Blackness (1660s- ) is what makes you black. In American society it does not come from how you talk or dress or act or what music you listen to – the Wigger Fallacy. It does not come from growing up in a black neighbourhood. It does not even come from that one drop of African blood that makes you look less than pure white – the Racist Fallacy.
Blackness comes from looking African enough to white racists and then having to live in a country run by such people.
So Bill Clinton will never be black no matter what because he looks white.
And Tiger Woods will never be white or even Cablinasian no matter what because he looks black.
And Barack Obama is “black enough” in the one way that matters most.
American blacks believe in blackness because they have little choice. They are black whether they like it or not – apart from the few who can pass for white.
American whites believe in blackness because it washes their hands of their crimes, past and present. It allows them to blame blacks instead.
Blackness is an invention of white people, made up in the 1660s so that they could buy and keep Africans to work their land.
At first the excuse was religion, but by the 1660s too many slaves had become Christians, so the new excuse was skin colour:
Africans look different. There must be something wrong with them. They are not as good as we are, not truly human. They are throwaway people. It does not matter what we do to them: make them slaves, shoot them 41 times. Who cares?
That sort of thinking, supported by some well-chosen Bible verses (while passing over hundreds of others, like the Golden Rule), made having African slaves seem right and good and natural.
The slaves were freed long ago but that sort of thinking is still in the heads of white people – and too many black people.
White Americans have such a narrow and unnatural idea of what it means to be human that it is soul-destroying. Not just in the black sense of “soul”, but in the Christian sense and the common English sense too. Sometimes they seem like machines, like plastic people. But they think they are so great and wonderful! They think everyone wants to be just like them. And if you are different from them, they look down on you. Like there is something wrong with you!
But there is nothing wrong with being different than white people. There is nothing wrong with being black.
Blacks are every bit as good and true and human as whites. Every bit. Once white people can get that into their heads and into their hearts and have it stick, that is the day when there will be no more black people. Or white people. Just Americans.
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Heeeey, I know that girl in the picture! 🙂
Sorry, I’m late commenting on the post. I typically read blogs & lurk, but I rarely comment.
Hmmm … Interesting post. I’ve added your blog to my feedreader.
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Wow! Hi! Only on the Internet do pictures talk back to me! (This was not the first time either.)
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Do you think of albinos with black parents as black? They have wools African-lke hair and blac-shaped facial features, but they have light-blond hair and pale skin and blue eyes. They can “pass” for white quite easily.
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If the features of their face are clearly part African, then yes, they are considered to be black. It is more than simple skin colour alone: it is how you look.
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Tiger woods doesn’tlook black he looks south east asian , Obama looks mixed not black
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Only in America mixed people are black the one drop makes you black
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Abagond:
Mulattos should only be considered black if they love black people. If they don’t embrace their black side, they’re useless to our race. No black children, they can keep it movin. The tri-racial crap is not acceptable. Halle Berry has a daughter with a whiteman, and has the nerve to say that she’s black. Tiger Woods is black and asian, but his kids have a white mother, are they gonna be labeled as black too? Spanish blacks don’t wanna be black, but their biracial and tri-racial children feel the need to push up on african-americans at the same time. They’ve never gave a damn’ about being black, so, why the obsession with african-american culture? In other words, they want to be un-black and black at the same time, which makes no sense at all. I’m tired of dealing with their stupidity. If not for black americans, our race would be more jacked-up than it already is. Blacks in other parts of the world are very casual when it comes to our ancestry, and they have the stones to migrate to the US and enjoy the fruits of our foreparents labor…Amazing! Challenge west-indians, spanish negroes, and native africans on their hypocrisy black people? Black people have no more excuses. Those in our race who are weak need to get out of the way and let the strong steer the ship.
Tyrone
MindScape
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