Why do biracial black/ white people only consider themselves black?

[Anonymous]

[Sixgunsound]

Because of the social, economic, and political privilege that comes with not being white in today’s western societies. This is the best way the elites have come up with to keep the tax cattle fighting each other to distract them from their real enemies, the state. Negative reinforcement only works for a little while, but anyone who has more than one kid can tell you about the sheer ferocity of the fighting that erupts when you only give one kid something they both want. It’s also plausibly deniable under the guise of correcting ‘historical inequity’, as though punishing entire future generations for the crimes of a minuscule fraction of their ancestors somehow rights the cosmic balance in the present.

[ShadezMcgee]

Well, I am biracial myself and look more black than white, so naturally I might as well just go with what people will take me for because that is what I look like.

Sometimes I just like to fuck with those surveys that ask what I am and I check both boxes

[menina]

Because that's how society sees and treats them. Unless you're Meghan Markle, that's another story...

[Asker]

isn't she treated shit?

[menina]

She is but she considers herself white.

[Asker]

oh ok

[menina]

Are you white? Just asking out of curiosity.

[Asker]

Im egyptian

[menina]

Hummm ok...

[Asker]

hmmm what?

[menina]

Nothing, it was just random.

[Asker]

I only asked because I saw an old post a black British lady asked few years ago, So i went through the comments and read that people said, decided to ask same question and see what the response would be

[menina]

Ok, that makes sense. Are the answers what you expected or they're different?

[Asker]

yes, too many angry white men response

[menina]

Yes, unfortunately there are many like that on GAG.

[menina]

Thanks for the MHO.

[Avicenna]

There is absolutely no benefit to them to consider themselves white

[Agagagagaga]

So they couldn’t use their white privilege?

[Dargil]

So they can play the race card and claim victimhood when they fail.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

For one they don't look like the typical white man or woman and white people don't accept them as white neither.

[OddBeMe]

Because race is a social construct. They can decide.

[Anonymous]

I consider myself neither black nor white. Both groups can be purist, elitist, and racist.

[Anonymous]

Because they know they can never be pure so they identify with the mud.

[Opinion Owner]

Jus wanted to c u guies lose your weak minds.

[Simplyme355]

My kids are mixed Black and white I told them society will view you as Black.

[Sixgunsound]

Whenever you subsidize anything you get more of it. Whenever you regulate something you get less of it. It’s the same for college applications as it is for gas prices.

[Anonymous]

Maybe to avoid the "politically-correct" stigma of being a "hateful" White person.

[Adronicus]

Because it's beneficial to do so.

[Anonymous]

They are black passing but can’t pass as white