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If someone identifies themself to me as having one parent black and one parent white then I consider that person to be mixed but if they choose to consider themselves black I think that's fine. Personally I think the "one drop rule" is pure stupidity.
You can call yourself whatever you like. You can be biracial, you can be black, but if you are ever suspected of anything you won't hear anyone describe you as being biracial.
I see them as light skinned black people, they are usually accepted as black if they are 50% or more, if they are less than 50%, then they are more mixed race or caucasion / white
and I see them as Americans not as African especially if they are biracial or multi racial [more than two races]
I don't think Americans, on average, are as race conscious as Europeans. In many EU countries there is a single word to cover anyone with darker skin. In many, the word is "stranger". In Denmark, where racial consciousness has reached a very advanced stage, the term "of an another ethnic heritage" usually replaces "stranger" for darker skinned persons. The term stranger is applied to EU immigrants from the East who seek work in Denmark.
A new term making its way into officialspeak and mediaspeak is "Ikke-vestlige indvandrere" (not- western immigrants).
It is all about the "sacred and profane" in Denmark.
It depends on the father. Based on the father is their race.
I've never heard this rationalization. That makes little sense. Reminds me of some "upper class" New Englanders who used to ask me at my summer jobs "what does your father do for work?"
I saw many jaws literally drop when I said something like "he's a schizophrenic and is in the state hospital right now."
I later "learned" that I was "supposed to" make up some heroic story in such a situation like i was running for office. Like the guy who's great granddad escaped slavery 1,000 miles to be the first black business owner in his town. (Suuuure he did.....)
I was also told by my mom that I should "change my last name" so people didn't think I was a 'spiic. So I guess if you are thinking of it in that way......
But as to the OP'S question, if I didn't know what race someone was but s/he looked like s/he may be black, and i was not interacting with them personally, I'd probably say something to a friend like "check out that black guy at the bar." Or, as a descriptor, "no, I'm talking about the dark girl."
It's just short hand and it *really irks me* that some friends refuse to do this and will say something like "see that guy in the red cap?" Me: "Ummmm..... you mean the BLACK one?" Just SAY THAT!! Or say "dark skinned."
Our skin color is the first thing people notice about us after gender. Let's not pretend we're all "above this."
Why is CD so obsessed about black/white mixed race people?
There are FAR more Asian/white mixed race people walking around so why such a fascination with black/white mixed race.
Yeah, but those AmerAsians are "passing."
And its easy to confuse Asians with Latinos depending on the country and features of the other "white parent." There are so many ethnicities in America that "white and exotic looking" (which is what most American Asians are) blend in. Black skin will always stick out in a mixed crowd because it's evident all over, not just facial features.
So much talk of blacks and race here lately because our police have been exterminating them for decades and it has only recently become evident to people.
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