So Indian people are black now? :dahell:

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I swear we are the only race that gets piggybacked for other people's identity struggles. :russ:....:snoop:


All other non-whites look to us, and cling to the traditional black struggle and our narrative and jump on our ride when the going gets tough.



I understand linguistic-historical context. In previous centuries a long time ago, black in English, such as the term Black Irish, meant a white person who had dark hair.


But in the 70's black had already become a connotation for African-descended people. :comeon:




Europeans have been aware of Indians for centuries and never called them black.



when mass immigration started in the 1950s/60s to the Uk all people from the "colonies" in the Uk were designated as black, didnt matter if you were from Jamaica or India
 

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I understand linguistic-historical context. In previous centuries a long time ago -- black in English, such as the term Black Irish, meant a white person who had dark hair.


But in the 70's black had already become a connotation for African-descended people. :comeon:

Maybe in America.:yeshrug: Back then, there was still a subset of people who insisted on referring to all non-whites in the UK as Black or Coloured.
 

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when mass immigration started in the 1950s/60s to the Uk all people from the "colonies" in the Uk were designated as black, didnt matter if you were from Jamaica or India

Then that was just them being lazy but also deliberate in their agenda to just group anyone not white into one entire single group, making it easier for them.


The same way the U.S. census counts arab people as "white", or hispanic as an "ethnicity".


I highly doubt English people literally thought that a person from Nigeria and a person from Mumbai were the same race.
 

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Then that was just them being lazy but also deliberate in their agenda to just group anyone not white into one entire single group, making it easier for them.


The same way the U.S. census counts arab people as "white", or hispanic as an "ethnicity".


I highly doubt English people literally thought that a person from Nigeria and a person from Mumbai were the same race.



In the 1970s they didnt care enough to classify them ..... to them if you werent white then you were black

like I said before the thread title is stupid because its not put into context there is a big difference between "now" and "then "

for example now If you had to fill out an ethnicity form in the UK it doesnt just stop at "black" its divided into "black of african descent" "black of carribean descent" "black british" "black other" ...... etc.....


more or less every racial group is categorised and sub categorised which is why your thread title is redundant
 
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