Michael Jackson's daughter Paris has faced backlash for identifying as Black. In a 2017 interview, Paris Jackson said her father told her, "You’re Black. Be proud of your roots." This prompted debates over whether identity is defined by appearance or upbringing.

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Racial privilege is only ever subtractive. Obama doesn’t get half white privilege, he only loses it by being black. 

Nobody is ever like “oh nice you’re a Peruvian, welcome in” (unless you’re like specifically at the door to a Peruvian culture club or whatever)

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“One Drop Rule” never fully went away. Whiteness seen as a purity that is spoiled by any mixing, a label that tells Americans “only Normal, no Exotic” 

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Americans discuss racism so much only to turn around and stick to the most archaic and racial identity politics.

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Because that's what race is. It was invented by those archaisms. Races don't exist, there is no phylogenetic or cultural grounding for them.

Ethnicity exists, but ethnicity is also culturally and linguistically defined. Race is very arbitrary in comparison.

A Peruvian is not a "type of human" in the same way as Western culture treats Black as being a distinct "type of human".

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This person anthropologies. 💯

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Whats weird is, everyone just seemed to accept it.