Might as well skip to the "We Wuz Kingz" bullshit
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Rachael Dolezal claims she's jobless and on food stamps
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Might as well skip to the "We Wuz Kingz" bullshit
BlackClouds
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Claude Augario
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hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
Can't wait to read about her redemption arc as a "New Black" where she was able to work hard in a post-racism America enabling her to tell her fellow black people to quit blaming the white man.
Yes, we honestly can. Why even ask?
FallingEdge
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It will be the start of her heel turn.
Chie Satonaka
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Oh, please, please elaborate, friend.
Given that this is your takeaway, I'm sure you have some fascinating insight on the matter and I'm just dying to hear your thoughts.
My rather ignorant thinking is this:
Gender may be a construct, but it's related to sex, which is an identifiable real-world thing.
Race is a construct, but it's a really wishy-washy one that is more associated with political lines than anything in real life. It isn't skin colour, because white people can be as dark as brown people and vice versa, yellow people aren't really any different from white people, black people run a wide range of colours, so on. We don't have to crack open your chromosomes to figure out what race you are; people can pretty ready tell who's white and who isn't, even if those definitions change over time. And people tend to identify their races they tend to say the name of countries.
It's bizarre trying to tie the two together, because whereas I and everyone else should know exactly what you mean when you say you identify as a female, you saying that you identify as black could be damn near anything. What definition of black are you even using?
Gender may be a construct, but it's related to sex, which is an identifiable real-world thing.
Race is a construct, but it's a really wishy-washy one that is more associated with political lines than anything in real life. It isn't skin colour, because white people can be as dark as brown people and vice versa, yellow people aren't really any different from white people, black people run a wide range of colours, so on. We don't have to crack open your chromosomes to figure out what race you are; people can pretty ready tell who's white and who isn't, even if those definitions change over time. And people tend to identify their races they tend to say the name of countries.
It's bizarre trying to tie the two together, because whereas I and everyone else should know exactly what you mean when you say you identify as a female, you saying that you identify as black could be damn near anything. What definition of black are you even using?
wut?
Although you're right in that white people is fairly changing defined group.
Not even 40 years ago Italians and spanish people weren't part of it.
Go back 100 years and you have Irish that are also distinct and whatever.
My point is race is BS.
People from the Mediterranean are often identified as white, and yet can be rather dark-skinned. I believe it's one of the reasons race labels shifted from colours (before the scientific community decided that race theory was bunk). White -> Caucasian, Black -> Negroid, Yellow -> Mongoloid, so on.
Elaborate on those differences?
Well, you know, blacks have those big strong twitch muscles for athletics, and whites are just absolute geniuses. Duh.
Again, people from the Mediterranean where absolutely NOT identified as white ingroup in Europe some 30 years ago or so.
I could probably pull some propaganda from the far right of that era that specify that "Mediterranean people were shitty invaders trying to steal jobs".
Scientific theory was done with races a long time before the more mainstream public had any qualm about it anyway.
Hoo boy. Here they come
Combine our superior genetic makeup and their genius...you have the perfect human
Hero_of_the_Day
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I'd like to know more.
What "scientific differences" are you implying? Do go on.
Resistance to sun burn?
You can also make a pretty good case that it could be scientifically proven that black people have a harder time finding a job (through social science)...
I'm assuming she applied for 100 jobs in the academic and community outreach world.
Define black people and white people.
As far as employers goes they might as well.
I'm not entirely serious.
If we're looking at "scientific" differences between black and white people, that's the kind of results you're going to get really.
And to be perfectly honest even the assumption on resistence to skin burn seems like urban legend more than hard science too.
pretty done
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I heard Rashida can ball
I fell in love with her during I Love You Man
Any chick that would go to a Rush concert with me is getting married asap.
You could trade skin burn for "more melanine" but then again "black people" that are like white skinned sons of black people don't have that more melanine =P
Principate
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That's not based on race at all.....That's literally down to whether community had dairy farms or not. Plenty of sub Saharan and North east African's/middle have the mutations.
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