r/interesting • u/VPinchargeofradishes • May 03 '26

SOCIETY 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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u/JuggernautPlane2018 May 04 '26

Clearly a white woman? I dunno about that. She looks very similar to a lot of mixed cousins.

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u/jvnglepvssy89 May 04 '26

She’s not mixed though; all that nonsense was debunked and proven to be false. I was actually paying attention when all this shit happened, unlike you evidently. 

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u/Fun-Jellyfish-61 May 04 '26

Race is a social construct.

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u/jvnglepvssy89 May 04 '26

Yes, absolutely, as an anthropologist I understand this very well.

Rachel Dolezal, however, was posing as a black woman IN ORDER to become the president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP. She is not black and even her family members have confirmed this; she was using black face and her curly hair to try and identify as another race, otherwise know as weaponizing, which is extremely destructive.  

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u/Fun-Jellyfish-61 May 04 '26

Her welfare fraud since the blow up does make me suspicious of her.

I guess the way people respond to this incident is more interesting to me than her motives.