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Besides, how does he qualify as a black man anymore than he qualifies as a white man?
As I have said many times, if he weren't President of the United States, wouldn't nobody here be trying to claim him as a white man. Would he have been able to vote in South Africa or Mississippi in, say, 1950? I think you'll find your answer there.
As I have said many times, if he weren't President of the United States, wouldn't nobody here be trying to claim him as a white man. Would he have been able to vote in South Africa or Mississippi in, say, 1950? I think you'll find your answer there.
But this isn't Mississippi, or South Africa circa 1950. And he is the POTUS. So I guess the question remains...how is he anymore qualified to be black than he is white?
I think some are conflating racial makeup with sociocultural identity. Obama may be racially mixed, but he is socioculturally black. Increasingly, though, people of mixed racial heritage are beginning to assert their own brand of sociocultural identity.
As for the question posed in the OP, whether race or gender takes precedence depends on the type of company the black woman finds herself in. Generally speaking, in the company of whites, race almost always trumps gender, i.e., a black woman is "black first". When dealing with other blacks, however, her gender identity is usually the first line of defense.
I'm a black woman and I'm curious if most black women tend to identify more so with their race, than gender. For me, it's really a mixture of both. I can't say that I identify with being black more so than being a woman. However, I do know (from speaking to black female relatives & friends) that some actually see race as more salient than gender.
I recall that most black female democrats supported President Obama over Hillary. When asked why, some stated that they identified more with Obama.
Share your thoughts...
I'm a black woman and I identify more with being West African than as a female. That is to say I feel little camaraderie with non-black women but I feel kinship with West African men.
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