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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Oshun: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Oshun: [QB] Black is a political and social construct.[/QUOTE]"Black" pigmentation isn't political, its simply a word that categorizes the darkest skin pigmentation, i.e. shades of dark brown. [/qb][/QUOTE]But what is "dark brown"? For many people experiencing racism, being noticeably lighter than jet black does not mean they're not considered black. The spectrum of what's clustered together to be collectively "darkest" or "dark brown" relative to other colors is opinionated and defined by sociopolitical constructs. [QUOTE][qb]All was fine for hundreds of years. Physical anthropologists have categorized skin colours without a fuss for a long time. Then came along some Afrocentric trolls on the internet in the last decade who want to politicalize "black" to cover all skin phenotypes observed across the entire African continent. :rolleyes: [/qb][/QUOTE]Race is not a biological construct but a social one. Who qualified as black in it's beginnings included people with lighter complexions we see in northern Egypt. Among the Mande, Igbo and mulattoes there were enough people with those lighter tones to where they were not an invisible part of the population. Whites noticed them and made it clear they labeled them "black." You can't whitewash away that history. Egyptians were tropically adapted and had tones that fit within the spectrum of blackness that people experience. You'll never win this debate because when a person is treated as black for having the SAME complexion they will look at an Egyptian and see blackness. You'll never be able to unwrite what people within this forum (and out of this forum) have experienced with comparable complexions. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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