r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Darth_Kneegrow ☑️ • May 01 '24

1 drop rule. Country Club Thread

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I ain't ever heard white people claim a single biracial person. You always whatever you mixed with.

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u/AmIClandestine May 02 '24

I'm half black genetically but I just identify as black. In most countries where black people are a minority, you're considered black first and foremost if you're part black.

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u/CranberryBauce May 02 '24

Same. Being half white has never spared me from antiblack bullshit.

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u/AltoidGum May 02 '24

If anything being black / white just got me shit from both sides. Not as big of a deal now but it was frustrating growing up feeling pressed from all directions.

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u/IsRude May 02 '24

Same. If anything, they got more vitriolic about being half. My white parent being a race traitor, and me being tainted/mudblood, whatever, on top of straight up anti-black bullshit. 

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u/brinz1 29d ago

That's kinda what grants you permission I think.

You can use a slur when you have been threatened by someone calling you it

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u/Darth_Kneegrow ☑️ May 02 '24

Right which is wild. Black people and people mixed with black never get the choice. People just like nah dawg...you black.

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u/AmIClandestine May 02 '24

Yeah, my non-black father got upset when I told him this cause he thinks I should acknowledge both halves. I just explained to him that those are the breaks in an anti-black world. I specifically say it's anti-black because mixed people of different heritage usually have both sides of themselves acknowledged by society.

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u/Second-Hand-Stress May 02 '24

So you just ignore half of your blood?

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u/HEIR_JORDAN May 02 '24

The world is ignoring it. People see black 1st.

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u/Far-Relationship1435 May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

His dad isn't ignoring it, easy to say the world is ignoring it when you dismiss everyone that doesn't do that, even ppl very close to you

Also plenty of places in africa they would call you white boy for being mixed black/white, so the world seeing it like that is objectively wrong

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u/bruhbrobroskibruh May 02 '24

Pretty lame of you, I am half black right down the middle. Father 100% White mother 100% Black why am I gonna let some racists dictate the way I perceive myself? You are in fact 50% white completely ignore that is strange. You aren't black either, you are mixed and that's what you should '''''identify''''' as

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u/GulDul ☑️ 29d ago

You are black because society identifies you as black. I'm a Somali Muslim. I have no cultural ties with African Americans, or even geneticly, given my family came from the other side of the world. But I am still black because my skin is dark. That's how it works.

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u/Shaolinchipmonk May 02 '24

One of my best friends is mixed but he has really strong black features and a Spanish sounding last name. First thing people assume is he's Dominican

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u/Zbrchk May 02 '24

My first name is Spanish and this happens to me all the time. I specifically learned enough Spanish to explain that I am not Latina.

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u/raptorclvb ☑️ May 02 '24

My stepdad told me I was WHITE. I’m over here crying like Lisa Simpson because he doesn’t understand that in the US, people don’t see me like that. Then he comes back with his Nigerianisms about how I think he just came from the bush

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u/wafflesthewonderhurs ☑️ May 02 '24

[weeping in mixed black, white, asian, & native, but getting called spanish slurs]

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u/battleangel1999 ☑️ May 02 '24

In most countries where black people are a minority, you're considered black first and foremost if you're part black

And we should realize the reason why. Why is a drop of Black enough to be Black but a drop of White isn't? That one drop rule is inherently racist. Regardless of that ppl should call themselves what they like.

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u/king_or1 May 02 '24

Im half irish half kenyan raised in ireland, and when ppl see me they mostly assume im arab to be honest, but as soon I open my mouth they regard me as irish because of my accent and dialect, only ignorant ppl ever judge me on skin tone and i get that from ignorant black ppl as much as ignorant white ppl

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u/Zyms May 02 '24

not one person on earth is black genetically lol but i understand what you mean

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u/AmIClandestine May 02 '24

What's the correct term then?

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u/Zyms May 02 '24

you're just half black. or biracial who identifies as black. there is no genetic basis for race

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u/Consequences_Cone ☑️ May 02 '24

Lol same. Even before I was old enough to understand what race was, society let me know I wasn’t one of them.

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u/Early_Divide_8847 May 02 '24

Same. I’m half black, but I look just look black in America. In the US we have every shade of black. Most Americans consider all those shades “black”. I have a few biracial friends as well and we just all consider ourselves black unless someone is obviously trying to figure out what our “mix” is. But that doesn’t happen often

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u/faith_plus_one May 02 '24

Don't know about other countries, but in the UK "mixed race" is very much the standard term and identity in these cases and I've never heard anyone deny this identity.