty of passing going on now. I'll be waiting in line at a grocery store and just minding my own business, when I glance over at a white girl and her boyfriend, two people who would normally never hold my attention. But my glance stays there for a just a few seconds longer, enough time for me to view her and take a closer look at subtle features that are almost so subtle as to be the faint markings of something recently erased, At that point, I'm like:

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so blackness in usa is defined by white people, insane.

You have a talking point which you will harp on, so this isn't an exchange of ideas, really.. but here:

Nah. All Americans have this view of Blackness. The Black people too. I worked with a dude that was Dominican. Looked like he coulda been my cousin. To me he's Black. No matter what kind of speech he gives he's a niqqa from DR giving a speech.

Yes. The stuff that white people do decides your fate alot of the time but

If I go walking through a strange hood I get a totally different reaction from the locals than - say - a white jogger who happens to jog down MLK.

The fact that I'm Black creates a situation among other Black people at times, too.

All other races as well.

This is the *definition* of it as far as I can communicate to you. You'll gloss over everything with a quip, but that's the answer.

Once defined as this or that then one may be subject to certain treatment here or there.. according to the rules of engagement concerning your demographic.

The main reason is this. Slavery means most of the descendants of slaves are racially mixed between the races that were here during that time period.

Even today the mixing continues. Such is the normal tempo of race mixing in a population with huge chunks of different races (Japan is like 99% Japanese. Not much room for 'diversity' except on campuses or wherever the 1% other mfs are).

Sooooooo

It's kinda more cultural than racial. It's kinda more about your understanding of the struggle and you participation level.

The Blackest niqqa on Earth has no pass around my way if he has never step foot in a project, never been under fire, never had to scrap his way out, just lived a comfy suburban life with no stress. We have nothing to really say to that dude. He's Black but not Black Black.

Anyways. Kick your little slogan. Or attempt to absorb some of this.
 

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Considering she's from Louisiana or whatever and that has a different history with racial classification under French and Spanish rule, things are muddied. She could be Creole over there maybe, I'm not sure.

We should reintroduce the paper bag rule but in reverse :mjlol:

Who is we? You're AA?
 

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He's Black but not Black Black.

Nah, he's Hood Black. But that has nothing to do with being African, continental or diaspora. In fact, that whole mindset is even more arbitrary than race.

However, to understand a struggle is necessary to address it. To be in the struggle gives you an insight that others can't have and struggle to even grasp. So yeah, "he's not from around here". But that don't mean I shouldn't listen to what he has to say. And I'm speaking strictly on Africans here, no one else.
 

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OK. I think people who, in real life, can pose as being Black, but doesn’t make them Black. Btw, thecolor of my Raiders house slippers is also Back, so I guess this site’s font and my slippers have something in common.
Galileo is black on the coli
 
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