'You don't have to look Black to be Black': The complex racial identity of a tiny Ohio town
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"You don't have to look Black to be Black".. WHAT THE????!!!!!
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I have lived in Ohio for 37 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 4 days and I have NEVER EVER heard of this city in my life..... It sounds like some hole in the wall Klansmen stronghold.
Haha...100s of blacks passed as white pre 60s. The most famous was possibly congressman Adam Clayton Powell of Harlem who I read passed as Italian once
as well as other white ethnicities. Black is as much cultural and shared experiences and nuanced as anything else.
The one thing I explained once to an African homie I met overseas was that when you see another African, you don't have that shared experience possibly.
However, I could be from Boston and another brotha could be from Phoenix, extremely far corners of America but we can communicate in one look if we are both in St. Louis at a place that is all white. He asked me about the police and if its as bad and I said, I wouldn't even ask another brotha from America that. He asked why? I said, its a given. We all have the same shared experience no matter if we grew up urban, rural, whatever. It's an understood shared thing that we all have gone through as well as other things and that's why we can bond easily even if we meet here in another country and have never visited each other's area.
He didn't quite get it. And that my friend is the difference. It's a beautiful thing in one sense. You can be from completely different backgrounds and lineages but if you grew up in America as a typical black man, you understand each other perfectly.
And its also why we feel the most against those who do the conservative, racism isn't real or important thing like Larry Elder and Candace Owens because we KNOW they are lying and they KNOW they are lying. And if a foreign black tries to say they came to the states and didn't experience it. We KNOW they are lying or at best in denial.
We know that FBA coons/sellouts and off code, anti FBA hating non FBAs are on some bullsh*t. We know to our core they know and are denying a truth. It speaks directly to someone's character.
as well as other white ethnicities. Black is as much cultural and shared experiences and nuanced as anything else.
The one thing I explained once to an African homie I met overseas was that when you see another African, you don't have that shared experience possibly.
However, I could be from Boston and another brotha could be from Phoenix, extremely far corners of America but we can communicate in one look if we are both in St. Louis at a place that is all white. He asked me about the police and if its as bad and I said, I wouldn't even ask another brotha from America that. He asked why? I said, its a given. We all have the same shared experience no matter if we grew up urban, rural, whatever. It's an understood shared thing that we all have gone through as well as other things and that's why we can bond easily even if we meet here in another country and have never visited each other's area.
He didn't quite get it. And that my friend is the difference. It's a beautiful thing in one sense. You can be from completely different backgrounds and lineages but if you grew up in America as a typical black man, you understand each other perfectly.
And its also why we feel the most against those who do the conservative, racism isn't real or important thing like Larry Elder and Candace Owens because we KNOW they are lying and they KNOW they are lying. And if a foreign black tries to say they came to the states and didn't experience it. We KNOW they are lying or at best in denial.
We know that FBA coons/sellouts and off code, anti FBA hating non FBAs are on some bullsh*t. We know to our core they know and are denying a truth. It speaks directly to someone's character.
I know some very on code Albinos. I'd trust them and they have come in a time of need and I didnt put out a bulletin but they are 24/7 down.'You don't have to look Black to be Black': The complex racial identity of a tiny Ohio town
My granny passed and got a job as a elevator girl in a Birmingham AL department store from 1944 to 1948. She was 14 at the time and worked that job until she was picked up by her older darker sister in the family car, something that was looked down on "black women driving" She was fired on the spot.Haha...100s of blacks passed as white pre 60s. The most famous was possibly congressman Adam Clayton Powell of Harlem who I read passed as Italian once
as well as other white ethnicities. Black is as much cultural and shared experiences and nuanced as anything else.
The one thing I explained once to an African homie I met overseas was that when you see another African, you don't have that shared experience possibly.
