There's supposedly some meme out there in some segments of the AA community who don't feel he's authentically one of them, for various reasons: Only half-black, grew up with white folks in Hawaii, parents weren't imported as slaves, isn't sixth-generation American, etc.
I've seen some complaints here and there that he isn't "really" AA because he simply doesn't come from the same cultural tradition. They complain that he can't really understand the issues faced by people whose ancestors were imported here as goods, or who can remember a grandparent or parent who had to face segregation and Jim Crow laws.
I don't agree with this, but it's not my place to agree or disagree with it, really.
I saw some woman AGES ago on the Colbert Report talking about that. But she said he was African American, just not Black. And I was like O.o.
Yes, because obviously when it comes to race in this country racists ask you if your family were slaves or if you're recently from Africa before they do discriminatory things.
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There's supposedly some meme out there in some segments of the AA community who don't feel he's authentically one of them, for various reasons: Only half-black, grew up with white folks in Hawaii, parents weren't imported as slaves, isn't sixth-generation American, etc.
I've seen some complaints here and there that he isn't "really" AA because he simply doesn't come from the same cultural tradition. They complain that he can't really understand the issues faced by people whose ancestors were imported here as goods, or who can remember a grandparent or parent who had to face segregation and Jim Crow laws.
I don't agree with this, but it's not my place to agree or disagree with it, really.
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Yes, because obviously when it comes to race in this country racists ask you if your family were slaves or if you're recently from Africa before they do discriminatory things.
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She was black.
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