I'm probably overly sensitive but...
isn't "identifying as a black person" kind of racist. I mean you're saying a black person thinks or feels different then other people because he/she is black. Why can't you feel the way you do looking like yourself?
This is not normal and I suggest consulting a psychologist instead of analysing yourself. If you already have and he's the one throwing terms at you, you might want to see another one.
What do you mean you 'identify' as a black person, though? What makes you more black than white? How exactly does feeling black differ from feeling white, when no physiological factor is involved?
The majority of my friends are black, we have the same views and attitudes, and even speak very simlar to eachother (in volcabulary and speech patterns, I'm not mocking their voices, hell no).
It's difficult to describe really, I just feel that I would be more myself if I had black skin.
But I can imagine the fat part. I see how you would behave different because you feel fat. Fat people can't participate in certain activities because their weight handicaps them.
But I don't understand how you indentify as black. Please, give me an example.
The majority of my friends are black, we have the same views and attitudes, and even speak very simlar to eachother (in volcabulary and speech patterns, I'm not mocking their voices, hell no).
It's difficult to describe really, I just feel that I would be more myself if I had black skin.
Love how you give the same ansewers to two similar questions :)
It's like now you can see two alternate realities of a conversation unfold.
The fact that you as a white person blend in so well among your black friends is great. It's a lesson for all who think someones tone or behaviour is defined by their race. But if you now say you'd feel more like yourself if you were black it is still kind of racist. I'm really not trying to make you feel bad and I don't think you're a bad person or anything.
But what would you say if someone told a black guy that he wasn't realy black because he talks and behaves like a white person (Like some have said about Obama and other well spoken black people). I'm sure you see the racism in that.
If a black man talks and behaves like a stero-typical white man then no, that alone doesn't make him white. You can't just tell a person they are trans-ethnic because you think they behave more like a different race than their own. It's only if he himself identifies as a white person, when he becomes trans-ethnic.
Is it normal to identify as a black male in this way?
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I'm probably overly sensitive but...
isn't "identifying as a black person" kind of racist. I mean you're saying a black person thinks or feels different then other people because he/she is black. Why can't you feel the way you do looking like yourself?
This is not normal and I suggest consulting a psychologist instead of analysing yourself. If you already have and he's the one throwing terms at you, you might want to see another one.
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People saying I'm "racist" I don't believe that black people think or behave differently to other ethnicities, I simply indentify as one.
What about identifying as fat, is that 'fatist'? Why should identifying as black be any more offensive?
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What do you mean you 'identify' as a black person, though? What makes you more black than white? How exactly does feeling black differ from feeling white, when no physiological factor is involved?
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The majority of my friends are black, we have the same views and attitudes, and even speak very simlar to eachother (in volcabulary and speech patterns, I'm not mocking their voices, hell no).
It's difficult to describe really, I just feel that I would be more myself if I had black skin.
Jeremiah
But I can imagine the fat part. I see how you would behave different because you feel fat. Fat people can't participate in certain activities because their weight handicaps them.
But I don't understand how you indentify as black. Please, give me an example.
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The majority of my friends are black, we have the same views and attitudes, and even speak very simlar to eachother (in volcabulary and speech patterns, I'm not mocking their voices, hell no).
It's difficult to describe really, I just feel that I would be more myself if I had black skin.
Jeremiah
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Love how you give the same ansewers to two similar questions :)
It's like now you can see two alternate realities of a conversation unfold.
The fact that you as a white person blend in so well among your black friends is great. It's a lesson for all who think someones tone or behaviour is defined by their race. But if you now say you'd feel more like yourself if you were black it is still kind of racist. I'm really not trying to make you feel bad and I don't think you're a bad person or anything.
But what would you say if someone told a black guy that he wasn't realy black because he talks and behaves like a white person (Like some have said about Obama and other well spoken black people). I'm sure you see the racism in that.
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If a black man talks and behaves like a stero-typical white man then no, that alone doesn't make him white. You can't just tell a person they are trans-ethnic because you think they behave more like a different race than their own. It's only if he himself identifies as a white person, when he becomes trans-ethnic.
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So if the other guy judges you based on a stereotype he's a racist. But if you judge yourself based on the same stereotype you're trans-ethnic.
It is racist.