He/she having straight hair doesn't make them not black the fact that there mixed race makes them not black.
Or it could be tamed to be ironed straight like mine
Nah he's a negro. The one-drop rule still applies. its not till the 1/4 generation is when the get leway
I was confused until I saw what country you're in. Apartheid is over right?
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The boys cute. Lucky him to be so blessed, regardless of what box, or between boxes, society will want to try to put him in and also change it when it suits them. Whatever your tone or features of blackness there will always be a problem because that's what has been instilled in ALL of us (blacks and Whites). As a legacy of slavery, where masters learnt to divide, conquer and control their slaves through this self-hatred, bitterness and jealousy - we lost the ability to accept us all in varing shades, tones, features and textures. Understandably, it has arisen due to one's life value being dependant upon these aspects of our appearance. One person's aesthetics may have meant they were valued as worthless and killed flippantly as if they were nothing more than cattle, or if sporting more favourable (more white like) features are given 'privileges'. If such details are given such power of course there is going to result in bitterness as with a roll of the genetic dice we are given our worth, ascribed our level of beauty and the level in which will get to in life all by these very superficial matters. The unfairness and inhumaneness of the consequence of this is what fuels the emotions the underly it and what makes us pick out these things in each other. If you took away the privileges and the punishment for certain aspects of being black/mixed then it would all be meaningless and probably the only way that we would begin to release the indoctorines of slavery that get us debating whether a black child with straight hair is black at all. He would just be regarded as one of us and loved as such (without resentment and bitterness of the privilege that it may bring him). May peace be with us all as we live in this structurally racist society where ALL of us play part in keeping the struggle alive.
Why wouldn’t he be?
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