FrenchieCat
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Mon Aug-03-09 12:25 AM
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8. It's a bunch of shit...... |
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Barack Obama and I are 48 and 50 years old respectively. We have been Black all of our lives, period. This "labeling" reminds me of why I have always been so against the Biracial label that became so in vogue about 15 years ago (many parents love it and in fact insist on it!) But I think that it was put out there to divide....as though being Biracial is not the same as being Black.....a way to dilute the census and separate folks, although Biracial folks have been around forever identifying as Black (see Frederick Douglas and W.E.B. DuBois).
Many Blacks have mixed ancestry, so that makes us the same as every other African Americans out there, not in a class by ourselves.
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