Not really, but is kind of like a “Oh are they straight/neurotypical enough to qualify?” Scenario.
Gotta love the Bondocks 
Edit- Nevrmind Lmfao
Ah. I think I see what you’re getting at, you just made it confusing with the attention-seeking addition. A family friend is 16 years old and fairly high-functioning, so we do see his family running into issues where people assume he’s “normal”. Being bisexual is a little different. For example, if I don’t bring up my orientation, people just make assumptions (straight or gay) based on my partner.
Someone that is mixed race could be in a similar situation, where people will look at them and make assumptions based on what they see or care about. Lighter skin and straighter hair = white. More of a tan or deeper skin and kinkier hair = black. It’s less common to see people making those middle-ground assumptions.
For me the only time I really get so white is winter… There are people who really think I am white as if I was an American born here as well.
I been receiving therapy services for as long as I can tell. I have been mistreated/rejected/marginalized for my autism before
As for me being bisexual, I am not really. I guess pansexual? And barely do I share my orientation in public anyways.
You may not have seen any vocality, but they aren’t being silent. The intersex, bisexual folksand people with schizophreniaall face challenges related to how they are recognized and treated in society.
Well I was reading earlier about intersex people.
(Sorry, I was writing and only got to the last few posts now.)
This was something I’d mused about before; would Obama still be considered the “first black president” if he were only 1/4, 1/8 or 1/16 black? At what point would he have been considered too diluted to count as the first black prez?
Elizabeth Warren has already undergone years of criticism for claiming Native American heritage (being only 1/32 native American.)
Exactly…
Still waiting for my card in the mail. Perhaps since I’m half Puerto Rican and half African American I’m not really mixed race because all of me is on the brown side. The funny part is, on my grandson’s birth certificate it says he’s Caucasian and that kinda hurt my feelings.
Ah race in America. What the fucking fuck.
Someone post the Clint Eastwood gif.
Preferably the one where he shoots the ape.
But do you hear the displays?
Am I being insulted? Is it the one of him speaking to an empty chair?
I feel as if I’m being insulted but I don’t know why.
Yeah, for sure I’m insulted but I’m not sure I’m being compared to Clint Eastwood or a monkey.
Ask my half-Asian, half-white kids, each of whom were called “nigger” when they were young, then get back to me.
Is amazing how race works in such a vague and strange way in the US
People never even take time to acklowedge their true ancestry I would imagine.
Shit, not even 5 years ago was I this confused about race
I never ever cared this deeply about race, I just wonder what other countries have this high of a relation to racial politics because not even our neighbor Canada is quite this obsessed with race.
Have you ever spent any time in Canada?
Obama is just as much white as black. In fact, he’s mulatto, but in America, that is a verboten word. The economic institution of slavery could be justified only by way of an ideological framing of race that looked away from the reality of racial mixing, and had to be predicated on notions of racial purity.
Everyone acts like the word nigger is the most offensive word someone can say, but in reality, mulatto is much more threatening to the racial ideology running through American culture, and that’s why you almost never hear it, let alone in reference to Obama, who has to be seen as black.
The same thing has more or less happened with the word mestizo, because generally that’s what people really mean when they say Hispanic, or Latino, but they are loathe to say mestizo, for essentially the same reasons. In Latin America, the equivalents of these words are used often, more or less neutrally and descriptively, at least by comparison, but in American racial ideology, they are forbidden.