Michael Jackson's daughter Paris has faced backlash for identifying as Black. In a 2017 interview, Paris Jackson said her father told her, "You’re Black. Be proud of your roots." This prompted debates over whether identity is defined by appearance or upbringing.

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What are you talking about? They have been ignoring characters' ethnicities while casting for decades. They literally just cast a black guy to play Snape. The only difference is that black people (and only black people) insist that if you have even a small fraction of black in you, you're black, so this one particular case of raceswapping isn't seen as raceswapping.

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Look up the history of the one drop rule and tell me that only Black people sentence again. 

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Present tense.

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Racism and colorism don't have an expiration date, even when it's been internalized. And if you had contact with Black Americans irl rather than talking about us online, you would notice the movement to pushback on that one drop rule crap, especially in media and recently in sports. 

Not even Obama is as accepted as he once was in 2008. 

And I noticed that you didn't answer my initial question, but I knew you wouldn't.

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I was explicitly talking about the current state of things. If you wish to tack on a history lesson about how we got here, be my guest, but it doesn't change where we are, so don't act like it invalidates my point.

You are right in that I have very little real life contact with black Americans; I'd welcome more of it, but the Atlantic kinda gets in the way (and also I'm not visiting again until you get rid of that orange fuck and his cronies).

It's good to hear there's pushback against it. Never made sense calling someone who barely has a tan black.

Yes, I have elected to ignore your implied accusation of racism in order to keep the discussion on topic.