@adivunsolicited: Blackness is one of the most misunderstood identities in the world, mostly because people mix up race, ethnicity, and nationality. Race is a social construct. It was built during the colonial era to justify slavery, colonization, and the genocide of Indigenous people. Historian Barbara Fields argues race was the product of slavery, not the cause of it. And it has no biological backbone: geneticist Richard Lewontin showed in 1972 that most human genetic variation exists within so-called racial groups, not between them. Africa is the birthplace of our species and the most genetically diverse place on earth. A landmark 2009 study in Science led by Sarah Tishkoff traced Africans to 14 ancestral population clusters. So "100% African DNA" isn't a real standard. Skin color tells you about the UV light your ancestors lived under (Nina Jablonski's work), not how related you are to anyone. In the Americas, we're a product of colonization and slavery. A 2015 study of over 150,000 people found the average African American is about 73% African, 24% European, and under 1% Native American. That's why Black Americans are a multigenerational mixed people. This is the same for Brazil, hairi, jamiaca, colombia and thr reagion Anthropologists Sidney Mintz and Richard Price describe how enslaved Africans from many nations forged a brand new culture here, a process called ethnogenesis. It's why Black in America is also ethnicity and culture, not just race. I have 16% European DNA, and I'm a Black man. My younger siblings are lightskinned. Same parents, no albinism. Light-skinned and mixed aren't the same thing: mixed means one Black parent and one white parent, while light-skinned is the by-product of centuries of mixing. The U.S. "one-drop rule" (see F. James Davis) is why America has always defined Blackness by ancestry. And the idea that Africans all look one way? That's colonial propaganda. I saw the range of phenotypes in South Africa and Nigeria myself. One thing a biracial person can never do is tell Black people we aren't Black using eugenics talking points. Haitian anthropologist Anténor Firmin took those arguments apart in 1885. Black is beautiful, and there's nothing else I'd rather be. Stay Black, stay blessed. 🖤 📚 Read more: • Racecraft, Barbara & Karen Fields • How to Argue with a Racist, Adam Rutherford • Superior, Angela Saini • Who Is Black?, F. James Davis • The Equality of the Human Races, Anténor Firmin #BlackTikTok #BlackHistory #identity #afrolatino #africantiktok

dawnej.de :

“Lightskin” here, green eyes, “4c” hair, 4 black grandparents and so on ….

Brandon Evans :

he also lied about Malcolm X and Mohammed Ali saying they were half white. X's mom was half white due to slavery but that would make him 75 percent. Ali had a white great grandparent so he was nowhere close to half. His mom was just light skinned.

PassaroTweety :

Genes are crazy! Look at Vanessa Williams, Rihanna, Tyra Banks, the Hodge Twins, they are all considered “black”, but they obviously have some European ancestry!

zayyfrmda8 :

malcom was not half white😂

VivaciousB ✌🏾❤️ :

As a black woman, I did my DNA and I’m 29% European. My husband and father of my children is half polish and half black. That being said, my husband’s black mom is very light skinned and so are my kids. My daughter was born with blue eyes. My son’s hair is practically straight. They are likely more white than black genetically, but they know and we tell them that they are black. That is how the world will perceive them. Even if they look “whiter” than kids that are biracial. My kids are black and proud

Marziepooh :

i saw that and was like so i, with my two blk parents and 4 black grandparents, don’t exist?!

Kisha_Zuri4x 🌿Zuritarita🌿 :

he immediately turned my ears off when he said "AL-BYE-NISM"

Reds :

Light skin with two black parents & four black grandparents, etc. I’m lighter than all of them btw

Franktno :

💯%Love being Black 😎af

Dollie :

The term is biracial

MisterDee75 :

That first take is simply not true at all 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 the first white person in my family is a great grandfather. I’m lighter than I thought… NyC and Nj showed me that. It’s a lot of lightskin people that don’t have white parents or grandparents

OluwaSika :

Not around the world. In Sub-saharian Africa, we exactly know what we are

Shelly :

That first guy was wildly incorrect but with his full chest

Marshall :

I am Fulani from Nigeria and there are so many of us with light skin but we are 💯 pure Africans , ignorance is bliss

Bri.E ✊🏿🖤🇺🇸✨ :

This is making my head hurt

LogoutForMePlease :

I love your work! I love it, love it, love it!

Rictoria Swint :

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Bumble Bree 🐝 :

I’m lightskin with 4 black grandparents 😐 if I go far back enough then sure I’ll find white but not close enough to make a difference today

Nix 💚 :

My friends at school are twins mum was white dad was black one was lightskin dark hair and eyes the other was white with blonde hair blue eyes they had another set of twins a few years later same thing happened again. Genetics is incredible

upittyblackamerican🇺🇸🇺🇸 :

all black americans have white in them or have mixed race ancestors, its because of this along with centuries of inter mixing that make us an ethnic group with diverse genetics. malcolm x had a biracial mother if you have a fully black parent and a mixed race/multi generationally mixed parent then you will present black which makes you black this is very common for black americans.

QueScorpio1121 :

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Kitsryd3r155 :

Msrenee69 :

Smh 🤦🏼‍♀️just why

ElusiveDee :

I’ve been arguing this with folks under other post. People are determined to stay ignorant. I was also told that I wasn’t black, that I’m biracial. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Fred Laurent :

again my brother keep up the good work... as a black man I've learned alot from you and I've been black all my life specifically Haitian.🙏🏾