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22-02-07, 07:23 AM
Afriki wrote:
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The only confusing thing I see in this arguement is the use and true meaning of "black and white". How can we expect to label an individual based on a system of pseudo-categories? Black and white does not address ethnicity AT ALL. It is used mainly to categorize the PHENOTYPE of an individual. African and black are not synonymous, and neither should be european and white. Genotype affects phenotype but it can never be the other way around: ex. if there are two mixed race people (both mixed with black and white) and one is much lighter almost to the point of looking white and the other is darker, to the point of look black, they are both equally African (as they share half of their DNA w/an African parent) but obviously not equally "black". make sense? this is just all my opinion btw lol.
On a personal note on this issue, I do believe that while everyone has a self identity, we all also possess an identity that reflects society's outward perception of us, and as much as we don't like to admit it, we are well aware of it and it can even affect our self-identity.
Personally I regard myself as mixed-race, but I am not uncomfortable or confused if others see me as black, although I might be if someone ever tried to call me white. I know I am part African and part European, and that's REAL...regardless of what I look like to others.
*edited to add that I also identify strongly with my West African culture, something alot of people in this country (U.S.) do not pick up on.
People often subconsciously transfer their own confusion of others' identities to those people then have the nerve to comment on that person's "identity crisis" lol.
Being bi-racial and bi-culture should probably make me among the most "confused" but I know what my favorite food is, I have my own style, I know that my favorite color is orange, I got my sarcasm from my [euro father], my deep compassion and deeper brown eyes from my [African] mother, my shyness from my [euro] grandfather, my sense of humor from my [African] grandfather etc. etc.. i'm fine, thankyou and about as confused as any other 22 year old human being.  blkrainbowfro
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It was about time someone gave a personal account on this matter; some people are just working with assumption here, thanks for educating us Afriki.
The Choice today is no longer between violence & non-violence.
It's either non-violence or non-existence. Martin Luther King Jr.
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