Originally posted by Satchmo Distel
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I agree with you, she has a right to categorise herself however she wishes.
I think it is fair for me to judge her on what appears to be clear attempts to whiten herself up. whether it is the high exposure pictures (note how dark she looks in the Oprah interview compared to regular interviews), the nose jobs and the self description.
Now, I sort of get it when she was an actress. The racial ambiguous look will probably open her up to more roles if she identified as someone exotic, a younger Jennifer Beals instead of a standard mixed Black/White lady .
But all this soft shoeing around race smacks of a desperate attempt to try and get accepted and this has never ended up well as racist white people will still vehemently reject her and Black people will be pretty slow to come to her aid (as we can see).
One thing me and you have in common is a keen love of social history, black people passing as white for better social standing (especially women) is a very big thing and there have been alot of books, plays and films about this. See the film imigtation of life.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...k-white-us-rac for more background.
I agree with the rest of your post BTW.
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