“You’re darker than this paper bag, so get in that line over there, darkie”.
Exactly - yet you presume to have an opinion on whether people like mags are, in fact, racist or not, and whether I am right to call him so or not…
They’re racial tests (one ingroup, one outgroup) only very slightly less sophisticated than your “dark skin+kinky hair = Black” methodology. At least you use both criteria :rolleyes:
To be fair, it was the less-dark African Americans doing it to the darker African Americans…
I stand corrected. I’ll note that in-group racism/colorism was encouraged by the ruling white supremacists in both the US and South Africa (from what I understand – please correct me if I’m wrong) to help divide the oppressed – the ‘less oppressed’ groups (‘High Yellow, mulattoes, quadroons, and octaroons’ in the US, and ‘colored’ in SA) sometimes supported the status quo against the most oppressed groups because they were worried that without it, they would suffer even more. An insidiously effective form of manipulation.
Yes - but that doesn’t excuse the less-oppressed from doing the oppressor’s work for them. In fact, in some ways, it’s worse. You’ll never catch me saying (in any serious context) that Black people can’t be racist.
And just FYI, it’s “Coloured”, the correct spelling is important, it distinguishes it from the outdated American term.
Thanks.
So if a South African woman says she want to do a pencil test with me and I think “Yea pencil test! I’m gonna play with boobies!” . . . I’m probably gonna be very disappointed.
Damn you cultural differences! Damn you all to hell!!!
CMC fnord!
Another example of African Americans being racist.
Haven’t had your coffee yet, Drunky? That was well below your usual.
Only racists drink coffee. Since I am not a racist I don’t drink the racist brew.
I meant “coffee” of course. At least, that’s what I tell my kid I have in my mug all day.
I like mine like I like my women: iced.
I saw you order a flat white, dude.
Not posted in =/= not read.
Why thankyou.
And no, that’s not my criterion, it is “if someone identifies as black, they’re black”. It’s simply an observation that the vast majority of those that do so have brown skin and kinky hair.
But when hundreds of millions (and maybe a billion or more) people who have brown or darker skin don’t identify as “black”, then I think skin color becomes a rather useless and counterproductive identifier of race.
Yeah, hence the dark skin and curly hair. The hair is enough of an identifier that the actual subject of this thread (there was one, once) named himself for it…
Except - most of those dark non-Blacks also have the curly hair.
Seeing racist shit and not posting about it is tacit approval. Same for only calling out the people actually opposing said racists.
Like I said, most of the people racists consider “Black” don’t consider themselves anything. They don’t have much cause to consider race at all, they’re much more concerned with finer distinctions like tribe or ethnicity.
You should probably have a look at India or Pakistan sometime. Over a billion dark skinned, straight or straight-ish haired people. Also south-east Asia, and many other places. It wouldn’t surprise me if they outnumber people with dark skin and kinky hair (black or otherwise).
The majority of people on this planet have non-white skin and straight hair. Specifically, skin that’s a shade of beige. I expect there’s more East Asians than black and white people combined.
The only Indians I’d characterise as “dark skinned” are Southern Indians, and I wouldn’t characterise any Pakistanis as such. I think there are only a couple hundred million, not a billion. And Dravidian hair runs the gamut from arrow-straight to pretty curly. Not afro-kinky, it’s true.
But, point taken, I should have said “many”, not “most”.
I doubt it. Not combined. More Asians overall, yes. But there are just 1.5 billion East Asians and at least 900 million Black Africans. 700 million Europeans, most of whom are White or Black. Then there’s Americans, Brazilians…it starts adding up.