If only my eye roll emoji worked in this forum.
Racist white people aren't enough to deal with we have to attack each other based on who is really brown?
Newsflash: In America, white people have historically considered Hispanics and Italians NOT white and in fact BROWN. They were discriminated against for decades - they are still in some places and circumstances. Certainly Hispanics at the moment much more but you don’t have to look hard to find anti-Italian stereotypes. Now they can opt in as “white” on public forms if they want but that isn’t the way it used to be. You can verify that on US census forms (try Ancestry.com if you feel the need) where “Southern Italian” was listed as race (to differentiate them from the “white” 😉people in Northern Italy) in the past.
It took me literally seconds to google childhood photos of Ariana that look like what many many white Americans would call a brown child. And SO WHAT?
Think about this, in the past in America people of color routinely and uniformly tried to look as white as possible. Blacks discouraged other blacks from not actively trying to emulate whites - from clothes to hair to speech. Black people who could “pass” as white did - sometimes completely cutting ties to their birth families because racism made that choice less painful than living authentically. Today people are embracing (maybe even enhancing) their non whiteness. That is a profound shift. White is no longer always right and always preferred. Hurrah!
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