America really needs a Biracial/Colored Distinction

[satam55]

England and South African brehs, how well has this Biracial/colored racial Category worked out for your respective communities?

I heard this was being pushed in the 90's & black folks were against it.

Wow. I think it so alien to people over here.

Even now I don't know how it would work. Besides people self identifiying, like they doing now with the new "mixed" category, there doesn't seem to be a willingness to make it 1 and only 1 catergory. You can combo black and white, you can combo
Mixed and white, you can combo mixed and black.

If they tried to push this again, I'm convinced Black folks would still be against it

 

[ultraflexed]

England and South African brehs, how well has this Biracial/colored racial Category worked out for your respective communities?

"Thecoli.com" really need biracial color distiction.

Fixed

 

[IllmaticDelta]

From 'colored' people in South Africa.

"We are not quiet white, but we are not black"

I was looking for this video

 

[Ducktales]

I used to be critical of the black people in South Africa “coloured “ saying they not black. But we can’t really understand that. Because America is so racist they classified us as black for just one drop. You could be white as snow… if you had a 8th of black and they found out… you was a “nikka”. Just pure hate. But them somewhat the opposite where if you have some white in you, they created a system to say “well you blacks are not black” to cause division. This is the system they were and are oppressed under. So I see the perspective now. They not trying to distance themselves from black people. It’s just the rule of law there or was. So they not c00nin except for the ones who harbor negative feelings against black people. That’s why when all these people, especially Dominicans or other Latinos claim they not black, many of us be confused and just call them out for not claiming they blackness and call them c00ns since we were taught naw y’all black regardless

 

[tuckgod]

England and South African brehs, how well has this Biracial/colored racial Category worked out for your respective communities?

Shut the fukk up.

 

[3rdWorld]

I used to be critical of the black people in South Africa “coloured “ saying they not black. But we can’t really understand that. America is so racist they classified us as black for just one drop. Just pure hate. But them somewhat the opposite where if you have some white in you, they created a system to say “well you blacks are not black”. This is the system they were and are oppressed under. So I see the perspective now. They not trying to distance themselves from black people. It’s just the rule of law there or was

Africa has never needed to consider mutts as Black because pure Black people are the majority and never needed them or to recoginze them, unlike in America where Black people being a minority had no problems adopting biracials because they needed the numbers to offset cacs..
Biracials if pale enough would even be called White in some parts of Africa, but certainly not Black Black..

Its why Americans struggled to understand the Tyla issue.
People tried applying American racial classifications to outsiders who actually know what they are and then become confused.

Tyla's coloured, not Black African. She has European ancestry and in South Africa Black people won't see her as Black Black like the US does.
Basically the majority people anywhere have the luxury to not adopt biracials as the same race, whether White people in America or Black people in Africa.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

I was looking for this video

I found the post I used it for:


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