Telling biracial kids to self identify as black is a selfish move for both the black community and the biracial community. Telling Biracials to let go of their other non black side is just wrong. If they don't decide that is the way they want to identify imposing them with a "Black" label is just out right wrong and selfish. If you wanted a black kid you should have married a black woman.
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I don't set out to be insulting but it's really hard not to to be. I seriously wonder how you all make it through life with this blatant lack of reading and comprehension skills. My post didn't have the slightest bit to do with blacks telling biracials to identify as black. If that's what you got from my post then you don't read and comprehend simple English.
I clearly said that biracial people with a black parent have always been classified as black. You don't get to choose your race. It's not about us claiming biracials or tellin them how to ID. We don't have the power to claim people or tell them how to ID. People like Obama and Halle aren't black because black people say so or because we told them to ID as black. They're black because black is simply a term used to classify people who are visibly of African descent. That's my argument. All that talk about trying to get biracials to ignore a side and all that is nonsense and shows that you don't get it. Race is not a math equation. Biracial people aren't literally half white and half black. Acknowledging that Obama is black doesn't discount the fact that he has a white mother because biracial and black have never been mutually exclusive.
If you're going to challenge me then you'll have to disprove the fact that biracial people have always been classified as black ever since our concept of race has been established.
Colorism and Lightskinned privilege is real, I speak as Lightskinned Black person. You don't want to admit it.
I'm also tired of biracials co opting light skinned black people with two black parents spaces. I never had a white parent and I don't identify with biracials who have them. I don't know what it's like to have a non black parent. I knew I was black from a young age.
You're just describing the mentality of a selfish insecure black person who doesn't understand race or racial politics. The ironic thing is that you're trying to deny the blackness of biracial people as a self described light skin black person yourself. Do you not understand that you're only light skinned because someone in your family was non black(white), which led to someone in your family being biracial, which eventually led to you being light skinned? Would you have the gall to confront the biracial person(people) in your family and denounce their blackness? Shame on you if you would.
Look, due to the fact that we are all mixed to some degree we come in different complexions. Colorism doesn't begin and end with biracial people born from parents of two different races. Light skinned blacks with two black parents are privileged in this world over dark skinned blacks with two black parents. Women the complexion of Beyoncé are privileged over women the complexion of Kelly Rowland. Not all people with two black parents have the same experiences. Should people the complexion of Kelly Rowland start denying the blackness of people the complexion of Beyoncé? What would your response be to a darker skinned black person denying your blackness as someone lighter and more privileged?
Reducing the representation of dark skinned black people who statistically are treated worst on average then their lighter counter parts is damaging. A biracial does not represent this group of people or their experiences. A biracial is not more genetically black on average so why do they get to overshadow and represent those who are closer to black? Not to say there are not many lightskin people that are majority black but they are low in numbers. Lightskin is not a dominate trait in the black community.
The cause of the problems you speak of here is systematic white supremacy. As long as whites are in control of who represents blacks then they're going to choose the lightest ones who are closer to their standards. It's that simple. Even if you had a magic wand and could erase all immediate biracial people from the planet, they'd still choose the lightest blacks for any kind of positive representation of blacks. The only solution is to challenge their system and stop being allowing them to be the only one's to choose the people who represent us. Why don't you get this?
yeah yeah MAD...
I use to think that too... But then you find out some funny things....
The USA has a policy of absorbing a first strike.
The USA has been decreasing and not improving it's nuclear arsenal.
Russia and China on the other hand, have been getting ready.
So a massive cyber-attack to take out the usa's early warning systems, national grid, etc. Then a massive first strike to take out as much of the usa's strike capability as possible.
The usa at that point would launch whatever it still has... but the Russians and Chinese will be prepared for that.
You cats will literally just say anything.
at the only country to ever use a nuclear weapon having a policy of absorbing a first strike. You sound like an idiot.
