Exactly. For every George Zimmermann, there are some people who sent money to his cause, and TONS more who silently agreed with his behavior.

There were plenty of other options in the primaries.

Right, for example, a wealthy person is not going to use 5000x more toilet paper just because s/he is 5000x wealthier than the median individual in their country.

It’s lunchtime at my gov’t job. Due to the service we provide for many needy people, there is a huge backlog. There have been waves of hiring over the past 8 years or so to reduce the backlog. However, when people complain about government waste, there are cutbacks. The cutbacks lead to fewer resources, and the…

I hope it works out for the 2 of them. However, I wonder if the relationship will end similarly to the unfortunate way it began.

Identity can be complicated. I apologize for my harshness relating to this post because I recently read far too many denials of the existence of colorism as systematic inequality in social media elsewhere. Like other -isms, it’s too big for one person to fix, and it’s definitely not on mixed people’s shoulders to…

NYC was much more dangerous in the 1970s, no?

I take it you do not move around in high-risk areas.

Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if intuition put the writer on alert, but it’s hard to explain to people unaware of subtle social cues.

Not sure if it’s a net positive, but ethnically ambiguous people can have unique experiences traveling internationally when they sorta blend in with the local population.

A study about this issue was recently publicized. It found that middle class black, mixed, and black adoptees have difficulty fitting in with other black girls due to socioeconomic class. Also, the mixed and adopted kids had a clearer sense that they were ostracized due to having a different family, while the black…

Mainstream society promotes anti-black ideas just like it promotes sexist ideas. In order to counter these ideas, it helps to encourage a healthy sense of self with positive images, books, lectures, cultural events, learning about history, etc. We are so much more than modern day black pop culture, and it’s sad to see…

It was a punch in the gut to observe how people denigrated the Williams sisters and Michelle Obama.

What generally happens with children’s cultural choices from Native-other unions? What about the grandchildren?

There are amazing tutorials online to learn more about hair care methods, tools and products.

It’s such a harmful message society sends out.

There are far more like her, and not enough like Jesse Williams.

Light skinned and/or mixed black women are fighting to be seen as black. Dark skinned women are fighting to be seen as human.

Right, because privilege is often invisible to those who have it. Unfortunately, colorism is not just about hurt feelings, but systemic inequality.

Black men are in interracial relationships in the UK at a rate around 50%. That i not the case in the US, so it seems to me that wondering if a black Brit would bring the same (or similar enough) perspective is a legitimate question in my opinion.