It depends on where you live. I lived in Maryland when I was in middle school in a school District that was 99% black. There was a girl at the school with white skin who had a white mother. She called herself black and was very adamant about it.
Kids when they are that young are very ignorant. It was a relatively ignorant area. The general thinking was that white people are bad and everyone there was acutely aware of the plight of black people in the past and blamed it on white people of the present.
If that girl I mentioned identified as white she would be putting herself in a position to be ostracized and picked on. It doesn't help that the teachers are just as ignorant and unqualified. I had two teachers in my middle school who taught that if the races mixed the kid is black because, and I'm not shitting you, black crayons can overwrite white ones but not vice versa.
It is an ignorant tribalism in uneducated parts of the country that cause people to view race, let alone view it with such an unscientific and useless set of rules.
Why do mixed race people call themselves black?
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It depends on where you live. I lived in Maryland when I was in middle school in a school District that was 99% black. There was a girl at the school with white skin who had a white mother. She called herself black and was very adamant about it.
Kids when they are that young are very ignorant. It was a relatively ignorant area. The general thinking was that white people are bad and everyone there was acutely aware of the plight of black people in the past and blamed it on white people of the present.
If that girl I mentioned identified as white she would be putting herself in a position to be ostracized and picked on. It doesn't help that the teachers are just as ignorant and unqualified. I had two teachers in my middle school who taught that if the races mixed the kid is black because, and I'm not shitting you, black crayons can overwrite white ones but not vice versa.
It is an ignorant tribalism in uneducated parts of the country that cause people to view race, let alone view it with such an unscientific and useless set of rules.