Gramsci wrote:I can't figure this one out.

If someone has the slightest amount of African bloody - enough to give them vaguely "Black" features - then they are "Black" regardless of any other genetics, even if 1/2 "White"? This strikes me as inherently racist, and frankly shows the ridiculous nature of pigeonholing people into racial classes.

SecondEdition wrote:I completely despise the entire concept of "blacker than" and "whiter than." I find it to be a disgusting and divisive idea designed to impose wedges between white people and black people. It's only another form of racial brainwashing. Just because, say, Barack Obama doesn't speak with an overtly "urban" accent or use hip-hop slang doesn't mean he isn't black. Call me a PC wimp if you want, but it truly offends me.

Gramsci wrote:

SecondEdition wrote:I completely despise the entire concept of "blacker than" and "whiter than." I find it to be a disgusting and divisive idea designed to impose wedges between white people and black people. It's only another form of racial brainwashing. Just because, say, Barack Obama doesn't speak with an overtly "urban" accent or use hip-hop slang doesn't mean he isn't black. Call me a PC wimp if you want, but it truly offends me.

I agree. But do you think that when a "community" define themselves by their genetic skin pigmentation this encourages racism by reinforcing difference?

tmidgett wrote:

Gramsci wrote:

SecondEdition wrote:I completely despise the entire concept of "blacker than" and "whiter than." I find it to be a disgusting and divisive idea designed to impose wedges between white people and black people. It's only another form of racial brainwashing. Just because, say, Barack Obama doesn't speak with an overtly "urban" accent or use hip-hop slang doesn't mean he isn't black. Call me a PC wimp if you want, but it truly offends me.

I agree. But do you think that when a "community" define themselves by their genetic skin pigmentation this encourages racism by reinforcing difference?

Gramsci, black people don't get any fuckin' choice in the matter.

They're defined as black whether they want to be or not.

As far as acceding to that definition, besides it being a fact of life, black people get some cultural purview that the rest of us don't, whether or not they as individuals deserve it. Which can probably be appealing.

I am with SecondEdition, though I don't know if I am offended by all the foregoing japery exactly. I just think it is deeply, deeply stupid and ignorant and pointless.

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Gramsci wrote:I can't figure this one out.

If someone has the slightest amount of African bloody - enough to give them vaguely "Black" features - then they are "Black" regardless of any other genetics, even if 1/2 "White"? This strikes me as inherently racist, and frankly shows the ridiculous nature of pigeonholing people into racial classes.