on racial mixing and white privilege

[baratron]

I haven't said very much about the "Racefail" business that's been happening on various parts of the internet due to lack of coherent comment, but I thought of something interesting yesterday

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I like your phrasing

[alexilian]

I appreciate your wording.

I can relate to what you say about claiming heterosexual privilege for a primary relationship while being bisexual. I have felt uncomfortable about that. Usually I come out as a bisexual at that point.

I have a similar thing with gender. Somehow I am not totally convinced (in my mind) that I am a woman. Sometimes I feel like "us women", sometimes "us men" and sometimes "in the grey area in between". You might consider that a mixed situation too. My body however is being perceived as female most of the time. Fortunately most women-only space I encounter are trans-friendly.

[turkish_coffee]

I've always been white-- Er, caucasian and gotten notices about African-American grants.

First-of-all None of them have a dual citizenship, specifically with anywhere in Africa. They're just American, like everyone else.

Secondly, "African" is not a race it is an ethnicity or possibly a heritage.

Third My school is required to give the same notices to all students to avoid assertions that it favors one race, but I never get any anouncements about Caucasian-American grants.

I'm not sure if there is a "white advantage", but I'm 98% sure I've never gotten it. Although, I fall into a scruffy teenager group so perhaps that hinders it somewhat.