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     Ntfs_encryption "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Ntfs_encryption Post Number: 3778 Registered: 10-2005 Rating: N/A |
I was watching the Tyra Banks show the other day ago and the subject concerned bi-racial people. There were some individuals who did not like being considered black. They felt there should be another racial category that would be designated as “bi-racial” -separate from white, black, Latino, Asian or other groups. They voiced a desire for a separate demographic for themselves. Now mind you, this was not all bi-racial people but there was a contingency who do desire this new racial category. I’m curious, what is your thoughts on this movement? | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 14392 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
What you want to call yourself and what other people call you can be 2 different things. It figures that the desire for a separate racial designation is limited to only a segment of bi-racials because bi-racials don't all look alike. If you are half-black and half-white, how you look depends on how your black parent looks. If he or she has dark skin and wooly hair then chances are you will simply look like a brown skinned black person with nappy hair and people will blow you off when you refer to yourself as "bi-racial". Only if you are the offspring of a brown-skinned black person with wavy hair and a white person will your claim of being "bi-racial" be taken seriously because you will likely be light-skinned with curly or straight hair. If your parents are a fair-skinned black person and a white person, however, your dream of being referred to as anything other than black will be fulfilled | ||
| Nels AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Nels Post Number: 1315 Registered: 07-2005 Rating: N/A |
Snark Snark. Votes please. ;-) | ||
| Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 8370 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A |
What you want to call yourself and what other people call you can be 2 different things. (This is largely my position. I think a person should be free to call his or herself whatever they want. The great Sun Ra, whose music I love, chose to say he was from Saturn or Jupiter, and was of the human race. In a perfect world, not ruled by Anglo Saxon racism (note that the Latin/Hispanics and the French have a differing attitude toward this, also. They are willing to grant a pass or another designation to mixed race folk), we would all be known only by our names--not Black, White, etc. But he insists on the labels. He is a labelling creature. And he wants to know that when he has offspring--legal ones that is--note Thomas Jefferson and Strom Thurmond, who did not want black bucks touching their dauthers but would screw the hell out of ours-- none of them will pop out looking like Buckwheat. We do not control this. We do not make the rules. The rule in America is this--one drop of black makes you black. I don't agree, but there it is. Contemplate it all on the tree of woe. |
