Depending on the reactions, I would put it to you that the negative ones are actually because of the holier than thou insinuation you would put forth by having to point out to people you're "half black", would likely to be worse when, by admission, you're whitey mcwhite. These people wouldn't actually care at all, but when you make it your business to inform them as if they're racist by default, they will react negatively.
I think it says a metric fuckton about your worldview that the idea of someone sharing their racial make up
must be done in a "holier-than-thou" manner.
It's a random bit of trivia that comes up organically when people are discussing their families/backgrounds/etc..
You seem to have a mindset where, if race isn't obvious it just...shouldn't ever come up lest it inherently be some sort of eye-rolling self-aggrandizing gesture?
Cool, that's not a perfect and completely unironic example of a societal and psychological oppression at all, no sir.
The
only type of situation where I would "smugly" bring up my genetic lineage would be if someone said something blatantly racially offensive and I chimed in with "You might not realize this, but you're actually speaking about me."
I suppose that would be "holier-than-thou," though, right? Am I oppressing their right to be a jackass?
I guess the parents who told their kids they didn't want them hanging out with me any more when I told them I was adopted and mixed race were just reacting to being condescended to by a 10 year old?
My god, seriously. What's your problem?
Also, your statement at face value means that you basically see literal skin color to be the be-all-end-all of racial identity, and not actual blood and lineage, which is a fucking grim Schrodinger's Cat of racism.
It's not
literally racism, but it's hard to find a more appropriate word for "I'm not judging them based on race - just the color of their skin!"
It's like distilled, purified racism with just a hint of artificial flavoring.
EDIT: I got some flack a week or so ago for saying it felt like GAF had undergone a weird, not-entirely-subtle swing towards "alt-right" viewpoints being more comfortably, openly shared, but take a look at some of the comments I'm responding to in this thread. It's shocking how baldfacedly discriminatory people's even
minor opinions and reactions to race relations can be while they share them with a straight face as thought they're just commenting on the weather.