However, I could be from Boston and another brotha could be from Phoenix, extremely far corners of America but we can communicate in one look if we are both in St. Louis at a place that is all white. He asked me about the police and if its as bad and I said, I wouldn't even ask another brotha from America that. He asked why? I said, its a given. We all have the same shared experience no matter if we grew up urban, rural, whatever. It's an understood shared thing that we all have gone through as well as other things and that's why we can bond easily even if we meet here in another country and have never visited each other's area.
He didn't quite get it. And that my friend is the difference. It's a beautiful thing in one sense. You can be from completely different backgrounds and lineages but if you grew up in America as a typical black man, you understand each other perfectly.
And its also why we feel the most against those who do the conservative, racism isn't real or important thing like Larry Elder and Candace Owens because we KNOW they are lying and they KNOW they are lying. And if a foreign black tries to say they came to the states and didn't experience it. We KNOW they are lying or at best in denial.
We know that FBA coons/sellouts and off code, anti FBA hating non FBAs are on some bullsh*t. We know to our core they know and are denying a truth. It speaks directly to someone's character.
Ironically, pretending to be black is the epitome of white privilege
The gif usage 😭😭😭 dead af. Thank you ART lmao
The gif usage 😭😭😭 dead af. Thank you ART lmao
Another passing as white.
There was also a white man pre Civil Rights who went in the south and passed as Black. And what he faced.
Further proof the Candace Owens, Thomas Sowell's and others who deny or weaken the impact of racism, I've met progressive whites from other countries, one of them a Persian girl who looks white (they kinda are anyway), British, dates only black men, did a year abroad at UC Santa Barbara.
She said in London she's middle eastern, but in America she was white and she was shocked and dismayed at just how casual racist remarks were among Americans of all levels. She said she never wanted to visit America again and would never date a white American...ever.....after that experience.
Blacks who pass as white don't say enough of the racism they hear and see. Not even saying they gotta out themselves but even write anonymously. Passing isn't much of an issue these days. But the Tate brothers passed as white. And I suspect a fair number of blacks move out of their area and pass as white by not admitting anything about their parents and keeping their social media of family, etc, sanitized of blackness.
There was also a white man pre Civil Rights who went in the south and passed as Black. And what he faced.
Further proof the Candace Owens, Thomas Sowell's and others who deny or weaken the impact of racism, I've met progressive whites from other countries, one of them a Persian girl who looks white (they kinda are anyway), British, dates only black men, did a year abroad at UC Santa Barbara.
She said in London she's middle eastern, but in America she was white and she was shocked and dismayed at just how casual racist remarks were among Americans of all levels. She said she never wanted to visit America again and would never date a white American...ever.....after that experience.
Blacks who pass as white don't say enough of the racism they hear and see. Not even saying they gotta out themselves but even write anonymously. Passing isn't much of an issue these days. But the Tate brothers passed as white. And I suspect a fair number of blacks move out of their area and pass as white by not admitting anything about their parents and keeping their social media of family, etc, sanitized of blackness.
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This reminded me of that younger white girl who "identified" as black. Remember her? I think all this stuff deals with the growing mental health problems in America where self-identity is valued over reality because it gets you more attention.
In our parents day, mixed / biracial was Black. White people really did a good job in confusing things. With the rise of kids of black and white parents, they did the French colonial/slavery thing and said 'Y'all different' and created 'Creole' out of it as a buffer class. That's what this 'Biracial' thing is. Older mixed people were always Black. White society reminded them they were black. Lenny Kravitz has a white Jewish father but was always known as a black singer. Halle Berry has a white mother and was always seen as a Black actress early on.
I'm a little sad to hear black folks telling half black people they aren't black (in the video below). Here is the trip thing. We claim any great historical figure with a drop of black blood as black, even if they have a white parent: Queen Charlotte. Alexandre Dumas. Frederic Douglas. Bob Marley.
I'm a little sad to hear black folks telling half black people they aren't black (in the video below). Here is the trip thing. We claim any great historical figure with a drop of black blood as black, even if they have a white parent: Queen Charlotte. Alexandre Dumas. Frederic Douglas. Bob Marley.