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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think MANY AAs feel slighted by biracials who identify as biracial as opposed to solely AA. I think the solution is for biracial to choose their own race as opposed to anyone (black or white) making that choice for them. I think some AAs will be upset by this and make that difficult.[/quote]

I see how you threw in "some" and "many" but I still disagree with you.  No AA people I know gives 2 shits how a biracial person chooses to identify.  At most I was asked "what race are you", I answered and that was that.  You are giving yourself way too much importance here thinking this is an issue for AAs.  Now if you're a biracial who turns their nose up when a black person even looks at you out of fear of being perceived as one of them (how about that for a non often discussed topic?) then yeah, you probably have been on the receiving end of a lot of grief.[/quote]

Maybe you don't know that many black ppl then.  You certainly don't know everyone so stop acting like you do.

I think, however, that it is important to acknowledge your point that you feel that some biracial ppl "turn their noses up" at black people.  There is no doubt someone somewhere who does do that.  In general, "colorism" can be a problem within the AA community -- the lighter you are, the "better" and I'm sure some light-skinned blacks and/or biracials somewhere are guilty of internalizing that kind of white supremacy (see paper bag test for historical example).  I'm sorry if you've experienced that but not everyone is like that.  And that's not the only thing going on for many black/white biracials who don't want to identify as black.  Often they just identify with both their parent's backgrounds and want to acknowledge that.

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So once again, it's ok for you to generalize AAs but that poster's comment shouldn't be assumed as true for most biracial people.  Gotcha [/quote]

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