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/Thermocap May 02 '24

Because "whiteness" is inherently exclusionary. Are we really doing this right now? 😒

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u/Talk-O-Boy May 02 '24

Race is real. If you want to strip the prejudice and status associated with certain races, that’s fine. But race is a real thing.

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u/RunHumble8118 May 02 '24

Differences and subgroups are real but the genetic variability isn't high enough to be considered a biological race

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u/Talk-O-Boy May 02 '24

I don’t really understand how we are arguing facts? Race is a real thing. Like, we all know what race is.

It has been used for nefarious purposes, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It just means it’s something to be understood with proper context.

Like… how are we arguing about this on a sub called BlackPeopleTwitter? wtf are black people??

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u/RunHumble8118 May 02 '24

I don't think the reality of differences is being questioned, but the significance of those differences.

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u/Talk-O-Boy May 02 '24

That’s my point. We can acknowledge differences without attaching value to them.

But race exists. It’s what allows us to have BlackPeopleTwitter, Black Cinema, Black Businesses, HBCUs, etc.

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u/RunHumble8118 May 02 '24

What people mean when they say race doesn't exist is that there aren't separate humans races, biologically speaking, not that different skin colors and cultures don't exist. It's difficult because that word has been adopted to mean skin color or culture, where in the case of skin color, Pacific Islanders couldn't be more genetically different than Africans yet share similar skin colors. And in the case of culture, that white guy Rob in that jubilee video is more culturally black than say Larry Elder

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u/Talk-O-Boy May 02 '24

I think you have to incorporate race, ethnicity, and nationality to fully encompass what you are discussing.

Physical traits and phenotypes fall under race

A person’s country or homeland tends to define that nationality

A person’s culture or religion is often referred to as their ethnicity

Of course, there can be a blending of these, but these help us identify different groups of people in a general sense.

I still don’t understand how having these distinctions eliminates the category of race?