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TheDogon · (#108 (**permalink**))

Footprints wrote:

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TheDogon wrote:

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Footprints wrote:

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My friend who is mixed raceread yourthreadthe other, and she asked why any onewould be so cruel and prejudice to post this question on a forum; she pointed out that the person posting this question was further instigating hatred towards mixed race people and making them to work hard todefend themselves, as if they dont have the right to exist and this is totally unfair. Further she said if white people posted a similar thread about black people it would cause an outrage.

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I don't know what to say. That is totally off-base. "Mixed" people do exist and will continue to do so. No one is disputing that. We are asking ourselves, should we "accept" people who claim to be "Mixed". And Idon't mean types like Alicia Keys who says she is"Black" and that sheis "White". I don'teven mean Tiger Woods. I mean the type who have created a new identity.

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There aren't many groups that engage in accepting "mixed" folks. . .most notable among them. . ."White" folks.

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So why should we continue to beg for a people to accept our identity, when they obviously want nothing to do with us?

But who are we to judge God's creation - why are we persecuting them?:?

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Perhaps I am not being clear. But let me first knock out what I perceive to be a major obstacle in this thread. I do not believe in race. Neither do the majority of African-Americans. I can say this, because the majority of African-Americans are "mixed". Again, we are the descendants of "White" male slave masters and "Black" female slaves. Some of us have American Indian heritage. Some of them are Cherokee (since the Cherokee owned slaves), some of us are also Lumbee, and others have various other heritage.

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But our nature is mixed. We simply accepted each other being "Black". Which at the time, was pretty much everything that wasn't "White".

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You talk about us persecuting "Mixed" people. That is a bold-faced lie. We don't persecute "Mixed" people. "Whites" have never accepted a "Mixed" person that did not pass and/or divulged their heritage. Asians have just started accepting "Mixed" African people. Many American Indians have stopped accepting "Mixed" African people.

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But when the world didn't give damn about "Mixed" race people, Africans loved, cared for, and accepted "Mixed" race folks.

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We still do for the most part, it's just that some of them have stopped loving us.

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