if she wants to call herself mixed or biracial or whatever I think that's awesome. But to me that means black AND, not NEITHER black NOR.https://twitter.com/sabrinadunn/status/935203292665335808 …
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and bc of the way white is set up---whiteness is asymmetrical to racialized identities---unless you put a lot of effort into hiding your blackness, white people will find out that your family is black and that will change your "whiteness" for them.
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as long as that's the case, I would definitely encourage biracial people to at least not think of themselves as exclusively white, no matter how pale their skin tone.
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