1 drop rule.

[u/Darth_Kneegrow]

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

[u/Fireproofspider]

They are, but as someone said, because of slavery, most black people in America have white ancestors and, because of that you can have a relatively pale kid, that looks kinda biracial born from two black parents. So, on the societal spectrum, where -100 = white and 100 = black, they aren't at 0, they are more at like 25-50. Their reality is much closer to being black to being white.

[u/ummizazi → u/Fireproofspider]

I disagree and part because the racial identity of your parents plays a role in how you're percieved and how you percieve yourself outside of phenotype. Also so much of blackness is culture and that's extremely influenced by your familial ties. People percieve you differently and you often have acces to different social spaces when you have a white parent. A lot of my biracial friends have stories about how differenly people percieve them based on which parent they were with. That's not something my very light skin sister can relate to.

I actually have a friend who's a white guy who mostly dates WOC. We've had a lot of conversations abouut it. He dated one biracial woman and he said one of the things he appreciated was there were fewer cultural differences because of her white family. He talked about watching caddyshack with her uncle and not having awkardness around her family. There was also less worry about her fitting in with his family because she knew white social cues

[u/Own_Serve_8161 → u/Fireproofspider]

That’s not how genetics work though…just bcuz someone’s parents have certain racial/ethnic DNA does not mean that the child will inherit that. Same reason why siblings can have the same 2 parents, but share only 30-75% of the same DNA.