By American standards, you would not be black. Remember, I said WE, black folk, would welcome you as black. But, honestly, WE don’t even fucking count. What matters in today’s America is what you present as. If you present as white, you’ll be treated as a white person. One small quibble: you say we need to address…
Since I most definitely alluded to Natives being enslaved at a point in our history, you cannot say I’m unaware of it. The one drop rule means that if you are pale, blonde with blue eyes, you are BLACK and subject to slavery. In modern times, if you “have black in you” and want to say that you are black, it is…
Haha. Yeah, it is.
Shiiit— not to be in anybody’s field, she wouldn’t have.
That’s why I am not even pressed. Folks love to comment on the first line of a long read and show their asses with their pedantic retorts. They PISSED!!!
You have the right to claim anything. These discussions are about who believes it.
You aren’t really good at looking at a post wholly, are you? Look at the qualifying remarks I wrote throughout. Or accept the thesis as flawed: I didn’t mean ANYone EVER enslaved in the WORLD... Of course I didn’t. But if you feel that little tendril of heat that comes from thinking you “won an argument”, savor…
Tandem yessssgasming. Yassssss!
Were you replying to me or the other guy?
Too late. And I’m part Irish.
“You seem to be making arguments to support the fact that in many aspects, race is very much a social construct.” Exactly. And insofar as she’s lived a life masqued as “a black woman”, she was very much accepted by the community in Spokane. Here’s where I quibble: she assumed the ethos of a black woman, a place from…
If you plopped a Somali into the antebellum south, they would have been right beside Queen Ester, my great-great grandmother. They are not unburdened by slavery’s past because they are considered “black” here in Minnesota. Again, being “black” isn’t what you call yourself, it is what society labels you. To police,…
Gender and race work as analogies up until a certain point. Then, they don’t. And late-transitioning trans people KNOW this. They KNOW and acknowledge the privileges of being closeted with their true gender and the risks of coming out honestly as trans. What Rachel Dolezal did was be dishonest.
This makes no sense.
Exactly. And THAT is my point. If you WOULD have been a slave, welcome to the club. The test is if I dropped your ass into the antebellum south, would you be a slave? That’s it. It’s brutally simple.
There were 4 white folks in her family and 4 black folks. She should have identified as “biracial”!
There are commenters that are being willfully obtuse or pedantic, but most people understand the context upon which I wrote this little rant. I’m talking about the subject of “blackness,” a largely American construct and how it relates to the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade from Africa. I’ve fielded comments…
Seriously? If that’s the case, so would Norwegians...
Would Jews have been enslaved in the antebellum South?