How common is it for white-passing racially mixed people to get accused of falsely claiming non-white ancestry in the US?

[Anonymous]

[Lliam]

I think the idea of race should be abolished once and for all. It is based on 18th century attempts by naturalists and scientists to classify all known plants and animals. Carolus Linnaeus originally divided humans into five races. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach later divided them into five.

An increasing number of scholars and other educated people now believe that the concept of race has outlived its usefulness. They emphasize the failure of science to establish exclusive boundaries around populations or lines of rigid distinctions that the term race conveys. They also point to the evidence demonstrating that all people regardless of their physical variations are capable of learning any kind of cultural behaviour. They argue that genes and cultural conditioning work in tandem and together contribute to the formation of individual personalities.

Social scientists, biologists, historians, and philosophers now point out that increasing migration and changes in attitudes toward human differences have brought about extensive intermingling of peoples so that a growing number of people have ancestors originating in three or more continents. Such “mixed” people are not easily lumped into a single “racial” category. As a result, many scholars perceive that “race” is becoming more and more irrelevant and may eventually be eliminated as people increasingly are recognized in terms of their ethnic or cultural identities, occupations, education, and local affiliations.

We have moved far past the 1960s when affirmative action laws were necessary to end segregation and entrenched racism. It is time to stop classifying people by race. The days when "one drop of blood" qualified a person as "N****" are over. Hell, why wouldn't "one drop of blood" make a person white? See how much sense it makes?

If we moved past the idea of race, there would be no need to claim to be non-white in order to qualify for preferential benefits.

[gorydetails]

Why are you a racist cunt?