Biracials that choose indentify as Black/African American

a brilliant post tam...wish i could rep you again...!!! :smt038:smt038

 

EXACTLY WHIKS....!!!! why don't all the bm come over to our tropical loveland

 

Where the sun always shines and the rainbows and kittens flow freely like rivers.

 

and the women will treat them right

 

Damn straight!!

Seriously. Y'all don't know what you're missing out on. It's like paradise here.

 

as soon as I am done getting my degrees, I'll be over there. lol

 

don't leave it too long...i'll probably be in incontinence pads by the time you make it over here

 

Another recruit :smt026

I am an excellent tour guide

 

Awwwww shit.

 

I know what to look for in a wife. You all are so beautiful - inside and out...

 

Those are ethnic heritages which are totally different from racial make up. Black dad/Japanese mom = Black/Asian biracial child. Having different ethnic heritages doesn't make you biracial. Having different races does.

Whites (not all) gave up their European heritages to adopt American heritage that was European heritages rolled up in 1 and developed differently. Whites still have a culture and not all whites even have the same culture like for example Southern whites culture is spin off of mostly Scot Irish culture. It is different from Northern whites culture. So in the end there is still something to proud of. There is still a culture you learn from a white parent, their is still white genetics and DNA going though your veins and Euro heritage is still yours if you have a white parent.

 

The problem is the conception of race or what you deem as "blackness". Black children with two Black parents can have self esteem issues and they supposedly know who they are. The issue is the notion of intrinsic blackness in contrast to whiteness and white purity.

 

Excellent post. It is not about genetic make up it is about phenotype and how society sees you in America.

Mariah Carey is half blk but she is passable & can claim some form of white or can say she is biracial.
Helle Berry, Boris Kojo, Alisha Keys look blk and accepted being blk. Even Obama answered this question to barbara Walters when she asked him
"your mother is white, how come you dont claim to be white or biracial"
"He said I look blk and society view me as blk and I embraced my blackness"

 

No worries, I repped for you.

 

Tam, like others have said, what a great post! It sounds like you're doing a good job that'll benefit him being Black/Biracial in America.

I too, will call my future kids Black as well. I think being in this country, people like to categorize everyone to fit into a certain box(es), yet not everyone fits every criteria. It kind of sad, but it's reality.

 

Race in general is stupid as shit and very subjective. In the Usa its more or so about phentotype, than what you call yourself. Ive had people ask me if Im mixed because of my complexion and I tell them I mixed down the line just like MAJORITY of blacks in the Americas (and for that matter alot of whites too). At the end of the day if you look black thats what people are gonna label you, like Donald Glover said: If you look like Obama and you're jacking a car, no ones gonna say "somebody stop that mixed guy". Their gonna say somebody stop that black guy or worse nigger.