Comments on: Response to Rachel: “I am a person of color” http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2006/03/28/response-to-rachel-i-am-a-person-of-color/ Feminist, anti-racist, pro-fat, plus whatever else we feel like talking about. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:15:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: B http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2006/03/28/response-to-rachel-i-am-a-person-of-color/#comment-103448 B Fri, 07 Apr 2006 20:46:25 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2006/03/28/response-to-rachel-i-am-a-person-of-color/#comment-103448 I don't agree. The way I see it, it's actually the other way around. How else do you explain how people with equal parts white and black parents or ancetsors are almost allways cathegorized as black? It shows an unhealthy obsession of skincolour. If some genes are more prominent you are supposed to explore your african cultural heritage - if others your european heritage et.c. The way i see it you belong to whatever culture you grow up, or live, with - and to some extent what we choose to embrace. That is why it's called culture and not nature - because it is learned. I don’t agree. The way I see it, it’s actually the other way around. How else do you explain how people with equal parts white and black parents or ancetsors are almost allways cathegorized as black?

It shows an unhealthy obsession of skincolour. If some genes are more prominent you are supposed to explore your african cultural heritage - if others your european heritage et.c.

The way i see it you belong to whatever culture you grow up, or live, with - and to some extent what we choose to embrace. That is why it’s called culture and not nature - because it is learned.

]]> By: theresa http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2006/03/28/response-to-rachel-i-am-a-person-of-color/#comment-103424 theresa Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:34:57 +0000 http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2006/03/28/response-to-rachel-i-am-a-person-of-color/#comment-103424 i dont understandwho has been assigned the office of catagorizing people but i know that i can resist their assertions. "people of color" is a netural term. I think there are too many people who just do not want to be regarded as black . It makes me laugh sometimes to hear them elaborate on their multiple ethnicities that conclude with African American. Could this be because we are programed to believe that black embodies all that is bad? It is like Americans are hypnotized by the constant suggestions that black is inferior. I may not what else I am but I know that I am black and I embrase this because God made me thus contary to popular opinion black is good. i dont understandwho has been assigned the office of catagorizing people but i know that i can resist their assertions. “people of color” is a netural term.
I think there are too many people who just do not want to be regarded as black .
It makes me laugh sometimes to hear them elaborate on their multiple ethnicities that conclude with African American.

Could this be because we are programed to believe that black embodies all that is bad? It is like Americans are hypnotized by the constant suggestions that black is inferior.

I may not what else I am but I know that I am black and I embrase this because God made me thus contary to popular opinion black is good.

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