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This community is for ethnic minorities and people of color. This is a safe space where such people can freely discuss their struggles, insight, and thoughts without fear. If you are not, we respectfully ask you do not post or comment here. A future community will be established to allow for racial discussions with a mixed userbase. However, remember, comments here must still respect Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines.
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How do you deal with people of your own race calling you a "fake *insert your race?" I got called it and it was very hurtful and alienating. I wanted to know more about holidays I already celebrated, and about other holidays I might not already know of and wanted to start celebrating. It made me feel shame even though having been taught a shallower version of cultural heritage is not a thing to be ashamed about.
Once someone corrected a person calling me a fake *insert my race, and said "No, not fake. American-born *insert my race."
I don't necessarily get this kind of shit on the basis of being born in the US, but I've gotten people telling me that I'm not "really Black" for these two reasons:
When it comes to the "mixed people can't be Black" kind of take, I push back really hard.
My first ever girlfriend, mixed between Black and white, always received that anti-mixed rhetoric more than I did (because I am far more unambiguously Black than her), and as someone who's extremely proud to be Black, seeing how distressed it made her always gave me even more drive to push against anti-mixed rhetoric among Black people.
As Audre Lorde put it, you cannot dismantle the master's house with the master's tools. The moment these Black people start to invert the one-drop rule as a way to exclude our mixed siblings, they are using the white man's logic. The white man is the one who falsely affirms that race is a genetic reality that places you in a firm, essentialized category. Someone who actually has a proper, material understanding of how race functions in society knows that it is, first and foremost, socially constructed.
These anti-mixed Black people think they are revolutionaries, but they are the opposite. They are reactionaries who will hold back Black liberation, and for them to reject mixed people means they are quite literally putting the reification of an arbitrary white-invented system of categorization over the safety and inclusion of Black people. That is undeniably anti-Black.
When it comes to the thing about being "stereotypically Black," I have to remind people that this is a form of respectability politics. The moment you start denying the diversity of Black people and acting like we can only be valid as Black people if we conform to stereotypes is, once again, cracker logic. White people and closed-minded Black people are both the ones who tell me things like, "No way you're Black and you listen to metal!" and "No way you're Black and you're vegan!"
I feel like people are so caught up in their closed-minded ways of thinking that they forget how lived experience usually plays out. A majority of these biracial people that they shame for "not really being Black" will have the lived experience of a Black person, and denying that is utterly harmful.
Being black in America is a special case in that if you're completely white passing and have no contact with culture of your own race(es) you're still entitled to reconnect and bathe in your race's culture(s). I argue that one drop of blackness means you're intertwined by blood with American black history. Generational trauma changes you on a genetic and behavioral level, and there's no escaping the generational effects of what your ancestors did to survive. Even when people are adopted, many of the marks of ancestral trauma are there. Ancestors being kidnapped and taken to another country, and being unallowed to practice their culture, means one drop in their descendants is enough to seek out roots and immerse yourself in culture you didn't grow up with. This is very disappointing to hear that some black people are disowning their own and not acknowledging these things.