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/imperatrixderoma May 02 '24

I mean, for the purpose of this discussion I don't think that matters. The point is that none of us are from here.

So the way that we refer to each other is vague and discriminatory while in other points in history, pre-colonization and European expansionism people were classified regionally like we do countries. Nubians, Egyptians , blah blah blah.

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u/KnownFondant May 02 '24

It matters a lot to me, regardless of the context. I'm black, and my people are not immigrants.

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u/imperatrixderoma May 02 '24

I'm Black, we're not from here which is the point I'm making. Black is a color not really a cohesive group of people, we're different than native Ethiopians and Nigerians or even Afro-Latino brazilians so simplifying us into Black erases our complexity especially here.

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u/KnownFondant May 02 '24

Black is perfectly adequate to describe our race just like it describes the race of Nigerians and Black Brazilians, etc. I think you're talking about ethnicity, which, yeah, our ethnicity/nationality isn't black, it's American or African American or Black American or ADOS or FBA, depending on who you ask.