Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 6:47 pm
DMac wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 6:37 pm
Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 6:20 pm
DMac wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 6:12 pm
Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 5:36 pm
DMac wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 5:12 pm
Truth be told, there probably aren't six people who care what any of us think. Gotta admit, there seems to be a lot of folks who kind of like to choose their race/ethnicity and tell everyone how difficult it is/was to be their chosen race. Kamala identifies as a black woman, then again, so did Dolezal. Gotta love this, "pale red":
https://www.behindthename.com/name/kamala
Kamala Harris ain’t a real black?
Much moreso than Rachel, for sure, inherited from her Jamacian father. Bet when she's in India she indentifies as Indian with those folks though. You get a German Shepherd when you breed it with a Beagle?
Maxine Waters is a real black. Kamala has been passing all this time.
Doesn't much matter to me what any of them are, sure seems to to them though. Latinos are Latinos when they're with Latinos, when they're with Blacks, they're people of color (see that one a lot) though. Megan Markle Black? Archie?
Well I guess someone thinks Archie is black.
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ish-racism
Adam Clayton Powell wasn’t a real black either.
All I know is that, unfortunately, it’s complicated.
Indeed, very complicated.
Been complicated within the African American community as well, with light skins often being positively associated with status and attractiveness.
Straight hair. All sorts of spillover cultural effects, it seems, from racial discrimination.
I don't recall the 'formula' that was once used, but seems to me that if folks would discriminate against someone because they are 'black' in the bigot's eyes, then that's clear cut. White bigots generally consider any racial characteristic and ancestry other than purely white to be 'colored'.
Gets tricky if the life experience is to have never been considered part of a community. That's what felt unsettling about Warren.
Harris is clear cut; she experienced being considered 'black' and 'non-white' as a child.
Same for Adam Clayton Powell, in his day.
Funny that the soft bigots of today get their pants in a wad over someone actually identifying with more than one community. Somehow they think that's unfair? I say this to most on here, kindly, as our soft bigotry is generally not intended as bigotry...we just fall into it as its confusing.
Dolezal, however, was simply a fraud.