Yep. It's pretty mindboggling, the whole one-drop thing. IME, no one blinks at my Lumbee great-grandmother, but the eighth-and-change black ancestry *always* provokes commentary and interest (to the point of being offensive) from white people. I'd never be considered NDN, but to those people, I am suddenly Incognegro. And it is *never* an issue with POC, in part because they usually can tell, and it's just...not a big deal to them.
Given that now you're hearing (white) people say, "Why is everyone calling Obama black? He's half-white, so why are people calling him blaaaack?" I wish people really understood how wacky and inconsistent and hypocritical and racist the US is about this.
Given that now you're hearing (white) people say, "Why is everyone calling Obama black? He's half-white, so why are people calling him blaaaack?" I wish people really understood how wacky and inconsistent and hypocritical and racist the US is about this.
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Given that now you're hearing (white) people say, "Why is everyone calling Obama black? He's half-white, so why are people calling him blaaaack?" I wish people really understood how wacky and inconsistent and hypocritical and racist the US is about this.
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ROFL. I LOVE this!
Given that now you're hearing (white) people say, "Why is everyone calling Obama black? He's half-white, so why are people calling him blaaaack?" I wish people really understood how wacky and inconsistent and hypocritical and racist the US is about this.
Yeah, it's mind boggling, no doubt.