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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.

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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?

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- 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.
  
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  - 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
    
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