trunkage said:
Seanchaidh said:
Just wanted to deal with this separately. When did the left take the racial purity pill from conservatives? She was 1/138th Cherokee or something right? Why is her blood/ DNA important? Shouldn't the beliefs and traditions determine if she's Cherokee? (As far as I understand, she fails there too, so you can get her on that.) Is this like calling Obama the first black president when he's half black and white? Because he's not full white, he automatically defaults to black?
It almost makes me believe tstorm when he calls liberals the real racists. But then Conservatives always jump on that bandwagon, usually leading such race derived charges
Literally, the reason people get so bent out of shape over it is the idea that a white woman used claimed to be Native American because it feels like a kind of exploitation [https://www.vox.com/2018/10/16/17983250/elizabeth-warren-bar-application-american-indian-dna].
Nearly a week after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) apologized to the Cherokee Nation for a controversial DNA test that suggested she had Native American heritage, a new report has emerged that Warren identified as American Indian in the 1980s.
Warren wrote she was American Indian in a 1986 registration card she filled out for the State Bar of Texas, according to a report from the Washington Post?s Annie Linskey and Amy Gardner. Gardner tweeted out a picture of the original form. Warren filled out the card after she was admitted to the bar, the Post reported. The form says information about her ethnicity was being gathered for statistical purposes; there?s no indication it was used for professional advancement.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opin...TlNcjSqM]Remember, there's a history to this. Complete with Politicians playing this angle for benefits. Warren, herself, was lauded as the first minority woman from Harvard to get Tenure.
Satinavian said:
SupahEwok said:
Mixed white/black ancestry has a problematic history. You've got the history of white slave owners raping their slaves, for a start. Then you've got the fact that those of mixed race (called such things as "mulattos" or "quadroons") were pretty much treated as badly as "pure" blacks. And lastly, unless they're relatively recent immigrants, genetics studies show that the average African American is on average around 20% European. Basically, the average black person has white ancestry somewhere. Yet in the heydays of racial purity, we treated even majority white African Americans as black, for the purpose of discrimination.
But that is pretty much a unique US approach. Most of the world scraches its head about what counts as black there. And while racism does exist elsewhere, the lines tend to be drawn quite differently.
Not to be flippant, but is that really the case? I mean, we come from Africa, and even that's not welcoming for us [https://afropunk.com/2018/08/on-white-south-africans-who-dont-want-black-people-in-their-spaces-in-africa/].
Mixed-Race Blacks in Africa have it hard as well as Mixed raced here [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/14/i-felt-like-an-impostor-a-mixed-race-american-in-africa]. I feel like the entire world has a complicated relationship with Blacks. But most just want to believe it's America doing the bad things and they are ok.
It's been my experience in all the different places I traveled that because of my light skin, people are more willing to talk to me because they think I have a white parent somewhere. And given my speech patterns, that I'm "Not like them".
Even in Germany, I was called "not really black" because I didn't play basketball or rapped. But they understood it because my light skin meant I wasn't really black.
These are the same students who came over and was surprised that New York State wasn't a giant manhattan by the way. Media has a lot to do with how people perceive everything.
