But a man calling himself a woman doesn't make him a woman. The same way a mixed race person calling thsrlves white or black exclusively doesn't make it so. I disagree with that calling yourself African American means you are after freebies, I believe the intention is an honest one, possibly to try to hold on to some ideal of identity, but too much emphasis is placed on identity and race and where people fit in. That is why Barack Obama and others should not in my opinion call themselves black as they are fuelling the idea that people need a catagory, which they dont. Historical mistakes aside, of which the slave trade is only ONE of a million different acts of prejudice around the world, from ALL races, people should learn to accept that "belonging" to a race is unimportant. "mixed" race expressing exactly those ideals. The whole reason nature even allows for people of differing complexion to breed with one another is that race does not matter, and we shouldn't label each other as though it does. A black cat doesn't look at a white cat and think "your white" it just sees another cat.

I'm aware that Africa is a continent. I am also acutely aware of the fact that west Africans have differing facial features aswell as bone structure height and even hair type to those from the east such as Ethiopian, the north such as morrocco and the south such as Zimbabwe. I am more than educated on the differing appearances of not only the African continent, but the other continents also. The American experience is exactly my point. It is the only so called "civilised" country in the world that still bases such an emphasis on what race people are. No where in the western world as you call it is race such a dividing issue as it is in America. And I am not speaking ignorantly, I have visited the US and many other countries many times. Issues that should remain in the past as nothing more than historical lessons are still used as a basis to segregate each race from the other. By both the public and by its government. All I'm saying is that while that may be the American experience, it does not mean it is a good or right one. The only way Americans and America will ever get over its racism is to stop the emphasis on why each individual is different from another. Basing someone's racial description purely on what they look like or what they THInK they look like is ridiculous.

Barack Obama has a white mother, and yet he and the American people as well as its government and media refer to him as black. This is a racist and segratory view born from the values that black people supposedly resent. The idea that once you have any black heritage be it half or whatever, that you are solely "black" is prejudiced. It implies that being black is some kind of affliction that you only need a little of to be entirely distanced from another culture, which is ridiculous. No one is saying you should call yourself white but you do not have to be resigned to any one label regardless of how others do or do not see you. If Barack Obama stood and said "I am not black, I am mixed race" who could argue? Mixtures of any cultures are a beautiful thing and people of mixed heritage should stand proud in that they refuse to fit into a category just because their particular society finds it easier that way.

And Marian carets mother is Irish so calling her black is like dismissing the woman who carried and have birth to her.

But just because one culture deems that you should class yourself as "one thing" based on what you most relate to doesn't mean it is right. My two children are both mixed race. If they called themselves white OR black I would be extremely offended as they are ignoring part of their heritage. When I look at you I do not see an African Americanas you do not display the same physical appearance of Africans. Your facial features are different and your skin tone is lighter. You would not "look like a local" in Africa and so how can you most relate to an African American culture? If you have more than one ethnic heritage then ignoring some and putting yourself in one catatory is ignorant and what breeds racism. I myself am Irish Spanish and English. I do not describe myself as only one, I Proudly include all my cultures. I would expect my children tO do the same.

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Lol everyone seems to know it though.

There's positive and negative in all racial descriptions. But its only really Americans who avoid the word black. And I never understand either why Americans call mixed race people black, that confuses British people. One white Parent? Not black! Mixed race! Maybe it's a British thing but were kind of "state the obvious"

White devil????

in the uk you are black, white, Asian etc. I don't think being called "black" is any different to calling someone "white" or "Arab" . And white does not describe me, I am not the same colour as paper.

Dreams are your subconcious's way of filtering visual and audio information we've received during the day. As well as our thoughts or emotions. You don't control what you dream or how you dream it. And what your dream shows isn't necessarily what the dream Is about. You can't "sin" in a dream because u have no choice about what u see or do in the dream. So anything that dream results in cant be a sin I.e a wet dream. If you had a wet dream of cheating on your wife it doesn't mean you've sinned, or been thinking about cheating during the day. If you woke up after the dream and decided to cheat then THAT would be the sin.