[Gay State Conservative]

I've always found it funny how,today,when someone is seven-eighths white and one-eighth black,that person *invariably* identifies him/herself as being "black".

[Red Badger]

There's an old racist type saying that a black woman can't have a white baby but a white woman can have a black baby...............

[blueminnesota]

'Cause there's no financial breaks in identifying as "white".

I find it funny how Arabs are white and Hispanics aren't. How does that work?

[taxed2death]

"I've always found it funny how,today,when someone is seven-eighths white and one-eighth black,that person *invariably* identifies him/herself as being "black"."

Except by "black" people....in which case...they're not "black enough".

Careful...that axe swings both ways.

[BlueStateDepression]

Maybe Barak Obama or Halley Barry could explain that one to ya.

[FormerLib]

I've always found it funny how,today,when someone is seven-eighths white and one-eighth black,that person *invariably* identifies him/herself as being "black".

With the exception of those who are unaware of it or actively attempt to hide that eighth, of course.

[Smogger]

Hmm... bi-racial?

What happend to plain old "mixed?"

;-)

[wouldntbprudent]

I know several children who have one white parent and one non-Caucasian parent (either African-American or Asian).

All the children are expected to identify as black, Asian etc.

Why is that? Aren't they just as much white as they are asian? aren't they just as much asian as they are white?

It sure sounds like the old "one drop of black blood" stuff to me. And I just don't get it. How can they "be" either race, solely, and why should they be forced to claim one race and reject the other?

[RobbyS]

Ditto. my backgounr makes me three-parts American Indian to five parts Anglo, but I was raised in the "white world." My sister, who has the same parents is very dark while I am fair. She was also raised "white " It's a matter of which culture you choose.

[July 4th]

No one ever tells them to embrace or celebrate their whiteness, either.

[TC Rider]

I've always found it funny how,today,when someone is seven-eighths white and one-eighth black,that person *invariably* identifies him/herself as being "black".

In the days of segregation, Jim Crowe, etc a black person was defined as having 'one drop' of black blood in their system.

Today's race pimps have adopted that standard for themselves.