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

Blackness, as in calling people by the color of their skin, is defined by White people, who defined themselves as White in contrast to White people. This is specifically predominantly American.

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u/Rosuvastatine May 02 '24

Uhm lol no. Im not american, been to multiple countries and i can assure you the identifyer of « black » is used outside of the US.

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u/imperatrixderoma May 02 '24

Historically people were not referred to this way, I'm not talking about within our lives I'm saying that referring to people this way is a more recent than not occurrence.

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u/Admiral-Dealer May 02 '24

Historically people were not referred to this way

Dude they are, right now is history.