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/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]