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Soledad O'Brien is NOT even African American. Her mother is a darker toned mulatta woman from Cuba. Her father is Australian of direct Irish descent. Both of her parents are immigrant.
I respect how people choose to identify or how they change their identity but I would never support one's defense of the very racist one drop rule.
This argument is very confusing for me. You are correct the one drop rule is racist, but thats because the whole idea of race is racist.
I never understand people who wail against how wrong the one drop rule is but don't wail against how wrong all racial categories and labels are.
One conclusion should naturally lead to the other.
People don't choose their racial identities.
If that were the case Wesley Snipes would be able to choose to be white if he so desired, but of course he can't, because racial identity isn't a choice.
Racial identity is a social construct forced upon non white people for the most part to establish a white racial identity which is based on white supremacy.
Yet for whatever reason when we discuss race historical reality is completely ignored.
Soledad O'Brien is NOT even African American. Her mother is a darker toned mulatta woman from Cuba. Her father is Australian of direct Irish descent. Both of her parents are immigrant.
I respect how people choose to identify or how they change their identity but I would never support one's defense of the very racist one drop rule.
Soledad is "Black" like George Zimmerman or Ben Jealous tho most Black people claim Ben never mind he's pretty damn "white" in color.
So, a gay white person who is only slightly different from the majority of the mainstream doesn't know what it's like to be looked at as different? Or how about Latinos? Or Jews?
I think the "black experience" is nothing more than blacks whining with this "woo is me" mindset and refusing to believe that they are not the only ones on Earth who face discrimination.
You're a mulatto, so why do you care about how we pure blood blacks view society?
So Majority of whites, latinos and mixed people think a mixed president isn't black, but most blacks think he is.
White America doesn't consider mixed people black, it considers us mixed. Not black, but not white either. We are treated as another non-white racial group.
And the whole one drop thing was invented by white supremacy, but is kept alive, when it's convenient, by blacks. Maria Carey has a hit song? She's black...George Zimmerman kills a black kid in self defense? "well, he's a creepy ass cracker"
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So, a gay white person who is only slightly different from the majority of the mainstream doesn't know what it's like to be looked at as different? Or how about Latinos? Or Jews? 
