RE: Local Washington State NAACP Leader Outed By Parents As White
June 12, 2015 at 2:35 pm
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2015 at 2:40 pm by Regina.)
I think self-identification is best, if you have a mixed (one white parent, one black parent) person who prefers to call themselves "black" or "white" for whatever reason, I think you should respect their agency in doing that. I also think "mixed" can still apply if you have like grandparents who are different.
It does come to point though where "mixed" becomes "white with a little POC ancestry". That would probably describe me, being someone who everyone would call "white" on face value, but I have some distant North African ancestry. I'm "white", it's absurd to call myself "mixed" when I'm walking around with pale skin, blue eyes, medium brown hair and no visible traits that suggest otherwise.
Also lots of people can trace their families back now, it's documented.
It does come to point though where "mixed" becomes "white with a little POC ancestry". That would probably describe me, being someone who everyone would call "white" on face value, but I have some distant North African ancestry. I'm "white", it's absurd to call myself "mixed" when I'm walking around with pale skin, blue eyes, medium brown hair and no visible traits that suggest otherwise.
Also lots of people can trace their families back now, it's documented.
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