Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="niupt2k" data-source="post: 3279546" data-attributes="member: 137628">There&#039;s no &quot;even if&quot; about it.&nbsp; Kenya IS in Africa.&nbsp; This is not something in dispute.&nbsp; And Kenyan-Americans ARE African-Americans, just like Chinese-Americans ARE Asian-Americans, because China is in Asia.Supposedly?&nbsp; Oh boy, is the birth certificate conspiracy theory still in circulation?And the fact that someone is born in America doesn&#039;t mean they&#039;re not Irish-American, Italian-American, Asian-American, or African-American.&nbsp; Go to South Boston and ask how many people are Irish-American.&nbsp; Most will raise their hands.&nbsp; Ask how many people were born in Boston.&nbsp; Most will raise their hands.If someone cannot have ANY white ancestry to self-label as African-American, then essentially nobody is.&nbsp; Most African-Americans have at least some caucasian blood in them.&nbsp; But that doesn&#039;t mean they don&#039;t identify with the African-American community and they aren&#039;t treated as &quot;black&quot; by racists.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have any problem with someone with one white parent identifying as African-American.&nbsp; Consider, when someone looks like this:Every racist he&#039;s ever met has considered him to be a &quot;black man,&quot; so why can&#039;t he self-identify as one?&nbsp; Are you instead suggesting we dust off the word &quot;mulatto&quot; from the dust of history and bring it back into circulation?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="niupt2k, post: 3279546, member: 137628"] There's no "even if" about it. Kenya IS in Africa. This is not something in dispute. And Kenyan-Americans ARE African-Americans, just like Chinese-Americans ARE Asian-Americans, because China is in Asia. Supposedly? Oh boy, is the birth certificate conspiracy theory still in circulation? And the fact that someone is born in America doesn't mean they're not Irish-American, Italian-American, Asian-American, or African-American. Go to South Boston and ask how many people are Irish-American. Most will raise their hands. Ask how many people were born in Boston. Most will raise their hands. If someone cannot have ANY white ancestry to self-label as African-American, then essentially nobody is. Most African-Americans have at least some caucasian blood in them. But that doesn't mean they don't identify with the African-American community and they aren't treated as "black" by racists. I don't have any problem with someone with one white parent identifying as African-American. Consider, when someone looks like this: Every racist he's ever met has considered him to be a "black man," so why can't he self-identify as one? Are you instead suggesting we dust off the word "mulatto" from the dust of history and bring it back into circulation? [/QUOTE]

Name

Verification

Loading…