(11-06-2024, 11:13 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(11-06-2024, 10:59 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: Can white people do that on the campaign trail?

Well a white person wouldn't be biracial, but yes. No one calls it "white identity" but any European cultural expression could qualify.  Remember that there are usually a handful of white folks at your HBCUs and such.  Nothing is homogeneous.
If you find this conversation awkward, maybe your candidate shouldn't have started it.

I don’t find the conversation awkward at all. The point I’m making is claiming a racial identity for advantage is racist in itself. Could a white person say they are proud of their European heritage and not be pilloried by the same people who claim racial identity is important? 

Take Obama. How much was his white heritage celebrated? It wasn’t. The racial identity people, including Obama, only focused on his African father who abandoned him as a child. His white mother who raised him and inculcated into him his liberal values was largely ignored. That is true racism.

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