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Why does she call herself black when she is mixed race. Is she disowning her white family?
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Racial identity is a matter of choice for the individual.
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Niorin indentifies as being black. She decides, no one else.
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rubbish
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Not rubbish, Noirin sees herslef as black, she's claimed black identity numerous times.
No person can refuse another their personal sense of identity.
Tell me, why do you want to deny Noirin her identity, why do you want to project your own conceptions of what 'race' she is on to her. Why not accept her as she wants to be seen?
Why does it bother you?
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I am black and the mixed raced freinds i have all say they are black like noirin. Noirin is mixed raced ie has black and white parents, that is something that cannot be genetically debated. The more pertinent question and one that is at the root of the debate we have is why she, and most mixed raced people deny their white identity and consider themselves to be black? The answer to this is the historical conception of the racist ideology that says if you have 1% non white blood (genes) makes you non white and thus cast from that group. The racist abuse suffered by mixed raced people and their clear rejection by the white community (that they have a claim to) has led to a situation where most (not all) mixed raced people identify themselves as black. Slighty over simplified but it is an explanation that is pertinent to black identity.
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I'm of mixed backgrounds and no one sees me as being white.