Who's White?

[MJ5150]

Have a look at my legs, I'm white fo sho. Although I sometimes try to act black when I grab a 40 of OE and listen to some NWA on my front porch.

-Mike

 

[kserg]

White = anyone who looks pink...

 

[MatticusMania]

The fact that my ancestors hail from Russia, England, Scotland, and Hungary insure that I'm a full blood caucasoid.

 

[AfroCubanFunkMa]

My White.. Definitely not their white.. Maybe ivory tho...

 

[macaroni tony]

Have a look at my legs, I'm white fo sho. Although I sometimes try to act black when I grab a 40 of OE and listen to some NWA on my front porch.

-Mike

HAHAHAHA!

 

[macaroni tony]

You look like there mighta been a Anglo in the wood pile at some point........

lolwut?

Forgive me, I'm on limited sleep and whatever you were saying here just whizzed right over my head somehow

Phalex, are you saying that I look like a white guy? How so?

 

[Phil Smith]

Hey man, it's a valid argument; it's also the way I see it.

The reason I was concerned about this dude's argument, was that I sort of felt that he thought he was in some way superior to, say, Eastern Europeans, because he was Western European (dude was Irish).

The Irish only recently acquired their "whiteness", they weren't considered "white" when they first got to the US.

 

[macaroni tony]

^ Yeah, I was kinda thinking of the same thing. What a weird thing for that dude to say...

 

[Bloodhammer]

......skiin' on their white snow in their tighty whites just like a white wing dove sang a song about what they singin' !!!

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[Phil Smith]

Review of “How the Irish Became White” « The End of Capitalism

The Irish in Ireland of the early-19th Century were a revolutionary people: impoverished, agrarian, and determined to break free of the grip of England’s tyranny. But once these same freedom-lovers emigrated to the United States, a peculiar thing happened: they were faced with a society based on racial segregation and industrial capitalism. Moreover, there began a large “Nativist” movement by wealthy Protestant Anglo-Saxons who tried to restrict immigration and subdue Irish/Catholic influence in the New World.

In order to overcome these barriers, the Irish made a strategic choice: escape the bottom-rung of poverty and be accepted into mainstream US society by aggressively aligning themselves with the Democratic Party and doing everything they could to keep African Americans in slavery or otherwise out of the labor market. Thus they earned the right to be considered “White” and receive the benefits and privileges associated with that social category.

 

[MatticusMania]

So with that strategy in mind, anyone who keeps the black man down is white? can this extend to include black men who participate in black on black crime?

In essence, Chris was right...

If you ain't black, you white

 

[macaroni tony]

Of course, I was

 

[Kwesi]

Kwesi - hasn't it, though? I know that I tend to refer to Oriental folks as just Asian when I'm not sure what country they're from. I also just tend to refer to Native Americans as Natives or Indians (depending on whether or not I know them, and whether or not they care), when I don't know what tribe they're from.

I would think that we do sort of use catch-all terms for this sort of thing.

Oh yeah, definitely, I was just talking about the color coding specifically, lol. It makes life simpler, methinks. I never saw it as particularly offensive or anything to be called black.

 

[Relic]

well, being a Polish-descended guy, raised roman catholic during the 70's and hailing from New Jersey, I'm not at all white enough to be white, but too white to be anything else.
It was kind of confusing for a while.

 

[macaroni tony]

BTW Lavenius...it's Asian, not Oriental. I believe Oriental refers to things, while Asian refers to people. I don't want jive or maki coming in here and raising hayul

 

[Kwesi]

well, being a Polish-descended guy, raised roman catholic during the 70's and hailing from New Jersey, I'm not at all white enough to be white, but too white to be anything else.
It was kind of confusing for a while.

It's soooooooo easy being black. You're either black or you're african... or you can choose whichever one you want .

 

[macaroni tony]

It's soooooooo easy being black. You're either black or you're african... or you can choose whichever one you want .

Says you...apparently, I'm either Jamaican or Cuban, depending on who you ask

 

[Relic]

It's soooooooo easy being black. You're either black or you're african... or you can choose whichever one you want .

I knew a white guy who's parents were from South Africa... that got a little weird at times in school when he claimed to be "African-American"..

 

[MatticusMania]

Says you...apparently, I'm either Jamaican or Cuban, depending on who you ask

Puerto Rican!

 

[MJ5150]

...it's Asian, not Oriental.

Depends on who you ask. Bruce says this..."Take a Good Look at my Face. I'm an Oriental!"

-Mike