I agree
What makes a black person, "black"?
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Mandarin Duck
Majestic and Highfalutin
Remarkable
Having black parents makes you black. All this culture stuff has nothing to do with it. Otherwise people like Rachel Dolezal would correct in saying you can indentify as black. Be trans racial and all that other bullshyt.
But speaking culturally
You got white people out there who think they “blacker” then the cliff huxtable types because they listen to 2chains. Obviously that was bullshyt. Acting according to sterotype does not make you culturally black either. You need to remember, Our culture includes black people of all ages. White people dont even realize that 80 year old black person has different interests than 20 year old. They’ll learn everything about trap rappers thinking they a part of black culture meanwhile not knowing who the fukk Marvin Gaye is. They’ll cook up some fried chicken thinking they know black cuisine meanwhile not knowing what the fukk hoppin johns is.
I fell like too often definitions of black culture is limited to the culture of black teenagers. Specifically hood teens.
But speaking culturally
You got white people out there who think they “blacker” then the cliff huxtable types because they listen to 2chains. Obviously that was bullshyt. Acting according to sterotype does not make you culturally black either. You need to remember, Our culture includes black people of all ages. White people dont even realize that 80 year old black person has different interests than 20 year old. They’ll learn everything about trap rappers thinking they a part of black culture meanwhile not knowing who the fukk Marvin Gaye is. They’ll cook up some fried chicken thinking they know black cuisine meanwhile not knowing what the fukk hoppin johns is.
I fell like too often definitions of black culture is limited to the culture of black teenagers. Specifically hood teens.
Saturated with negative images and a limited range of
Possibilities is strange
And it's sad 'cause that naturally do
Sort of condition your mind and over time
That's what's attractive to you
So young blacks don't see themselves in
Scholastic pursuits or the more practical routes
It's makin' tracks or it's hoops or God-forbid movin' packs for the loot
Even with this music we so limited, it's rap or produce
And that narrow conception of what's black isn't true
Of course, still we feel forced to adapt to this view
Like there's something that you're havin' to prove
Now add that to the slew of justification the capitalists use
For the new blaxploitation many actions excused
In the name of getting cash, that's adversely impactin' our youth
With mental slavery, the shackles is loose
And it's hard to cut chains when they attached at the roots
So what the new black activists do
For our freedom is just being them
Do what you're passionate to
Not confined by a sense that you have to disprove
Any stereotypes, so-called facts to refute
Or match any image of blackness
They've established as true
Perhaps we'll break through the glass ceilings
Shatter the roof and emerge
From these boxes that they have us in cooped
And grow to smash the mold that they casted of you
I'll keep watching
No matter my beliefs I am black either way. There is nothing I can say or do that will make me no longer black. I love that there is diversity in black people and I wish we would embrace individuality and not try to force people to act one way in order to feel welcomed.
With that said, if both your parents are black, you are black.
I used to get told I wasn't black because of the way I spoke, the fact that I didn't know EVERY line from "The Color Purple" or the most recent Tyler Perry movie.
With that said, if both your parents are black, you are black.
I used to get told I wasn't black because of the way I spoke, the fact that I didn't know EVERY line from "The Color Purple" or the most recent Tyler Perry movie.
Mandarin Duck
Majestic and Highfalutin
I remember telling some cac on a forum that older black folks are traditionally conservative and don't like rap and he tried to argue with me
BulletProof
Just a B@stard Living in a Suit
Man made social conventions.
pitiful
go on and get the last word in you predictable ass nikka. 
*incoming "b-b-but your in a thread you dont like" reply for the umpteenth time*
This is a flawed question because Black is a race but the gist of your question is cultural. What makes people African-American is one being primarily of African descent and conforming to the culture and customs of people belonging to said group.
I don’t see why it’s so hard to see what makes someone African-American but not having an issue with understanding what makes someone Irish or Italian. The issue is that America wants to be able to dump every dirtbag and c00n that comes from outside the US into our community.
There’s a reason why Mexicans who don’t speak Spanish are ostracized in their community or why Indians who didn’t grow up in India are look at as others because they are deemed to be lacking connection to the culture that produced them.
That’s why Foundational Black Americans who are not culturally African American are shunned because it’s human behavior. We deserve the right to ostracize outsiders just like everyone else does. If you talk, think, and act like a European but have brown skin you are them not us.
Black American culture is what dictates blackness in the mind of most people. Food, music, language, etc...
The closer you are to that, the culturally blacker you are.
Solo ✧✦✧
King of the eXoticals. "FIRsT and LAst wARNiNg"
DNA and ancestry. Someone's beliefs and personality has nothing to do with their actual race. Calling someone a "c00n" and other white supremacist insults doesn't take away from their blackness.
Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha
Superstar
So if white people start considering an arab like french montana or dj khaled as black, are they then black?