Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?
amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day agoseems like you’re confusing ethnicity and race. even if biracial Black people identify as white because of having a white parent (anti-Blackness) that doesn’t change the fact they will continue experiencing racism for being Black. race is all about first impressions because it was meant to be a cognitive model for white people to reduce our guilt for enslaving Black people.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There are actually a lot of people who meet the social definition of black but are white passing by being right skinned enough and they choose not to identify as black to avoid the racism.
amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
you mean they were raised with Black culture? there’s a difference between Black American as an ethnicity and Black as a racial classification. a white biracial can be raised by 2 Black parents and identify with that culture but that won’t lead to them experiencing racism because their phenotype is still white to cops and other whites. i don’t understand the relevance of how biracials identify?
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t think this is going anywhere because you seem to think anyone can spot whether someone is black at a glance.
amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
if we couldn’t then by definition racism would cease to exist? if white people don’t perceive you as Black then you aren’t, no need to complicate it needlessly