"I am not my race, my race does not make me who I am." what are your thoughts about this statement?

[Unknown Poster]

"I am not my race, my race does not make me who I am.
My race is APART of who I am but it does not define me”

This from a black chick I follow on tumblr.

(not posting her pic...but she fine)

 

[Silkk]

I agree with the 2nd sentence

 

[horizon]

I wouldn't be me if I weren't black

 

[Mugenight]

I am black and that's pretty much where all the similarities stop.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Sounds like c00n talk

 

[Virtuous_Brotha]

Sounds like great imagery for an ideal world that we will never live in

 

[Cake]

my race pretty much made me who I am. Whether that's nature or societies conditioning idk. But i can tell you I always get along a lot better with black people then whites.

 

[filial_piety]

Agreed, I identify as an individual first

 

[At30wecashout]

1. Race is a social construct, so fair play.
2. What is there to argue?

She might be one of the realist chicks alive. Who knows. Like people might ask you "are you proud of your skin?"
Well you didn't have much choice...but you can be proud of the heritage, and what you do while you are in that skin.
Maybe she doesn't see much of a reason to make a big deal out of her skin, rather than who she is(on the inside, that is).

 

[mr.africa]

singing 'kumbaya my lord' and making obvious statements won't change the fact that
if a person from the white race and a person from the black race encounter a police officer....
you know what, forget it!!!
let her live in her little bubble!!!

 

[MaxBundles]

Wow....a couple things as I know this girl in real life.....

1 she's one of those girls who takes pictures crouching with the prayers hands, if that means anything to you

2 she's a feminist

3 She's black and dominican but when asked ONLY says dominican

Take those how you want

 

[Sean312]

I use to think like that, and it is true. We are all humans, race was made up by the 1% but in reality we all nikkas to the ones in power. So im up if people not up they just dont know or haven't had their wake up call yet.

 

[MajorVitaman]

Confused negros saying silly shyt.

her mindset is very common under this system of white supremacy

 

[Easy-E]

Sounds like great imagery for an ideal world that we will never live in

This.

Ppl who da that act as if "positive thinking" us gonna protect them from a system of racism and classism.

 

[iFightSeagullsForBread]

Personally I don't think that kind of mentality is.coming from a negative or harmful place per se.

Also, I wonder did OP take this up with her instead of coming back here?