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208025, Certainly, history is integral to identity.
Posted by Vex_id, Fri Jun-12-15 01:04 PM
>Maybe another way to put this is that two white people can
>have a baby. That baby can be male/boy, female/girl, can be
>intersex, can be somewhere in between. And it's perhaps
>reasonable to believe that somewhere along the line, something
>didn't quite line up the way that person feels they should.
>
>But
>
>Two white people cannot make a black baby. They cannot because
>their parents were not black, who can't because their parents
>were not black. Etc.

I'm not sure I quite follow where you're going with this. If we're saying that
a person's claim to being "transracial" is invalid because both parents are considered to be of one "race", does that mean that a gay persons's claim to being gay is invalid if their parents
are both heterosexual?

The idea of 'transracial' challenges the black/white radicalization dynamic at its root,
so it would reject those as grossly simplistic and insufficient in order to accurately portray one's own composition. In other words, to say that one's parents are simply 'black' or 'white' is insufficient as it doesn't account for the myriad of lineages that likely are found within that person's DNA that do not fit into square boxes of 'black' and 'white'.



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