I mean look at an African compared to a black American
Africans aren't real blacks, you know. They didn't even vote for Joe Biden. They're also privileged bastards who have never had to deal with racism in America.
Clearly you are either a little or a lot lighter for a reason.
Maybe they think that Africans just have a really dark tan.
Also if you look at American slavery it wasn’t uncommon for the master to have a mistress amongst the slaves or have kids with his slaves.
Right, and these kids were often those who were set free - which gave them a head start in access to the dominant American culture, which at least in the 19th century was something to write home about. When proper blacks arrived in the north, who had less acculturation, people responded by passing laws that banned all blacks from restaurants, etc. This was the reason why the NAACP was founded, and it concerns were those of the mulatto elite - access to white neighborhoods and schools, which had been lost to the backlash to the Great Migraton.
Thomas Sowell writes about that in one of his books. But you also had black elites in New England where slavery was abolished before the founding (WEB Dubois come from that line). My gg grandfather was the child of his slave owner and a slave. He got a few acres of land from his dad and was given to the legitimate daughter of his slave master so his half sister.
On another side of the family I had a gg grandfather who was white from a blue blood family but claimed to be black (otherwise I wouldn’t be here). I’ve been doing research into his past but it’s hard to find. I did find his father and ancestry but I imagine something must have happened to cause him to live amongst blacks in the late 1800s
After slavery. He was given to his half sister when she got married and when his father died (after slavery) he was given some land and raised his family there and worked for her and her husband (although I’m pretty certain she knew they were siblings).
Africans aren't real blacks, you know. They didn't even vote for Joe Biden. They're also privileged bastards who have never had to deal with racism in America.
Maybe they think that Africans just have a really dark tan.
Right, and these kids were often those who were set free - which gave them a head start in access to the dominant American culture, which at least in the 19th century was something to write home about. When proper blacks arrived in the north, who had less acculturation, people responded by passing laws that banned all blacks from restaurants, etc. This was the reason why the NAACP was founded, and it concerns were those of the mulatto elite - access to white neighborhoods and schools, which had been lost to the backlash to the Great Migraton.
Thomas Sowell writes about that in one of his books. But you also had black elites in New England where slavery was abolished before the founding (WEB Dubois come from that line). My gg grandfather was the child of his slave owner and a slave. He got a few acres of land from his dad and was given to the legitimate daughter of his slave master so his half sister.
On another side of the family I had a gg grandfather who was white from a blue blood family but claimed to be black (otherwise I wouldn’t be here). I’ve been doing research into his past but it’s hard to find. I did find his father and ancestry but I imagine something must have happened to cause him to live amongst blacks in the late 1800s
Yes, where do you think I got it?
He got land while still being a slave???
After slavery. He was given to his half sister when she got married and when his father died (after slavery) he was given some land and raised his family there and worked for her and her husband (although I’m pretty certain she knew they were siblings).
Ah, that sort of makes sense.
Reminds me of the comment by Mary Chestnut talking about similarly messed up dynamics: "Ours is a terrible system."