by far the highlight of the away article is that the company's head of people, who as far as i can tell from google images looks exactly like any other white woman, "identifies as a person of color"
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my feel is that the phrase "person of color" in america in 2019 is typically used in contexts directly related to privileges or absences thereof having to do with perceived race. ppl typically use different language when talking abt cultural identity (bc race != culture)
and so someone who is white-passing using "person of color" instead of say, talking abt their mother who looks black or abt their native heritage or something, comes across as trying to coopt the dynamics of privilege not arguing w/you just figuring out my own thoughts here
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tl;dr a person can be a PoC but white-passing.
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race and white-passing-ness are not necessarily related either. genetics are strange, and especially in america 2019 we have many mixes. my understanding of PoC is more of a racial heritage, including culture. humans can be completely pale but have no caucasian white ancestry.
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