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AD Powell's avatar

"White-presenting" is another term for "passing for white." When applied to people who are actually predominately white because of European DNA, it means "unworthy of the honor" of being what one actually is - white. Black-identified Americans (especially those of the intelligentsia) seem to be the most fanatical in their devotion to maintaining the myth that a white person is really "black" because of a minority of black ancestry even though, by doing so, they are validating the racist concepts of white racial purity AND black racial inferiority. Somehow, while the "one drop of black blood" myth is being politely repeated by the white American intelligentsia (to please their black-identified comrades)), we are supposed to politely ignore the very obvious and/or easily traced sub-Saharan African ancestry in Hispanics and Arabs.

In the name of a racist "one drop rule" that is now being presented as something progressive, blacks are allowed to claim almost anyone in Europe or the European diaspora.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/12/27/bridgerton-queen-charlotte-black-royals/

https://medium.com/@mischling2nd/its-not-rachel-dolezal-who-s-crazy-but-the-ridiculous-racist-and-contradictory-definitions-of-7a1da0a404f0

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Razib Khan's avatar

we're losing the war AD aren't we?

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AD Powell's avatar

The Multiracial Movement gave respectability to mixed ancestry, much against the wishes of black elites such as the NAACP and others. If not for the movement, people like Barack Obama and Kamala Harris would not dare to even mention their non-black ancestry in public much less boast of it. Now the black-identified are engaged in a form of damage control by trying to present "biracial" and "multiracial" as subsets of "black."

https://www.c-span.org/video/?88402-1/census-2000-racial-classifications

https://www.c-span.org/video/?106489-1/multiracial-identity-year-2000-census

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AD Powell's avatar

I think people know better but there is no reward for opposing blacks on the forced hypodescent issue or publicly mentioning the sub-Saharan African ancestry of Hispanics and Arabs.

The Multiracial Movement of the 1990s has been effectively eliminated from history and most Americans assume that the Census Bureau folks just woke up one day and decided to allow the population to check more than one "race" box. Many people lobbied Congress to get this far, but who knows that anymore?

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Poncho's avatar

I really respect the way you own your unique perspective Razib. We are similar in a lot of ways. Also politically, I lean right even though all my markers (Mex-Am, Compton raised, etc) would indicate otherwise. Its probably not a coincidence. Most people who dont see the world through ethnic eyes would probably lean right on many levels.

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Razib Khan's avatar

thanks i'll check it out

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