Thank you for saying this. People often forget that black women go through the same caresseral(sp?) struggles that black men go through. I think people want to act new about this because black men are seen as the default for blackness. Hell, I didn’t think of this when I read the title of this article. I thought about…

You should use another word than privilege, seriously.

Not to mention that civil rights victories have helped ALL POC in the USA, including mixed people.

You are aware of other political implications of the one-drop rule, right?

She mentions somewhere else that she looks white. (If she is telling the truth.) So that may be the problem - she has had the experience of being accepted as a white person, and thinks it’s just the greatest thing that she sets people straight by proclaiming herself half Black. So she has no basis to understand life…

Oh Vicky, you are truly a simple minded commenter. You obviously don’t understand contemporary Blackness and parading around and commenting that you are biracial is not doing anything but making you look more like a fool. You haven’t even attempted to address my major points about whiteness because you clearly can’t…

Lol, you are ridiculous. Newsflash: Everyone you meet does not have to give you an accounting of their fucking DNA, no matter how they look. Someone identifying as Black is not saying they are not biracial. That you can’t understand that is baffling for a supposedly biracial person.

I don’t know if I believe you are actually a half-Black person. If you are, you are very uneducated about Blackness in America. If you are, it isn’t your business how other people who choose to embrace their Blackness live and define themselves.

What? They are black, they arent passing for black.

Tell me what do you think being white is? The white that I know is steeped in oppression, privilege and atrocious acts to support white supremacy. Most white people don’t even think about being white; that’s the freedom of being white and in many ways a prison of ignorance as well. It sounds like you know fuck all…

Most mixed Black people can’t pass for white - look at our president. Does he look like a white man to you? He is not “passing” for Black, he simply is Black. No matter what he calls himself - Black or biracial- he is not white. And I bet you see Black people all the time who don’t look like the exotic fantasy of what…

Thank you. People keep forgetting that there is real danger for women of color, especially Black women.

This is more of the Clintons’ triangulating nonsense. I don’t trust her, at all.

Well, he’s “the first Black president” because he himself identifies as black, and that’s been a big part of his identity as his memoirs and talks prior to entering the national stage have indicated. As the study shows, identity isn’t just genetic or something you “are,” but a function of identification (by yourself…

Obviously these pressures are more central to how one personally identifies racially, I was just making an aside about gender differences across race.

Haha! I think it’s more complicated than that where racial identity is concerned, but there’s some truth to the notion that men are not as good at describing physical traits in general. In my experience, if you ask a man to describe another man, he will say something like, “I don’t know. Tall- medium tall- with brown…

DOMA was also right before an election. None of that justifes signing it...he should have vetoed it and let them try and override it. Nobody was getting gay married back then...this was a bullshit wedge issue that he caved in on instead doing the right thing so he could be reelected and do some magical, wonderful…

And for people who are too young, she faced a firestorm for having come out; people demanded she be fired, certain radio hosts called her “Ellen Degenerate” and considered themselves fiendishly clever, and she was basically shunned by craven networks who feared losing their audiences.

I get what he’s saying because Ellen was visible in a way no one in Hollywood had been up until that point. Still, as humble as he is, he’s been an amazing president for LGBT individuals (and the country at large, I think.) He pushed the repeal of DADT through (thanks Clintons!) and refused to defend DOMA (thanks…

I get that it’s meant to be sexy or impressive or whatever but ultimately a middle-ish aged man standing in front of a mirror in his underpants and socks, holding his own dick just reads as depressing to me. That is a melancholy moment. Excessive hashtags make this seem sadder.