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Originally posted by Lady of Interest:
I agree this can be a touchy issue for some people. I have picked up a lot of slack because I refer to myself as West Indian. I was born and raised in the islands. According to the American society once your skin is a certain color you are considered African American(black). I agree with Talaxe when she stated that not all blacks are African American. I come from a family of very diverse backgrounds and it seems to me that people are always trying to put us into categories. We are all human so, why should it really matter?
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exactly, why does it matter? well because certain people still want to be discriminatory, they do not want to see people as people, because it gives them no leverage to hate. simply put some people are just evil,
. and i'm sick of everybody who has a drop of black blood being throw into a category that they do not necessarily desire to be in (ie. Tiger Woods) forget Tiger Woods let him get in where he fits in, when the day is done people will see him how they want to see him regardless of how he sees his self, which i am sure he is already learning. if you are mixed then you are mixed, "say it loud" if you are half this and half that "say it loud" why deny any part of who you are because someone else who is very shallow and ignorant wants to define you for their own hateful purposes. WE need to stop letting others define who we are as a people, because this forced categorizing just breeds division among blacks and those who have some black in them but do not wish to be identified as such. why should they, it certainly is not to their benefit to be black in this country, so if they don't want to be identified as black we should let them have that choice. as for me i am black, both my parents are black, both my grandparents are black, that's good enough for me, also no one in my family is from Africa or has ever been to Africa. but if someone refers to me as African American i don't get upset because some of my ancestors were definitely from that great continent, so its all good
[This message has been edited by PositivelyAKA (edited December 20, 2000).]