Fueled by Caffeine wrote: ...and furthermore why do we care?
The best thought in this thread.
This is just the media chasing another squirrel.
Fueled by Caffeine wrote: ...and furthermore why do we care?
The best thought in this thread.
This is just the media chasing another squirrel.
Fueled by Caffeine wrote: I can buy that.. So then if people think this lady is black.. is she black? and furthermore why do we care?
Precisely.
We care when people are treated differently (wrongly so) because of what they are recognized to be.
Now.... defining that, and controlling it through laws, well... good luck balancing that so as not to unintentionally disadvantage people outside that group.
Since she voluntarily put herself in a situation to potentially be discriminated against, no, we should not care. I enjoy the story in a "throw a grenade in the room and watch to see what happens" kind of way, but honestly don't really care.
my cousin is african-american. as in his dad is straight from africa. he got the irish/german part from my side of his family, and is whiter than me with blonde hair.
his black roommate used to introduce him to people as his african friend. good times.
trucke wrote:Fueled by Caffeine wrote:How about 'trans-racial'?yamaha wrote: Then you're multiracial.What if you don't like that label?That way you can be anything you need to be when it suits you.
How about we don't. Correct answer is to completely eliminate using race for everything. That makes much more sense than inventing labels for people to identify to......
And Iggy, since when is multiracial a label? It was revised from biracial the last time to appease morons thinking they have more than 2 parents. SMDH.
In reply to yamaha:
But what if your dad is half black and half white and your mom is half asian and half ginger???
Half ginger = daywalker.
I told my boss that I am 65 years old, 6'3" (currently I am 5'8") and a black lesbian. If he doesn't except me then he is ageist, highist, racist and a homophobe. Now lets see if he can fire me now!!
In reply to Nick_Comstock:
In reply to Trans_Maro:
HEY, those are our words! You don't get to use them.
yamaha wrote: And Iggy, since when is multiracial a label?
When isn't it a label?
Yup, we're all just humans..
Under the one-drop rule several states still legally classify me as such.
aircooled wrote: I Since she voluntarily put herself in a situation to potentially be discriminated against, no, we should not care.
Ok, let's run with that for a minute.
So, she volunteered to be black and was not discriminated against. No one cared.
Then, she was forced to call herself white, and she's being discriminated against. Everyone seems to care.
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