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Gmahogany. · (#27 (**permalink**))

Dark Prince wrote:

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The Watcher wrote:

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"white people see us all as black anyway so effectively they're black"
It's not up to white people to define either mixed/biracial people nor black people. It's long past time we learned that.

Well YT"invented" this shyt in the first place didn't they ?

YT sure did invent this shyt and since we feel it's not up to them to define us, why stop at biracials? Why not also assert that we recognize no racial category and stop calling ourselves Black or responding from that worldview? Black folks outside of predominantly white countries don't see themselves as Black in the same way that Blacks in those societies have been forced to, ie as a cultural as well as biological identity(get miffed if you SAY THEY SHOULD, identify with someone not of their class JUST because they are "Black"). If white folks hadn't defined Black folks with TWO Black parents as Black, in AMerica, at least, we'd all still be running around hollering about being Ibo, Hausa, Mandinka, etc, disunified and at cross purposes. Stop acting as if THAT identification has anything to do with our CHOICE/INCLINATION/DRUTHERS, it didn't and doesn't. You can see the truth of that in how hard it is to get FULL BLOODED "Black" folks from all around the world to see themselves as connected beyond all their various ethnic/tribal/cultural distinctions. WE(meaning those who areNOT biracial)only see ourselves as Black because THAT'S what they say we are, which is why whenever they pull their foot out of our asses, a little, we return to our NATURAL fractious/fragmented/non-cohesive/dis-unified inclinations.

As to, hunting down and tying biracials up trying to FORCE them to identify as Black, I wouldn't anymore do that, than I would try to force full blooded Negroes who don't want to identify as Black(we all know THAT doesn't happen), to do so. The whole putting biracials on a pedestal/or hating on them,thing doesn't trouble me: a. because I don't do it and the people who DO do it, are the ones who have the most trouble in that regard, b. if those who DO subscribe to that, stopped doing it, there wouldn't be a problem, c. MOST of the light skin exaltation or hating, that goes on in AMerica at least, is in reference to light skinned folks with TWO Black parents. Getting rid of biracials won't solve that problem. Those inclined towards self hate/exalting of others will find away to do that, no matter WHO is around, in my experience,furthermore, since when do folks who go that route(exalting/sexing/dating/marryinganything notphenotypically Black)care whether they are crossing some group line or not, ESPECIALLY, Black men,lol. That's like a woman with a unfaithful man feeling that banning all women from her house/environment will make her man keep his dick in his pants. Instead of accepting that HE has the problem and needs to control himself.