Food for thought: Remove “black” from the headline and ask yourself if you’d be as quick to judge and demonise.https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/609390666397941760 …
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Surely it’s the gatekeeping itself that is the problem. Is it so hard to respect the right of a person to choose their own identity?
@aral Following that logic: That's me in my profile pic, could I really choose to be white?
@joasqueeniebee I entirely get your point; I guess my question is should you have the right to anyway, regardless of whether you pass?
@aral important q — tho the outrage is likely tied to historical connotation of blackface, not whether it’s ok to self-identify as diff race
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