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So it's possible to identify as black even if one is not actually black?
by Overtonwindow 4y ago
So it's possible to identify as black even if one is not actually black?
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoYes, lots of people have grown up unaware of their true parentage for various reasons and there's no commonly accepted definition of 'actually black' anyway, and the commonly accepted definitions vary by country, amongst other things, since they're mostly social categories. In the US there used to be the 'one-drop' rule so 'passing' as white was a thing with genuine legal consequences, no matter how slight the genetics support for your categorization as something else, nowadays people lean towards self-identification but can still disagree on corner cases.