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Yet Obama deplores his White side.
So, let's see if I have this one straight. She has resigned from her position heading an organization dedicated to combating racism because of her race, which she intimates is a choice and not a result of her parents being white.
Just when I thought race relations couldn't get any more bizarre.
"There is a wide consensus that the racial categories that are common in everyday usage are socially constructed, and that racial groups cannot be biologically defined.[20][21][22][23][24][25]....Nonetheless, some scholars argue that racial categories obviously correlate with biological traits (e.g. phenotype) to some degree, and that certain genetic markers have varying frequencies among human populations, some of which correspond more or less to traditional racial groupings. For this reason, there is no current consensus about whether racial categories can be considered to have significance for understanding human genetic variation.[26]
When people define and talk about a particular conception of race, they create a social reality through which social categorization is achieved.[27] In this sense, races are said to be social constructs.[28] These constructs develop within various legal, economic, and sociopolitical contexts, and may be the effect, rather than the cause, of major social situations.[29] While race is understood to be a social construct by many, most scholars agree that race has real material effects in the lives of people through institutionalized practices of preference and discrimination.
Black Like Me is a nonfiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961. Griffin was a white native of Dallas, Texas and the book describes his six-week experience travelling on Greyhound buses (occasionally hitchhiking) throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia passing as a black man. Sepia Magazine financed the project in exchange for the right to print the account first as a series of articles.
Griffin kept a journal of his experiences; the 188-page diary was the genesis of the book.
At the time of the book's writing in 1959, race relations in America were particularly strained and Griffin aimed to explain the difficulties that black people faced in certain areas. Under the care of a doctor, Griffin artificially darkened his skin to pass as a black man.
"There is a wide consensus that the racial categories that are common in everyday usage are socially constructed, and that racial groups cannot be biologically defined.[20][21][22][23][24][25]....Nonetheless, some scholars argue that racial categories obviously correlate with biological traits (e.g. phenotype) to some degree, and that certain genetic markers have varying frequencies among human populations, some of which correspond more or less to traditional racial groupings. For this reason, there is no current consensus about whether racial categories can be considered to have significance for understanding human genetic variation.[26]
When people define and talk about a particular conception of race, they create a social reality through which social categorization is achieved.[27] In this sense, races are said to be social constructs.[28] These constructs develop within various legal, economic, and sociopolitical contexts, and may be the effect, rather than the cause, of major social situations.[29] While race is understood to be a social construct by many, most scholars agree that race has real material effects in the lives of people through institutionalized practices of preference and discrimination.
20 Marks, Jonathan (2003). What it means to be 98% chimpanzee apes, people, and their genes. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520930766.
21 Templeton, A. R. (1998). "Human Races: A Genetic and Evolutionary Perspective". American Anthropologist 100 (3): 632–650. doi:10.1525/aa.1998.100.3.632.
22 Williams, S. M.; Templeton, A. R. (2003). "Race and Genomics". New England Journal of Medicine 348 (25): 2581–2582. doi:10.1056/nejm200306193482521.
23 Templeton, A. R. "The genetic and evolutionary significance of human races". In: Race and Intelligence: Separating Science From Myth. J. M. Fish, ed. Pp. 31-56. Mahwah, New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.
24 American; Anthropological, Physical. "Statement on Biological Aspects of Race". American Journal Physical Anthropology 569: 1996.
25 Steve Olson, Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes, Boston, 2002
26 Bamshad, M.; Wooding, S.; Salisbury, B. A.; Stephens, J. C. (2004). "Deconstructing the relationship between genetics and race". Nature Reviews Genetics 5 (8): 598–609. doi:10.1038/nrg1401. PMID 15266342."
as cited by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_classification)
According to her parents she was married to an African American guy before she was pretending to be black and she got a divorce so apparently some seem to think she "Decided to try and be black" because she didn't fit into the black community and that's why it didn't work with her black husband. Either way I think this is amusing and this definitely describes to the letter every single raving "Anti Racist uppity white woman" I've ever dealt with. I am actually not surprised by this at all. If you've ever met a white woman who's dating a black man you'll know immediately that something's just off. She often goes beyond what would even be considered "normal" biased leftism right into irrationality.
A lot of women (of all races but especially white women) simply don't have a culture so they attempt to adopt, often radically so, another peoples culture and defend and attack for it at all costs even when they have no true legitimate connection to it themselves.
When your children get a job, you don't sabotage them by challenging their qualifications publicly.
If the only way to get that job was to lie, then shame on the liar and the organization with a racial requirement.
you're blaming the parents?
:lamo
That's what you interpreted?
So race is social construct and not a scientific one...
There is no way to prove someone is of some race because there is no official rule on what determines someone is of one race or not...If someone would like to draft one...Please stand up, and bring out the color reals and genetic tests.
Sociology is the worst of all liberal arts... they claim to be a science... and they f*** up the one thing they are good for.... Group studies are great for what they study about.... ambiguous/undefined groups.... NOT INDIVIDUALS
you're blaming the parents?
:lamo
Well, it is their fault that she's white.
from your first line, yes
"When your children get a job, you don't sabotage them by challenging their qualifications publicly."
Do you disagree with the statement?
What I have learned from this: apparently there are some on the right who want to turn this into a thing about transgendered individuals, a group for whom they have an irrational hatred. Obviously not all, but clearly some.
Why must we take two completely different things and mash them into one?
Whoever is doing that is nutz. This story has far too much meat on its own to get transgenders involved in this. Distractions are dumb. Focus on the story.
Did you know this clown sued Howard University for discrimination because she was white? Seriously.
She's a Special kind of nuts. I think she may even post here, though I'm not sure who it is, but given the special kind of nuts we attract here it wouldn't shock me at all.
What I have learned from this: apparently there are some on the right who want to turn this into a thing about transgendered individuals, a group for whom they have an irrational hatred. Obviously not all, but clearly some.
Why must we take two completely different things and mash them into one?
Do you disagree with the statement?
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