Post by Radrook Admin on Feb 16, 2023 12:06:41 GMT -5
Before you ask, Please Ask it of yourselves.
I was recently visited at my apartment by an African American woman healthcare worker for an interview concerning health issues. During the conversation, I mentioned that my father had racially discriminated me. Immediately she responded with:
"Wait a minute! Aren't you Puerto Rican? Aren't Puerto Ricans mixed?"
First, Puerto Rican is not a race, it is a nationality and anyone on this Earth regardless of race, can be a Puerto Rican. The Spaniards and other Europeans that immigrated there became Puerto Ricans. Presently there are unmixed Chinese, Japanese and Koreans there who are Puerto Ricans. Also unmixed Europeans there who are Puerto Ricans. So the question is an idiotic one. In any case, not wanting to embarrass her, I did not pursue the issue although such a rude statement demanded a response.
Later, I began pondering such a reaction, and found myself wondering how a person who is herself mixed with north European whites, the whitest in all Europe, and yet claiming blackness, can berate someone else whom she imagines as mixed and might be claiming some racial identification in the same way she does. You know, maybe claiming to be native American, East Asian, Black, as many Latinos claim to be but are not accepted, or white.
It seemed rather hypocritical. After all, if indeed she feels entitled to claim blackness, while being mixed with the whitest Europeans, then it follows that if someone else she considers mixed claims a certain racial identity, that she would have had the common sense or at least the decency, to keep her racist mouth shut. But apparently that is simply too much to expect from certain people-right?
"Wait a minute! Aren't you Puerto Rican? Aren't Puerto Ricans mixed?"
First, Puerto Rican is not a race, it is a nationality and anyone on this Earth regardless of race, can be a Puerto Rican. The Spaniards and other Europeans that immigrated there became Puerto Ricans. Presently there are unmixed Chinese, Japanese and Koreans there who are Puerto Ricans. Also unmixed Europeans there who are Puerto Ricans. So the question is an idiotic one. In any case, not wanting to embarrass her, I did not pursue the issue although such a rude statement demanded a response.
Later, I began pondering such a reaction, and found myself wondering how a person who is herself mixed with north European whites, the whitest in all Europe, and yet claiming blackness, can berate someone else whom she imagines as mixed and might be claiming some racial identification in the same way she does. You know, maybe claiming to be native American, East Asian, Black, as many Latinos claim to be but are not accepted, or white.
It seemed rather hypocritical. After all, if indeed she feels entitled to claim blackness, while being mixed with the whitest Europeans, then it follows that if someone else she considers mixed claims a certain racial identity, that she would have had the common sense or at least the decency, to keep her racist mouth shut. But apparently that is simply too much to expect from certain people-right?