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"This white person's racial identity is Black", or "let me research this black person to verify their racial identity is indeed Black before I capitize the word
by bad_username 5y ago
"This white person's racial identity is Black", or "let me research this black person to verify their racial identity is indeed Black before I capitize the word", - thought no reporter ever.
This is nonsense. It's all about the color today, like in the bad old times.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> It's all about the color today, like in the bad old times. No, its about identity forged largely in shared experience of White racism now, and in the bad old days (and for the racists that haven't left those days still) it was (and is) about ancestry, not color. The older racist rules specified a specific degree of African descent below which a free person of mixed descent was considered White (at various times in various US jurisdictions, this might be anywhere from 1/4 to 1/16), while later (mostly in the Jim Crow era) many jurisdictions adopted a “one drop rule”.