Okay? And even still the dominant view by the scientific community is that biological "races" don't exist. So, whether you're appealing to it's origins or it's current consensus view race is not based in biology, but a social construct. If you attempted to shape racial taxonomy to fit biological realities you'd end up with a system completely not reminiscent of what we all know as race at all. "Blacks" and "whites" simply wouldn't exist in this racial taxon. People of Sub saharan african descent ALONE would be entirely too diverse genetically to fit into an all inclusive category that doesn't include damn near the rest of the human race.
Yeah no. What you can do it use dna to determine which part of the world and/or which people groups they genetically cluster with. And then extrapolate "race" using western classification systems which are arbitrarily assigned due to PHENOTYPE, not genetics, of what race these distinct people groups and/or natives from those parts of the world belong to(which has been subject to change many times and there's actually still no general consensus on for many of them even among race realist, who are themselves fringe in the science community). But these different people groups being assigned to these races aren't necessarily based in any biology at all but perceived phenotype, even though the individuals themselves being assigned to the people groups is. For instance you could use dna to determine that Illhan Omar's genetic profile clusters with that of the horn of Africa's somali population, but Somali people's collective genetic profile would show much more affinity to that of non-black north africans, middle easterners and southern europeans than to us AADOS, yet we're all "black" according to you. Tell me, what is the biological basis for AADOS and Somalis being apart of the same racial group?
Don't even get me started on people groups who aren't even of recent SSA ancestry like Andaman Islanders, Filipino Aetas, Papuans, and Australia Aboriginals, but are considered to be "racially black".
Actually *WE* do claim people who are from our community that are phenotypically what most consider "white" as one of our own and that has been the "tragic"/romantic story of all throughout OUR history.
This man is ethnically AADOS.
So is this man.
So is this man
Ain't shyt arbitrary about it, because they fit the definition of being aados in every way. They're the descendants of chattel slaves from the contiguous US(or what is today such), part of the community, are practice aados culture, and come from families that carry black ethnic identity.
And blackness is an essential part of AADOS identity. You can't separate the two. So, anyone who is AADOS carries black ethnic identity with them.
And no one from OUR community has ever questioned their blackness ethnically speaking. It's only non-ados outsiders who don't know anything about our history or culture, but want to co opt our identity and struggle for themseves that try to come in and tell us who is and isn't part of our ethnicity.
And here we go again with you outsiders trying to place so much emphasis on how OTHER PEOPLE VIEW US, instead of how we view ourselves and how we function within our own community, as if we should just allow ourselves to be defined based on how outsiders view us(you'd like that wouldn't you).
And even that point is flimsy at best. White Americans may identity a haitian, nigerian, jamaican or w/e as "black" upon first sight, but once they begin to interact with them they quickly become "ethnic" in their minds, completely distinct from actual black americans. Otherwise you wouldn't have concepts like model minorities. Studies show West Indians and Africans themselves report lower rates of racism from non-blacks in the work force than AADOS. Our experiences and even other people's "racial" perception of us in the US is not the same.
This is something African's have always known as well.
Black African immigrants, race and police brutality in America
^^^^You're telling me they just see us all as "fellow blacks", though right?
