Reply #11: So true. Even from "deepest darkest Africa" [View All]

[Kind of Blue]

:rofl: :rofl: I've got Asian and Middle Eastern lines in the blood going back as far as 100 years and to the Silk Road.

Back in the early '90s, a white co-worker and I were talking about another co-worker, an A-A girl, how sweet and lovely she is, when all of a sudden he says, Yeah, and I don't see her as black. She was very light skinned but culturally just as A-A as any of us, I mean the girl wasn't even trying to pass nor could she. Long argument ensued and we agreed to disagree.

But he just didn't see her that way UNTIL, being a Christian fundamentalist, she started to disparage homosexuals, which he was and she knew that he was. I wore my hair in braids at the time, and in his defense I said the Bible also says women who wear braids in their hair are sinning, attempting to explain you can't take the book as unadulterated fact because at the time the law(?) was written, the Israelites were under a culture whose women sported braided hair. Of course, she thought THAT law was silly.

Believe me, he saw her as black from then on, and wacko as well. I asked him. But it cracks me up how some define by increments of color how much they like you, and when you're biracial it becomes part and half instead of half and half.