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    6 days ago

    Oh word we can call black people “not black” because they don’t “act black” or aren’t “dark enough” again? Back in my day that was a racism.

    Or is it because he’s mixed? 'Cause that’d be less surprising, historically they’ve been shunned by both racial communities and have trouble identifying with either, and afaict we haven’t caught up to the whole “maybe that’s racist too” thing yet and they can still safely be considered “not really black” by black people and simultaneously “not really white” by white people now that the whole “one drop” business is over. Schrödinger’s Race and all.

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      Oh word we can call black people “not black” because they don’t “act black” or aren’t “dark enough” again? Back in my day that was a racism.

      We can certainly point out that a person raised by a white parent in a city with less than three percent black people doesn’t really embody the typical black experience.

      Do you believe he would have gotten elected if he grew up in Detroit and spoke with an affect? If so, you have way more faith in American voters than I do.