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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Oshun: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by sudaniya: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Oshun: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by sudaniya: [qb] Africans (and the diaspora) are not a monolith; a Dinka is not going to have even an approximate definition of black to an African-American. I can't imagine the Nilotics accepting Gabrielle Reece, Troian Bellisario, Mariah Carey, Kris Humphries, Darnell Martin, Rashida Jones, Meghan Markle, Maya Rudolph, Jennifer Beals, Soledad O'Brian and Ashley Frangipane. I don't know if most diasporans would accept these people either. My sister looks like Jennifer Beals but darker. [/qb][/QUOTE]And weren't you talking about Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders identifying as black? So black doesn't even have to mean African? [/qb][/QUOTE]Some Aboriginals and most Torres Strait Islanders are far darker (visibly black) than the people I listed. Would you readily know that Ashley Frangipane was part black just from looking at her. It's fascinating just looking at them. I thought they would be at least in the middle, but these biracial celebrities could pass for white. We have the same issue here in Australia with very Anglo-Saxon people claiming and showing pride in their Aboriginal heritage; the more visibly Aboriginal people mock some of these people, as does mainstream Australian society. Aboriginals have recessive genes so I can understand a white looking person could still be Aboriginal; I have two European looking Aboriginal friends; one is proud of his heritage and the other only evokes it to get what Americans would call affirmative action. In terms of black, I was also speaking from the point of view of what the blackest-skin people (Nilotics) would regard as black. I can't see how *I'm* personally being inconsistent. [/qb][/QUOTE]Do the darker Aboriginals see themselves as black? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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