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I understand all too well about the one drop rule in the U.S. I'm merely pointing out that Mariah Cary and Ben Jealous are both mixed-race people who choose to identify as black.
I'm pointing out that they didn't have a choice. They were raised to be black because their parents didn't have a choice.
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Almost every black person in America knows there's always been many advantages afforded to mixed race individuals. Unfortunately, although they are often classified as "black," they are still considered better simply because they come closer to the European ideal.
Until recently, that advantage has been as reliable as a single sheet of toilet paper. It didn't buy anyone a house in a white area, or admission to a white school, or a ticket into a white movie theater. Lena Horne may have played in white clubs, but she didn't get to go to the ladies' rooms in those clubs--she still had to pee in a cup. White society has always made it very clear to light-skinned blacks that they are not members of the club.
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Do you honestly believe that Rachel doesn't know about the excessive colorism in the black community? She clearly understands that as a so called "black" woman with fair-skin, she is placed above actual brown/dark black woman. -Mariah knows this as well...
Yeah, colorism is a problem for black people, but whether it really boils down to an overall advantage is questionable, and I've got a light-skinned daughter who can talk to you for hours about that. It only seems like an advantage. There is a reason for the "tragic mulatto" stereotype.
Interestingly, a white man who can get over the basic race issue itself to love a black woman tends not to be colorist. If he had been hung up on "white," he'd have stayed with white. If he has gotten over race, he doesn't care about color.
Since when are wannabees big news?
She grew up with a black sib, she probably just wanted to be like him and lie one day..........20 years later 450 lies later. You know how it goes. I can't wait to see the movie.
If Bruce can transition into a woman...why can't this lady transition from a white woman to a black woman????? It seems like a much smaller jump.
Shouldn't we be celebrating a person's bravery for transitioning into their true racial identity???
What a truly ridiculous post.
A crazy woman lying about her race to get scholarships from universities, and race-based job preferences, and lying about KKK attacks, and claiming she grew up in a teepee in South Africa, and saying that her brother is her son, is quite a bit different from a guy undergoing medical changes to better reflect his identity.
People like this are just sick in the head because they cannot accept who they are. Instead, they create this fantasy world and actually convince themselves that they're someone else.
This is where identity politics has taken us. If you "identify" as X, even if you're not X, then you're X, and it doesn't matter what anyone else says. I mean, that's 100% what gender-identity politics has become, so it's no surprise to see it happening with race, too.
A crazy woman lying about her race to get scholarships from universities, and race-based job preferences, and lying about KKK attacks, and claiming she grew up in a teepee in South Africa, and saying that her brother is her son, is quite a bit different from a guy undergoing medical changes to better reflect his identity.
Both have mental issues, regardless of what degree vs. one another.
BTW - Don't bother to post how I am being insensitive, not PC, and/or try to label me, as I have heard it from the enlightened/tolerant/PC crowd plenty of times before.
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