jackstorm:

rafi-dangelo:

I swear.  White people have gotten the whole world wishing and hoping and grasping at straws to claim just a teensy little piece of caucasoidness.  Dude.  By What Definition are you classifying yourself as white because you are clearly brown to all FOUR of my eyes.  Get it together, People.  Get it together.

Race was constructed by colonizers a few hundred years ago, to keep the natives separate from the interlopers.  Genetically, a white person has more in common with someone other than a white person, and there are not distinct biological differences between any “race”.  Race is as real as unicorn farts my dude, this guy you clearly list as “brown” is whatever he says he is.  Barack is as white as he is black, but race being a social construct, gives him the right to choose.  Socially, this kid looks as white as he is black, and shit, he could call himself whatever he pleases.   So before you bold “by what definition” next time you throw this out on the dash, take a gander into the anthropological foundation of Race, its social constructs today (mores, other rules etc), its psychological choices by accepting a color for your own and finally, the lack of biological evidence to really label someone a Sneetch with Stars Upon Thars.

I *never* reblog responses to my posts, but this is one of my pet peeves.   I absolutely HATE when people get unnecessarily academic just to play devil’s advocate.  My degree is actually ANTHROPOLOGY and I bring it up from time to time.  The fact that race is a social construct is precisely the reason WHY this guy’s assertion of his whiteness is a problem.  His background is actually irrelevant to how he is perceived in society.  If Obama can choose to say he’s as black as he is white, he wouldn’t be our first BLACK president.  If this dude up here gets pulled over for Driving While Colored, he can’t tell the cop “Oh actually, I’m just as white as I am black, so thanks bye.”  We don’t live in a world where race is irrelevant.  It doesn’t matter that it’s as “real as unicorn farts.”  What matters is that the perception of race is very real, the perception of White Is Right is very real, the denial of brownness is very real, and allllllllll of that is directly attributable to WHITE PEOPLE who constructed concepts of race, put themselves on top, and put me in this position to tell you to Sit Down, Sir.

He isn’t claiming himself as white because he took an anthropology course and discovered race isn’t real.  He would just leave it blank.  

He’s claiming white to separate himself out of brown.  Period.

(Source: rafi-dangelo)