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Join Date: May 2006
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13-03-07, 04:59 PM
xXEbonyEyesXx wrote:
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Why is it that some people on this site love to generalise when it comes to mixed race/asian/white but if someone generalises about black people in the media or where ever people dont like it at all. Treat others as you would like to be treated...
P.s this isnt aimed at everyone so dont all jump on me, just a few people on this thread but I cant be bothered to go back look at their display names, one in particular on this page though
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It doesn't have as much to do with generalizing as ithas to do with reality.
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I have campaigned time and again onbehalf of themixed race folk who id as being "Black".Many of these folks are bi-cultural like Alicia Keys.They proudly wear their Africanness as well as their other culturalinspirationsand influences. I think that is right and good.
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But I know my people. We extend this "privilege" to many folks who still slap our hands away as though we insulted them. I know they don't speak for all mixed people. But they absolutely claim that they do.
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And you can go to mixedfolks.com or mulatto.org to get that understanding, if I have failed to give it to you here. They are not "Black" and they are absolutely insulted if someone refers to them as being "Black". They are angered that we would actually think to call them one of us. . .African-Americans.. .the sons and daughters of "Whites", Africans, and American Indians.
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It would be different if they simply said they were repping for themselves. But that isn't what they do.
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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.
http://www.covenantwithblackamerica.com
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