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Originally Posted by matrixone05
This would be another thread discussion. One that we had before and DBlack wound up deleting. I will tell you that I respectfully disagree with you and others who believe this. Funny, how some (not all) black people are the only ones, to question another's degree of "blackness". Ask a white person whether or not they consider this "group" to be black or not.
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Bill Cosby once said on Tony Brown's journal (I believe & years ago)
that the mixed children were our children. Whites did not want the part black children; East Asians did not want any part black children (
view treatment of bi-racials left behind in Asia); so if "we" did not take care of the children; "no one" would.
Blackness has not been constructed the way whiteness has been constructed: on absolute white purity (Anglo/German) or even on being basically white physically if not pure (Spaniard). Blackness has embraced even mixed people who obviously has minute African input as being "black."
Should we reject this course or affirm it ? In my family, my yellow skinned brown haired birth mother, my white skinned frizzy haired cousin, my dark brown other cousin, his night black female friend & my medium brown skinned self, are all "black." So, I'm shocked that any in here would reject this.
I have thought that "we" should develop an ethnic term for our people because the color term, even if used ethnically, has a tendency to alienate the lighter amongst us.
I mean Hispanics, Arabs, Filipinos, families all have a general common appearance amongst many of its members but are not rigidly locked in as the whites are. I think we should consider that.