Gotcha Sir, Thank You. Not saying that you are, but she & others refer to themselves as African American, Mexican American,European American etc. etc. . . How are people born in more than one place/country ? I understand American w African heritage and so on. I find itphilip964 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 11:56 pmIn that sentence I did not mean Harris. In general it seems that some people of mixed race tend to express their heritage as anything but White. Obama is 50/50 but expressed this heritage as black. Liz Warren is 0% Native American, but expressed her heritage as Native American. It is so odd since White has so many privileges in America and throughout the world.pushpullpete wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 11:55 amphilip964 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 12:08 pmhttps://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a2 ... is-father/92f-fan wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 10:48 am Its a rough question to ask in public, but Im curious. She has Jamaican and indian parents. So genetically she is half of each. But she gets to pick being either Black or Indian as it serves her ? Confused.
Follow up, can she call herself "African American " if she is from Jamaica ? I know that Jamaican ancestors came from Africa, but if we are able to pick continents from thousands of years ago wouldn't we also be able to go back further than Africa ? Maybe include Pangea ? Pangean-American would be MUCH more inclusive.
These days people "identify" as all kinds of things so maybe nothing should surprise me any more.
I guess Im easily confused by the current process of picking and choosing your ancestry and your orientation from a grab bag.
All this PC stuff drives me crazy ...
Picture of her father. I believe he belives he is African Irish. Her mom is 100% Indian. So that would make her 50% Indian, 25% Irish 25% African.
I would be interesting if she did a Ancestry DNA test before the election.
https://apnews.com/afs:Content:9240201328 Says she has used both for some time. Went to a historically black college.
Supposedly her mom raised her Black. So she identifies as Black. She was born in the US so she could call herself African American, Euro American or Indian American. I find it interesting that no one wants to use their "white privilege" but prefer to express their minor African or Native American roots.
Bold, Red is mine.
I don't care for her either way, however, I thought her mother was from the country of India, NOT Native American ?
hard to understand why people have to pigeon hole themselves or anyone else. I believe that in itself serves to do little more than to
perpetuate racial bias in general. I feel that those who demand to be recognized as white American, black American, brown American etc. . are working toward separating Americans in general and are NOT wanting our country to survive. Yeah, that's a surprise.
Sorry, too early for this. Y'all have a GREAT DAY.